Sounds a bit like what life as a battery chicken must seem like to those egg-laying machines, except they're usually confined as several per cage. :-) I think a usual addition is every now and again (like, not necessarily when the Pavlovian timer sounds) to take a brief wiggle & stretch & focus your eyes on something at a variable distance. Ie, keep flexibility in all systems. On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Kevin Hoth wrote: . . . > here's a quick rundown of what I received and what has been effective: > > 1. screen top at eye level > 2. screen plane parallel to face > 3. shoulders at rest, elbows at 90 degrees, forearms perpendicular to > torso (straight out) and supported by arm rests > 4. wrist flat, hand on even plane with forearms (palm is supported but > not wrist as this is where your tendons are) > 5. hand straight out from wrists (not bent to the side) > 6. back straight and supported (good internal posture is essential, > however) > 7. feet flat on the floor with 90 bend in knees > > other: > 8. I have heard LCD displays are better on your eyes since there isn't > the screen refresh issue nor the electromagnetic radiation > 9. screen brightness should be roughly equivalent to the ambient light > in your work space . . .