Lucie Silvas CD
Black Adder DVD
Monitor (x3)
Keyboard (x3)
Ethernet switch
WiFi access point
HiFi separates
Nail Varnish (dried)
Scented Candles
Archers on the rocks (from last night) - now with no rocks
12 Marlboro Lights
Fire Extinguisher

"Buster Q Monkeybutt" awww, poor thing, but it does make you laugh hehe

Now 10 Marlboro Lights

Am I getting into a range you can count to hun?

Please do tell your other items.

I think you can tell a lot by what's on a persons desk (well kinda - but its just interesting), as you can see I am a total geekette, and proud of it

Hugs,

Katherine

1, Electricity bill "pay or we'll disconnect you" letter
2, Cognitive behavioral therapists "must postpone your appointment" letter
3, Psychiatrists "sorry nobody told you but I'm your new shrink and the health authority is refusing your funding" letter
4, Gas bill reminder
5, phone bill reminder
6, Eczema cream
7, anti-frizz hair lotion
8, nail polish remover
9, nail gloss
10, One large mug (half empty)
11, Driving licence complete with male identity
12, Two playing cards (Ace of Spades and Queen of Hearts)

Tis amazing what a desk can say about a person and their life. lol

*notebook 'puter
*laptop 'puter
*cordless phones #1 & #2
*cell phone
*Glamour mag.
*Kiteboarding mag.
*cigarettes and lighter
*bottled h2o
*the empty can of "cheese whiz" my daughter fed to the dog and then let him chew on, not knowing it still has internal pressure after being empty and will expolde in his mouth when he finally gets the canister open, as was his goal in chewing it...
*"Stretching" by Bob Anderson
*note paper
*a picture of our family travelling down a river in Montana; well, anyways, a picture of my daughter, actually, and my wife's head as she leaves the raft. At the time the picture was taken, I'm underneath the raft, having been tossed out earlier when we hit a boulder and came to a dead stop so, technically, you could call it a "family photo," but only the little one is fully visible through the foaming rapids taken courtesy of a passer-by who was more than happy to sell us the piture when she got to the end of the rapids run. Ack! Parenting! We both do our best to keep her in the raft and, guess what, she was the only one of us to stay in...
For the picture, please see my blog images. It's kinda cute and worth a look...

I work from home so... alot of work stuff

Picture of my SO

Wireless kbd and Mouse
DSL Modem
Wireless Network Hub
VOIP Phone
Reg. Phone
Coffee Cup (2)
Speakers (2)
LCD Display
TV/Video adapter (turns Flat Panel Monitor into TV monitor)
Assorted Pens & Pencils
2nd Laptop
Crystal Paperweight

and receipts/old airline tickets from last trips.

Dust and assorted sticky notes.

Michelle Lynn

Tiina,

That's not you in the pix., I assume...

Sincerely Yours,

Kari

1. A late-1960's touch tone phone
2. A forgotten bag of Ritz crackers
3. An empty coin tube that holds half-dollars
4. A business card from a junk hauler
5. A purple button
6. Keyboard/monitor/mouse for my PC
7. An Atari 800, with its peripherals
8. A mouse pad with the periodic table of elements on it
9. A birthday card
10. Two 5.25" disks
11. A stapler
12. A container of Saran wrap

Heather Harrison

"Jack Vance"? I've never heard of him! (I typed his name into a search engine and found out that he is a science fiction author.)

I'm really out of it when it comes to modern culture. Modern writing styles, for the most part, are too fast-paced and minimalist - this probably goes with the shortening attention spans in society. Although I have read a lot, I could count on my fingers the number of fiction novels I have read that date after c. 1950.

I'm curious - what is it about him that made you think of him when you read my post? Now, I'm intrigued.

(Sorry for derailing the thread!)

BTW, the same stuff is on my desk today - I don't clean stuff up very often.

Heather Harrison

hmmm
1 Nail varnish remover
2 2" waste bin full of cotten pads with nail varnish on em...
3 pack of cotten buds
4 stack of A4 scratch paper with various doodles on them
5 ear & ear ring cleaning solution
6 digi-cam (sans lead of course)
7 small collection of screws and washers left over from building the desk, i'll work out where they go at some point
8 side panel from tower case, to aid in cooling it
9 small collection of fluff from the carpet
10 box with 2/3 of a computer in it
11 martini glass (empty)
12 lost tribe of the amazon

theres hardly space for the pc.... and i've not seen the mouse for a while

Now I get it!!!

Grues occur in various Infocom text adventure games from the 1970's/1980's, especially the classic Zork and Enchanter series. My sig comes from Zork - it is the standard line that comes up if you wander into a dark place without a light. Now I wonder who thought of grues first: Jack Vance or the authors of Zork. I'm going to have to research this.

Back to the topic of the thread...

Now, in addition to all the stuff I have mentioned, there is a glass of wine on my desk.
Also, there is a Wet Seal discount card and a file folder containing personality type profiles.

Practically anything could end up on my desk.

Heather Harrison

Here in the office:

- The computer
- A phone
- A coffee mug with "Friends forever" on it, from my best friend
- Equality law, a toolbox against discrimination
- My giant handbag (won´t tell what is inside)
- My summer bag with an empty lemonade bottle and some papers on their way to the building inspection
- A glue stick
- Scissors
- Helsinki region phone catalogue
- A scale model of the area Säterinmetsä in Espoo
- Papers concerning the Uusmäki competition
- Papers waiting to be thrown into the recycling box

Laura

1) 21 CD and DVD discs of varying backups etc
2) monitor, keyboard and mouse for desktop PC
3) Laptop, mouse and powerpack
4) Lamp (for those late night sessions in the chatroom)
5) small green bucket full of various writing impliments
6) wooden intray with all those vital bits of paper, you know car insurance reminder, credit card bills etc
7) speakers for desktop (currently listening to radio 2 on Internet)
8) a stack of receipts to be added to the a/c log in Excel
9) mug with enough fur to qualify as a new life form
10) printer, with enough paper to sink the fleet
11) desktop tower unit (on shelf underneath, well perched precariously)
12) Skull gearknob, small metal figurine of a space marine and a small jar of purple sand.

OK so what does that little lot say about me then? Answers on a postcard to the usual address!!!


Alex
xxxxx

Ok things on my desk.

Computer Keyboard and Monitor and speakers.
Stargate SG-1 The Illustrated Companion Seasons 1-2, 3-4,5-6.
Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
A Dictionary, A Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Science and Technology
Various other research books.
And a Lara Croft Action Figure standing on one of the speakers.

Lots of other stuff.

Hugs
Maria

"Stargate SG-1", I love that show ... I have seasions 1-6 on DVD, very much my style, very dry humour

Hi Kendra,

The one item missing from your 12 things on the desk was.....

The key to the vault you have to keep that black dress in since the MSS was formed.

Just kidding.

Hugz,
Michelle Lynn

PS How is your web site doing?

A large black and white tailless cat named Buster Q Monkeybutt.

Two Diet Cokes, one half empty from this morning, the other cold and just opened.

A half eaten asiago cheese bagel also from this morning.

Monitor, keyboard, mouse and mouse pad and the usual accoutrements including the cable modem box, the D-Link wireless router and the router for long distance calling over the internet.

Two speakers.

A Canon printer and an HP printer.

A bookshelf with a haphazard collection of books and manuals.

A textbook on diagnostic microbiology.

A CD for Godzilla-vs-Gigan.

A large pencil holder shaped like an old fashioned wooden barrel.

Several packets of flower seeds.

Dust, crumbs and cat hair in profusion.

1-stamps
2-unpaid cable bill
3-readers digest
4-windex wipes
5- batteries
6- 2 jump drive sticks
7- envelopes
8- check book
9- ink pen
10- full half emty beer can
11- blank cd's
12- pc

So Tiina does that mean you have one foot out of the closet

1. Computer
2. Can of sweets (seldom acessed)
3. bottle of skin lotion
4. wooden/tile mosaic pencil box crammed with pens, pencils and assorted nail files and orangewood sticks.
5. pewter mug full of medical scissors, hemostats, screwdrivers and an antler prong
6. bottles of antibiotics for my abcessed tooth
7. A CD for HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC IV computer game.
8. A picture of my best friend ever, my late cat-friend.
9. Twin gargoyle statues.
10. A bottle of clear nail polish/hardener.
11. Pictures of a relative who looks very much like what I would look like if my other X-chromosome had not gone astray.
12. a wooden box containing an assortment of sound-reducing ear plugs

Heather, are you a Jack Vance fan?

Hugs, Joni

HI Heather-

It was the mention of being eaten buy a "grue"! Grues are mentioned in a couple of his books. Jack Vance writes both "hard" SF, ie, stories based on plausible extensions of known technology and physical laws and also fantasy tales wherein things like magic and mythical creatures, like grues, exist. I had not heard grues mentioned anywhere except in his books, so I thought you might be a fan of his.

And I apologize as well for the slight off-topic sojourn.

Hugs, Joni