- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
ChrisKH said:
Where did you get those?
Just on a really boring conference call
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Where did you get those?
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
2 lacie monitors
1 jazzy video editing keyboard
1 mighty mouse
1 calculator
various bits of work to be done
4 cd writing pens
stack of blank dvds
1 joe bender bike desk ornament
some paper napkins
a cup of cold coffee, complete with plastic spoon
a christmas card
a calculator
a desk diary
ipod cable
phone (landline)
some other stuff
1 jazzy video editing keyboard
1 mighty mouse
1 calculator
various bits of work to be done
4 cd writing pens
stack of blank dvds
1 joe bender bike desk ornament
some paper napkins
a cup of cold coffee, complete with plastic spoon
a christmas card
a calculator
a desk diary
ipod cable
phone (landline)
some other stuff
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Well my excuse is that I am moving office- everyone throws trash on the 'creative' desk
Noteable items include a Magic Wand, half a polystyrene molar - larger than life - and a quote from Henry D Thoreau " Make sure you never look back unless you are planning to go that way"
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Laptop
mug from a Spanish Railway museum - full of pens
Landline telephone
camera
pile of used envelopes for taking messages
torch - doesn't work - trying to find out why
pencil
rubber
12 ruler
Coaster of a French Cafe
It's a very small desk, there is a table behind me, covered in cards, wrapping paper, post, etc etc.
mug from a Spanish Railway museum - full of pens
Landline telephone
camera
pile of used envelopes for taking messages
torch - doesn't work - trying to find out why
pencil
rubber
12 ruler
Coaster of a French Cafe
It's a very small desk, there is a table behind me, covered in cards, wrapping paper, post, etc etc.
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
I ought to be working but here a few items
-felt bag from Ugg boots with 1, 2 and 5p coins
3 pairs nail clippers
pedal spanner
2 pc's (work one sorely underused!)
WD40
Saddle
tons of cables
mess
-felt bag from Ugg boots with 1, 2 and 5p coins
3 pairs nail clippers
pedal spanner
2 pc's (work one sorely underused!)
WD40
Saddle
tons of cables
mess
Speicher said:Where did you get those?
They were a gift from a Dutch college friend of my wife's. Her father was a big executive for Phillips and travelled from country to country on 2 year assignments. In the 80's her family were in Sao Paulo and wifey went for a few weeks to tour Brazil. Unfortunately Viek (Dutch college friend) is dead now. She died of cancer three or four years ago. Such a waste. She was only 40 or thereabouts.
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
2 monitors
2 keyboards
2 mice
2 mouse mats
1 controller for digital tv card
1 sensor for tv card wedged under the bottom of the monitor screen using the top of an antiperspirant as a 'stand'
2 speakers (only 1 monitor has them built-in)
1 note telling me how to convert eps files to other formats
1 16gb data stick advert reminding me to buy 1 16 gb data stick when I'm next shopping
2 spiral pads, one full one empty (can't chuck the full one 'till I've been through it and shredded any work stuff)
1 plate which until very recently contained a toasted teacake
1 mug which until very recently contained coffee
1 pad of sticky notes
1 small ink stain (from when I inexpertly changed a cartridge last weekend - am hoping it will fade)
1 photo of my Amiga 600 (recently unearthed by Mrs B who was about to chuck it out)
1 very old but still working phone (puts the 'b' in bog standard - hasn't even got a redial button!)
1 pen pot (actually containing screwdriver, small paintbrush, and pencils - just one pen)
No conference call here - just the endless procession of emails...
2 keyboards
2 mice
2 mouse mats
1 controller for digital tv card
1 sensor for tv card wedged under the bottom of the monitor screen using the top of an antiperspirant as a 'stand'
2 speakers (only 1 monitor has them built-in)
1 note telling me how to convert eps files to other formats
1 16gb data stick advert reminding me to buy 1 16 gb data stick when I'm next shopping
2 spiral pads, one full one empty (can't chuck the full one 'till I've been through it and shredded any work stuff)
1 plate which until very recently contained a toasted teacake
1 mug which until very recently contained coffee
1 pad of sticky notes
1 small ink stain (from when I inexpertly changed a cartridge last weekend - am hoping it will fade)
1 photo of my Amiga 600 (recently unearthed by Mrs B who was about to chuck it out)
1 very old but still working phone (puts the 'b' in bog standard - hasn't even got a redial button!)
1 pen pot (actually containing screwdriver, small paintbrush, and pencils - just one pen)
No conference call here - just the endless procession of emails...
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
and as of 5 mins ago I also have a speeding camera ticket. £60 and 3 points or £72 and no points if I go on a course. Will do that option, and will cycle down there and pretend I set it off on my bike!
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
jay clock said:
Presumably you have to pay for the course?
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
Well it costs an extra £12. Choices are a) go to court, 
£60 and 3 points or c)£72, no points but go on the course
£60 and 3 points or c)£72, no points but go on the course
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm not going to dig right down into the primordial soup, but here's what I can see on the top few layers...
Dust. Lots of dust. It used to be part of me, but now it's just dust...
An old FM radio tuner, on top of which is an old Hifi amp, on top of which is a dead US Robotics ADSL router, on top of which is an identical but living US Robotics ADSL router.
A thing that used to be a drawer in my old office desk which I took out, sawed in half and turned into a homemade S.A.D. lightbox using 3 17-watt low energy bulbs and lots of tin foil. Now it is upside down and acting as a monitor stand for my 19" widescreen TFT, but that was still too low, so I've inserted 3 old large programming manuals - Direct X, Delphi, and Java. A screwdriver inserted under the monitor tilts it back to horizontal.
A photograph of a very old bearded Scotsman (my mother's grandfather). Next to that is a photograph of my late father sitting at the bottom of a very large shored-up hole with a man I don't recognise. They are both wearing uniforms, and they are sitting on top of a bomb which looks like it would weigh about 250 kg. Another photograph of my dad, topless, muscular and tanned. Apparently wearing a kilt, but I'm told it was made from an old tartan rug for the photograph. He is brandishing a rusty basket-hilted claymore which he'd just found in the shed next to the former family croft.
A small Samsung laser printer.
A Garmin Etrex GPS unit and its serial cable.
An unopened pack of spectacle wipes.
A disassembled Cateye bicycle front light (working condition, awaiting batteries).
Three disassembled LED bike lights (two rear, one front, all faulty),
The very bright S.A.D. lightbox which made my D.I.Y. effort redundant.
A 512 MB Kingston DataTraveller flash drive, complete with lanyard.
A battered 10 foot retractable Stanley steel tape measure.
A CD of 'Dread Beat and Blood' by Linton Kwesi Johnson.
A pack of playing cards.
4 ballpoint pens, some of which probably have ink in them.
Numerous AA and AAA batteries, some of which still retain charge.
A Simply Computers mousemat on top of which is a Microsoft Optical mouse.
A tissue which I blew my nose into about an hour ago, and haven't disposed of yet.
A 0.5 litre Coca Cola Zero bottle containing 0% Coke and 100% water.
The Logitech keyboard on which I'm typing this.
A Lithium Ion storage pouch for the spare battery for my new Fuji camera. I haven't bought a spare battery to put in the pouch so it looks as though it has made a home on my desk until I do.
The battery charger for the Lithium Ion battery which came with my Fuji camera.
A small blue widget that came with a surprise Christmas present of a game of Family Fortunes a few years back. It still makes the Ick-Aaaaaah noise that needs to be sounded when a family guesses incorrectly.
A Solar-powered Texas Instruments calculator, currently feeding off an S.A.D. lightbox. The calculator display shows 87.56 and I can't for the life of me work out what that represents...
A small pile of magazines. There are a few copies of Cycling Weekly in it, a Cycling Plus or two, and maybe a Cycle Sport.
Halifax Bank statements.
The Pain in the Pennines route sheet.
A map that I printed out for 'A Mere 200' and marked with green highlight pen.
A small radio alarm clock.
A three-pronged piece of plastic which was fitted over the mains pins on a plug of some piece of electrical kit. (Why do they do that?)
A pair of open-backed Sennheiser headphones.
'Winter Blues' (a book about S.A.D.).
The carbon monoxide detector which my mother bought me after my near fatal CO encounter a few winters back. It should be mounted on the wall above the gas fire, but I haven't got round to it yet.
Miscellaneous pieces of A4 paper on which are scribbled the mindless jottings of a madman.
A pad of A4 graph paper on which are scribbled the mindless drawings, graphs and schemes of a madman.
A baseball cap that I bought from Help The Aged in Penzance because the sun was burning the bald spot on my head.
Printouts of the Internet Marketing eBooks that a madman is reading and on which he is basing his future income. (Gulp!)
An A4 scanner which has had its lid removed so that a small Dell laptop can sit there instead. The scanner isn't working but the laptop is. The laptop has a new webcam for its early Christmas present because nobody nicked it off my step after a courier dumped it there.
A Pilates book.
A manual for a Fuji camera.
The Oxford Mini Thesaurus. Not The, just one of the copies of The...
More dust...
Do I win the Prize...!!!
Dust. Lots of dust. It used to be part of me, but now it's just dust...
An old FM radio tuner, on top of which is an old Hifi amp, on top of which is a dead US Robotics ADSL router, on top of which is an identical but living US Robotics ADSL router.
A thing that used to be a drawer in my old office desk which I took out, sawed in half and turned into a homemade S.A.D. lightbox using 3 17-watt low energy bulbs and lots of tin foil. Now it is upside down and acting as a monitor stand for my 19" widescreen TFT, but that was still too low, so I've inserted 3 old large programming manuals - Direct X, Delphi, and Java. A screwdriver inserted under the monitor tilts it back to horizontal.
A photograph of a very old bearded Scotsman (my mother's grandfather). Next to that is a photograph of my late father sitting at the bottom of a very large shored-up hole with a man I don't recognise. They are both wearing uniforms, and they are sitting on top of a bomb which looks like it would weigh about 250 kg. Another photograph of my dad, topless, muscular and tanned. Apparently wearing a kilt, but I'm told it was made from an old tartan rug for the photograph. He is brandishing a rusty basket-hilted claymore which he'd just found in the shed next to the former family croft.
A small Samsung laser printer.
A Garmin Etrex GPS unit and its serial cable.
An unopened pack of spectacle wipes.
A disassembled Cateye bicycle front light (working condition, awaiting batteries).
Three disassembled LED bike lights (two rear, one front, all faulty),
The very bright S.A.D. lightbox which made my D.I.Y. effort redundant.
A 512 MB Kingston DataTraveller flash drive, complete with lanyard.
A battered 10 foot retractable Stanley steel tape measure.
A CD of 'Dread Beat and Blood' by Linton Kwesi Johnson.
A pack of playing cards.
4 ballpoint pens, some of which probably have ink in them.
Numerous AA and AAA batteries, some of which still retain charge.
A Simply Computers mousemat on top of which is a Microsoft Optical mouse.
A tissue which I blew my nose into about an hour ago, and haven't disposed of yet.
A 0.5 litre Coca Cola Zero bottle containing 0% Coke and 100% water.
The Logitech keyboard on which I'm typing this.
A Lithium Ion storage pouch for the spare battery for my new Fuji camera. I haven't bought a spare battery to put in the pouch so it looks as though it has made a home on my desk until I do.
The battery charger for the Lithium Ion battery which came with my Fuji camera.
A small blue widget that came with a surprise Christmas present of a game of Family Fortunes a few years back. It still makes the Ick-Aaaaaah noise that needs to be sounded when a family guesses incorrectly.
A Solar-powered Texas Instruments calculator, currently feeding off an S.A.D. lightbox. The calculator display shows 87.56 and I can't for the life of me work out what that represents...
A small pile of magazines. There are a few copies of Cycling Weekly in it, a Cycling Plus or two, and maybe a Cycle Sport.
Halifax Bank statements.
The Pain in the Pennines route sheet.
A map that I printed out for 'A Mere 200' and marked with green highlight pen.
A small radio alarm clock.
A three-pronged piece of plastic which was fitted over the mains pins on a plug of some piece of electrical kit. (Why do they do that?)
A pair of open-backed Sennheiser headphones.
'Winter Blues' (a book about S.A.D.).
The carbon monoxide detector which my mother bought me after my near fatal CO encounter a few winters back. It should be mounted on the wall above the gas fire, but I haven't got round to it yet.
Miscellaneous pieces of A4 paper on which are scribbled the mindless jottings of a madman.
A pad of A4 graph paper on which are scribbled the mindless drawings, graphs and schemes of a madman.
A baseball cap that I bought from Help The Aged in Penzance because the sun was burning the bald spot on my head.
Printouts of the Internet Marketing eBooks that a madman is reading and on which he is basing his future income. (Gulp!)
An A4 scanner which has had its lid removed so that a small Dell laptop can sit there instead. The scanner isn't working but the laptop is. The laptop has a new webcam for its early Christmas present because nobody nicked it off my step after a courier dumped it there.
A Pilates book.
A manual for a Fuji camera.
The Oxford Mini Thesaurus. Not The, just one of the copies of The...
More dust...
Do I win the Prize...!!!
Aperitif said:
Well my excuse is that I am moving office- everyone throws trash on the 'creative' desk
Noteable items include a Magic Wand, half a polystyrene molar - larger than life - and a quote from Henry D Thoreau " Make sure you never look back unless you are planning to go that way"
Your a gem you Ap (yeah we know rel names but for the net its better to keep it virtual heh
) you've even got my desk on the screen !I feel that desk is soo you...
In the process....(no disrespect meant)
I love that 'cycling top' too ! ! !
Styley kulcha !
NB and youve a better megapixel pic. than me !!
