Yesterday I finally got around to finishing up the desk area in my man cave.
The computer desk is right next to my workbench, which I showed off here.

The last step for my desk was to hang the shelving that is now home to the 15 year old stereo I got from my brother. The only thing I'll be using it for is the aux input that is connected to my computer. I finally have a decent setup for playing music while I am working on razors.

Yesterday I also fixed the power strip to the wall, allowing me to get rid of the extension cables that littered my desk.



The black machine was difficult to take a picture of, since the light source is crappy, and it is satin finish aluminium with a non reflecting black coating.
It is a core2 duo 6600 with 4GB RAM, 320 GB WD RAID1, nvidia 7950 and an Intel BadAxe2 motherboard. These days it is still a respectable machine. When I built it 2.5 years ago, it was a racehorse.

The beige box is a dual CPU Pentium 3 1GHz, with 1.7 GB RAM and an nvidia 5600 video card. Same story. These days it is still good enough as a dev machine / test server. Back in 2000 this was 1337.

The screen is a 19" Iiyama. It is just over 10 years old now, and still as good as new as far as the image quality goes. I don't like having multiple monitors and leyboards on my desk, so I intalled a kvm box for my 2 machines, with optional inputs for if I am repairing a computer or something like that.

My man cave still needs work though. It is a work in progress. By the time my daughters hit puberty it should be a safe haven from female hormones.
Of course, the oldest already has her own workbench next to mine, and she likes tools and she is interested in knives... well, as long as it is clear that this cave is ruled by 'man-rules', I am cool with that.