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A Useful Template > Chair Men of the Bored
Chair Men of the Bored
Will Ferrell leans back in the movie Wedding Crashers and memorably cries out, “Hey Ma—the meatloaf—we want it now—the meatloaf!” He crystallizes an evolving biological tribe we could call Homo barcalounger.
We’ve become a species of sitters, as eloquently put by a doctor in a recent online issue of the Brooklyn Eagle:13
We move from the chair in the car to the chair in front of the computer in the office; then we go home in the chair in the car to the chair in front of a copious dinner to the chair in front of the TV. The next day the cycle repeats itself. We sit too much.
Believe it or not, scientists have coined a term for this trend: chair living. It has been a part of cubicle life for us geeks since the early epochs of the digital age, but many of us, along with others of the deskbound variety, have since altered our workstations to combine standing with computer work (check out the stand-up workstation called the GeekDesk at www.geekdesk.com).
