Desk decorations
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i have... a picture of my wife a framed illustration she gave me a little guy made out of wood and wires, named "anxiety" a mess of papers, empty Diet Caffeine-free Dr Pepper cans, sticky notes, and pens the iPod and its wires
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leckey wrote:
What kind of programmer are you?
the kind that's always wired, naturally.
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I just added a new desk decoration. I was reading my MSDN magazine and there was a CP ad with a picture of Bob! So I cut him out and he's taped to my desk. My cubicle is kind of a mess of stuff including the following: 1. A calendar with bugs as art 2. Art prints of puffins 3. Numerous picture frames filled with pics of cats and birds 4. One pic of me and Kori with a page flag pointing to Kori's head saying "Missing Information." 5. A Micrsoft paint drawing Kori did of my "brain." At least the "Programming" portion is bigger than TV. But not as large as "Animals." 6. My scrapbook of my trip to Puerto Rico when I need to go to my Happy Place. 7. An art drawing of a squirrel and a photograph of my squirrell family at my old house. 8. Visual Studio posters of different classes. 9. A postcard that says "Don't Be a Jerk." 10. A BASF insert to someting with holes that said, "Your project is full of holes." I scratched out "your project" and wrote "my mind." 11. Darth Tater 12. A cutout of Yoda with a light sabre. 13. Pop and water bottles. 14. Over 20 books---most I don't use since they include things like COBOL and JavaBeans. But I ran out of room at home. 15. A toy prairie dog with a sign that reads, "Feed me and die!" 16. Yummy Purell. 17. A week's worth of Ramen noodles, Veggie chips and soybeans. 18. Standard office stuff like say, a computer. 19. Headphones and CDs so I don't have to listen to my neighbor tap his feet ALL FRIGGIN DAY! So what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
At the office: tie, hat, golf ball, other useless nicknacks along those lines. Also, a candlestick in the shape of bony hands raising a skull. At home: a dart board, a tomato plant, some sort of huge leafy plant, some sort of vine.
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i have... a picture of my wife a framed illustration she gave me a little guy made out of wood and wires, named "anxiety" a mess of papers, empty Diet Caffeine-free Dr Pepper cans, sticky notes, and pens the iPod and its wires
Chris Losinger wrote:
empty Diet Caffeine-free Dr Pepper cans
Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles
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You mean you don't have the urge to have a framed picture of a cartoon alien? I at least have Star Wars stuff to offset the estrogen!
> You mean you don't have the urge to have a framed picture of a cartoon alien? Nah. Although you've given me an idea... A friend of mine has a small Cartman[^] plush toy, maybe 8 inches tall. A plush toy Bob sitting on my monitor would rock. :-D Chris, get those made for the CP shop...I'll be first in line to get one. :-D > I at least have Star Wars stuff to offset the estrogen! As long as it's not Jar-Jar.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
empty Diet Caffeine-free Dr Pepper cans
Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles
heh. no. i imagine that'd be a fantastic way to attract ants, though!
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leckey wrote:
So what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
One medieval battle axe, duct tape, eight kilos of illegal narcotics stuff, a partially melted GI Joe figurine, porn mags, nipple clamps, lollipops, and my favorite teddy bear ever in the whole world.
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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Josh Smith wrote:
porn mags, nipple clamps
So you work for Apple, huh? I hear those are standard items in the employee welcome kit.
Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Is it one of these[^] scenarios?
Pretty much. Just mix in the KGB, nazi eskimos, and a blind go-go dancer and you can see my quandry clear as day. :~
:josh: My WPF Blog[^]
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John Cardinal wrote:
a giant pillow for the cats so they will stay off my keyboard,
I actually have a separate chair for the cats. As soon as I am in my office Stitch wants in my lap and Yoko circles the chair. After about 10 minutes Stitch will get in the other chair as long as it's right next to me. Yoko finally settles somewhere around my feet. Then Boomer (who is handicapped and can't get around well) meows constantly trying to figure out where we all went.
Hmm. At the moment, two of our three archangels are here with me. Raphael (the Fat One) is sleeping on the desk next to my elbow, snoring at somewhere close to 95dB. Michael (the Shy One) is asleep on the bed. He's tired from beating up the Fat One a few minutes ago. The remaining archangel (Gabriel) is downstairs, plotting to capture and consume the new cockatiel my wife got a few days ago. Good luck, Gabe. The two non-archangels (the females, Cali-Whumpus and Canada) are on bat patrol.
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You mean you don't have the urge to have a framed picture of a cartoon alien? I at least have Star Wars stuff to offset the estrogen!
I worked with a guy who had tons of Star Wars stuff. People called him Nancy though, so I'm not so sure it offsets the estrogen too much. ;P
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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I just added a new desk decoration. I was reading my MSDN magazine and there was a CP ad with a picture of Bob! So I cut him out and he's taped to my desk. My cubicle is kind of a mess of stuff including the following: 1. A calendar with bugs as art 2. Art prints of puffins 3. Numerous picture frames filled with pics of cats and birds 4. One pic of me and Kori with a page flag pointing to Kori's head saying "Missing Information." 5. A Micrsoft paint drawing Kori did of my "brain." At least the "Programming" portion is bigger than TV. But not as large as "Animals." 6. My scrapbook of my trip to Puerto Rico when I need to go to my Happy Place. 7. An art drawing of a squirrel and a photograph of my squirrell family at my old house. 8. Visual Studio posters of different classes. 9. A postcard that says "Don't Be a Jerk." 10. A BASF insert to someting with holes that said, "Your project is full of holes." I scratched out "your project" and wrote "my mind." 11. Darth Tater 12. A cutout of Yoda with a light sabre. 13. Pop and water bottles. 14. Over 20 books---most I don't use since they include things like COBOL and JavaBeans. But I ran out of room at home. 15. A toy prairie dog with a sign that reads, "Feed me and die!" 16. Yummy Purell. 17. A week's worth of Ramen noodles, Veggie chips and soybeans. 18. Standard office stuff like say, a computer. 19. Headphones and CDs so I don't have to listen to my neighbor tap his feet ALL FRIGGIN DAY! So what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
1- A calendar from my sister's old apartment complex. The pictures are terrible, but I hang it up to remind me that some people continue to get paid no matter how crappy they are at what they do. 2- A quote from Roger Wright on desk clutter 3- A quote from codefrog on teamwork. 4- A false bamboo plant, which has survived weeks without water and months with nothing but flourescent lighting. A real trooper. 5- My headphones 6- Books on MFC, VB, computer architecture and C++ 7- company magazines 8- a tape drive and blank tapes 9- paper, pens, random illegible notes, a coffee mug and coaster (actual coaster not a CD) and a bottle in case I remember to water the bamboo. 10- a dry erase board 11- A chart of ASCII/EBCDIC characters 12- some notes related to projects. 13- A nameplate that says Black Warrior
BW
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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At the office: tie, hat, golf ball, other useless nicknacks along those lines. Also, a candlestick in the shape of bony hands raising a skull. At home: a dart board, a tomato plant, some sort of huge leafy plant, some sort of vine.
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Shog9 wrote:
tomato plant,
Cool! Do you ever get edible tomatoes off it? I was seriously thinking of planting an indoor cherry tomato plant and my office at home is as good a place as any. (Or by tomato plant do you mean the "tomato" plant variety that you wouldn't answer yes to in any case? :-D )
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Shog9 wrote:
tomato plant,
Cool! Do you ever get edible tomatoes off it? I was seriously thinking of planting an indoor cherry tomato plant and my office at home is as good a place as any. (Or by tomato plant do you mean the "tomato" plant variety that you wouldn't answer yes to in any case? :-D )
John Cardinal wrote:
Do you ever get edible tomatoes off it?
We'll see... there are some green ones on it now, it's just a question of how long they'll take to ripen. But no cherry tomatoes for me - if these things do make it to the end, they'll be some big 'uns. :cool:
John Cardinal wrote:
variety that you wouldn't answer yes to in any case
:laugh:
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My desk is decorated with cluttered junk. :)
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
My desk is decorated with cluttered junk.
My desk is cluttered with decorated junk :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
My desk is decorated with cluttered junk.
My desk is cluttered with decorated junk :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
:rolleyes:
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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I just added a new desk decoration. I was reading my MSDN magazine and there was a CP ad with a picture of Bob! So I cut him out and he's taped to my desk. My cubicle is kind of a mess of stuff including the following: 1. A calendar with bugs as art 2. Art prints of puffins 3. Numerous picture frames filled with pics of cats and birds 4. One pic of me and Kori with a page flag pointing to Kori's head saying "Missing Information." 5. A Micrsoft paint drawing Kori did of my "brain." At least the "Programming" portion is bigger than TV. But not as large as "Animals." 6. My scrapbook of my trip to Puerto Rico when I need to go to my Happy Place. 7. An art drawing of a squirrel and a photograph of my squirrell family at my old house. 8. Visual Studio posters of different classes. 9. A postcard that says "Don't Be a Jerk." 10. A BASF insert to someting with holes that said, "Your project is full of holes." I scratched out "your project" and wrote "my mind." 11. Darth Tater 12. A cutout of Yoda with a light sabre. 13. Pop and water bottles. 14. Over 20 books---most I don't use since they include things like COBOL and JavaBeans. But I ran out of room at home. 15. A toy prairie dog with a sign that reads, "Feed me and die!" 16. Yummy Purell. 17. A week's worth of Ramen noodles, Veggie chips and soybeans. 18. Standard office stuff like say, a computer. 19. Headphones and CDs so I don't have to listen to my neighbor tap his feet ALL FRIGGIN DAY! So what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
Decoration - what's that? :confused: Mostly junk and stuff I need to work.
"Nothing ever changes by staying the same." - David Brent (BBC's The Office)
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I just added a new desk decoration. I was reading my MSDN magazine and there was a CP ad with a picture of Bob! So I cut him out and he's taped to my desk. My cubicle is kind of a mess of stuff including the following: 1. A calendar with bugs as art 2. Art prints of puffins 3. Numerous picture frames filled with pics of cats and birds 4. One pic of me and Kori with a page flag pointing to Kori's head saying "Missing Information." 5. A Micrsoft paint drawing Kori did of my "brain." At least the "Programming" portion is bigger than TV. But not as large as "Animals." 6. My scrapbook of my trip to Puerto Rico when I need to go to my Happy Place. 7. An art drawing of a squirrel and a photograph of my squirrell family at my old house. 8. Visual Studio posters of different classes. 9. A postcard that says "Don't Be a Jerk." 10. A BASF insert to someting with holes that said, "Your project is full of holes." I scratched out "your project" and wrote "my mind." 11. Darth Tater 12. A cutout of Yoda with a light sabre. 13. Pop and water bottles. 14. Over 20 books---most I don't use since they include things like COBOL and JavaBeans. But I ran out of room at home. 15. A toy prairie dog with a sign that reads, "Feed me and die!" 16. Yummy Purell. 17. A week's worth of Ramen noodles, Veggie chips and soybeans. 18. Standard office stuff like say, a computer. 19. Headphones and CDs so I don't have to listen to my neighbor tap his feet ALL FRIGGIN DAY! So what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
0. My ergonomicaly/egonomically correct chair. 1. Telephone. Verbal communication seems so gauche, don't you think? 2. Pictures of my wife and daughter :love:. 3. A plaque I got on Father's Day a couple of years ago :rose:. 4. In the desk, my collection of around 300 CD's. A wretched hive of scum and villainy, consisting mainly of an embarassing amount of smooth jazz, 70's funk, and 80's pop. These are played on my daughter's old portable CD player through my $160 Sony studio headphones that never seem to get stolen (even though my cubicle neighbor's $5 ear buds have been ripped off 3 times). 5. A picture my daughter drew of someone canoeing in the mountains :love:. 6. HP LaserJet 2100 printer. Yes, Virginia, HP can do something right. 7. PC (it ain't much, and the squirrel inside has learned to love the whip). 8. Two 21" CRT's. Yes, I said CRT's. That corner of the desk bows down a little. 9. A cardboard box of miscellaneous cables and I/O cards. 10. A horizontal file cabinet containing the mysteries of the universe (one drawer of CD's, one of floppies, one of paper files, and one that's currently storing/not storing Schrödinger's[^] Cat). 11. A candy jar on top of the file cabinet with a label that says "Help Yourself". The jar is an open-ended bribe to my co-workers. The current stock of caramels is getting low, much to the dismay of my boss. 12. My guest chair, which no one uses. They all sit on the file cabinet. 13. A book case. The bottom shelf is for stuff related to my DOS-era projects. The next to the bottom shelf has stuff related to my OS/2-era projects, along with overflow from the bottom shelf. The second shelf is empty except for the MSDN DVD binder. The top shelf has my 'paper-to-be-dumped-in-the-recycle-bin' pile. 14. A long-suffering ivy plant that should be in therapy due to the chronic neglect and abuse.
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leckey wrote:
what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
Mine's all functional, I'm afraid. The usual stuff; books, wall-hung water bottle, some straw and cedar shavings on the floor, and a bowl of nuts and alfalfa granola in a bowl by the phone. Oh, and a computer.:sigh: Boring, huh? I think I'll go play on the wheel thingy for a bit...
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
Huh. Lucky you - you get a wheel :suss:. All I get is an old, broken-down four-poster bed and a dresser where people keep leaving $10 bills.
Software Zen:
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I just added a new desk decoration. I was reading my MSDN magazine and there was a CP ad with a picture of Bob! So I cut him out and he's taped to my desk. My cubicle is kind of a mess of stuff including the following: 1. A calendar with bugs as art 2. Art prints of puffins 3. Numerous picture frames filled with pics of cats and birds 4. One pic of me and Kori with a page flag pointing to Kori's head saying "Missing Information." 5. A Micrsoft paint drawing Kori did of my "brain." At least the "Programming" portion is bigger than TV. But not as large as "Animals." 6. My scrapbook of my trip to Puerto Rico when I need to go to my Happy Place. 7. An art drawing of a squirrel and a photograph of my squirrell family at my old house. 8. Visual Studio posters of different classes. 9. A postcard that says "Don't Be a Jerk." 10. A BASF insert to someting with holes that said, "Your project is full of holes." I scratched out "your project" and wrote "my mind." 11. Darth Tater 12. A cutout of Yoda with a light sabre. 13. Pop and water bottles. 14. Over 20 books---most I don't use since they include things like COBOL and JavaBeans. But I ran out of room at home. 15. A toy prairie dog with a sign that reads, "Feed me and die!" 16. Yummy Purell. 17. A week's worth of Ramen noodles, Veggie chips and soybeans. 18. Standard office stuff like say, a computer. 19. Headphones and CDs so I don't have to listen to my neighbor tap his feet ALL FRIGGIN DAY! So what fun stuff do you have in your cubicle?
I'm comfortable with what I called organized clutter. My desk at home has four stacks of things; stuff to be shredded, bills and bank statements, long term notes and crap I may need, but dont' want to file (they sit on my scanner.) By contrast, at my jobs, except for the latest pictures of my four kids on the wall, my desks always look like nobody works there. I'm not sure the entire reason I'm so obsessed with doing this, I just do. (Part of the reason, and this is serious, is that I've learned that when you get laid off, it's much easier if you can carry all your stuff out in one arm full.) (During one summer vacation, as a joke while at the beach, my wife bought me a postcard of a babe in a bikini, so I put it in a bookcase at my job in such a way that only I could see it. One day the CEO came in and sat down to talk about something and looked over and saw it. I'm still not sure she believed my explanation, but I didn't lose my job over it. [I lost it several months later when I told the COO that he was an incompetent moron (amongst other things, he forgot to cancel a lease and cost the company $85,000.)])
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
