Whats On Your Desk??

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Hmmm, what a great idea! Glad I thought of it!! ;)

So go on! Tell us what is currently on your desk?!


I will start:
Small Clock
Pen Knife
Screwdriver
Cup of Cheap Coke
Civ2 Disc
My Master CD's
A ruler
90p in change
A screw that fell from my chair
My GAME loyalty card
Wallet
Boot Up Floppy
Piece of flint
Recorder
An PCB i made and never finished
Oh and my PC ;)
 
I don't have a desk, it is actually a folding card table. Not very stable either, my monitor shakes everytime I tap it :D

Lets see:
My monitor
Speakers
Mouse
Keyboard
Cup of Mountain Dew, lots of ice
My business cards
My bank statement
Tape measure
Watch
Wallet
Keys
Bag of cough drops
 
Keyboard
Mouse + Pad
19" monitor
Cell phone
loads of disks
loads of cd's (both music and software)
two empty coffee mugs
one empty glass
speakers
old ATI graphics card
Portuguese dictionary
World factbook '86
post-its
phonebook
pencil holder
broken & dissected floppy drive
some batteries
cable modem
AoE2: QE case
black marking pen
nailclippers
 
computer
lamp
piles of cds
piles of books
a couple of mugs, which appear to have had coffee in them at some point
a can of stella
 
PC
CDs
Various bits of paper
A book I bought "The Dictionary of the Third Reich" Quite intresting
A mirror
A paper weight (which is not on top of the various bits of paper)
The cover of my electric razor
My NI card
About a pound in change
Watch
Tv remote
Ear phones (well they are in my ears but they are touching the desk)
 
Stapler,
Papers,
Hi-Fi,
Infra-red mouse receiver,
Leather thing for pens etc.
One battery
Pen,
Cup of tea
 
On my desk, (at work)

Biz-Phone
Speakers for Linux box
User-interface for my computers, Mouse keyboard Moniter (I use a KVM switch)
Rubber band
Stack of RW cd's
Cup of varius writing implements
Box with varius pieces of paper
Stack of work
Stack of homework
Cup of paper clips
Instructions for a watch (see funny watch translation in h&J forum)
Electric pencil sharpener
Slip of paper from a rolodex
Two floppy disks
A coil of network cord
Change jar
Lamp
 
computer
phone
modem
router
floppy disks
blank CDs
dads laptop
dads paperwork
my homework
dictionaries
nans perfume
dads ashtray
lamp
business cards
little weird fish-shaped bottle
incomplete ship in a bottle project
earplugs
swiss army knife
needle and thread
IHRA ticket stub
weird thing I don't know what it is
peice from a cribbage board
crackers
mug with pens and pencils in it
pens an pencils (not in the mug)
bottle of rootbeer
empty plastic pudding container that I should throw out
another lamp that clips on to the side of the desk and has a magnifying glass
 
Monitor
Keyboard's on those sliding out thingies.
My CD player remote
Civ 3 Collectors Edition Box, filled with pencils and stuf
Some paper printed on one side, to be used for unimportant work
RA. Salvatore's Sea of Swords
TI-83 calculator and manual
Sticky notes
National Geographic, bookmarked with bio assignment from the magazine
"Ghengis Khan; Conqueror of the World" by Leo de Hartog
Little speakers for the PC
Joystick
Mouse
Battlefield 1942 cd case
 
I wrote out a whole, long, itemized list of my desk and I got a server busy message. :mad: I'm not doing it again, so you can be sure I just have a LOT of stuff.
 
My desk in my basement:

Monitor
CPU (Tower)
Speakers (2, small)
Various Zip and Floppy Disks
Several cups
Pens
CD cases
Paper (used)
A Hat
A Book (The Joy Luck Club, read it for school)
Stray CDs
Tiny Crappy Computer Microphone
 
Okay
My Computer(all components)
a bunch of ants
a ant trap(see above :lol: )
a manual
a bunch o wires
a install guide
a clock
5 cd rom cases
1 empty coke can
a bowl
a toy gun
a remote
a sock
and a lamp
 
Laptop dock, voting info, two remote controls, empty water glass, empty juice can, dental insurance papers, rubik's cube, tissue box, lamp, half full water glass, baseball trading cards, cell phone, cell phone charger, some junk mail
 
Computer
Monitor
Notepad
Earphones
Microphone
Printer (Above Desk)
Plant (For Oxygen in case of extended Civving with windows closed)
Copy of Civ 2 MGE (In Case)
Copy of Madden 2003 (In Case)


And a copy of Civ 3, not in case, with a Samuel Adams nestled firmly on top of it. Wrong side up.
 
Okay now I'm home and at my other desk, on that is

My Pc (KVM & CPU)
A phone
A set of quadraphonic speakers with Sub
A cd player hooked up to old computer speakers
2 graphing calculators (Ti 82 and a Ti 89)
A 12 band radio hooked up to anotherset of old speakers
CD RW drive I'm gonna install
Zip drive I'm gonna install
Control knob for speakers
Flask of Dihydrogen monoxide
Quartz Metronome
4 function calculator
Alfred E Newman keychain
Thumb tack
Letter opener
Old envelope from birthday card
Chem stuff
Math stuff
Letter opener
Cd disks and zipdisks in all kind of contianers
Electric Pencil sharpener
Printer
UPS
Surge protector
Two night lights I made in middle school shop class
Logic puzzle
Printer port I need to put in me computer
Watch
Chinese Name stamp thing my grandma gave me
An essential screw
A sheet of paper that the printer screwed up
A broken piece of an electronic testing device
My microphone
 
A lot of ****:

Lawrence Lessig's "The Future of Ideas," open to Chapter 4
A book on the history of work called "Blood, Sweat and Tears," unopened
A burnt lightbulb from my main lamp
My desk lamp, a blue banker's lamp
My phone
My printer
My computer
About 6 cds, none in their cases, including one of old govt. docs, two John Lee Hooker CDs, one music CD with some (commercially) mixed mid-90s tunes, a Collective Soul CD and my Civ CD.
A "MTWTFSS" pillbox, empty, because I just take the damn things
Medication - which is actually on the desk for reasons that have nothing to do with the presence of the pillbox I don't use
My girlfriend's digital camera
About 1 ream's worth of scattered papers, a manuscript, and this morning's opened mail.
A pen
A bottle of shampoo my girlfriend stuck into my luggage several days ago while on a trip; I've taken it out of my case by haven't yet bothered to move it into the washroom 5 paces away. And now I will do just that.

That is all.

R.III
 
Computer (iMac)
A mug where I keep pens
Modem
Printer
Speakers
Tissues
Portable tape player (like a WalkMan but I can listen without headphones)
Big plastic cup of water
assorted papers with random thoughts written on them
Tube of hydrocortisone ointment (for when the mosquitos fly in and bite me)
My wallet and keys

Thats about it...
Oh yeah, and I use a roll-up chessboard as my mousepad and two thin wooden boards under the monitor to raise up the computer to eye level (actually come to think of it, I could use to have it a bit higher...)

- Narz :king:
 
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