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Yes ... and I don't feel so bad if I have to saw an Ikea table top to make it "just right". (Put the cut edge against the wall)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Have you considered flat pack? IKEA, etc?
You can often do a mix'n'match with pedestals of drawers in various sizes, cupboards etc.
I recently moved my office to another room. 20 years accumulation of STUFF(tm).
Under a lot of it was an old IKEA (I think) desk 72 x 36, timber top, steel frame, one pedestal 3 drawers of different sizes.
In the dim distant past (as in the days of clamshell desktop computers) I built a shelf across the back. 9 x 1 timber, 9" high.
Monitors etc sit up there, along with other "quick grab" things.
Speakers, power strips etc fit neatly under it.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I still use an Ikea Jerker mk1 (with the slide out extensions) although I've replaced the original base with a sit-stand frame; it also has 2 triple screen mounts positioned one above the other - 6 monitors in a 3x2 layout - so I've removed the top shelf. I had to check the weight of the desktop, main shelf, mounts, monitors, etc was within the limits of the frame motors.
Basically, it's the same desk I bought nearly 30 years ago except it's now height adjustable! 
Unfortunately, Ikea replaced it with the inferior Jerker mk2 (with curved edge and no slide out sections) and then stopped making it in about 2005, but you might be able to get one second hand. The metal construction of the frame means it's pretty much indestructible.
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At the beginning of the "work from home" period a few years back, I replaced an old desk with an IKEA desk [ IDÅSEN , Desk, black/dark gray, 63x31 1/2 " ]. Wide enough to have two sets of keyboard/mouse/monitor side-by-side. No drawers -- I was sick of banging my knees on them.
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At work I have something like this[^] (similar but not this one)
It can be moved vertically and has 3 memory positions.
The drawers are a separated container with wheels, so you can put it in the side you want (either 4 standard drawers or 2 drawers and 1 folder register)
At home I have 3 massive desks. 2 are 180x75 and the other is 150x60 (and a bit lower so you can fix it to the right side of the big one that only has drawers on one side, the other has drawers on both sides). I want to make an "U" with all three, filling the corner with a wood board.
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Tired of over-priced pressboard crap falling apart, I bought a beautiful massive solid oak mid fifties executive desk from FB Marketplace for $80. Screwed a couple harbor freight moving dollies to the bottom (out of sight), one on each side, so the legs sit 2cm off the floor for easy moving -- very stable, very comfortable, lots of leg room, has a factory foot rest bar, and pull out writing surfaces on each side, and plenty of drawers. It will easily outlast me. IMNSHO Life is too short to tolerate pressboard. Consider buying an antique. Good luck in your search. ~jm
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I move around a lot, so I tend to get cheaper furniture that can be easily be replaced... which means (as others have suggested) I also have an IKEA desk. You can get a BEKANT corner desk for like $400. Here's the thing though, everyone knows IKEA is cheaply made. Supposedly IKEA uses scrap wood that would otherwise be wasted though, which is cool. So, yay planet... but your desk is flimsy.
If you're looking for a sturdy desk, either don't go to IKEA or you can get some extra metal legs to make the desk more sturdy. If you have a larger monitor and several computers on your desk, those extra legs are nice to have. The desk wobbles much less with them.
Oh, and IKEA's website says that desk is sturdy. They're lying.
Jeremy Falcon
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Choroid wrote: What are others here using ?
I have an L-shaped desk with a single small drawer and file drawer on the short leg. I have a shelf on top of the short side that contains my laptop, printer, and office supplies. My keyboard and monitor sit beneath the shelf. The long leg is work surface, and provides a hiding place underneath for my scaredy-greyhound when it storms.
Funny thing is, the desk is in two pieces that weren't originally from the same set of furniture, but they have the same faux-cherry finish. I purchased them from a used office furniture outlet for about $200, bolted them together, and they've worked remarkably well for 20 years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My family’s formula for highly portable college desks:
Two two-drawer file cabinets, place a door from hardware store across the top. Bonus: stain or paint the door. The door knob hole works great for cords!
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I used a 4x8 piece of plywood on a framework of 2x4s for one year. Only desk ever where I did not run out of desktop space.
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my team will have a presentation soon and I have one slide in the PPT. I am thinking about how to share a good story for my use case.
any tips or recommendations?
diligent hands rule....
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Start with:
It was a dark and stormy night . . .
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Call me Ishmael ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a knock on the door...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Are we doing first lines from stories? Here's mine:
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
Kind of describes my software dev life, too. 
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The only first line I remember well: "Ain't nobody never loved me as I love myself".
I wish I knew the title of the novel, for picking it up and read it. I never read more than the first line.
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I always open with "Last night I dreamt I went to Mandalay again". Perfect lead in; so many possibilities after that.
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I always open with "Last night I dreamt I went to Mandalay again". Perfect lead in; so many possibilities after that.
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Woo Hoo! Kent used my line for the Daily Insider!
Too bad I can't claim copyright. 
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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What's it going to be, then, eh?
As good an opener as I can think of.
modified 1-Sep-23 11:21am.
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Given it's a PPT:
Once upon a time there was an audience that could read the PPT slides themselves, and if they didn't have to all gather to listen to the presenter read the slides, they would live much more happily ever after.
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Telling a good story is all about context.
Here's what I mean:
Try to memorize a list of 15 random things: gorilla, apples, tree, bulldozer, etc...
Average person can remember about 4 +/- 3 of the random things.
However, as soon as you make a story out of those 15 things (and especially if you create a bizarre story) then most people can remember them all.
Context generally provides things with meaning. The random list has no context or meaning and is easily forgotten.
From that, we have 3 good principles:
1. Whenever you present data, turn the data into a story.
2. When you tell a story, do your best to provide it with a context that relates to the audience and it will instantly be far more memorable.
3. When you provide a solid context to the audience the story will have meaning to them -- so consider what might be meaningful (to your specific audience) in the data that you are presenting.
Good luck!
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A while ago, I found a big article speculating that PowerPoint is created mainly to support people who work for a corporation, and who have nothing to say but want to make an impression of saying something.
The author was amused by the empty-minded content of most presentations and the fact that so many elements take up so much room giving no essential information. Exactly according to the previous statement. We even have a nickname for such people — “office plankton”. 
Anyway, as I always had similar feelings, I took it pretty seriously and realized that I should permanently give up not only those commercial presentation tools but all kinds of Office products, not only Microsoft's. How could I work for corporates? Pretty easily, I must say. Moreover, I usually deliver many big presentations on a regular basis.
First, I realized that I could simply show a sequence of pictures, using what I already have. You need a good picture viewer, and you can find some. Later, I came up with a similar idea (first of all, the pictures you already have) to create a more advanced show.
These two noncommercial open-source products I offered to Code Project readers are alternatives, and they are similar. They show what one can create using just a Web browser and a pair of hands:
Web Presentation, an Application in a Single File, now with Video
Web Presentation, the Other Way Around
They provide Live Demo for both, so it would take a few seconds to find out what they are. This is one Life Demo, and this is the other one.
Enjoy!
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 1-Sep-23 2:18am.
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