I have a few business magazines, a picture of an island off the coast of New Zealand, a picture of a Porsche 911, vitamins, a stack of biz cards, and a small fan.
sweeping from left to right, excluding imac, kbd, mouse, cell phone, extra monitor:
- despair.com "Potential" desktopper
- graph 8.5x11 notepad
- small form diary/calendar
- sunglasses
- my keys [ironically, to a 911 turbo s cabrio]
- delcom usb led 904005-SB http://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=...
- two ipads and two ipod touches
- book for financial exam
- lego police set [police minifigure collection] and lego helicopter
- cars from a few lego train sets
- cufflinks
- pencil holder with staedler 0.3 drafting pencils
- american express
A few business cards, various papers, glass of water, mug of pens/pencils etc., postcard received from a friend visiting Amsterdam, small buddha statue kind of like this: http://bit.ly/iO2Iy5
Hmm.... A small desk lamp, a scotch tape dispenser, two unused staplers, two unused hole punches, two vertical wire-files for the bits of loose paper that won't go away (one of which is completely empty, the other half-so), two stainless steel water bottles, my sunglasses, the wrist watch I never wear, my keys, a couple of smaller writing pads, and three VOIP phones (for testing). There's also a couple tech books that I never open (because I use the eBook versions on my iPhone, exNook, etc., now instead), along with the latest squarebound corporate policy tome that says I shouldn't post this.
All that and a small model bus with my hometown on the destination board to remind me that if I fail I'll be back on that bus going somewhere I fought to get out of.
Legal pads. With all the technology I deal with on a regular day, nothing beats having a legal pad handy to jot notes on. Something about handwriting really seems to help me remember interesting things from Hacker news, or odd notes from phone calls.
I do believe that you've picked up what I put down.
Seriously though, my desktop is essentially bare. I like the space to spread my arms out as I think, and I find that a large clean surface allows me to concentrate better than a desk full of books, knickknacks, and office supplies does.
You are looking at the cubical of an average systems administrator. You notice a few items scattered around the desk (the computer is locked down and cannot be taken)
Random Books:
Pointers on C
C Programing Language
Unix Power Tools
Sed and Awk
Classic Shell Scripting
Unix in a Nutshell
A set of index cards (half size 2.5x3) with lists for next tasks for each project/issue being tracked.
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All that and a small model bus with my hometown on the destination board to remind me that if I fail I'll be back on that bus going somewhere I fought to get out of.
Seriously though, my desktop is essentially bare. I like the space to spread my arms out as I think, and I find that a large clean surface allows me to concentrate better than a desk full of books, knickknacks, and office supplies does.
Random Books:
A set of index cards (half size 2.5x3) with lists for next tasks for each project/issue being tracked.A couple of notebooks
A coffee mug and a cup of water
A green marker for the Whiteboard
There is an exit to the West.
A ball, my phone, my laptop, three pens, a mug and a lottery ticket.