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By: rorschach
Date: 8/11/98 12:54:38 PM
# Replies: 43
Ok, some or all of you may know of my lack of cleaning skills. I mean, let's face it, I am a slob. I have come to terms with this, but unfortunately my wife (who is also a slob but refuses to admit it...) has NOT. Needless to say, this is a point of constant friction between us.
My question is how many of you out there have computer desks that are buried beneath piles of papers, notes, disks of various formats, and cocktail napkins with notes, phone numbers, and lines of pseudocode on them?
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/11/98 2:23:28 PM
My desk is actually a big work table I picked up at the Boeing surplus store (the Boeing surplus store is my second home). It has a big-ass monitor on it, a powerbook, a keyboard, a mouse, a Boeing mousepad (I had to get it), some cans with pens in them, a CD wallet full of CD-ROMS, a pile of Zip disks, some feathers, an empty Coke can, and a Popeil's Donut Maker, which is this weird device that I found on a sidewalk in a pile marked 'FREE!'
Oh, and a dictionary and a box of Altoids.
Response #2
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/11/98 2:31:37 PM
Monitor, coffee mug used as an ashtray for cigars, floppy disks, an amazing nunnery webcam, a band-aid, two pens, a pair of scissors, scraps of paper with phone numbers, I.P. addresses of Quake servers (at least 6 months out of date now), a Wings 'N' More to go menu, my ministry credentials, receipts, a book of stamps, a photo of me in Edinburgh apparently flushing my passport down a toilet, Wart Stick (tm), a non-working 72-pin EDO RAM, a couple of Halls Mentho-Lyptus lozenges, a contact lens storage container....
Response #3
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/11/98 10:37:45 PM
I have a desk and a handmade computer hutch.
Lamp. Computer. Monitor. Zip disk. about 20 floppies. phone with answering machine. tv guide. two big-ass speakers. an envelope holder for my bills. my bills. box of kleenex. about thirty cd-roms in a square plastic holder. more cd-rom piled on top. my laser printer. a manila folder with business stuff in it. a manila folder with personal stuff in it. about 10 boxes for various software programs. a cup with pens in it. a glass. a coaster. a phillips screwdriver. a bunch of old newspapers. another speaker (from the stereo). a clipboard with scratch paper. a clipboard with various papers. a cd changer cartridge. a tr-3 tape. a tom petty cd. two brian setzer cds. a lost continentals cd. a dixie chicks cd. a bottle of goo gone. four remote controls. a portable pencil sharpener. some packing tape. a logitech three-button mouse. a pinky and the brain mousepad. a logitech extreme joystick. eye drops.
Response #4
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/12/98 12:34:55 PM
Just so you all are up to date on what's on my desk, the powerbook is gone (it's in a backpack), and there's a greasy plate from yesterday's breakfast in it's place.
This information is vital, I know.
Response #5
By: sooz
Date: 8/12/98 7:14:37 PM
My desk (with hutch) doubles as the Home Office of Presley & Associates (the medical transcription service I ow, which the clients assume is located in a cool building downtown, but in actuality is in a corner of our bedroom.) That being the case, I have:
Monitor with stand that holds CDs, bubble jet printer, scanner, 2 phones/answering machines, a transcriber, microcassette tapes, pictures of Jimmy, a graph showing monthly incomes, a press picture of Richie L., a color chart for web pages, reems and reems of paper and letterhead for various doctors, a lamp, medical dictionaries, ink cartridges, blue nail polish and a pulse card.
Totally, there's about 3.4 inches of desk showing.
Response #6
By: Ralf
Date: 8/13/98 12:12:33 PM
Large rosewood writing desk. Two 17" monitors. Cordless speakerphone. Modem. Six music CD's, three CD-ROMs, two in jewelboxes. One 90-tablet bottle of time-release vitamin B-12 capsules. One plush monkey. A CD rack containing 22 CD-ROMs in jewel-boxes. Keyboard. Hitachi laptop computer (closed) and power bricklette. 1" stack of bills to pay. "Thirsty stone" coaster supporting a half-full can of Diet Cherry Coke. One KLH multimedia stereo speaker (the other is on an adjoining table). Remote control for Kenwood AV stereo system. Logitech cybermouse, 3M "precise mousing surface", and genuine IBM keyboard. Three Star Trek miniature spacecraft, threatened by a giant plastic housefly.
About four square feet of exposed deskspace. Not badly cluttered, for me.
Ror: you're describing clutter, not filth. Nothing to be worried about, unless you're blocking fire exits or something.
Response #7
By: sooz
Date: 8/13/98 6:24:30 PM
Yes, what Ralf said. Filth is another matter. Is there green fungus growing anywhere on or around your desk? Can a person tell, simly by the aroma, if they're near your workspace?
Response #8
By: rorschach
Date: 8/14/98 9:58:20 PM
Well, I TRIED to describe the contents of my desk, but it took so long that my stupid ISP timed me out and the response got shitcanned when i tried to upload it.... no, except for a spoon that looks too clean to be so, and a can of diet Dr. Pepper which has to be either my wife's or my daughter's, that have been sitting here for about a week,(i've been gone for three days mind you...) no, there is nothing of an aromatic nature here.....
Response #9
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 8/15/98 12:03:53 AM
Well, I suppose since we've got this fancy WWWeb technology I'd might as well make use of it.
Here is my entry....
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 8/15/98 6:24:20 PM
Aieeeee! It's infested with ICONS!
:-)
Response #11
By: rorschach
Date: 8/15/98 7:53:07 PM
man you need to SERIOUSLY clean your Desktop! you got WAY too many icons there....
Response #12
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/15/98 11:34:29 PM
Hey! I built some of those computers!
He uses OS/2. Of course he has too many icons.
Response #13
By: Ralf
Date: 8/16/98 10:18:19 AM
I think Windows should have ONE giant icon that does everything.
No wait, that's the "Start" button...
Response #14
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 8/16/98 10:53:25 AM
I wonder if the [fanatic] Christians have a problem with Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh... they're against Icons, you know...
Response #15
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 8/16/98 3:13:28 PM
Gowan Sez:
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Hey! I built some of those computers!
He uses OS/2. Of course he has too many icons.
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Hey! Look at that bland desktop, no character whatsoever, it's OBVIOUSLY a MickySoft product. My OS/2 Warp4 desktop has much more personality...and fewer icons as it turns out.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #16
By: Cleotis
Date: 8/16/98 11:40:59 PM
I have lots of things on my desk, but rather than bore you with the typical computer spizz, I'll note the most interesting thing currently found on top of my $50 garage-sale cherrywood desk.
A nearly fully-eaten tube of Kraft Braunschweiger.
As in Liver-Cheese.
Mmm Good!
Response #17
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/17/98 1:12:16 AM
Seek help immediately.
Response #18
By: sooz
Date: 8/17/98 11:33:40 PM
I used to eat that stuff, with yellow mustard, on white bread. Then I would try to kiss my beloved, and for some unknown reason, I was rebuffed. Go figure.
Response #19
By: rorschach
Date: 8/22/98 4:40:17 PM
at least he loved you enough not to chase you down and spray your tonsils with lysol.....
GAWD that stuff smells gross..... THIS coming from someone who likes sardines.....
Response #20
By: Cleotis
Date: 8/22/98 11:19:14 PM
While eating my tubular liver sausage, I was reminded of This web site.
Response #21
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/23/98 1:53:25 AM
Heh...
Response #22
By: sooz
Date: 8/23/98 3:30:40 PM
Cleo, do you do Yahoo searches for "poop or shit or turd or fecal or flatulence or fart"?
Response #23
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 8/24/98 5:31:50 AM
Uh..you're suppose to have it on a desk?
Response #24
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/24/98 5:28:55 PM
There's a little-known window of a couple of days where you don't really have to refrigerate it.
Response #25
By: rorschach
Date: 8/25/98 10:27:11 AM
what is that fang? the liver sausage? the sardines? or maybe the poop?
Response #26
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 8/26/98 7:01:21 PM
Ror Sez:
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what is that fang? the liver sausage? the sardines? or maybe the poop?
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All of the above actually, you don't want any of it to spoil on you. And don't forget to use your Incredible Wonder Sealer(tm) to lock in the freshness.
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #27
By: rorschach
Date: 8/29/98 10:45:17 AM
how could they get any worse?
Response #28
By: grin
Date: 8/31/98 2:23:44 AM
i thought computers floated over lifetime collections of notebooks, empty cigarette boxes and cds. you mean i could find a desk in there along with that tax return check from ten years ago? wow. will the wonders never cease?
Response #29
By: Ralf
Date: 8/31/98 7:54:10 AM
If you dig deeper, there's carpeting, cement, and (maybe) another civilization with their own furniture and foreign mannerisms.
Response #30
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/31/98 9:00:10 AM
Bah! If you're referring to the fabled land of "China," people all across this great country of ours have been digging for years and never found a single shred of evidence to support that such a place exists.
Response #31
By: Ralf
Date: 9/1/98 4:32:04 PM
Okay smartyguy, where does fine dinnerware come from?
Response #32
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/1/98 11:23:03 PM
That's not China, that's the mystical land of Chinet.
Response #33
By: rorschach
Date: 9/4/98 9:48:57 PM
so why does every box of 50 3.5" disks I buy say "Made in China" on them? Is it the great right wing conspiracy at work?
Response #34
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 9/6/98 12:21:55 PM
Er.... If it says "Made in China" that would be the left wing conspiracy at work, being as they're Communists and all. If it said "Made in Argentina" or something then it would probably be the right wing conspiracy. Of course when you go all the way to the top, they're all just tentacles on the same big ScaryMonster known as Them(tm).
Sorc'(3rd Degree Mason)
Response #35
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/6/98 11:23:21 PM
If you buy boxes of fifty floppies, it's time to buy a hard drive, dood... The prices have dropped TREMENDOUSLY since what is probably the last time you checked.
Seriously. Look into it.
Response #36
By: Ralf
Date: 9/7/98 8:03:17 AM
6.4 Gigs for $174 at CompUSA this weekend.
*AND* you get a free 5" television. No lie.
Response #37
By: sooz
Date: 9/7/98 10:17:59 PM
Get outta here. That's, um, worth checking into.
Response #38
By: Da Sissop
Date: 9/7/98 10:22:38 PM
Bah.. if I wanna watch 5" video I'll watch an .avi file on my PC.
Response #39
By: Ralf
Date: 9/8/98 7:25:47 AM
But can you carry it with you to the beach?
Response #40
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 9/8/98 2:57:07 PM
That's why god gave us laptops.
::homer wrestles you to the ground in one of the longest fight scenes ever filmed, puts the mysterious sunglasses on your face, and then shows you his credit card. it says: THIS IS YOUR GOD.::
Response #41
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 9/9/98 12:14:12 AM
Rowdy Roddy Piper is GOD.
Response #42
By: sooz
Date: 9/9/98 7:21:55 AM
I always preferred Hacksaw Jim Duggan, because his eyes cross and his tongue hangs out. I like that in a man.
Ever met my husband?
Response #43
By: Ralf
Date: 9/9/98 11:58:44 AM
OBEY