What does your desk or other place where you sit by your computer and write posts here looks like?
At another forum I used to visit we played a little game "show your desktop", one took a print screen of the computer desktop and posted it. It was rather fun to find differences and similarities between people half a world away. :)
I'd like to widen the picture and show the whole physical desk. Are you game?
Here is my den. :D
OMFSM! You must be Swedish, it's both charming and organized.
I wouldn't dare take a pic of my current desktop as it can't hardly be more disorganized and cluttered.
I've been using the kitchen table, but under the current regime it's often cluttered and cramped. Not picture-worthy.
The house is under re-arrangement, so I'll soon have some deskspace upstairs when I take over the loft, overlooking the garden. That'll be better.
I had the same reaction as you guys when I saw this thread, but just to prove how boring my desk is, I will post a photo of it, along with my slightly less boring art table and light table.
I have two desks. This is the important one:
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1468772_10152152463399796_239271369_n.jpg)
The other one is just for earning money (to pay for this one).
Come on guys! ;)
My desk organized?! It's clutter all over! :D (not that I'm ashamed of it, I guess it's my style)
@ Zono: Chaos is the mother of creativity ;D
@ Aggi: If it says something about you or your current situation post it anyway prettiness has nothing to do with it. :)
@ Opsa: :) I feel at home in your pictures! But I want to see the kitten! The one at the drawing-board!
The light table and drawing-board makes me miss my old flat and my workspace there.
@ roystonoboogie: Nice! :D What kind of music do you prefer to play on your "desk"? :)
I have taken a picture for you, but it will probably take ages to get it off my phone camera into the computer, and also the light is v.bad so may be too dim to see.
That particular setup looks like classic rock, '55 - '69.
There is an extra tom and heavier cymbals for blues rock '75 - '95.
There is a multi-pad synth drum with an electronic bass pedal for disco '75 - present.
There is also a rack of incidental percussion like cowbells, woodblocks, tambourines, bells and a triangle if I can be bothered. Usually I can't.
Basically I'm a musical whore with a heart of gold. If you pay me, I'll play for you; if you don't pay me, I might just do it for free because I like you. It gets me out of the house and stops me from annoying my wife.
At the moment i am using a folding portable table which is cluttered with papers , folders , a briefcase and a hand me down battered laptop which is not yet connected to the net .
My desk is its usual bomb site:
Now that's more like it, Blue. :D
If you can see any desk surface, it fails the test.
LOL! @ Griffin
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 06, 2014, 07:30:54 PM
If you can see any desk surface, it fails the test.
You're right. I'll have to knuckle under and get some more "important" stuff on my desk ASAP. :mrgreen:
Here´s my desk at work.
On the left, you can see the hi-vis hedgehog Darlica made for me when I took up my current position.
The background picture on the monitor is the coat of arms for the local municipiality that we collaborate with here in Stockholm and rent our local offcies from. Their wonky IT system also means that I have to keep everything important on my computer desktop, otherwise it risks getting lost in their network servers.
The book on the right is Fahrdynamik des schienenverkehrs, a german text book on the physics of railway operations. There's nothing like handing out photocopies of four pages of equations and tables in german to the eager-beaver trainees to make them realize that, no, they don't have to learn everything about how brake force is calculated right now. ;)
The blue label on my desktop computer says "Dare to refuse Facebook" in Swedish. The thing leaning in the window is a cab signal display from some very old rolling stock from the Stockholm metro.
On the left is a stack of paper a k a my bad conscience -documentation from a course for minder drivers that I held a while ago and really ought to have processed by now, but haven't done so. Well, if they have been laying about for so long, another week won't hurt.
Quote from: Lindorm on February 15, 2014, 10:48:47 AM
Here´s my desk at work.
On the left, you can see the hi-vis hedgehog Darlica made for me when I took up my current position.
The background picture on the monitor is the coat of arms for the local municipiality that we collaborate with here in Stockholm and rent our local offcies from. Their wonky IT system also means that I have to keep everything important on my computer desktop, otherwise it risks getting lost in their network servers.
The book on the right is Fahrdynamik des schienenverkehrs, a german text book on the physics of railway operations. There's nothing like handing out photocopies of four pages of equations and tables in german to the eager-beaver trainees to make them realize that, no, they don't have to learn everything about how brake force is calculated right now. ;)
The blue label on my desktop computer says "Dare to refuse Facebook" in Swedish. The thing leaning in the window is a cab signal display from some very old rolling stock from the Stockholm metro.
On the left is a stack of paper a k a my bad conscience -documentation from a course for minder drivers that I held a while ago and really ought to have processed by now, but haven't done so. Well, if they have been laying about for so long, another week won't hurt.
That looks like the desk of a productive person. :)
(I especially like the "Dare to Refuse facebook" message, but don't tell anyone... they may not "like" me! :P )This is cool, seeing these workshops!
At the moment, I do long for the days when my desk looked like this:
OK, I have a picture I can share, my office desk (because my home office is simply FUBAR):
Ooh, I love the cheerful green fruit art.
One keyboard for the left hand, one for the right hand, and a centrally mounted one to bang your head against! ;)
There must be a pair of glasses nearby... multiple monitors are hard on the eye, in my experience.
:thumbsup: to daring to refuse Facebook, Lindorm. I'm running a privateering campaign against those blaggarts, and winning. :mrgreen:
@Darlica... it's not so much that the table's a mess, but that I don't feel like it's much of a 'home' in desk terms. I more frequently use my laptop on my lap in the living room. I haven't had much of a presence at home this year, just sleeping and occasionally eating. The household is in the middle of an upheaval, so it does have to do with my current situation, I suppose, but I'd rather get it back to a 'me' desk instead of a temporary squat. At that point I'm happy to show my clutter.
....also can't be arsed to haul out the camera and upload a photo at the moment. ;)
My bed is my desk. Sounds like your lap is your desk. So photo your lap!!
Eeeeeek! *Fanning self*
If your laptop has a camera, have it take a selfie in the mirror!
The term "selfie" still sounds strange to me. Too much like "quickie" for my tastes... :o
I've never figured out how to use the camera on the laptop (used to skype a little on the old machine, I guess). I'm always tempted to put a piece of tape over the camera like I used to do.
And while you're at it a bit of styrofoam and tape to the microphone...
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The whole thing would be funny if it weren't so disturbingly true. >:(
Eh, I just figure that I couldn't possibly be that interesting. :P
Depends on if you use the forum unwrapped or not, I suppose.... ;)
Hey- I didn't know I had become unwrapped when I was using it that time.
Unglued, maybe...
Unwrap yourself, no one is watching (except the NSA...). :P 8)
Talking of unwrapped, I just watched a documentary about webcam girls. Apologies to anyone here who is hooked on them, but they seem completely ridiculous. Mind you...... at £3:50 a minute, I am tempted.
Would that be something like a paid survey?
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Ok, I'm adding my home office desk, which is incredibly cluttered but was a disaster zone just a few hours ago.
Did you pretty it up just for us?
Looks like a productive working space to me.
I had to clean it up, and way past due to do so. Now the challenge is to keep it clean. :-\
Good luck with that. Mine does not stay tidy for long. Maybe I should put a vase of tulips on it, as Darlica does, to shame myself into keeping it nice.
The tulips are now replaced by a lovely white and purple potted Phalaenopsis Orchid L that gave me. :) Very pretty.
The desk isn't so pretty, it needs a clean-up. :P
Quote from: Darlica on March 07, 2014, 09:26:39 PM
The desk isn't so pretty, it needs a clean-up. :P
I say we take off and nuke the desk from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Actually, perhaps we both ought to get up and step away from our computers and do something constructive today? ;)
My other, less interesting desk. I spend a lot of time out on visits and at meetings. I come back to the office, people have put stuff on my desk. Not always sure why - my boss' leadership style is to take on a piece of work, put the funding in the bank, and hand the piece of paper that describes the piece of work to whoever he wanders past. If he can't find anyone, he'll just leave it on my desk.
OK, here at last is mine. It has seen both more chaotic and more ordered states.
It's six feet by three feet.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI01492_zps362f9ac1.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI01492_zps362f9ac1.jpg
Why have you got a little bowl of vomit on your desk?
Best view I could get of my "desk". Difficult when backed up against a bed head !
Quote from: Griffin NoName on March 10, 2014, 04:01:47 AM
Why have you got a little bowl of vomit on your desk?
That's crisps not emits ;)
Roy, your business desk is very neat and clean. How can you possibly get anything done? ;) (Hmm, I guess your description of your boss' work deflection answers that.)
Swato- I thought it was some kind of baked apple dessert. Apfel strudel? Is that racist or something?
Griffin, I suppose it must be difficult trying to get a shot from your position, but it's still interesting.
I think it's kinda cool to now have a picture of what other Toadfish environs. I can picture you typing to us from there.
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:08:26 PM
Swato- I thought it was some kind of baked apple dessert. Apfel strudel? Is that racist or something?
Do you take me for an Austrian? :fit: :fit: :fit:
No! Not that!
Now that I know they are crisps, I take you for a Frenchman. ;)
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 11, 2014, 01:14:14 PM
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:08:26 PM
Swato- I thought it was some kind of baked apple dessert. Apfel strudel? Is that racist or something?
Do you take me for an Austrian? :fit: :fit: :fit:
Isn't that a
Mozartkugel behind the computer screen? And I bet that stereo is playing something by Franz Lehar... ;)
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:29:34 PM
No! Not that!
Now that I know they are crisps, I take you for a Frenchman. ;)
as weak sauce as that crisps brand is you may do so.
The strong stuff is out at the moment and I will not likely get new before the end of the month.
Quote from: Lindorm on March 11, 2014, 01:53:33 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 11, 2014, 01:14:14 PM
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:08:26 PM
Swato- I thought it was some kind of baked apple dessert. Apfel strudel? Is that racist or something?
Do you take me for an Austrian? :fit: :fit: :fit:
Isn't that a Mozartkugel behind the computer screen? And I bet that stereo is playing something by Franz Lehar... ;)
I cannot see anything even remotely looking like that. I hate the filling of these in any case.
And Mozart was neither an Austrian nor a German. Salzburg was an independent country at the time.
I think the last thing I played on that ancient audio device was an early Russian opera.
Btw, crisps are iirc a Belgian invention
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 11, 2014, 01:58:57 PM
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:29:34 PM
No! Not that!
Now that I know they are crisps, I take you for a Frenchman. ;)
as weak sauce as that crisps brand is you may do so.
The strong stuff is out at the moment and I will not likely get new before the end of the month.
Quote from: Lindorm on March 11, 2014, 01:53:33 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 11, 2014, 01:14:14 PM
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:08:26 PM
Swato- I thought it was some kind of baked apple dessert. Apfel strudel? Is that racist or something?
Do you take me for an Austrian? :fit: :fit: :fit:
Isn't that a Mozartkugel behind the computer screen? And I bet that stereo is playing something by Franz Lehar... ;)
I cannot see anything even remotely looking like that. I hate the filling of these in any case.
And Mozart was neither an Austrian nor a German. Salzburg was an independent country at the time.
I think the last thing I played on that ancient audio device was an early Russian opera.
Btw, crisps are iirc a Belgian invention
Eh, I was making an American joke, as here they are sometimes called French fries, which has nothing to do with the French. No, wait a minute, I guess your crisps are more like our chips, which in England are more like French Fries. I'm so confused!
Personally at my desk I am playing "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" and a bunch of thrilling John Phillip Sousa marches as I salute the US flag with one and and type with the other. PLUS- I'm eating some kind of US food, but I can't think of what it could be at the moment. Everything pretty much originates from elsewhere around here.
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 11, 2014, 01:58:57 PM
I think the last thing I played on that ancient audio device was an early Russian opera.
As long as it's not anything by Gitti & Erika, it's all OK... :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO-ZxLhiYc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO-ZxLhiYc)
(Caution: clicking on the link might have adverse effects on your sanity and fragile sense of esthetics)
I know that one.
It is not the worst by far that 'volkstümliche Schlager/Hitparade' has to offer. :eeksign:
Quote from: Lindorm on March 11, 2014, 02:42:51 PM
As long as it's not anything by Gitti & Erika, it's all OK... :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO-ZxLhiYc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO-ZxLhiYc)
(Caution: clicking on the link might have adverse effects on your sanity and fragile sense of esthetics)
Oh gott... you weren't kidding with the disclaimer!
Quote from: Opsa on March 11, 2014, 01:08:26 PM
Roy, your business desk is very neat and clean. How can you possibly get anything done? ;) (Hmm, I guess your description of your boss' work deflection answers that.)
I try to do as much as possible electronically. I can get work email and appointments on my phone, I have a shared Google drive full of the resources I need (I have a natty little Android tablet that backs up everything I put on the drive, so even with no internet access I can give out information). Because I run an information line, I always have lots of posters, business cards, trolley tokens, stress toys, and my current favourite - a branded fridge magnet whiteboard.
We considered 'hot-desking', but because so much of our work is reactive to other people's crises we could never plan in advance accurately enough to make it work. I'd far rather be out doing home visits than sit at a desk, though.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 11, 2014, 06:25:27 PM
Quote from: Lindorm on March 11, 2014, 02:42:51 PM
As long as it's not anything by Gitti & Erika, it's all OK... :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO-ZxLhiYc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO-ZxLhiYc)
(Caution: clicking on the link might have adverse effects on your sanity and fragile sense of esthetics)
Oh gott... you weren't kidding with the disclaimer!
Worth clicking simply for finding out what Jagertee is. Overproof spiced rum and black tea? Yes please!
Even helps in case of an unplanned visit by Death
[youtube=425,350]rBMnkVXq1iE[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBMnkVXq1iE
That EAV video is adorable, even if I only understood every 15th word. But aren't they :o AUSTRIAN :o ?
Why can't you play some good, wholesome Heino? Or maybe Heino is too busy playing around with Gitti & Erika.
They are Austrian but apart from the accent quite different from the Austrianism I despise. Hey, they got sued a few times for pointing out the hypocrisy that is Austria's state virtue #1.
Whatever one thinks of Heino, the guys has certain musical qualities.
Still that is no reason not to poke fun at him occasionally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx9HEn8aq1c
Oh absolutely, there's no doubt that Heino is talented. I hope he takes the pokes well. They help keep his career alive.
Quote from: Swatopluk on March 13, 2014, 07:48:00 AM
They are Austrian but apart from the accent quite different from the Austrianism I despise. Hey, they got sued a few times for pointing out the hypocrisy that is Austria's state virtue #1.
Which reminds me of the, shall we say,
mixed response in the Austrian media when Elfride Jelinek was awarded the Nobel prize for literature...
My desk at work. Which I am spending more time at than I'd like. I'm an ecologist, I'm supposed to be out in fields, up to the elbow in badger holes....
Well, that didn't work. So here is a photo of my favourite thing on my desk...
Shouldn't that have six colour blocks? Or is is an easy one for badgers
It an easy one for ecologists.... :)