As a general rule this blog is for Business, Technical and not personal musings, but I reserve the right to be inconsistent, and this is one of those times!

I’m a geek, always have been, and happy to be so, and always will be.  In the town where I currently live (Napier, New Zealand), we do not yet have a 3d theatre.  Consequently I have been waiting to see Avatar because if didn’t want to ruin the experience of 3d by seeing it first in 2d.  Yesterday we drove to Mt. Manganui (a 3.5 hour trip, ONE WAY) to see Avatar 3d in the closest 3d theatre to us.  That’s the level of my dedication to my Geekiness.

Avatar rocked on first viewing; it’s good time was surpassed only by the 3 Lord of the Rings films.  Now if those had been in 3d…

Now that I’ve seen it in 3d, I can go back and watch it in 2d to appreciate the nuances and the story and see if it holds up to repeated viewings, like Aliens (I can watch that movie over and over).

So following the advice of Scott Hanselman, I bought a TouchScreen Mimo monitor.  VERY cool.

Checkout out my desktop now!  4 monitors (I bet 5 is not far off!) 

    2 – 24 inch
    1- 21 inch
    1 – 8 inch touch screen

One piece of advice however, if you are going to buy one, spend the extra money 30 bucks and get the Mimo 720-S instead of the Mimo iMo pivot you see here.  I really like the monitor, but the stand for it is too high and not adjustable.  If you want to use it as I am here on the desktop as a IM / Zune / Windows Media Player window, the 720-S has a better stand system.