What's on your desk?

Whoo! This is actually not much.

monitor
keyboard
mouse
mouspad
phone
speakers
scanner/printer/copier combo
cable modem
digital camera connecter thingy (don't know the official name )
floppy disk holder
3 boxes of a mix of blank CD's and DVD slideshows

my cellphone
pen
candy wrappers
tissues
my bag
speakers
cellphone case
papers
monitor
keyboard
mouse
eye drop (i currently have sore eyes)

From left to right....

Left speaker
15" screen Left
Empty glass with a little coke in it...
Swiss army knife
Glass half full of water
Keyboard
Dew can
Screen Right
Speaker Right
handging off the front is my mouse and pad on slidy thingys (dont ask) a pic will only do it justice.

one speaker (the others are on the windowsill)
monitor
switch
wireless ap
shoe-horn (random I know!)
stereo remote
digital camera instructions
2 in-tray type things
2 Roger Waters albums
phone
keyboard
mouse
memento (haven't watched it yet, damn DVD player doesn't like the disc)
empty carton of Nicorette (have been completely off it since last week!)
lamp
camera batteries
random 3" floppy
mug of tea
coaster
torch
post-it notes
1 forint
6 pence (I'm rich hurrah!)

Phew, think that just about covers it

The 5 Basic Parts of a Computer (Monitor , Glowing Keyboard, Wireless Mouse, The BOX)
5.1 Speakers
Anti Static mousepad
A stack of 3 1/2 Floppies
A stack of CD's/DVD's
Swiss Army Knife
Mobile phone
Mobile phone Flash
Handy Vaccum
Bluetooth Dongle
PocketPC
USB hub
Digital Camera and Video Camera
::::: Second Rack on Top :::::::
A Webcam
Hand Lotion
Printer and Scanner
Action Figures of Wolverine and Spiderman
Busts of Yoda, Darth, C3PO, Obi Wan
Water Bottles
Espresso Maker
A bunch of Paper and Paper Work
::::: Hanging on the Wall :::::
Extra Connectors, Extender Cables, My Utility Bag

1 monitor
Keyboard
Speakers
About 500 CDs/DVDs
Microphone
Wireless Headphones
Mouse
1 pen pot
Linux Format magazine

From largest to smallest...

- 17" monitor in the centre
- Tower case by my feet
- Speakers with sub below the monitor
- 5 physics/math textbooks
- ~15 other books - programming/novels/misc
- Strange vase thing containing stationery
- Hollow ceramic pig thing (I think it's supposed to contain money )
- Roughly three stacks of paperwork, fourth stack of manuals in a drawer
- Two columns of CDs including music, old movie VCDs, and GNU/Linux distros.
- Wireless mouse and base dock
- A broken clock
- Headphones and microphone
- Assorted stationery spread over the desk
- Two calculators
- A (still packaged, unopened) toothbrush
- Some medicines and such
- Cards, coins, keys
- Bus tickets

...

OMG mine is soooooooooo cluttered!

Letter tray
Huge pile of invoices
Diary
Note Pad - small
Note Pad - large
Post It Notes
Pen Holder containing 5 highlighters, scissors, pencil, 7 coloured pens
Hair Clip
Nail Varnish
Lip Balm
6 different vitamin/mineral bottles
Huge Mug of Coffee
Business Phone
Home Phone
Mobile Phone
Keyboard
Mouse & Mat
Monitor
Network Box
Wireless Network Box
Clients Folders
Today's Post
Box of Plasters
Antiseptic Cream
Photo of Ian & Charlie

haha, I basically have a computer system and a half...

monitor,
keyboard,
mouse,
router,
powerline adaptor,
mic,
my cellphone,
tower for my computer,
tower for the family computer (the rest is on another desk),
spare parts and extra peripherals in the drawer

Whats on my desk? easiest way to answer is - whats not on my desk

Ok it's not that bad, well maybe it is, I think my large corner desk (about 2 x 2 meters) is a woodgrain colour, or maybe was a grey colour, hmmm, nope am sure it's woodgrain

At least the floor is clean and for the record it isn't always like this, I started to have a clean up but ummm, got side tracked, am just waiting for spring now - spring clean

At work now - here's what's on my desk (left to right)

phone
folder with stuff about my last and current projects
note pad
note with info about travel agent
plastic water glass (if they're plastic, they don't get broken )
hand lotion
heating pad (for when my neck gets sore)
stray CD (not sure what's on there)
calendar/address book
big desk lamp with natural light bulb
monitor #1 (currently showing audio file in Adobe Audition)
old mouse that hurts my wrist
lip balm
ear plugs
note to self
Monitor #2
sad looking plant (behind monitor)
push pins
paper holder with printout of powerpoints for current project
stapler
large coffee mug (empty)
stevia extract (for coffee)
cup containing assorted pens & pencils
kleenex box with winter scene
cup of coffee
spoon
post-it notes
three hole punch
assorted clipboards and notes from meetings

keyboard, wrist rest, mouse, mousepad on keyboard tray

ON top shelf:
stupid hat from fundraiser a few months ago (not recyclable, don't want to throw it out)
assorted papers
boxes of CD's containing videos for my next project
framed photo of my loved one
various textbooks and notes for current/future projects
CD's with stuff from my last project
binders from various training events

On the floor I have a pair of cute white sandals, two old phone books, and a space heater in a box.

Forgot: Headphones, which are actually on my head not my desk but the cord is there so...

a computer

this is a tricky one for me, I have two desks, but don't use them much. Most of my time at work I'm in my recliner with my laptop.

But on the desks:

Desk 1, that has my official company computer:
tape deck
4 channel mixer (these 2 items for getting recorded church services into the computer)
3 of my 6 speakers
19" flat monitor (main display)
17" non flat monitor (keep chat/e-mail/winamp on this one)
good old fashioned IBM clicky keyboard (pre windows, but can't beat it)
optical mouse
Pen tablet
Tower
headphones
usually a epson cx5200 scanner/printer, but it's at church for a little while
TONS of paper needing sorted
screwdrivers
batteries
water jug
spindle of cds

Desk 2: where I work other systems
Regularrly here:
handheld radio scanner (listen to hometown fire dept)
two spindles of CD's already burned
4 stacked up drawers of regular cd's
a linksys cable router (from when they first came out)
a linksys 5 port switch
staple
color laser printer
3 hole punch
pens/pencils
notepads
a taken apart power supply to repair connector
(curretnly working on)
17" monitor
dell tower that I'm turning into a second file server
keyboard
mouse
my PDA
my laptop bag
keys
cellphone

At home I don't have a desk, just use a recliner and my laptop and an end table for papers/etc.

At work here I also have a 2 drawer lateral cabinet for storing computer parts, plus about 8 other older towers for parts, and a "mailbox" style shelf unit for all the various types of papers I use for printing. And a cabinet under that full of misc stuff like paper cutters, laminator, other misc DTP items. on top of the mailbox I have my glasses, envelopes, phone, another spindle, box of most used CD's in the office papers, digital camera.

I'd take a picture and post it, but dang it's a mess in here! LOL

-Greg

PS. Just in case you are wondering, I use this office for more than just "work". I use the office for my audio hobbies and my DTP hobbies, neither of these are part of my job. Now that I'm married, I hope to take most of the extras to my new place and do things from there.

monitor
keyboard
mouse with mouse pad
my wallet
speakers
avr
a roll of tissue
mentos (grape)
file stacker with a bunch of papers
my fancy bracelet
my cellphone
desk calendar
cpu
flatbed scanner
folders/files
headset

that it. im not quite sure if i missed something....

Can't believe so many people have got two monitors. I thought 1 was good

Well to give you a list..( this is in one 8X8 room with a bed in it.)

i have my tv in one corner,
with the cable box,
my 2 monitors one for my mac and the other for my windows system.
keyboards, and mice
speakers,
two phones with 4 lines, one 4 line desk phone, and one portible
stack of burnable cd's with external cd burner.
In one corner my home dumb termanial and server.
two wireless routers for 3 laptops, and two desktop computers
one cable high-speed internet modem for windows computer, and one dial-up modem for mac computer.
3 older desktop towers that will be used for parts.
1 old cisco cat-5 switch. To sell maybe.......... (most likely not)
Pile of papers and ****
My collection of DHL logo items on the top shelf above monitors.
All-In-One printer for desktop windows system
one networked small home laser printer,
One small mac printer.
One bird cage, with 5 parakeets.
Bed
Me

The only reason we have double monitors here at work is because they had a lot of extra ones hanging around (downsizing) and it wasn't going to cost much to upgrade the video card. I love it though. Awesome for development work.

Birdcage with parakeets - that's got to be the most interesting item posted so far!

That might be interesting if I knew what DHL was...

http://www.dhl.com/ ??

At least that is what comes to mind when I hear it.

And jsut for you Megan: http://www.dhl.ca/

-Greg

OMG! This is so funny. I - literally - read this post, then went outside to get some fresh air. And what did I see? A DHL truck!!! Don't think I've ever seen one of those before.

hahaha! what a coincidence...

Thanks mairving, I don't feel so bad about my desk now

Organised chaos I take it mairving??!

The Webmistress wrote: Organised chaos

Possibly, but with less of the organised IMO.

Good of you to post an image, anyone else fancy doing the same?

Here's mine (cripes, there really are better things I should be doing!):

Oh whatever, this is fun

Random stuff: Starbucks mug and Canadian flag stuck to the bottom of monitor on the right. A guy I shared a house with a while ago was going to emmigrate out there (long story), he brought that back from one of his visits

Anyone want to come over here with a digital camera? I don't have one (yes, I'm old fashioned that way ... don't even have a proper cell phone either!)

Oh! Oh! Webcam - will give that a try.

Alright, here we go - bad webcam pics! Anyone want to buy me a digital camera ??? Just kidding

The second picture is what's on the other side of my desk (behind my chair).

And one of tabby, just for fun.

It just happened to be in the same folder... she was helping me post a message on the fitness forum

Okay okay, as soon as i fond mine in this mess somewhere i will take one.

gotta love that butterfly made of flowers

That was for a halloween costume. I sort of like them though so I just use them for decoration now. Fitting metaphor for the yoga space too.

Damn, that looks dark! It's not that dank surely?!

no just a horible webcam that refuses to belive the light is on

Now now , no hittin on the admin, she has enormous power at her disposal..........

My desk has all of the above (minus about 2/3's of it)

Anyone else going to post some pics or are you all boring?

I'm boring.

I emptied out my camera yesterday, will take some pictures monday, however, the recliner will not be in them. I had a recliner where I was living before I got married, but the new place doesn't have one, so I took my good recliner from the office home.

The office seems so much bigger now!

-Greg

that looks so comfy but whats with all the boxes and empty pepsi cans?

That's brilliant, am loving that chair!

It all seems to fit together so well. I bet you've spent a few geek hours sat in that chair

Here's mine.......

Until I move to my new office out in the garden

lol i bet she cleaned it up for the photo

Nah, that's how it always is - see difference between males & females!

OKay i will do it, let me find my camera, i am looking to show off my dhl collection....

Right now there's the computer I'm using and five others on this side of the "desk". There's another five on the other side of the row. I'm at the uni CS labs.

Like my dads office, full of servers and workstations, i have 3 in my little work area at home, as you can see in the pic above, the mac below the laptop, and the desktop that is my main computer.

I'd post a picture of mine but my fish tank is in the way (digi camera doesn't do wide angle from close range), last time I tryed i thin I stunned one of the small fish as he darted into the side of the tank.

TFT Monitor
speakers
keyboard
mouse
lamp
nokia
couple of dvd's
bunch on white paper
a pen
couple of postcards
Eurobasker 2005 tickets

The Webmistress wrote: Nah, that's how it always is - see difference between males & females!

Like, whatever!

Nice one jc, you're loving that DHL collection I see... Never heard of anyone collecting that stuff before

That why i do it, because no one else does, makes it unique. Females are always cleaner, i never know why.

Ill post my PC pic soon, Im out on a road trip... Using my PPC here again, dang I really scroll a lot in these thing... better bring a ruggedized notebook next time...

I don't know about that "females are always cleaner"...

One summer I worked in the corp headquarters for a major drugstore chain, that became part of (or renamed to) a big drugstore chain out there.

I did sweeping, mopping, taking trash bags to dumpster, etc.

Their headquarters consisted of two buildings, and the one building had the "higher ups" in it. And the higher the floor you went, the higher the higher ups (of course).

That top floor WOMEN's room was the messiest restroom! I joked around with one of the ladies who had to clean them, i told her "this is why women are so neat at home, they get their messiness out of their system at work!" LOL

Now, I know this isn't true for all women, and in general women are cleaner, but reading that statement you posted just brought back memories of that job LOL.

-Greg

PS. I was runnng late this morning, accidently forgot camera at home, so will have to wait for my picture. Plus I'm rearanging my office today anyhow.

Rearranging your office will take a long time if we look at the list you provided earlier

Ok, I started rearanging, and once I got enough junk off my desk to look decent, decided to take a picture now. (Wife brought me my camera with lunch). Here is my work area, sadly, no more recliner here....

(my office half of a room that is divided, my area is about 10'x11')

The first three pictures are of my mian work area. The last picture is of the desk/area behind me. It is REALLY messy now as it is where I'm throwing everything while I re-arange. Normally there is a monitor and computer up on the desk along with my laptop.

The final corner you can't see is a corner that has an old BBS system stacked up, (16 modems, boca baord, 2 tower systems, cd changers, keyboards, disks galore from the days of 3.5" disks being the main media)

I do "customize" my office. The 19" monitor, the chair, keyboard, mouse, tablet, cd burner, zip drive, color laser printer, lateral, black desk, switch/router, all paper supplies (and all the laminator/paper cutters under the paper holder) are all mine. And OH the recliner... talk about comfortable days at work... LOL

-Greg

WOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 the amount of computers and other hardware blows my mind. Its like a computer graveyard.

is that a linksys router i see at the back there.

Quote: I don't get as stressed when there are no piles.

Yeah, I understand what you mean there!

Nice office Greg, that looks cool. So much stuff, you could get lost for days going through all that, and an old BBS - wow, now I'm impressed

I'm planning on using the old BBS system for data entry at our church this fall for collecting signup info for 3000+ food baskets we give out. Last year they were looking for enough systems good enough to run windows and access. TBBS is a multi-user (can handle up to 64 connection with the version I have) and has a dBASE backend that is perfect, and I can connect 16 computers to the main system via a null modem. All the systems have to be able to do is boot to dos and run a terminal program (anyone remember BannanaComm, Telix or Procom Plus? LOL)

(PS, in case anyone is wondering, "What the heck is he talking about???", see http://tbbs.org/ )

-Greg

off topic, but what brand of tft screen cleaning tissues do you use?

I'm paranoid about cleaning my laptop screen afraid of scratching it. I treid some cleaning tissues for glasses, that say can be used for laptop screens too, but unhappy with their results.

-Greg

Thank you for the info on the wipes.

Here is new picks of my office, finally finished rearanging it this weekend. The one came out a little blurry becasue i was holding the camera back over my main desk to get a better shot.

nah, i have a licence to have that (marriage license

-Greg