Gaaah! Monitors

Here's the thing. My laptop monitor is making me crazy. It is great for watching TV, but the 1366x768 resolution is making me cranky when it comes to reading documents; I have to scroll too often.

So, since this laptop is functioning as a desktop, the reasonable solution is to buy a monitor.

However, because I don't actually care about monitors, except that this one is "too short", I can't make myself sit down long enough to read enough documentation to figure out how to buy one that is taller. (All of the information about monitors keeps being about light. I DON'T CARE ABOUT LIGHT.)

My mom bought a computer a couple of years ago that came with a monitor (Dell ST2010) that is "tall enough". I thought I would just buy that one, but Dell doesn't sell it, nor does Best Buy. (People are selling them through ebay, but I am wary of getting delicate electronics packed by amateurs sent through the US mail.)

Can someone tell me what monitor, preferably for $100 but no more than $150, that I should buy? Or, if not a specific monitor, can someone tell me the monitor spec information that I actually care about when purchasing a monitor, so I can compare just that, instead of, like, blackness levels, about which I cannot be arsed to care.

Also, also, does anyone know what the difference is between a 16:9 and a 4:3 ratio? They should be the same, and yet people list them as different, so I am confused.

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Some thoughts what I have thought

I've finally put my finger on what sort of an activity tumblr most encourages, and it is a commonplace book.

One doesn't have to use it as a commonplace book. Something like Fuck Yeah Fanfic Flamingo, which is producing content original to it, is not a commonplace book. But a lot of porn tumblrs, or FuckYeah(pictures of this thing I love which I collect from many other sources) or just people's reblogs of things they thought were cool today: commonplace book.

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Previous thought brought to you because I was trying to understand happie.st, for which I got a beta invite today. It, too, appears to be a commonplace book, but focused on the seven areas which they believe you bring happiness: exercise, gratitude, meditation, and four others which I can't look up because I broke my happie.st account already.

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So, someone namesquatted uu two years ago and then never got started using it. :( I would like a UU comm on Dreamwidth, if other UUs would post to it (or even just re-direct us to the posts on their own journal.) Can I get anybody interested in posting to uu, or should I start another comm? spiritoflife and onefaith are both available. (As is uudw, which might not be inappropriate, given the denominational fondness for acronyms.)

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Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men This strikes me as potentially applicable in other kyriarchical directions, but, yeah, it's a start. Even if the organizer decides to go off and just ask some other white dude to replace a refusing white man, they'll have had to consider the question.