What is on the surface of your desk

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well ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Starting from part that's behind me: fax machine, door lock opener, glass vase (empty cos the flowers died), dictionary, thesaurus, Zagat guide for 2001, several binders regarding bank forms and tax IDs. The part that's to my left: big blue mug with potpourri in it, silver dish with candle, my purse, little shelf that stands off the desk with a picture of me and Ramon, the baseball given to me after I hit the ump, a silver vase with a flag collection in it, a jar full of pens, and tissues. under the shelf is a tray with my "SIGN HERE" tags, stapler, Altoids, tape, white outs, more pens, post its, and paper clips are. next to the shelf/tray, there's a jar of Kiehl's cuticle treatment and a travel size Lubriderm, followed by a desk lamp with a post it note thing attached, then is my 12 CD holder (CDs: Nelly Furtado, St. Etienne's Interlude and Tiger Bay, the Best of Blondie, Aaliyah's self-titled, Tori Amos's Boys for Pele, New Order's Substance, All Saints' Saints and Sinners, and several mix CDs) which has my desk calendar on top of it. Then is my computer with all the computer acoutrements, then you turn the corner to my right side and there's another picture of Ramon, my giant telephone, three stackable trays with wires in them, a pad of paper with my name and business info on it, some mail, checks I need to file, a box for phone messages, a three hole punch, an employee's AMEX bill that I have to approve, and an empty basket that usually holds candy for my coworkers.

― Ally, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Several books leaning against the partition (Stroustrup/Blaszczak/Camel book/PvdL/Lakos and more that I'm too bored to list), postit notes, card from ex-coworker, bag of apples, hole punch, small car given to me by florist outside the building, two switch boxes, mobile phone, two spare monitor cables, black pen, desktidy containing the usual junk, Gantt control manual, wristwrest, mousemat, mouse, keyboard, monitor, two boxes containing MSDN library CDs styled to look vaguely Imac-y in a really wanky way, Pinback CD, phone and another mosuemat.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ALLOT FO TIME ON YOUR HANDS ALLY?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have the untidiest desk in the entire world.

assorted routers configs and stacks of random pieces of paper and old rubbish.
2 time outs from August.
some old loots
a 10 baseT transceiver
3 mobile phones
nicola barkers small holdings
bread
olives
plastic cups
pate
modem
phone
4 pence
network diagrams
Buliding Cisco Remote Access Networks textbook
cereal
another modem
a G703 cable
a quarter
waterford crystal plate thing
a guardian from September
a crossover cable
political compass thingy
computer
phone
notebook
mountain of paper

― gareth, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Left-to-Right. Faxed request waiting for action(Ha), mug,pc atop which are a notepad, pen, teeny weeny post-it notes (blue), figurines of Tim Sherwood and Gus Poyet, a free packet of crisps voucher. Moving on from the pc are a football trophy collected from last Friday's award ceremony, holepunch which no longer works, in and out tray, fan, phone. mouse on mousemat.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

computer and keyboard and monitor (monitor decorated with green tinsel as sop to Office Decoration Tyrant), crappy New World Music calendar, mousemat with mouse inhabitant, desk tidy with pens and paperclips etc, stapler, headphones, a BIG pile of CDs including Outkast, Velvet underground, Sunset Ibiza, Debussy Orchestral Works, Rachmaninov and Tom Waits, phone, cuddly dog and MIFFY, photo of my boyfwiend, big piles of catalogues from our company, diary and address book (personal not business!) some record mats for some reason, piles of proof reading, more pens and pencils, a glass that i had water in, copies of Marketing Week that i never read, a pile of in-trays with loads more papers and magazines in, computer discs and a huge pad of paper which i believe is called a "desk scribbler" or somesuch. and my elbows. i really gotta tidy my desk!

― katie, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2 mugs - dirty
hole-punch
3 plastic cups
map of Battersea
4 pens, 1 pencil
4 copies of Creative Review
1 copy of Blueprint
6 books full of Stock Photography
light box
English -French Dictionary (Concise Oxford)
Print outs of posters and Quark Documents
Invite to a Design Show which I won't go to
1 copy of 'Clerkenwell and Finsbury Past' by Richard Tames
And a mouse that DOES NOT WORK and has been driving me loopy all day
Oh, and my antique Apple Mac.

― Will, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Left to RITE: by my hands, a Ministers case that is not for us to handle (what a suprise eh), a wrist rest - which I have just moved to above the keyboard where one would THINK it should be already. Some headphones plugged into computer. Then a document holder, containing a document about the Action Plan for Faming Evaluation Programme, more MC junk, a print off from STREETMAP telling me how to get to ye pubbe tonight, some photocopied pages from Sex Roles and the Mass Media I am basing an NYLPM article about when it EVENTUALLY comes to the top of the paper pile, LANDSCAPE (the DEFRA magazine, yay!) and a lot more paper I should throw out. A Christmas card from co-worker Wendy! Two plastic cups (empty)! A PEECEE! On the PC is a new packet of post-its (num), some Tippex (num) and a Pokémon card of MISTY! looking determined with a Pokéball. On top of my monitor rests a Wigglytuff.

To the RIGHT! of the PC! we HAVE! A copy of yesterdays METRO! Bol.com recipts for some bookXoR, a really rad stapler, a PHONE! A TARE PANDA mousemat yaaay. Filing tray, Which contains some junk, a diary, and a copy of DODDS PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION for those boring hours. "In" (read "junk") tray, where rests a file I am suposed to be remaking. A sachet of ketchup. 5ive GREATEST HITS cd case (the cd is in pooter)! Oh, and a few old leaflets about CAP reform which are good to neither mang nor beast I should imagine.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

computer, 305 unmarked exam papers, liv tyler as a elf

― , Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, just some blu-tack and crumpled-up paper.

― martin creed, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A box of Avery labels (L7162)
A microfilm of the Guardian (March 16-23, 2000)
A cardboard cup of coffee (half empty and stone cold)
A dozen or so plastic CD sleeves
Some old CD roms of the Guardian Two piles of books ('The Rough Guide to Latin music', 'Power Games' by Kay Douglas and Kim McGregor, 'The Collected Writings of Gavin Hills', An old, coverless 'People's Almanac', The Guardian's book of Corrections & Clarifications, 'The Rough Guide To Trumpet & Trombone, Laurens Van Der Post's 'A Far Off Place', 'Last of the Medicine Men' by Benedict Allen, 'Stanislavski - His Life and Art', 'A Square Thread' by John Gross and 'Grains of Sand' by Martin Buckley. None of these are of any use to me at all - they just appeared.
Roth's Parliamentary Profiles A-D
A china tartan mug
Some junk mail
A green highlihter pen
A P&O mousepad with integral LCD clock (not set) A flatscreen monitor
An notepad
Some A4 scraps of paper
A blue biro

Why?

― N., Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a thin film of evil

― mark s, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

plastic glass o red wine from the xmas lunch i didn't go to and which i can't have for sore throat pain argh. a berocca. loads of cds with crap for me to turn into e-books, grr. empty mince pie tin thing. odd girafee on a luge kinder egg toy. mini radio w/ dud batteries for m&l listening (real audio blocked by firewall, grr again). secret santa present that i can't reveal here, as that would not keep it secret.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is so much crap on my desk that I doubt it actually has a surface. I think as you dig down through the crap you just find more and more crap, only getting denser and denser. In the end you reach the centre of my desk, which is made out of metallic crap like you get at the heart of Jupiter.

― DV, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Katie: ha ha! Mark S: ha ha wince. And in that spirit: on my desk is the horror of failure.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i neglected to mention the ingrained stain of defeat and deep shame.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Keys
Ashtray
Monitor
DV Cam
DV tapes

― K-reg, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why am I being singled out as the one as having a lot of time on my hands considering the other posts?

― Ally, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Computer
Brian Wilson tickets
Mobile phone vouchers
Congratulations card
Bouncing ball that lights up and makes sounds when you bounce it
Guitar pick
Cup
Batteries
Tarkus CD
Comb
Wind up tin robot
Some transformers
Stamps
Little UFO clock
Badges, inc. squirtle enamel badge
Jar Jar Binks lego-man
Lamp

On top of computer:
Lego Millenium Falcon
Empire state building statue
Statue of Liberty model
Smiley Pepper-pot
Lara Croft cereal box toy
Star Wars stuff

jel = magnet for junk

― james, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

QUIET TART!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(oh my desk at work?...lots of stuff that I can't be bothered with!)

― james, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some things on my desk:

seam ripper
several geodes of varying sizes
'official exorcist' patch that i haven't sewn on yet
cds: xen cuts, erick sermon, gilles peterson, beatnuts
holographic foil 3d glasses
coca-cola bottle cap i can redeem for 'five dollars in movie cash'
banana-flavored condom
catholic 'cross in my pocket' coin thing
pens stolen from holiday inn
new issue of the wire with kid606 on the cover, also stolen
eyeglasses i don't need
like eight sharpies
tapes i need to finish for friends
my statue of liberty cup with mint tea in it< br> old photos of me as a kid
little blue plastic nessie toy
dreidel

― ethan, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

holiday inn stock "the wire"? a dreidel? stolen from jewboy you beat- up cos he wasn't "keepin' it real?"

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On my 'practical' deskTOP:

seventy uncatagorized files
link to Premiere 5.1
link to Winamp
link to IE
link to Doctalk
a folder called 'My Komputer'
and spooky photograph of a lone shopping trolly as wallpaper.

― K-reg, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i stole the wire from borders. i was going to buy it because k606 was on the cover and there was a big wu article but fuck me it's 6.95 so i just walked out with it. the dreidel is mine, i've had it since i was a kid.

― ethan, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The huoog one In my bedroom:

Stereo (Sony Nicam VCR, DVD player, Dolby Digital surround amplifier), hundreds of naked CDs, a film canistor, Smarties lid, empty case for screwdriver set, clock radio, speakers, change, MD walkman battery, floppy disks, modem socket from Apple Powerbook Duo laptop, dismembered battery from same, EasyEverything ticket, Chupa Chups wrapper, banana skins, stamps, half eaten chocolate chip cookie packet (been open two months, now spewn out over the desk and slightly silver), Pokemon 3 DVD, glue, phone double adapter, bag of LEDs, precarious Tower of Babel consisting of: TV, box of biros, pile of paper, centre speaker, MacOS X 10.1 upgrade CD pack, Virgin Suicides DVD and TV aerial; batteries, Ribena carton, a sock, Daft Club Card, massive pile of all bits of paper ever, Chickenbear's spare chicken legs, BT Chargecard, 4 Strepsils, anonymous black cables, untouched-for-weeks Psion organiser, more batteries, mini-flyer for "www.redvinylfur.com", glittery Powerpuff paper, used Angelica ticket, my totally blinging k-roXor membraney speaker cable, Arndale Centre brochure.

― Graham, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh dear.

Computer and speakers, cds (Billy Mahonie, Superstar, The Pines, Dexys, Shack, Blur, Trembling Blue Stars and Vic Godard), a christmas card I made for my parents when I was about 8, a capo, a plectrum, 3 pens, a tv, an alarm clock, 2 glasses, a Thumbelina book, a Dudley Corporation 45, a tape tree tape, a photo of my brother and his girlfriend, some Ryanair documents, a job rejection letter which also spells my name wrong, the guitar tab for acoustic guitar by The Magnetic Fields and some other bits of paper.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THERE IS LARD ON MY DESK

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why Mike, why??

― james, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

at home : notebook, pencil,telephone,cup full of eggnog, 15 cds

at school : Jansons History of Westeren Art , Taschen History of Modern Art Vols. 1 and 2, The Collected work of James Merill, An Essay i worte on James Merill, A concise Oxford, soem cds, a notebook, a cup full of pencils and pens , two photos (one of me playing farah),a university calendar and registeriaon code book, a phone, a rolodex, a slim siver radio and a page a day calendar ( needs to be updated.) I do not have a pc because i am lowly .

― anthony, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gosh hmmm I have my computer tower & speakers a little glass jar of pens a little lamp, my ICQ address Book. Mouse & mouse pad a CdeB Cd I forgot to put away & a cassette of various country artists. and some fingernail clippers. All neat! Just don't look into the desk filing cabinet. The both drawers are just of JUNK which as to be gone through and cleared out!! Any volunteers? Lol

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

turn off the damn caps lock hanley....computer moniter,speakers,can of pepsi half drunk,pack of cd-r's,tv remote,reciever remote,cd remote,clock,wallet,dust.

― kevin enas, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one paper plate. one empty coke can, 12 oz. variety. one empty dunkin donuts coffee cup, 20 oz. variety. one $10 phone card, almost used. one ceramic coffee cup, original unknown. one scripto black erasable pen, origin also uknown. one digital thermometer. one wallet, black leather. one xmas list, fr dad mum and grandpa. one copy, ulysses, modern library edition. (still on page 26.) cds: four tet - "glasshead", this heat - "deceit", piano magic - "low birth weight," "artists rifles." one cd booklet, pere ubu, "terminal tower." one small bear candle, featuring honey pot. one small plastic triceratops. one lamp.

(the contents of my desk at work would easily push us to 2 or 3 mb worth of server space.)

― jess, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I forgot to mention Lixi the TigXor, who has now been moved to hanging from the ceiling.

― Graham, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pens, pencils, scissors, and ruler in cup; Rugrats watch with orange band; stapler; staple remover; eraser; white out; manual pencil sharpener; coffee mug; coaster; A Writer's Reference; clipboard with scratch paper on it; sheet of graph paper with directions; mousepad; mouse; speakers; keyboard; monitor; calculator; receipt from Petsmart; postcard from proflowers.com for 10% off; UNIX command summary leaflet; floppy disk in case; envelope with this quote from an LA Times article about the founder of Lily et Cie written on it: "Being intimidated is like a shtick. The savvy person knows it isn't real. -Cameron Silver"; legal pad; Mead one subject notebook; file folder

― youn, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one orange imac. one scanner. one superpowered printer. one phone that isn't plugged into anything. a laptop. lots of tax papers. a printed out notice about fafsa dates from school. an infra red mouse. more papers of indeterminate origin. last month's developed photos. a small self-made cup holding an assortment of pens. one glass of sobe fuel, unfinished. the remains of my eggnog latte from this morning. and a watch that doesn't belong to me.

of course, most of that stuff isn't mine. being that i don't really live here anymore.

oh well.

― nancy b., Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how are thoe egg nog lattes ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bekuz i like lard

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eggnog lattes have embellished the already jeweled glory of eggnog.

ooh-wee. that's some good stuff.

― nancy b., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sometimes I like to sit on my desk. It's really large.

― Ally, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the desk or the ass?

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eggnog = raw eggZor, brandy and RUM, right?

― Sarah, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

its much more complex sarah , i posted a recipe on an egg nog thread.

― anthony, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If thats what it is I'll have an eggnog without the raw eggs mr barman,

― Ronan, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

http://img.skitch.com/20080417-b32ncfyi7rytj3fj6s4dy2qa6a.jpg

― czn, Thursday, 17 April 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

1 cable remote
1 empty bottle of "essential" vitamin water
1 "power-c" vitamin water bottle that actually has raspberry lemonade in it
2 brown coasters under the beverages
1 makeup compact
1 black scrunchie
1 "port of los angeles" baseball cap i got as schwag from a class boat tour of the san pedro port

― get bent, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

schwag

sorry, pet peeve

― gabbneb, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

dust i reckon!

― not_goodwin, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

1 empty glass with a sad lemon slice in it
Sennheiser HD 201s
Many notebooks
FInancial paperworks
The insert to James Brown's "Messing With The Blues"
Eye drops
Orange lighter
Sun Ra "The Singles" CD
Packing tape
Card reader
Many Hard drives
iMac
Framed leaf from Unter Den Linden
Framed picture of Helsinki Station
rollerball pen

― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)

YOUR FACE

― coldfrap - foam mountain (s1ocki), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:33 (fifteen years ago)

There are five balls of yarn and eight pens on my desk.

― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

worlds within worlds

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:37 (fifteen years ago)

incalculable miscellany

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

a computer + monitor + speakers + mouse
a screenplay my buddy and i wrote
a cd-r spindle
an old movie theater cup (starship troopers: the battle begins november 7!) serving as a holder for some pencils/pens/markers/scissors
a stray black sharpie
a hard rock cafe glass with some stale water in it
a severed penis

― latebloomer, Friday, 16 July 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

just kidding, the water's not realy stale

― latebloomer, Friday, 16 July 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)

Hell.

― Official Cheese-Filled Snack of NASCAR since 2002 (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 16 July 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

This is funny because I just took inventory of (a part of) my desk to someone on facebook today, to demonstrate that her new, lean and chic setup could never accomodate my desking habits. That was from memory, though. What is actually on my desk may take a minute to catalog. In fact, I'll categorize.

Computer equipment:
19" flatscreen PC monitor
the ol' ubiquitous Linksys Wireless-G router
external DVD burner
two external hard drives, 1Tb and 500Gb
cable modem
21" iMac G5
two keyboards, a Mac Titanium and an old black Mac G3 keyboard
two mouses, a Mighty Mouse and an ancient but indestructible IntelliMouse
an iPod touch, with earphone wires all over the place
a USB cord and a USB cord extension
a USB SD card reader
two flash memory thumb drives
a Bluetooth USB dongle

Other:
small velvet bag, originally containing wine stoppers, now used for iPod
two pouches of tobacco, one mostly empty
16 oz plastic water bottle, on its 100th refill, probably
3 spools of various CD-Rs and DVD-Rs
neglected coffee cup
empty highball glass
pen cup, bursting with writing implements and scissors
pencil sharpener
small battery powered lamp, the kind with sticky stuff on the back
half a roll of quarters
12" plastic ruler, school supply style
two white art erasers
various loose pencils, pens, and Sharpie markers
a gel eye mask, unrefrigerated
the part of my tripod that screws into the camera but pops off of the tripod
an old-ass Canon PowerShot camera
hard case containing my spare/alternate glasses
two pads of post-it notes
earphones for my phone
my phone
ashtray
two small desk lamps
orange prescription bottle of pills
a one-hour kitchen timer, the old-fashioned ticking kind
two lighters
three books of matches, unprinted
a little square bowl filled with change, nail clippers, chap stick, screws, nails, twist ties, and heaven knows what all

― kenan, Friday, 16 July 2010 01:51 (fifteen years ago)

My desk was once my dining table, but I needed it more as a desk. So my much smaller actual desk is now my almost never used dining table.

― kenan, Friday, 16 July 2010 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

i'm at home right now so my coffee table is my de facto desk.

-a spring/summer 2010 amoeba "music we like" booklet
-a cable remote
-a box of tylenol cold multi-symptom pillz
-a pleather-bound notepad from a conference i went to
-a ralph's supermarket circular
-a letter from kaiser permanente telling me to make an appointment for a pap test (i just did one)
-a pay stub
-a checkbook

― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Friday, 16 July 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

xp BTW, it really isn't the unforgivable mess it sounds like. It's a big desk.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/my_desk.jpg

― kenan, Friday, 16 July 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)

-oh, and the recent black tambourine anthology on cd (xp)

― DâM-EdnA-FunK (get bent), Friday, 16 July 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

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