At work, I’ve recently been forced to learn the hell that is Adobe InDesign.* Which is to say, I started moving stuff from Adobe FrameMaker (another DTP program I don’t know, and have no interest in learning) into InDesign on Monday, and after two days, I had eyestrain trying with my nearly-six-decade-old eyes to read the tiny fucking fonts Adobe’s asshole millennial GUI designers apparently have good enough eyes to see unaided.**
And that was on dual 24″ Asus flatscreens running 1920×1080 each.
So Tuesday, I pulled the plug on a purchase of two new Asus VE278Q 27″ “Full HD” monitors. This was not as painful as I expected, because the price on 27″ monitors has REALLY dropped like a stone since the last time I looked. The $20 rebate per monitor helped. They came today and I waited till after work to install them.
MotherFUCK.***
Three diagonal inches more is A LOT. Almost an inch and three-quarters wider and taller than the 24’s.
I did not realize how much I must have been squinting to read ANYTHING on this computer.
And yes, goddamn it, I KNOW THAT I’M SHOUTING. I have Within Temptation cranked right now because I’m fucking pumped. FUCKING PUMPED.
I may actually ENJOY going to work tomorrow.
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* For what it’s worth, almost every time I type that word, I type “InDesigh”. I think that is Freudian or some shit.
** Probably on 17″ CRT monitors at 60Hz, the fuckers.
*** And I mean that in a good way.