Be Excellent To Each Other

Pics or it didn't happen.

My face.

Repeatedly?

You are an angry, angry man, CG

I'd been toying with a 'picture of your desk' thread for a while, but hadn't got my arse into gear over it.

Half eaten banana, empty bottle of Lucozade, Paracetamols, iPod, wallet, phone, stack of blank CDs, calculator, desk phone (which I never use), stack of jobs which I should be working though. Sorry I can't make it sound any more exciting.

I don't understand. This isn't Bits and Bobs, so how can it mean anything to you?

Left to right not including computer stuff:

Eyetoy, some CDs, empty M&Ms packet, Homer Simpson coaster, bag of guitar picks, penknife, box for MarioKart.

I think you should join the World of Stuart forums, Shin. I honestly can't think of two people more perfect to share some internet space with each other than you and Stu. Heck, I'll even sub the £2 a month for you if you'll start these threads over there.

Have we not met?

Make as though you are about to text the pic to someone, and then instead of a number, change to text and put in your e-mail address. This sometimes works.

Hmm. I bought a cable for mine off eBay for a couple of quid so I could transfer stuff off/onto it using USB. Might be worth investigating that? Unless you have a (micro) SD card in your phone?

This thread reminds me of this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9595882115

This was my desk last year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grim/371835566/
Now it has more monitors and less view.

Vase with dead flowers, a clown nose, sodden Mills & Boon novels, half a tub of vaseline, framed photo of Ann Diamond, 2 bootles of cheap gin, pig mask and a rubber fist.

The only important thing on my desk today is the bottle of wine I was given this morning.

By the power of mobile phone email which I've just had to set up; my desk.

No, I did not say it for wanting you to not be here, else I would have said:
"... I'll even sub the £2 a month for you if you'll start these threads over there instead", but rather it is because I would just find some interest in the reception to the slew of new threads. You were not around before The Great Divide, so it's perhaps not something you could fully appreciate without some explanation from Gazchap, if he has not explained it already. It would probably result in Dudley being banned, whatever the sequence of events.

Has Dudley not been banned from here yet, then? Tch.

Vote Mr Chris!

I think Stu would unban him specifically in order to be able to ban him again. Also, me.

Haha, Stu should so that, for japes.

Email Dudley: 'your account has been reactivated and all posting privileges restored', but when he logs in, ban him immediately.

Especially if you started trying to be "helpful" again.

Yeah we don't want none of that helping out crap. Or sensible discussion about computer games like Team Fortress 2 and Galactic Civilisations II that [ProfessorFrink]NEH-VER HAHP-PENED[/ProfessorFrink]. No, I was only there to piss and bitch. That's why I fit in so well at World Of Emo Hair.

2 monitors, 2 speakers.

Left to right...

Family guy collectable model things of the family.

A Decisionworks mouse mat

A notepad

A receipt for £20 of Oyster top up.

My headphones

A USB lead

Our telephone interview script

A printout of the form part of our coding standards

A printout of the methodology of upgrading stuff saved with v8 of our stuff to v9

My car key

My camera charger

My payslip from last month

A receipt from Nandos on the 19/8...

Used tickets from Alton Towers, the London eye and the excellent IMAX at the science museum.

My keyboard / mouse and GL Company mouse mat.

My phone charger

My Phone.

COFFEE!

The adapter for my camera charger.

Mp3 player headphones

A "Give Peas a chance" business card holder containing an oyster card and a debit card.

A pen holder

Tru Calling on DVD

"Writing solid code" by Steve Macguire

Visual C# 2005 Express starter kit (Wrox Press)

Beginning Visual C# 2005 (Wrox Pres)

Motherboard manual for new work PC

Derran Brown Tricks of the mind book

Biro

Stapler

Print out of a batch file for some reason

Post office receipt from posting out mix CDs

Receipt from "As Nature Intended" for lunch on the 29th.

5p

Broken elastic band

Other notebook

Sainsbury receipt for milk and tea that needs expensing.

Intel retail heatsink for a Core 2 Quad

Camera charger.

Sega Nomad

Nintendo DS in fashionable "Zombees" case.

TomTom XL

Wallet.

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I perhaps should tidy.

You get your own Sega nomad

A 2-inch thick matted layer of cables covers any not-otherwise-occupied area of my desk. It also contains 6 own company products in various states of dismantlement, a fancy IP phone that I haven't bothered to learn how to work, a 3-channel power supply, a 1977 vintage digital counter, a lamp, a soldering iron which is "on", about 40 smart cards, a broken pair of headphones, a scalpel, a stained coffee mug, a ruler, and a dell PC with a bunch of stuff hanging out the back of it.

A desk fan, a letter addressed to the old owners of our house which I should have posted on at lunchtime, several old copies of the Guardian, half a dozen partly used note pads, a phone, a handsfree phone headset thingy which I can't bring myself to use, a PC, a stained coffee cup, a copy of "The Last Broadcast" by Doves, a calculator, car keys, a bottle of sparkly mineral water I nicked from one of the meeting rooms, several legal journals, a stapler, a copy of "Reading Writing and Arithmetic" by The Sundays, a cardigan, a digitial dictation widget I don't use, a congratulations card for a mate who's getting married tomorrow whose wedding I can't go to, several pens and piles and piles and piles and piles of paper with words on.

On my desk at work (which is where I usually post from when I don't have PAINFUL HOLES IN THE INTERIOR OF MY FACE) I have:
- Work laptop on laptop docking station.
- Apple keyboard and crappy Dell mouse plugged into aforementioned docking station.
- Fancy IP phone on which I don't know what half the buttons do.
- Dock for my iPhone.
- Company branded mug which I keep pens in.
- Scale model of a Ferrari F430 Spider (to remind me, rather optimistically, of what I do such a dull job for).
- Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Henry Jones Snr. on Lego motorbike (which the cleaners manuipulate into ever more worrying sexual poses each weekend).
- Rubbish looking Bonsai tree which my brother brought me back from Japan and which I don't know how to grow since all the instructions were in Japanese.
- Much-less-exciting-than-it-sounds encrypted Government laptop which has to stay bolted to my desk. Presumably so I don't leave it on a train or something.

My desk is usually pretty tidy, but only because I shove all my paperwork each day into my desk drawers. Those drawers are a fucking mess however.

The question would be, if it has to remain bolted down, why the fuck did they get a laptop?

A desk fan, a PC, an external CD-ROM drive, a pile of papers, a very dusty CD, a book on XML, a packet of tissues, a photo of me and my wife, a pencil, my mobile phone (Nokia N81 8GB), a passcard to allow me into the building, a coaster, two more bits of paper, a block of square notepaper, my keyboard, my monitor, my mouse, my Makers Mark mousemat, more paper, my keys, my wallet, a bookmark, a stapler, a copy of Visual Studio 2008, a book on ASP.NET, more paper and my big mug of tea.

*Bangs face on Comical's desk a few times*

Aaahh, that's better

my desk:


Macbook
sunglasses case
phone
hair brush
unopened letters (hmmm....)
lots of work that I need to do (but can I be arsed?)
a cup of tea
my degree certificate, passport and birth certificate
some chopsticks

I think it's fair to say that simply logic is waaay beyond our Government and their IT contractors.

How old are you again?

I wasn't going to do this, but I'm seriously, incredibly bored.

Any top that does up at the front, including ones with zips and hoods, are cardigans to my mind. It's a Bench top, FAOD.

Oh those things everyone was wearing 18 months ago.

I'm retro.

I had a zip-up bench hoodie in 1992.

I'm a fucking trendsetter.