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So we did one last year. But since I've moved, I figure other people's desks have changed also.

Note: The only thing I cleaned off were my keys and my wallet. My desk space stays really goddamn clean these days, except for that spot to the left of the printer that's covered in dust. I call it the elephant graveyard and no one ever goes there. It's not safe.

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/desk09_00.png)
Clockwise: Well, everything here is relatively obvious. The keyboard is a custom model M that is not done. When it is, it'll look like the one from Portal. I thought about selling them here, but I'm lazy.  On the far right is the proof of Nythrax, which I have about 20 pages left to edit my way through. The monitors are: 21, 26 & 24. A PS3 is behind the 24 incher.

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/desk09_01.png)
This is to the right of my desk on a much shorter table.

Clockwise: Computer, NAS, DVDs I'm currently copying to the NAS & my G1, Sony HTS-100 Receiver, ipod touch & dock, bunch of hard drives, and half-working inkjet printer. Hanging between the printer and the computer is my etyBLU bluetooth headset, charging. Pardon the dust.

I could take a picture of work, but it's just 2 monitors, an XPS 13 and a Macbook Pro. Not very exciting. The wallpaper isn't even attractive nor interesting.

Is that diet cream soda? The normal stuff is too sweet already, I don't know how you could stand it with the fake sweetener.

The contrast between this desk and the one you had in Phoenix is astonishing. What the hell happened in between here and there?

Barely sweet at all, that's how. I don't do "sweet" soda.


Well, my desk when I left Phoenix was twice the size of the one I have now, as such, I had to make due with less space here. I can't really get away with keeping shit all over it anymroe.

You bust people's balls for running an xbox on carpet, and you run an open-top pc.  :oh_i_see:

Dust that motherfucker, and put the cover on it.

Yea, I do. What's your point?

Impossible.

How about a picture of your desk, hippie?

That 21" looks out of place.  You should buy my 24" to properly bookend that 26"  :grin:

Man.  I miss being able to smoke at my computer sometimes.  But holy hell did I smoke waaaay to much.  Plus it made the house smell like wet ass.

(http://web11.twitpic.com/img/26866439-af0ea97fbd5a1ef436bee63a813cefd3.4a9c1856-scaled.jpg)

Offscreen to the left is a docking station w/ a dell laptop.

My desk lately has been my dining table. Last year's Macbook Pro sitting front and center with my cheap little cellphone on the left, not currently charging. The charger's off by the couch, not pictured. Behind it is a wooden bowl containing 1 kg of food-grade salt, one potato, and two onions. Further back is a freshly-purchased roll of paper towels, too thick to fit on my paper towel holder - also not pictured.

Way in the back is the little window looking out from my dining area onto the harbor.


And the view through that window behind the table shows clouds creeping over the mountain north of town, plus the retail/warehousing development down by the old harbor. In the foreground is some dude driving home and a bus stop. Exciting times!

Here's mine


Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs, random change in 4 currencies (Pounds Sterling, US Dollars, Euros and Swiss Francs), Dawn of War II, a big mug of tea, World in Conflict demo disc, a random USB hub, driver disck for my wireless network card and the speakers and breakout box for my 6.1 sound system. My wife's desk is the one behind and you can see the back of her monitor and a pack of stroopwafels that need to go back downstairs. The mesh on the floor to the left is the lightwell that lets sunlight from the window on the landing filter down to the dining room directly below.

Edit: huge picture

This is not even half as cluttered as it was a few months ago, but also not half as clean as the next day after that.


The laptop and second monitor on it belong to my employer.  I love my commute.

Remember guys, if you have more than one computer Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) is your friend.

Mmmmmmm....!

EDIT:  Oh, yes, the picture.  Well, the $99 camera I bought so I could take a picture of my desk last time has been appropriated by a friend.

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/82194/IMG_0091.JPG)

(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7012/img0174lgh.jpg)

My desk is very messy. And the gloss polyurethane makes fingerprints show up remarkably well.

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/rattra/DSCF0119.jpg)

My super comfy leather lounge chair has become my super useful storage shelf. Ignore the Devil Cat.

And lucky you, you are the first (or second, or 500th) to see my brand spankin' new Dell color laser printer - brought online a mere hour before this photo.

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/42220/Photos/Misc/Desk-Aug2009.jpg)

Ewww, cloth mouse pads.  :oh_i_see:

Does it work with Win7 and 10.6?

Dell offers an one hour delivery service?

I have it running on Windows 7 Enterprise Ultimate at work, I don't have a mac. I imagine it would though.

Brought, not bought.

Right :oh_i_see:

Do cats instinctively know when you're taking a photo of your desk?

They know when you do EVERYTHING.

I still can't get over how thick Engels monitor is. :ye_gods:

I think it's one of those monitors that Jesus buried to test our faith.

 :headscratch:

Anyways, its this one (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824002168). Its an H-IPS monitor, the advantage of which is decent video reproduction and color fidelity while keeping decent response times. It doubles as our TV.

I used Synergy for years. But due to numerous bugs and the fact that development on it halted in 2006, I eventually switched to Input Director (http://www.inputdirector.com), which I found to be more stable and suitable for my uses (gaming!). A potential downside of Input Director is that it's Windows-only, but since I only use Windows (Win7+XP) that wasn't a problem for me.

Will post my desktop when I get home from work =P

I have the side off of my case because my vid card runs hot.  Is there really a problem with having the side off if I keep it dust free? 

Also, I'm jealous of the rigs you guys have.  I apparently need a new job. 

Sweet - thanks for the link.

Personal deskspace
(http://coeurdefeu.com/hosted/20090901_workspace01.JPG)


Work deskspace
(http://coeurdefeu.com/hosted/20090901_workspace02.JPG)

Side by side, all I need to do is roll two feet over.  Which is why I've developed such bad work habits since I started working from home.  Answer those emails now?  Nah!  I can do them later, after I finish this quest. :(

Jawohl.

(http://www.yoimg.com/i/5451c6cf148e5285349f5126c9c9b5b6-0288.jpg)

I am mostly looking at people's rooms and making personal judgements.  To that end, I'd like to see less close-cropping. :oh_i_see:

I like Rhyssa's room and Tarami's room.  They are very tidy and they have cuddly toys within reach.  I would have added Viin, too, but I don't know how cuddly the cat is.  It could be the sort that turns into a furry ball of hypodermic needles when cuddled.  I'm still getting over Schild's neatness.  I expected bacon.

Let us see your desk, Signe! And your kitties!

Well, I wasn't going to name names.

I am heartened by the evidence of other trackball users. Especially Rhyssa who has a Microsoft Optical Explorer Trackball which is possibly the greatest pointing device ever invented. They are around €300 each now if you can still find a boxed one on eBay.
/me makes obscure secret hand gesture

Solidarity brothers!

I use a trackball for the work laptop when at home, but for gaming I use a mouse.

My grandparents have one laying around, but I could never get used to it, so it sits.

Why don't you go start a "post your computer room" thread about it then?  :oh_i_see:

For Signe. Yes, my desk is a mess. Yes, my room is a mess.

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/rattra/DSCF0121.jpg)(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/rattra/DSCF0120.jpg)

Those pictures make me twitch... so messy.

Messy?  I'm going to go with claustrophobic. *shudders*

As for showing the rest of my home office, as soon as I get some more AAs, I'll post another picture.  My camera is old ad treats batteries like candy.  And I promise to not clean up first.

Thanks Signe.  My bear keeps my company when the dog isn't pestering me.

:ye_gods:

Not my desk, but rather one of the guys' in QA at work.

(http://www.bunkphotos.com/Pictures/triando_desk2_sep2009.jpg)

(http://www.bunkphotos.com/Pictures/triando_desk1_sep2009.jpg)

Apparently they did this just today and he isn't back from vacation yet. They calculated it at 14 cu. feet of foam peanuts.

He's annoyingly cuddly. You can thank my wife for the randomly colored rooms. (Does look real nice with those plantation shutters, doesn't it?)

(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8370/hpim0291.jpg)

Happy now? WELL, ARE YOU?

Sorry about the horrible flash. It's dark outside. I notice I also expertly (...) avoided showing my face in the reflection.

This coming from the former tenant of the f13 house.  That place made my skin crawl.

Especially for Yegolev; my landing which is where the PCs are set up.

From the spare room:
(http://www.antipwn.com/study1.jpg)

From the window and facing the other way:

(http://www.antipwn.com/study2.jpg)

Cute that you and your wife both have the same chairs and sit facing each other :heart:

The seating arrangement is more to do with the logistics of power sockets than choice, there's a lot of room up here that we'd be using if not for the fact that both the power sockets up here are on the same wall and less than a foot apart. The chairs are identical because we had to buy all the furniture for the apartment so we just found a chair we both liked at IKEA and got two of them.

Hey man, I think it's rad, no need for the excuses :grin:


I live with my grandparents in their spare bedroom/storage room. I can fall into my desk chair, as you can see.

Just sit at your house all day and you'll be amazed how much money starts piling up!  I stopped doing things years ago and if I didn't have kids to spend it, I'd have tons of money!

I have nothing to contribute since my computer desk hasn't changed since last year, the year before, or the year before that.  These things also happen with kids and a house.

 :thumbs_up:


Or just spend a greater % of your income on your computer?

Missed this before. /solidarity brother!

I have no clue what I'd do if my trackball broke.  I'm so used to using it now and I love the thing.  Stupid fucking MS refusing to keep making them and/or allow someone else to market them instead.  There are so few finger trackballs around.  Not everyone wants to move the trackball with their thumb.  I tried that kind first and never got comfortable at all.  Plus my hand would cramp sometimes when I'd been on a computer for long periods of time (e.g. gaming or doing graphics).

I have two, one at home and one at work. Recently my home one became far too loose, the switches under the thumb buttons weren't working properly and the ball bearings under the trackball itself were worn down to the point that the ball can rattle in its hole. I replaced it with one of these (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/189&cl=us,en) which is pretty close to the MS one if you take the time to remap some of the buttons. The big difference is that the right click is actually on the right hand side of the ball while the left click is a thumb button and you can't remap right click to any of the left hand side buttons. Once I've been using it for a few minutes though, I stop confusing myself. Also the scroll wheel is too far forwards so I tend not to use it so much.

I wish MS would put their trackball back into production.

I really need to clean my desk:

Edit: My laptop generally sits on the laptop cooler thats obscured by paper and the backrest of the chair, and the monitor seems off-center as I actually have 2 of them, but just had to RMA one.  I'll post a new pic when it arrives again and I clean shit up.  It's a very lovely desk.

No offense man, but...

Holy. Shit. :awesome_for_real:

That's exactly how I imagine Nerf's desk, so I can't call it a shocker.

I guess you don't realize how small your shitty apartment is until you try to take a picture of a lot of it at once.

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/desk09_02.png)

That bundle of wires is mostly controllers, etc. But frankly, unless I put them back in their moving box, I don't have anywhere great to hide them. This is not ideal living conditions for me. :(

Picture of the arcade cabinet too please!

My god, how can you people work with such cluttered desktops?  I'd post, however, I don't really have a computer area in my house, and at work, my desk has my computer, my notebook, and my water bottle on it.  Too much clutter and it bothers me to the point where I need to clean it up before I focus on work....

Can't find my camera atm but just imagine a cheap particle board desk with a cheap-ass 15" KDS USA monitor, $10 Wal-Mart keyboard and World of Warcraft cards scattered over it.  I do have a nice view of my plum trees in my front yard though!

I work fine with a cluttered desk since I can easily focus only on the monitor.  Hooray for ADHD!  Also I am a big believer in the Paperless Office, which doesn't explain the amount of paper on my desk.

Since I don't have a real camera anymore, and I'm bored, I took a picture of my office.
(http://yegolev.com/images/KO_desk.jpg)

Your desk is surprisingly boring.

Holy crap.  I'm getting hives just looking at some of these desks/rooms.  Seriously, just  :ye_gods:

Iain, I have to ask; why is there a cave wall in your house?

I've seen that Logitech one and already figured it would be my replacement if/when I need one.  I use my scroll wheel a lot though, so that would be the worst change to get used to, I'm thinking.  The button placement probably won't bother me much, but I currently have one of my 2 right side buttons set to double-click, so that would be a loss as well.  Bah.  I don't want to think about losing this trackball.  I might have to go on a rampage when it does die.

I was wondering that as well, just didn't want to ask.  Too busy talking trackball solidarity!

Have you not seen pictures of Iain? He's a character from Lord of the Rings, so it's possible he lives in a Hobbit hole.

I'm so envious of all of you with your normal chairs!  :angryfist:

Mine, complete with bouncy ball that I have to sit on:
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7492/desk10909.jpg)

Girlfriend's:
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4622/desk20909.jpg)

There's often a large cat sprawled out where that lens cap is, quietly filling that computer up with fluff thanks to the enormous fan.  :oh_i_see:

Earth & Beyond original box and 8 copies of WoW.

I tried using one of those balls to sit on at the desk for a while, but I could never get close enough to sit at the desk properly.  I really did want to use it because I thought it would help my bad posture.  I tend to lean forward in my chair with my elbows on the desk and that ends up being hard on the front wheel of my chair (gone trhough 2 of them this year already, yay for replacement parts!).

So what's the secret to actually managing to sit at your desk on one of those balls? 

In his case, destroying his back and not having a choice. 

Poor apocrypha and his dodgy back.   :cry:

My house is awesome. It's about 400 years old and that wall is about two feet of packed stone covered in plaster. This means my apartment is cosy in the winter and nice and cool in the summer. There are similar surfaces at the back of the apartment where the building is part of the city walls.

Only 2 copies of WoW there, and 3 each of the 2 xpacs  :awesome_for_real:


You're never relaxed. Your back is always active and upright, your arms don't rest on the desk and your legs are constantly active too. It's actually pretty comfortable once you get used to it, but never so comfortable that you can forget about keeping your muscles engaged. You're basically balanced on the ball using your legs to stop yourself falling off it :p

Oh, and you need the right sized ball and right height desk.

You should get one of those with the handle on it so you can hop your way around the room.  WTF do they call those things again? 

Iain has a very cool place, if I remember the exterior. Too bad it's all messed up with that awful modern railing :)Dildo.

I have come to realize that I work in the most professional workplace of possibly anyone here, by far.  We are very conservative; the IT guys with the foosball table and giant inflatable Batman have been sacked.  I do have some weird crap, though.  You can't see some of my trinkets due to my laptop bag on the left, such as the gold-painted Mr. Potato Head which I earned due to some sort of grievous mishap I perpetrated, plus two other potato heads which appeared from somewhere.  The Bendy Elvis is visible, the lucky golden cat is harder to see, the Septim is hard to see (THE EMPIRE IS LAW   THE LAW IS SACRED), the Ordinator is barely visible.  But yea, no booze or GIT-R-DONE posters.

The cardboard box and the chrome-trimmed tray is the CD/DVD Repository for The Coca-Cola Company. :grin:

Yeah, if I owned this place I'd replace the railings around that spiral stair with something a lot more sympathetic. I'd also replace all the doors because they are equally horrid.

Space hopper.  :awesome_for_real:

I have a large cubical, the kind with the desk built into the cube wall and shelving built in about 18" above that for books with lights under the shelving.  On all that open desk space I have two monitors and a keyboard and whatever spec I am working from.  On the shelving are reference books and a space for my Vault 101 bobblehead, one of those large (12"?) Star Wars Snowtroopers from 10 years ago or so and my Aperture Science coffee mug.  Oh and some plastic models from the rapid prototyping lab.

It's incredibly professional and utterly boring, I would take a picture but no cameras are allowed in the building.

No no no, I know about how you sit using those balls.  I have one to exercise with (when I use it) and I actually like just sitting on it occasionally.  My problem is how to get the ball at the desk in the proper spot, then to sit on said ball and be seated at the desk correctly.  Make sense?  Maybe it's because I freely admit to being a fat chick, but I can't seem to end up close enough to the desk to do any work once I've gotten seated on the ball.

Our receptionist has one behind her desk instead of a normal chair, she says it's awesome.

I use those balls at work as well.  Not right now, due to diagnosed gall bladder disease that makes my stomach feel like its burning.

How about a sketch in MS Paint? :awesome_for_real:

Or at least a description!

A photo of my desk would either involve a) shared desk at work, covered with everyone else's mess (I frequently clean and send emails reading, "Hey, I found the desk!") or b) my kickass wooden teacher's desk with a non-functional computer on it.

My actual home "workspace" is my couch or chair and the laptop, which is the only functional (and highly fought over) machine in the house.

Wee!  Spartan for the win!

(http://www.slyagent.com/DSC02704.JPG)

1997 just PM'd me and wants me to pass along the message that it'd really like its cases back.

1997? Shiiiiiit. That one on the far left looks like it has a 5 1/4 drive. More like 1990 imo.

The one next to last (from the right side) has a Sony 500A writer :awesome_for_real:

Really easy to make region free.

Ahh gotcha. I'd guess you need a higher desk, but I can see how it would be difficult if you're well built. I'm a skinny wee fucker so it's kinda easy :/

Look 5 posts up from your last one.

Good call there.  Mail ordered in 1991 =P  I'm the last person I know with a 5.25 drive still functioning (actually has come in useful a few times in the last 3-4 years).

I keep my cases forever, even if the computers inside have changed many times over the years.

The only thing my fiancee has ever given me shit for, in 4 1/2 years together, has been keeping my old pcs. Now that I'm in a small house, I have to tentatively agree because space is at a premium, but I do like playing old games on their proper hardware, Ultima 7.5 on my 486 for instance.

I'll get a pic of the new living room at some point, things are crazy right now. Trying to finish summer projects and get ready for vacation in Vermont, but mostly I keep forgetting to bring the camera in from my truck.

I'm surprised at the lack of dual monitors on a lot of these desks.

My second monitor is on the floor next to my desk - it's a 19" CRT and there's no way it would fit on my new desk. I've been (unsuccessfully) trying to give it away for free for a while now.

Maybe some of us don't have ADD and like to focus on one task at a time?

I was surprised at how many people had multiple monitors.  Yes, I have two at the work-office, but that's really just for show of status.  I have two at home but each are attached to separate computers so it probably does not count.

My current room is pretty small. Pretty sure the bathroom or walk-in closet of my new place will be larger than my current room...but that's a post for next weekend.

Ah, you stole my idea.

More multiple computers than multiple monitors I think.

Forget dual monitors. I'm surprised at the lack of leg room.

I doubt many people here are tall enough to look you in the eye.  Also, I tend to work with my legs under or near my chair... that could be the case for others as well. 

I should get a picture of my home office for you folks to ridicule.  Tough crowd.

"We call it, deep dish."

I'm only 5'6", so I'm able to put my feet up on my woofer comfortably.

I call it "old as hell."

Welcome, my friends, to The Shithole.



(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3885248146_27fd0c1856_o.jpg)

Fix your shelves!

No comment on the wall... the floor... the...

I expect the next picture to be the wiring in the walls bursting into flames. 

WHAT THE FUCK :ye_gods:

Hes going to hut himself! THEN who will I play FE for the next month with? That shit looks precarious.

Is that a C64 on the left?

That is exactly how I remember everything in Italy looking, so Falconeer nailed it in one.

And still, couchsurfers literally love the place. Weird, huh?

FAKE EDIT: Yes, that's the C64 we keep using for our M.U.L.E. tournaments. You can see a Sega Megadrive joypad dangling somewhere under the table on the left, cause Sega and Commodore shared the same game port. I take you missed the (working) 1541 floppy drive on top of my case.

I expect to see everything in Italy leaning at an angle. 

I can also spot a 1541 at great distance.  God, I have so many great memories that are linked to the C64. 

That's because it looks like a crackden.

No, Sir. You would be surprised of my couchsurfing reputation as a host. Calling it "royal" would be an understatement.

Couch comes with free Itailian Chick? Count me in. When's your next opening?

Wow, you guys are making me feel really clean and tidy. Ill post some pics when I get home tonight.

Shitty picture of my desk taken with my Blackberry...

Hey, my first post could have Rome as its designated R&R post. Might have to swing by, if the Pope doesn't nuke me from orbit.

Wish I  could use it, but the work pc connects to a VPN, and I'm not circumventing all the firewalls with a tunnel just to use the same mouse and keyboard as my home box.

My desk, It doesnt look it, but its 8' long. Spoilered because i dont know how to resize the image properly.


Edit: I learned how to resize still spoilered though.

If the pope didn't nuke me from orbit in 35 years it simply means neither he or the firm he works for has that power.

And no Italian chick on the couch, cause to save myself for reasons it would be too complicated to explain here, I am (mostly) into foreigners.

At 6'5" I've got plenty of leg room.  Almost 40" of it.  Can't stretch my legs 100% of the way out, but I just back my chair out for that.

Why are so many people on F13 freakishly tall? 

I find the lack of any horizontal lines in that room strangely appealing.

Eh, our Italian teacher when I was there said to not even bother with the native girls, as they're too stuffy and want to be wined and dined and pampered and spoiled and courted too much.

No idea if there's any truth to it.

Generalizations are bad. Yes, there's some truth in it, but of course there's much more as soon as you leave the shopping district or stay away from bars and discos. Picking up girls in crowded cool places is the most common rookie mistake when in Italy. Unless you dig spoiled bimbos.

I might as well play this game.  It is also proof of how much dusting I need to know.  (No wonder I am selling toys on ebay.  Too lazy to dust around em!)


That and my living room really needs a carpet cleaning. 

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/39720/f13/manchild.png)

Really, at this point, it's like beating up a retarded 6 year old.

The next time my wife complains about all my toys I'm going to show her those photographs.

I feel much better about my clusterfuck of a desk after seeing Jains.  Stef was sitting next to me on the couch as I loaded the pictures, and the first thing she said was "Woah, he's never had sex."

Thanks for making me look good. :brofist:

My desk is really tall, I mean it's almost too tall for me (and I'm 6'6"). It's some old cubicle desk with tall side panels, and for some reason the top is about 3 inches thick and heavy as hell...

I could use it for a bomb shelter!

Thanks all for ridiculing Jain so that I cannot see the pictures.

That was sarcasm.

I was about to take some shots with my wife's Rebel XTi since she has decided she will start a new camera collection (and she's out of town) but the fucking battery was dead.  You guys have been very accommodating and I'll return the favor.  I'll also leave them up in the face of any ridicule. :grin:

Srsly. I'll never post anything but its because I don't have camera and I'm moving within a week.  I've moved more then once a year on average for the past 7 years, god I hate my life.

Seriously, I want to see Jain's collection since its bred such interesting comments.

Edit: Nevermind. Schild's third pic says it all. Wow.

Why do you all have so much shit?

What's it like being a monk and how did you find this website?

Long and fruitful lives.  Also a void inside our souls that cannot be filled.

I'm actually clinically diagnosed with Loot Distress Disorder.

Any lack of personal loots makes me break out in hives.

I actually empathize with Goreschach.  Considering my age, I own surprisingly little.  I think it's the result of so many moves coupled to my hatred for packing.  Everytime I move, a dumpster gets filled. 

I've just stopped unpacking.

My desk is likely not photo worthy.  It's the same Crate & Barrel desk I've had for the last 9 years and mostly just has desk-like stuff on it.  And a Lynyrd Skynyrd album for some reason..

I do that too.  What little I do own is still in boxes.  

If anyone demanded to see my diplomas, I'm not sure I could produce them.  Yes... it's really that bad.

Diplomas would make it into my desk shot!  They look good framed. About all they're useful for.

I am suspicious you don't have that void-in-the-soul thing.

Alright, this Rebel XTi takes huge fucking pictures.  I almost posted them but DAMN so I just cut them to 50% in Paint.NET and hope that's good enough.  You should be able to see plenty of telling details.

The personal personal computer:

The Ubuntu rig (left) and work laptop:

Both:

Random shit in the middle of the room:

2 years old is old as hell? It still is selling for a grand and a bit, down from 1.2 I think. The thickness is a product of the tech behind it being more complex than your average TN monitor. You won't find it at Best Buy.

Forgot about the art corner, opposite of the computer corner.

If I ever decide to buy a camera, I'll post some photos so you can see how exquisitely empty my temple house is.

But I don't really understand the draw of collecting so much stuff. I much prefer throwing stuff out to collecting it.

People with houses with almost nothing in them weird me out. Same as people who have a living room set aside for 'company' that no one is allowed into, with everything tasteful and perfect. Throw pillows just so, coffee table books neatly placed.

Creepy.

Then I require more information. Do tell.

I want to do a scavenger hunt contest with this picture. First one to find Sewer Shark wins!  :awesome_for_real:

Falc really needs some Waldo stickers in random places around that room. Unless they're already there and I just haven't found one yet.

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I'm shocked so many of you use such crappy peripherals.

I'm shocked you suck.


No, not really. :why_so_serious:

I'm shocked you use such crappy peripherals.

I don't know what you use, but I'm sure it's worse than mine.

Just saying, it's a perspective thing. There's always a bigger fish.

My peripherals are fine, this blue Razer is fine, even that Logitech trackball is fine although it doesn't have a middle button.  Headphones?  Fine.  Nostromo?  Fine, just not a daily-use peripheral.

Alright, my speakers suck but I can't turn the sound up anyway.

I was talking to Strazos.

Why do you put your make-up on in front of your computer? 

Eh, the mouse and KB are both decent Razer pieces. I know you use your much-loved Model M's (actually found a few in a buddy's basement last week), the comment was towards some other people.

I don't even care, just surprised, since this is really a higher-brow and discerning crowd.

I'm kind of an un-cluttered desk guy, I have lots of stuff but I try to keep it off my desk. The odd coffeecup, DVD, CD etc end up in a pile some days but I have bad dust allergies and I have to strip the desk down at least once a fortnight to keep the gray at bay. Also since this is where I do the majority of my drawing I need space to do so easily.
Not quite in picture: hugeass bookshelf full of books, coffeetableporn, art materials, comics and crap. Under desk: home theatre subwoofer, lots of sketchbooks and even more dust. Also, my phone camera sucks.

What does you draw?

Now that I'm looking at it, I hate to take a picture with the tangle of wires behind my av stack that I never got around to finalizing after I moved in (hey, it's only been a little over a year). I normally get pretty picky about that stuff. Now it's driving me nuts. Thanks!

^^^

Also, what size is your tablet?  It looks like maybe a 6x8?  Just guessing, also just assuming that's a tablet, since you said you draw at your desk.

Mostly character design/concept work and illustration. I tend to work in pencil in sketchbooks or decent mgs paper, scan and colour digitally using the tablet (which is a Wacom Intuos3 A4... uhm. 13"x8" worksurface? Screwy US papersizes!). Sometimes ink, sometimes paint oldschool, but pencil-digital is my usual method. Now, if I could get paid to do this crap...  :awesome_for_real:

Here's something icky I'm sketching up atm. Designing demons is fun if you've got the stomach for it.

Please tell me you have a flickr account or dropbox full of your stuff. That sketch is grotesquely awesome.

I have offered on that design I want... ;D  Though I'm sure you mean gainful employment.

I'm still unpacking into a new house, so be warned that these pictures are of an incomplete (missing gear, blinds, a decent chair) and unnaturally tidy workspace.  I still love my boring 5' and 6' folding tables for work surfaces though and will likely keep them.  

Desks, gaming computer, cablemodem, firewall (soekris 4801 w/ m0n0wall), laptop, work surface:
45 linear feet of bookshelves (need more), wireless access point:

Those tables aren't classy, but they serve their purpose. My friend has 4 or 5 in his basement which we regularly turn into a mess of computers a couple times a year. We've thought about springing for nicer tables, but then we realized we've been using those tables for almost 10 years, why get rid of 'em now? I also love the clamps on your bookshelf.

Exactly.  The tables pictured are over nine years old, still working great.  They even have nice rubber boots on the feet so they don't scratch up the floor.  Got a few extras folded up in the garage for when there's a need for tabletop gaming or projects or whatnot.

The clamps are temporary -- the small bookshelf is sitting on a slightly unlevel bit of floor and really needs to be shimmed a bit to sit straight alongside the neighboring shelves.  I didn't have anything suitable for that, but did have some C clamps.  Good enough for the time being.  I have room for one more (small) shelving unit along that wall, and need to anchor the shelves to the wall so they are less likely to fall on me and kill me in the event of an earthquake.

More Razer mice.  Also, boring tables are awesome.

The lamp both totally doesn't fit the overall look, and makes the picture.

Nice P3 figure.

Me too.  I think I will have to do more quoting, been getting lazy.


Hmmm.  The best I can come up with is the silver lid and/or mirror on my work desk.  Is that it?

Although the answer is: "So I can be pretty for the internets."

I just noticed Yeg has luggage on his work desk photo.

Packed and ready to gtfo, eh Yeg?

No.  There is an actual make up case next to your work laptop.  I PAY ATTENTION!  I'm glad you take pride in your internet persona, though. 

Oh, my Clinique bag.  You know, I've had that thing for so long that I forget it's a makeup case.  Mostly because it's a makeup bag from a Clinique Bonus Day and I don't know anyone who uses them to actually carry makeup around.  I took it to AZ when the F13 people got together, and it was old then.  Hell, I had it in 2004.


You mean the container of scotch? :awesome_for_real:

You shouldn't keep some make up for longer than  a year or so.  Mascara, only 18 months. 

You say it so casually.  Like it isn't a big deal.  And now you've got Signe giving you beauty advice.  I hope you're happy.

God I love those things, was looking a project ~1-2years ago using one with a 3G wireless pcmcia card. I regret the money I have dumped into a linksys xyz wireless vs picking up a 5501.

It isn't a big deal.  It is full of DS games.  Currently the DS and charger are near an outlet, but fit neatly into the bag.  It's far nicer than any purpose-made DS case I have used.


Yeah, I am a bit.  Although she just gave me advice on makeup expiration.  Too bad for her that I already knew that.

Ask shitty questions, get shitty answers. :oh_i_see:

Well, you did say it was very old and I didn't know what was in it.  I'm glad you keep track of those sorts of things, though.  It will help preserve your girlish good looks. 

since Yeg shared his depressingly barren workspace, I figured I would as well.


Missing in the picture is the 4' tall columnar fan I have in case it gets too hot.  My office is 70% women and they control the thermostat.

Had I not worked in an office with women I wouldn't know what you mean by this, but I do. There's no reason for an office to be 75-80F in the middle of summer.

For fun, some terrible pictures of my desk at work, pretty much exactly as it was today, minus a couple of pieces of prototype hardware that I moved out of the way:

(http://frotz.net/misc/office_work1_s.jpg) http://frotz.net/misc/office_work1_l.jpg (http://frotz.net/misc/office_work1_l.jpg)

(http://frotz.net/misc/office_work2_s.jpg) http://frotz.net/misc/office_work2_l.jpg (http://frotz.net/misc/office_work2_l.jpg)

EDIT:  If I remember to bring a real camera sometime, I'll update these with less fuzzy pictures.

Yeah, they're pretty awesome.  Everyone tells me "oh use a WRT54GL with the custom lunix firmware, you only have to reboot it every now and again."  My 4801 has never been rebooted except for power failures (long enough to drain the UPS) or to move it to a new location.  I'm sure it had over 500 days uptime at one point. 

What's the award for and what's the deal with the telephone?

The tall, oddly shaped lucite thing reads "World's 1st Android Phone Launch / Dream Project / October 2008 / HTC / Google / Qualcomm" and the smaller puzzle-piece lucite thing reads "Google / Thank you for filing your 1st patent application! / Your innovation is a key piece to Google's success. / The Google Patent Team".  (I haaaate software patents, but every now and again I cannot avoid being named on one).

Harder to see and further back is a (now empty -- must replace) bottle of Laphroaig single malt scotch.

The phone is just a boring 'ol deskphone.  It usually sits out of sight on top of the macpro under the desk but I grabbed it for a conference call last friday or something like that.

:heartbreak: I miss that OS!

QFT. Out of 60 people, there are 4 guys in my office (5 if you count the lead IT guy, which I don't since I've had to remove his mancard many times over for talking while we're at the urinals as well as other issues), and even when it's anywhere between 85F-100F outside they still want the heat set to 78-83F. I wouldn't mind as much if shorts were allowed, but until then being the minority sex by a long shot in an office is crap.

At a previous job, we would conspire to 'break' the thermostat approximately twice a year so that you could dial in whatever temperature you liked but it wouldn't change anything and the office would be pleasantly cool in summer and pleasantly cool in winter.

You don't like things pleasantly warm in the winter? Do you live here in Phoenix?

This may be my favorite.  The lamp + figure + wallpaper = win.

God damn the memories of installing it on my computer because the one other Mac guy in the dorm didn't have a PowerPC but he had a copy he wanted to show everyone.

I miss working on that OS!

Sorta on-topic, here's a picture of my desk at 3F, 800 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA in 1999, when I was responsible for SCSI, USB, and MIDI subsystems on BeOS and that license plate was on my car:
(http://frotz.net/misc/be_desk_1.jpg)

Wow. They had you sitting in a really shitty chair back then. The one at your android station looks like a Herman Miller, at least. You should demand better seating.

Edit: From that shot your right monitor looks like The Matrix screensaver.

Be was cheap.  Really cheap.  The company survived for 10 years mostly by being absurdly frugal.  Most of my hardware was hand-me-down stuff.  Nobody ever threw out a machine unless it was unbootably dead and only after it was scavenged for any useful parts.  I wish I had some pictures of the carpeting in the 800 building.  It was filthy.

The machines there are a dual PIII (under the desk), my primary "high end" workstation, bebox (on the shelf), for serial debug (it had four serial ports) and because I hacked on the bootloader at times, an x86 test box, a 486 with a SCSI bus analyzer (back right), and an old beat-up mac clone for ppc (far right) testing.

That is indeed a matrix screensaver.

The chair at work now is a used aeron that I brought from the startup when we got bought.  Sadly, the right arm broke off the other day.  Google provides okay chairs, but usually not that nice.

Hooray for chair-retention.  I inherited a cush manager-grade leather chair from someone when he left the company and have hung onto it for a while now.  I like it more than the Aerons people get around here, partly because I don't have to take the ergo class but mostly because my leather chair is very plush and leans back like a mini-recliner.  I wish I could figure out how to steal it; I don't expect to be sitting in it much longer.

I see a fish tank, 10gal?

Probably 10gal.  It was a small tank with small fish.  Been a while.

Not to derail too far...

I ask because my gf breeds fish now and I get sucked in by association. Think she is up to 48 tanks so far, 30-some in use atm.

I'm guessing you have to badge-in or keypad in to get into your area.  Otherwise; chair goes "missing" on a late Friday evening, and you return Monday and complain loudly some asshole has taken your chair over the weekend.

Damn those filching assbags!

His chair probably has one of those satellite beacons they use to track whales hidden in it because they are 'letting' him keep it as bait to see how long until he tries to do just that :p

Actually, yesterday I put a lot of personal effects in a cardboard box (invalidating the previous picture) and tried to walk out to my car.  I was stopped by physical security and the box was examined, the security console was called, I was informed I needed to fill out an asset removal form which I could get from my manager, and eventually they decided to let me go after my shocked expression, confession of ignorance due to taking actual company property out many times over ten years (including boxes of hard disks and entire servers), and my unstoppable charm.

The topper to this was when the security guard had said I could take my box out, she commiserated with me and said things are different around here now (she was forced to turn contractor recently), and would be even more different a month from now; I agreed with her completely, then she says "Yeah, you might come back and drive your car through the front glass and take all kinds of stuff, we wouldn't be able to stop you."  I pointed out, on the record, that I would never do anything like that, then took my box and hurried out.  It's like the fucking Titanic except there's no Billy Zane.

I passed my manager in the elevator well later and told him about it, and he was obviously new to this particular process.  Things around here are pretty much Opposite Land from just a few years ago, nevermind back in the 1990s.

Besides all that, I'd never be able to wheel a leather chair out of here even in the best of times.  Way too obvious.

Wow, that sounds surreal...


No no, you hide it in a closet or something, take it apart, and sneak it out a piece at a time.

Come on, I'm sure other people have site security besides me and Murgos.

Bet you can take your chair out once everyone is fired. Just be there on the last day.

I'VE WORKED HERE FOR 15 YEARS, A CHAIR IS THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES WITH ME. JUST LET ME TAKE MY COMFORTABLE SEATING DEVICE. GAWD.


My building has a 22 year old I've caught sleeping at the desk.

Austin is a little... relaxed.

Google has 30-ish buildings in Mountain View and we certainly have a security team -- good folks, our blue shirts.  But it's still a silicon valley tech company that wants to believe it'll be a startup forever and nobody interrogates you if you take a box of crap out to your car.

All site security does is check badges (visible check only) upon driving in.  All over the place there are pallets of laptops, non GA'd equipment worth thousands of dollars, boxes of tapes/HDDs, etc.  Security would likely only say something if they were called on you.

I haven't physically seen a security person that wasn't at a road entrance in months.

Throw it through a window, then walk nonchalantly past security and go and collect it.

Well, no one interrogated me about taking Obvious Server Hardware out of the building for ten years... things can change.


Things are far more organized than that, major corporations don't just let people go on some random day.  Fridays are preferred and there is always extra security on hand to clamp down on bullshit.  The last day would be the absolute worst day to pull something, which is why I'm getting my stuff out now so I don't have to carry a lot of shit out at once.  You should have come visit me when you had the chance, it's like going through the airport to get in here except you are harassed by security if they find you unescorted.


I like how you think, except I can't throw it across the loading dock into the parking deck.

That's because you spend too much time sitting in a plush executive chair and have grown fat and lazy.

I'd like to meet the guy who could toss this chair up two stories and laterally 70 feet.  Then again, I might crash the loading dock.  Or drive in through the front windows into the lobby, like the security guard suggested.

Just get a spork and a sharpened toothbrush and dig a tunnel imo.

Injure yourself at work and use the chair to wheel yourself to the car.  "Yeah, it looks silly, but I've got to reach my vehicle."  They'll be too confused to worry about the chair.

Organise a 'chair race' for your last day, design the course so that it goes out of the facility and close to where you have left your car.

I'm glad you guys are being so creative!  Unfortunately, each of these excellent plans have some sort of issue with execution.


Fourth floor. :awesome_for_real:


On-site medical.  They'd wheel me over to the company doc.


Has legs!

Get 10 people and hold races out the door, right past security

Gah, I got beat. That's what I get for playing with the wheel chair in our office :oh_i_see:

I'd need more than ten people.  Since we have "undercover" Atlanta police here on many days watching the entrances (hooray 9/11 ... today!!!), I'm going to bet real money that we have real police on site.

You guys are depressing the fuck out of me.

You could just steal or embezzle enough money to buy your chair.

A fine idea, I can actually read/write all of the databases.  Too bad I'm not smart enough to do this successfully.  Did you watch Office Space?

Or fake a receipt for it and claim you brought it in yourself to replace the shitty one you were issued with due to your back problems.

Hmm. :awesome_for_real:

*mumbles* that's the last straw... I'm gonna burn the building down...

The computer program took fractions of cents left over from financial transactions and interest compounding and transferred them to a dummy account, it's the same plan from Superman 3

Which as commented in Office Space, is an underrated movie  :awesome_for_real:

This might be a bit too obvious, but you could just ask if you can have the chair...

That has about equal chance of working while also being the least likely to incur damage.

I have just decided that I'd rather have a hammock.

Yes, a hammock would be much easier to sneak out of the office, just grab a backpack  ;D

You could take an idea from the title of this thread and post your chair. Have Fedex deliver the packing materials, box it up and arrange for them to pick it up the day after you leave. Have it delivered to your boss' home address during the day with instructions to leave it at the door, then drive round there and pick it up.

Bring in a bit of personal stuff every day for a while.  Eventually, you can fill out a form to remove your personal effects and use the chair to take it all out to your car.  They'll probably just think of the chair as a vehicle to get it to your car.  If you time it during a security shift change, no one will be the wiser.  Well, unless there's a murder or something in the parking lot and they review the security tapes.  Of course, anyone who would steal a chair would probably commit murder.  I would NEVER steal a chair! 

Sharpen the chair, use it to fight your way to the car park. Bonus points for having your tie around your head like a headband and chanting your death prayer in a forgotten tongue as you advance down the blood-slick corridors

Oh, I like this one the best.

Oh my god.  I take back my vote for sanity.  I don't think I've heard of chair related impalement outside of zombie movies.  If you were to go to jail for anything, this should be it right here.

Security already thinks he might be capable of driving his car through the lobby, so this is not surprising.

Man, I need to hurry up and get a job at a real live major silicon valley corporation!  I only get to read about this stuff.  I work at a small software company in Berkeley.  I could walk out the front door with the fucking server and nobody would notice.  We'll shut down the entire customer support section on a whim for an hour or two to run out for pizza and beer.  We not only have chair races, but chair jousting tournaments, all the while shouting insults at the most annoying company owners we have to deal with who use our product.

Of course, I'm pretty sure my pay grade is nowhere near what you assholes make, which is why I really do need to hurry up and get the fuck out of here to corporate land.   :awesome_for_real:

Yes, apparently I have a certain look.  ?  Anyway, you guys keep posting ideas but when it comes down to the tacks, I don't know any of you.

Just be glad you don't work in a company that doesn't allow you to do all that stuff you posted your work does while also making the lower salary  :ye_gods:

My desk at home is actually a kitchen table.

Which is a step up from my last desk, which was a long cardboard box turned on its side.

Are you homeless?

Yeg, claim it's your wheelchair and goddammit, why are they hassling disabled people in the workplace (bonus points for getting a disabled tag to hang from your chair), then rant about 9/11 or 'Nam or something and mention your attorney on retainer and how you just want to use your wheelchair to get home and take care of your sick grandmother before she's killed by the death panels.

Here's my rockin' space. I moved my work laptop out of the way so you all could see CastIronPopeye. He weighs in at 16 lbs.

(http://youturd.com/DSCF0583_800.jpg) (http://youturd.com/DSCF0583_1600.jpg)

I love the big powerstrip down there.  I should get something like that.  Is the critter next to popeye some kind of storage appliance?  I just picked up an acer aspire home server, installed ubuntu and some 1.5TB drives, and am loving it.

See Yegolev.  That right there is why you can't get your chair out.  You lack something on your desk you can literally beat another man to death with.  Without the threat of implicit violence, they'll continue to take your chair.  And your stapler.

Can I ask? Where do you work? ie which company? Are they going under or just shutting down that office location?

His company is definitely NOT EVER going to go out of business.

Unless we run out of HFCS (god, are you listening?)

Yeah, the big powerstrip is pretty cool. I have it constantly filled up. That thing next to Popeye is a Thecus N5200pro. (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=32&set_language=english)

I didn't really notice how bland my walls are until I took that picture. I'll have to do something about that.

I remain flabbergasted at people who have their computers within kicking range. The only thing that will ever be under my desk is the various ugly wire and a subwoofer.

It helps me with my posture. If I start to slack, shit gets kicked/unplugged/turned off.

Just going by the photo, it's very American Psycho.  I bet you dusted just before taking the photo.


I think it is pretty funny that you don't already know.  I haven't really been secretive about it.  My company invented Santa Claus.

It's The Cus! 

View of my "Home Office". The apartment is not huge, so we had to figure out a way to fit an office in. We ended up getting a big bookshelf thing from IKEA and using it as a room divider. This is an old picture. The apartment is much cleaner now.


My desk. I used to have a bigger one, but in the current situation it wouldnt fit.



To the right side of my desk is my girlfriends desk.


My side of my office at work.

I see the girlfriend likes Arcade Fire.

Also, pertinent to much of this threads derailment: get a new chair. The moment you have to pad a chair out in that manner, it's bad for you.

She is a designer, and I was showing her the Neon Bible webpage. Which is pretty cool from a design standpoint.

Yeah, I noticed the Tablet under her monitor shelf, too, figured she might be an arty-type.

(Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of 'Mattemeo Sees Things With His Eyes!')

Boring old deskphone? I say thee nay.

That is an Avaya 6408D+, the Cadillac of desk phones!

(http://www.thevooner.com/feature/2001/02/25/beocom/stand.jpg)

One of these days I'll have a desk to put my phone on, which happens to be the above.

(http://www.cloudtelecomputers.com/_img/prod_01.jpg) (http://www.cloudtelecomputers.com/)

That's just gratuitous.

I like the idea, but I think it's fugly.

God, you are sexy sometimes.  :Love_Letters:

 :awesome_for_real:

I've moved maybe 5 times in the past 8 years or so, I'm getting to the point where I don't even unpack a lot of my stuff. There's not much point in buying nice furniture when you constantly move from one apartment to the next, including cross country.

Since I cleaned up one half of it, I'll just post it.

(http://www.storageserver.be/images/realdesktop.jpg)

You surf so fast you keep a motorcycle helmet handy?

I lolled.

Actually it's a mountain bike helmet, but yeah...

(http://www.storageserver.be/images/shitdamnfuck.gif)