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Lemme check...
- 17" monitor (I WANT A BIGGER ONE!)
- Mid-tower case
- 50 CDR spindle
- Tape dispenser
- Floppy case
- StarCraft toys (Zerg, Maring and Special Edition/Brood War Marine. Anyone have the Protoss?)
- Old PII heatsink/fan
- Stapler
- Assorted homework papers, etc. (yes, I am a lowly college student still)
- Stereo (so roomates can hear others dying in Unreal Tournament)
- 5 empty Mountain Breeze cans, 1 empty Mug Root Beer can
- 3 empty glasses
- Mostly empty bowl of Ramen noodles
- Bag of candy https://forums.windrivers.com/
- 2 large speakers (gotta love surround sound https://forums.windrivers.com/)
- Printer on top of stereo (old, ugly, smears text, but it was the right price. Free.)
- Headset, for clan games
- MS Sidewinder 3D Pro
- Cordless keyboard reciever (yes, I love my Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro)
- TI Calc cable
- Small Halogen Lamp. Very bright. Very hot.
- Box of tissues
- Various books, about half to do with coding
- Package of plastic no-slip nubs
- Pocket dictionary
I think that's about it...
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Whats on my desktop....
hmm, y'all dont wanna know, heheh
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Desktop, hang on im looking for it, ok found it.
Lets see. Starting Left to Right.
HP 682C with cordless phone on it, scanner with paper for the printer on it, computer case with desk lamp and bills on it, phone connected to the computer line, a mountain of floppies, cds, and cdrs, left speaker with 50 cdr spindle under it, calculator, taz coffee mug with pens, pencils, and markers in it, game controller, headphones, TV remote, DVD remote, Dish Network Remote, VCR remote, 15" monitor (i want a bigger one), mylanta (upset stomach from looking at the mess), right speaker with 50 cdr spindle under it, sub behind the right speaker, more floppies, cds and cdrs, nic card, modem, NES games, Genesis games, N64 games, Chilton auto repair manual, various networking and troubleshooting manuals, college degrees in frames (my brainbench.com certificates replaced them), another calculator (keep losing calculators for some reason), and phone books.
Also Lizzy (the baby of the family), my 5.5 ft. Ignauna and my wifes rat (sunstar), they actually co-exist in the same place.
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I have a desk???? I'm luck to find my mouse sometimes.
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Sometimes I fill my tub up with milk and blow bubbles
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At home:
Stacked across the desk, from right to left. A large speaker, a stack of CD drawers with more CD's and floppies piled on top, and a USB hub and a small speaker perched precariously atop the stock, a UPS, a dual PIII server with a stack of discs ontop, a 21-inch monitor cantilevered over the edge of a monitor stand designed for a 17-inch monitor, another USB hub, a webcam, microphone, small speaker, sync cradle and a couple stuffed animals all on top of the monitor, then next to the desk, a stereo system and the other big speaker, with several CD racks balanced atop them. And papers and files stuffed into the spaces between machines/CD racks/etc.
And that's just the main server....
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Lemme see, About a million papers everywhere, pc magazines, game boxes, cd's all over the place,boot disk,broken cd cases, my Lava lamp , Slot covers, screws, blank cd cases, post it notes, screw drivers, coins, pc covers , and under my desk wires wires and mores wires, under the wires there is a SubWoofer for my speakers some where. And thats just the first layer. Who knows what lurks beneath the top layer,
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At work:
I have a U-shaped desk that fills the entire cubicle. Starting from the left:
A Fu dog statue.
A large dome surveilence camera (like you see in the ceiling at WalMart), sitting sideways, with a bunch of cables running from it to under the desk.
A stack of unlabeled CD-R. Who knows.
A rat statue.
A Jar-Jar motorized Pez Dispenser. Not quite as bad as the Jar-Jar tongue candy, but perverse in it's own way.
A stack of Cisco router IOS notebooks.
A stack of assorted computer components.
A disc case.
A rabbit hand puppet. Wearing a leather bomber jacket, and a flight helmet and goggles.
Assorted papers and office supplies, with misc computer parts buried therein.
A wind-up toy mouse.
A box fan.
A collection of coffee cups and empty Mt. Dew cans.
A dead hard drive.
A couple good hard drives.
Various tools.
Penguins caffinated mints.
Instant coffee (for emergencies)
A coffee cup with pens and stuff in it.
Monitor #1.
A couple stuffed animals (a mouse and a rabbit. The rabbit is a screen cleaner)
Keyboard & mouse #1.
Another mouse stuffy.
Computer #1 (K6-3 500, Win98)
A stack of O'Reilly "In A Nutshell" books, along with various technical references.
More tooks.
A cable tester.
A multitester.
A bag of sunflower seeds. That have been here for a few months. O_o
Some cartoon artwork pinned to the walls. Mmmmm. Mouse babes and rabbit girls. https://forums.windrivers.com/
A 'magic wand' used for Heavy Wizardry.
A DVD-RAM coaster.
A phone.
A 'Caution: Bosses in mirror may be closer than they appear' mirror.
A laptop (P-266, Win2K)
A Netgear 8 port 10/100 switch. Just for me! Mwahahaha!
A picture frame with an interesting picture in it.
A white board.
Perched on the corner of the cube, a smaller security camera, percariously balanced, and held in place with duct tape.
Computer #2 (Cel 400, BeOS 5)
Yet another mouse stuffy.
A funky flexible plastic sculpture.
A poster parody of Heavy Metal, titled "Heavy NIMH" with Mrs. Brisby.
Keyboard & mouse #2
Monitor #2.
SCSI external drive.
And yet another mouse stuffy.
An Intellex 2.1 DVR prototype. Cover off, and parts splayed all over.
A small yellow mouse stuffy.
Several dealers badges and buttons from various comic conventions.
An Intellex 1.6 DVR test system. Cover off.
A TouchTracker dome camera controller.
Keyboard & mouse #3.
Monitor #3.
KVM switch.
A can of Whoop *** cola.
An ethernet to 110V converter. Really.
Some manuals printed in German. (What the hell?)
The other Fu dog statue.
Underneath the desk:
A rat's nest of cables of all sorts: video, network, power, telephone, serial, dome control.
A massively overworked power supply for the domes & TouchTracker.
A couple records boxes (someone stole my file cabinet!)
A composite monitor.
The Intellex's covers.
A couple power supplies.
A stack of empty boxes.
Outside the cube:
Dozens of comic strips (Sabrina Online, User Friendly, Kevin & Kell, and Freefall)
A couple dealers badges from ComicCon International: San Diego (In place of my nameplate)
A Pepe Le'Pew magnet.
A floppy disc torn to shreds, and a label underneath reading "Why won't my floppy work?"
A CD-ROM with holes punched through it, staples, scratched to pieces, etc.
Various news articles, both real and humourous.
Various pictures and drawings of rats.
I have the second most interesting cubicle in this office.... https://forums.windrivers.com/
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13" TV, VCR, dual cassette deck, printer, stereo receiver amplifier, monitor, CPU, stacks of useless notes, unidentified floppies, digital camera, calculator, glasses, magnifying glass, remote control and a large male Iguana.
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- 20" Eizo Flexscan T662T Monitor sat on topof a pile of Porn mags to keep it @ eye level!
- Epson 640 printer with empty cd cases and letters on the paper tray at the front (these things can hold a lot of weight!!!)
- USB Zip100 with a disk in it with god knows what on it ( probably porn of some description)
- Usb Diamond Modem not connected to the phone socket
- 3 overflowing ashtrays (nicked from pubs as they hold more)
- Packets of Pro-Plus (some empty, some full)
- Blank CDR's ready for putting those downloads onto
- More junk mail
- Council Tax reminders (don't you just love them UK residents will know what I am on about!)
- Alarm clock
- Various pieces of fishing tackle
- Picture of my son
- Loads of other stuff I can't make out what they are though
- MS Internet Keyboard and cool IntelliXplorer Mouse!
- USR External V90 Modem connected to phone line (soon to be replaced by USR Cable Modem)
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On top of desk - Mass Clutter and about three ashtrays.
Under the desk, a true fire hazzard. Tangled cords, papers that have fallen, a gas and break pedal, and just enough kindling of pet hair and dust bunnies that one spark could set the whole thing ablaze!!
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From left to right:
(top level)
-A stack of books (dictionary, computer manuals, ham radio manuals)
-U-matic video tape
-My beta fish, Chauncey
-tissues
-phone book
-4 rubber rats
-box of jewelry
-speakers and monitor
(bottom level)
-Star Wars books
-some burned CD's and games
-Star Wars pizza hut toys (Yoda and Coruscant)
-3 beanie horses and a lobster
-a pile of crap including zip disks, paperwork, stuff i should have mailed last week, the phone bill, utensils that need washed, etc
-a dead floppy drive
-a 9600 baud external modem (missing pieces)
-desk calendar
-8 aluminum tumblers
-microphone, keyboard, and mouse
-nailpolish
-various medicine
my keys, comb, and ID float around in here somewhere, i usually have to dig for them,
and woe to anyone who opens the top drawer!!
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Printer
Scanner
Digital clock
Indoor/Outdoor thermometer
Speaker
Monitor with stuffed Y2K bug and web cam.
Speaker
Full tower with plant on top.
Keyboard, Mouse, Microphone and Joy Stick.
Calculator
Box of pens and misc. goodies.
Piles of invoices, bills and notes.
Spindle of blank CD's, misc. floppies, Zip disks & CD's.
Keys, glasses, stapler, tape dispenser, scissors, knife, nail file & clippers, coffee cups and an electronic Rolodex.
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Ive got two stations:
station 1:
starting at left
bookshelf filled with cds and a stuffed groundhog on top (he's blocking the shot glasses https://forums.windrivers.com/ )
USB flatbed scanner - unplugged because it is too noisy
lexmark 1100 printer (this machine is using windoze only)
pictures of the 9 year old boy I mentor
large pepsi bin
2 sat speakers seperated by a snowman
2 dragons
barometer/thermometer/clock
rabbit/pig/tiger/wolf/penguin stuffed animals
(grow up?? why.. then I would have to be responsible!)
taz glass with candle inside
candy dish full of petrified candy
faceplate for car radio
papers
unidentified floppy disks--not used in last 2 years
17" monitor on top of power center
sub buried behind more papers
external modem
flashlight
ashtray
cig packs in various stages of emptiness
lamp
checkbooks
various RPG games
a tie
calculator
more bills
spare mouse pad
and underneath...
p233 (clocked to 300) - amazing what you can build from spare parts, it actually is a good RPG machine!
empty boxes(footrest)
cords/surge protectors(3)/animal hair
cover for cpu (i put it on if we have company)
and on the side...
phone with caller id
Notre Dame football schedule
now for system#2.....
Radio shack bar code scanner (hey, my boss gave it to me https://forums.windrivers.com/ )
speakers
beer can
lamp
alarm clock
monitor - 15" temporarily
glass full of pepsi (fresh)
ashtray
celeron 400 cpu (who put the cover on???)
F15E raptor joystick
unorganized pile of cd's and manuals
cd rack - mostly empty
briefcase
ibm ps2 - holding up cd rack
6 pepsi cans
cordless phone (I Found It https://forums.windrivers.com/ )
pocket knife
Malibu rum bottle full of pennies
guard duty is by a Pokeball given to me by the boy i mentor
drawing by same boy
Stephen King book - Needful Things
spare cd audio cable
https://forums.windrivers.com/ "Spend a couple of hours a week with a child - it will open your eyes to a whole new world and chage the childs life for the better https://forums.windrivers.com/
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Being normal is just an excuse for poor imagination!
