Desktop meme

[denny]

earle asked:
> What's on your desk right now, monitor/keyboard/mouse/laptop excluded?

'Humourous' sign. Two boxes of my business cards. PC speakers. Phone. Headphones. Cardboard box which my monitor sits on top of (from a Netgear switch). Lollipop. Business cards of graphic design company we use. Post-it notes. Three biros and a pencil. Sunglasses. Notepad. Random bits of paper the project manager keeps giving me because she doesn't use Bugzilla properly. A toy cat, who has 'caught' a spare computer mouse. Black electrical tape. Two AA batteries. My computer, which for some reason isn't on the floor where any normal person would keep it. Spare contact lenses. Lip salve. Wallet. 2GB of Kingston RAM in sealed packets. Business card of the (useless) agency I rent my flat through. Jar of Marmite. Box of Weetabix. Pack of Cherry Drops. A fresh cherry slice. Print-out of 5000+ antique dealers with possible duplicates marked in fluorescent pen, because our last temp apparently couldn't use Excel. SEO report. About a hundred spare napkins that have come with my morning sandwiches since I started working here. Jiffy bag containing custom jewellery that I have to send back because the guy completely ignored the specifications we agreed on when he made it. Phone/USB cable. Book on Perl Testing. Some random stuff that the last guy to use this desk left behind when he was sacked.

How's yours?

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[kaz-pixie.livejournal.com]

Pink note book with my training notes in, pen pot with a squillion highlighters, markers and biros in, a ruler, hair sticks, glue, scissors, staples, paperclips, glue, and the metal slidy bit from inside a file in; a container that I keep museli in (no museli any more), SAEs, Terms and conditions, the "badge pot", George Orwell Mug, post its, moisturiser, tissues, note pad, staff files, computer, telephone, my in, out and pending trays with all of the bumpf that sits inside, my mobile phone and some compslips.

[(Anonymous)]

Such a detailed account. I should copy you.

2 x routers. One linksys + One Cisco.
3 x telephones. One VOIP, one mobile, one wireless.
2 x TFTs.
3 x mugs. One in use, two dead.
2 x cigarette lighters.
1 x packet of cigarettes.

Then we have the meat:

Five cupmats, one ash-try, one wallet, one box of cotton buds, one watch, one USB card reader, one jam-jar full of pens and pencils. One camera, one perl book, one empty bottle of water, two bottles of wine. Random collections of cables, one assortment of loose change, two one-pound notes, and a small card from an Amazon wishlist donation.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It's only that detailed because that's how much crap I have on my desk :) All the flat surfaces in my flat are similarly encumbered.

I work with earle, whose desk contains exactly one keyboard, one mouse, one monitor, one notepad, one mobile phone, and one pair of glasses - which is why he started asking everyone this question today :)

[kotenok.livejournal.com]

On my desk...

2x monitors
1x tower unit with work maps on the side, and a small magnet given to me by mr_magicfingers that came from Burning Man
an empty mug
A box of Lapsang Souchong
an empty chocolate mousse pot
my mobile phone
my work phone
the remnants of a pint of orange juice
some hand cream
savlon
Lush lip balm
assorted pens
an "I <3 The Hoff Activity Book"

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

My desk = my (loosely defined) bit of lab benching.

From left to right:
Stack of letterhead paper (not mine), BadGirl page-a-day calendar, pen holder, bits of paper with current work, [computer], stapler, conference CDrom, univadis ad coaster, 2x menues, phone, printer, box of tissues, large blue Starbucks mug, shorthand notepad.
On windowsill: beanbag scorpion, photo of my cat, cat paperweight. Also, 4 bits of paper blu-tacked to the windows and wall. Trays and folders on the chest of drawers next to me, folders on shelf under the desk, big pile of filing in front of that.

[mr_magicfingers]

Jeez, there didn't look like that much when I saw it. Next time I'm going to have to look a little more closely.

I don't exactly have a work desk, when I do, it generally has a couple of towells and a mostly naked human.

My little side desk at home next to my chair which doubles as a desk of sorts currently has my gorgeous 2 week old custom built apple macbook pro, which I am deeply in love with, it's very sad. I also have a jabra JX10 bluetooth headset, the charger for the headset, the 60Gb hard drive out of my old Tibook that died this summer, in a firewire case that _neophyte_ spent ages searching for on TCH for me, a firewire cable for my ipod, my ipod, mobile phone, cup of tea.

[mr_magicfingers]

You have no idea how happy that makes me.

[skx.livejournal.com]

And that was me, in case it wasn't obvious. (Utterly failed to notice I wasn't logged in!)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I guessed from the combination of 'pound notes' and 'perl book' :)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I stack things neatly - it tends to hide just how much Stuff I have laying around :)

[skx.livejournal.com]

Scary!

(The perl book is "Perl Template Toolkit" which I stole from the office yesterday. Not touched it yet.)

[blanche-carte.livejournal.com]

Memory test. This will be interesting. And lo-tech.
Green concertina file containing dusty, unloved and unknown old leaflets.
Publicity material about cuts to our service, in the hope that clients will complain to the council. Telephone, circa 1984, one of the first ever push-button models in a pleasant shade of beige. A4 sized brown cutlery-style tray of stationery bits n bobs, including the retro delights of treasury tags and staple removers. blue ringbinder of useful info. the Welfare Benefits Guide 06-07 (bible). bit of paper with the ethnicity codes for statistics. keyboard & CRT monitor (thankfully black). spectacle wipes. loo roll in case people cry / have colds / children who spill things. hand cream. apple.
Metal 4-shelf tray. The top three shelves of this are as immaculate with little neat stacks of forms, envelopes and misc stationery, as if Mary Popppins had just clicked her fingers. In the base one, the gods only know what burgeoning horrors lurk: unfiled correspondence? threadbare timesheets? deeply embarrassing private jottings on scraps of paper? And underneath all that, a lot of multicoloured cardboard dividers.

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

one working alarm clock, one broken alarm clock, one mouthpiece, one bottle of vinegar, two mugs, one spoon, one teaspoon, one plate, one glass, one absence of kettle (since last night or possibly the day before), one phone charger, one ethernet cable, one spare phone cable thingy, one not-working small glowing globe and recharger base, remains of a pack of rice cakes, one webcam, two plums in a box, three brass band books, nine smile enevlopes, one packet of crisps, two multipacks of different crisps, one nearly empty carton of cranberry juice, one nearly full carton of orange juice, one wallet, one phone, one brown paper bag, untold numbers of cds, two pizza hut leaflets, one glutenfree ds crispy bar, half a pack of teabags, half a pack of pear drops, quarter pack of grapes, two apples and some dead grapes in the lid of the pack, one leaflet detailing the concerts in the hcmf, one sadly empty pack of chocolate hobnobs, one roll of sellotape, one glass full of pencils pens and a pair of scissors, one personal cd player, one set of speakers, one wire spider, one bad vampire film, one headset with mike, one set of really good headphones, two sets of really cheap earpieces, three reels of cotton, random amount of needles, one academic diary, one pair of fingerless gloves, one scarf, one handbag, one pizza box, one big pile of paper (various types), six folders of academic work, one folder of piano music, one pencilcase hopefully full of watercolour pencils, one penciltin holding a fountain pen and ink cartridges, one pencilsharpener, three escaped pencils, several mooncup leaflets, one U.V. security marker, two hedgehogs, one tub of sweet chilli dip, one chocolate orange tin, one timetable, various bits of paper from uni, one miniature atm machine, one bag ofturkish delight for my mother... one course handbook, one student I.T. guide, various module hadbooks and previous concert programmes... and a poppy.
xx

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

oh and i forgot the tiny salt cellar and cute little milk jug :) and the refreshers bars

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

You have way too many messy friends. :)

I have:

• 3 monitors, keyboard, mouse, tv (connected to a ps2 devkit), 2 psp devkits


• telephone


• stack of books


• printed Sony library reference


• newspaper