Office Art.../ was Re. New virus
Pat Kight
S. Gilbert <sgil...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
>Don't you just LOVE office art? What these say about me I shudder to guess.
>Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
>Enquiring minds want to know!
Jezebel pouts. As a recently rehired temporary part-time type worker, she
hasn't had a chance to personalize her office ... other than bringing in
her "when in doubt ... bitch" coffee mug ... and probably won't, since
the job is of short duration. So at the moment she's stuck with "office
art" that includes:
A map of the sea-floor subduction zone off the Oregon coast
A poster that tells more than you could possibly want to know
about whiting (a fish)
A torn out full-page ad from the Oregonian that lists every
reporter & editor and their phone and FAX numbers
A handout entitled "News Release Length Guidelines..."
Boooooooring...
At her *home* office, otoh, the bulletin board is layered with photos of
her sweetie & friends & cats ... a couple of blown-up Zippy the Pinhead
cartoons ... Assorted other cartoons, most of them on the subject of
Internet `relationships,' including the New Yorker classic: `On the
Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.' ... A bunch of political campaign
buttons (better than push-pins for holding things on the board) ... and a
whole lot of *very* mushy greeting cards, also courtesy of said sweetie.
And (she rummages through the layers) an old cast list which really
should be filed, a yellowed copy of the great Dave Barry column on the
worst pop-songs ever written, and a flier for Jez's favorite hideaway,
the Sylvia Beach Hotel!
--Jezebel
kig...@csos.orst.edu
Mark Stone
: At her *home* office, otoh, the bulletin board is layered with photos of
: cartoons ... Assorted other cartoons, most of them on the subject of
: Internet `relationships,' including the New Yorker classic: `On the
: Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.' ... A bunch of political campaign
: buttons (better than push-pins for holding things on the board) ... and a
: whole lot of *very* mushy greeting cards, also courtesy of said sweetie.
: And (she rummages through the layers) an old cast list which really
: should be filed, a yellowed copy of the great Dave Barry column on the
: worst pop-songs ever written, and a flier for Jez's favorite hideaway,
Zaphod offers Jezebel one of his old Dave Berry columns on the things to do
around tax time, if she'll give him a copy of the Zippy cartoons. Okay,
so I'm a sucker for few things..and Zippy happens to be one them
Rachel R Walker
[snipping Freddie's description of her office art.]
: Don't you just LOVE office art? What these say about me I shudder to guess.
: Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
: Enquiring minds want to know!
Rachel ponders. "Well, at *work* I don't have much--three or four
pictures of my 'baby' sister--at ages 5 months, 8 months, and 2 years.
She's 4 now, so I guess I need a new picture! Plus ... lemme think ... a
Fox Trot cartoon strip that appeared the week of the DS9 premiere, and a
couple of old Christmas cards.
"Now my *home* workstation--that's a different story! I mentioned the
postcards in my Realspace II post way back when, plus the Pooh ornament,
but I didn't mention my journal (sadly neglected, I fear), which sits
atop one of the stereo speakers. Inside the front and back covers I've
scribbled various quotes from various places. Here are a few of my
favorites:
"Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but
never without belief in a devil." -- Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer_.
"Fiction is still that gnarly, dangerous, exhilarating process of
growing and becoming more conscious." -- Jack Dann.
"Our handicap may in fact be our saving grace." -- Greg Bear.
"The power of English is its ability to move and persuade and to
illumine the majesty of thought." -- Parke Godwin, _Sherwood_.
Rachel shrugs. "Okay, it's not exactly office art. But I like it."
Mark Beirne Lively
New .. S. Gil...@blue.weeg.uio (1572)
> Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
> Enquiring minds want to know!
Hmm... Back when I had an office it was shared by 30 odd people (a
3mx5m closet complete with shelves) Though it was only usually used by
4 people. The decorating I dead was throwing away the 50-60 empties and
half empties that were growing mold. believe it or not I saw mold on
Diet Coke!
I never really decorated hung stuff up etc not really that type of
person. One day though while waiting for a particularly slow compile I
drew on the white board. A tree with a whale swimming into a hole in it
then with a smaller version besides it with a smaller version and part
of a larger version. Sorta Recursive surrealism. It stayed up for a
couple of weeks.
-Bear, who wishes he had talent to math his imagination.
Liv...@cmu.edu
Michael Holmes
: Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
: Enquiring minds want to know!
/* grins at reading the description of Freddie's office space.
"I don't have my own 'office' - but a desk behind the counter in
our main office. Aside from being surrounded by lots of purple and
many smiley faces, I have several postcards on the wall behind me, from two
local art museums (The Boston Museum of Fine Art and The Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum). They are reproductions from some of my favorite works in
those museums - John Singer Sargent, Tiepolo, Gerome, Botticelli, and
Rembrandt, to name a few. It's very useful, on those particularly hectic
days, to be able to turn around and gaze at them for a few moments.
Wonderfully relaxing and refreshing!"
[then there is the Magic 8-ball I have on my desk, for executive
decision making... ;-) ]
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Pat Kight
Mark Stone <mst...@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
(my office art description snipped)
>
>Zaphod offers Jezebel one of his old Dave Berry columns on the things to do
>around tax time, if she'll give him a copy of the Zippy cartoons. Okay,
>so I'm a sucker for few things..and Zippy happens to be one them
>
omnipresesent rucksack. "If you want a RL version, email me an address!"
--Jezebel
(Currently sporting a button which reads: "Zippyvision: All Life is a
blur of Republicans and meat.")
kig...@csos.orst.edu
Don Long
"We would love to help you out -
Which way did you come in?"
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways;
the point is to change it"
Karl Marx
Katherine Bryant
>>Don't you just LOVE office art? What these say about me I shudder to guess.
>>Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
>>Enquiring minds want to know!
Valentine ponders. "Well, I don't exactly have an office... but my
bulletin board here at home currently sports a calendar of pictures of
Boulder, Colorado; a list of the colloquia in our department this semester;
some letters and things I need to answer; a Far Side cartoon about Jeopardy!;
a great cartoon showing an 'Escher-sketch;' a $2 bill; and a souvenir dagger
from Toledo, Spain. Kinda a weird mix, I guess!"
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Valentine...........................................kbryant@husc.harvard.edu
Richard M. Krum, KE4GNK
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>
>>>Dave (I don't have a .sig) Wright | wri...@rpm2.aes.mb.doe.ca
>>>"God grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change/The strength to
>>> change what I can/And the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill
>>> because they pissed me off!"
>
>Freddie grins in suprise at this quote. "This is a new version, and I like
>it alot! The version hanging in my office reads:
> God grant me the serenity to accept that which I cannot change,
> The strength to change what I can,
> and the good luck not to Fuck-up any more often than necessary!
>It hangs next to the sign that reads:
> Before you annoy the costume designer,
> remember what you look like naked!
>These hang between a 1968 Grateful Dead poster that I have carried from
>office to office since...1968, and my poster for PINK FLAMINGOS, autographed
>by Divine. This is, of course, in addition to the 30 or so FAR SIDE
>cartoons on the door and the CALVIN AND HOBBES strip about life being
>an unrehersed play that needs more special effects and dance numbers.
>Don't you just LOVE office art? What these say about me I shudder to guess.
>Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
>Enquiring minds want to know!
Da Boss Troll's favorite decoration is a rather fuzzy copy of a cartoon that
has a large dragon leaning against a tree, picking his teeth with a jousting
lance. Bits of armour lie scattered about in the field. A castle is on a hill in
the distance. A shield with the slogan "Veritas et Honor" leans against the
tree. The caption "Sometimes The Dragon Wins" is written in Old English
script on the top of the sheet.
My life at work, in a nutshell. Sometimes I'm the Dragon, sometimes the Knight---
Da Boss (Tis the Monday! Flee! Flee!) Troll
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barbara trumpinski
>Freddie grins in suprise at this quote. "This is a new version, and I like
>it alot! The version hanging in my office reads:
> God grant me the serenity to accept that which I cannot change,
> The strength to change what I can,
> and the good luck not to Fuck-up any more often than necessary!
>It hangs next to the sign that reads:
> Before you annoy the costume designer,
> remember what you look like naked!
kitten giggles, snorts and shoots freddie with her water pistol... (i
am the weather today ....all dressed in gray and carrying a squirt gun
(cloudy with a chance of showers)
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James K Walkswithwind
the last couple of deskmates I had left stuff behind. I have -two Monet
prints, a WWF calendar, a sign that readds 'Philosopher- Will Think for
Food', a copy of two cartoons from the Twilight ZOne magazine- one of
death removing his skull mask to reveal a happy face, the other of a car
and driveer rounding a bend, looking at a sign which reads 'A New
Dimension of Reality Lies Beyond'; a Doonesbury from a week or so ago in
which the time-impaired are given extensions for filing as victims, a
comic where the Scarecrow returns to the Wizard, explaingin he cant get a
job without a Masters', er.. uh.. a few stickers one from AMFAR, one with
the 'First they came for the Jews.." quote from Niemoller (sp?), and one
which reads 'Narrow but not straight'; and last but not least, a sign
which reads 'Kythe is in Rm 224' for my logic students searching for me
during office hours.
Oh yeah! And a Far Side cartoon, with an ostrich and her nest, the
caption reads- 'Hare Krishnas hide among the eggs, and are subsequently
raised by the adult birds.' Ther is a bald head among the eggs.
Aren't you glad you asked?
James Kythe
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Mark Stone
: S. Gilbert (sgil...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
: : Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING* their work space?
: : Enquiring minds want to know!
: /* grins at reading the description of Freddie's office space.
: [then there is the Magic 8-ball I have on my desk, for executive
: decision making... ;-) ]
Zaphod leans over to Holmes...I always thought that was what the executive
dartboard was for... you know..take the day off, eat lunch early, etc...
Of course, I could be misusing it... ::)
<<Wipes up a small spill he accidentally caused..and pockets his
handkerchief and re-orders another>>
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Opinions..everyone has one..can I help if mine's the right one ::)
Stephen R. Savitzky
Da Boss Troll's favorite decoration is a rather fuzzy copy of a cartoon
that has a large dragon leaning against a tree, picking his teeth with a
jousting lance. Bits of armour lie scattered about in the field. A castle
is on a hill in the distance. A shield with the slogan "Veritas et Honor"
leans against the tree. The caption "Sometimes The Dragon Wins" is written
in Old English script on the top of the sheet.
One of the Mandelbear's favorites, currently on display on the outside of the
door to the Grand Central Starport computer room (i.e. the home office) is a
quotation from G. K. Chesterton: "There are no rules of architecture for
castles in the air." It's illustrated with an ancient Mac scan of
M. C. Escher's _Belvedere_.
In the Mandelbear's _work_ office at crc.ricoh.com, there hangs a (print of a)
richly-illuminated manuscript page which, on close inspection, turns out to be
captioned "Transistorized control circuit for unit 6" or something close to
that.
Chasing down the references is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Marc C Allain
>Michael Holmes (mj...@bu.edu) wrote:
>: S. Gilbert (sgil...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
>
>: : Anybody else wanna 'fess up on what they have *DECORATING*
>: : their work space?
>: : Enquiring minds want to know!
>
several walk-in refridgerators, freezers and storage closets. In the
closest thing I have to an office I have a cork-board with these
hand-made signs.
"It's hard to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys."
"As soon as the rush is over, I'm going to have a nervous
breakdown. I've worked for it, I owe it to myself, and
no one is going to deprive me of it."
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong (and I'll get
blamed for it.)"
--
I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. Patchmaker
But if you'd like me to play one, I'll even Marc C Allain
make housecalls. M...@CHRISTA.UNH.EDU
The Mad Poetess
>>it alot! The version hanging in my office reads:
>> God grant me the serenity to accept that which I cannot change,
>> The strength to change what I can,
>> and the good luck not to Fuck-up any more often than necessary!
>>It hangs next to the sign that reads:
>> Before you annoy the costume designer,
>> remember what you look like naked!
>>>Leslie giggles. "Those are terrific, Freddie! I have signs on my kitchen
>walls (no office to speak of): 'There are moments when everything turns
>out right. Don't let them alarm you, they pass...'--Jules Renard.
>Also: 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow
>just as well.'--Mark Twain. And my all-time favorite: 'If I was
>ORGANIZED, I'd be dangerous!'"
>
Avonlady snickers uproariously (can you do that in this county?). "How
about my mascot comic for the last two years? It shows a student sitting
in the dean's office, the dean moaning 'But you _have_ to graduate-
students can't _get_ tenure!
I also have the ubiquitous office poster "Sorry to tell you but.. HELL
JUST FROZE OVER!"X Boring by itself, but useful when posted under a large
picture poster of last Dr. Who companion (on TV at least) Ace, holding a
gargantuan gun, with a nasty smile on her face.
-Avonlady: "If I didn't have a paper due in Victorian Lit, I could take over
the world..." (What do you mean they canceled the paper? Now I have
nothing to over which to procrastinate!) (Are you glad I'm happy? I'm happy
you're glad.)
Donald A Dumont
"Mine isn't that nice," he says," I have a memo board to the right of
my desk as well as the door to the office. In front of my view as I sit
there is a large calender which was provided by a chemical company that
the University of New Hampshire does business with.
"My 'office' is actually a desk in a storeroom of some small
dimensions but it passes as one since it has a desk and phone. It
is good to have an office."
Havok eyes his Tequila Sunrise and noticing it nearly empty, summons
another.
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"Happiness isn't all it's cracked up to be. I mean, the last
time I was happy, I got so fat." from the film 'Sex, Lies and
Videotapes'.
Marc C Allain
>
>In the Mandelbear's _work_ office at crc.ricoh.com, there hangs a (print of a)
>richly-illuminated manuscript page which, on close inspection, turns out to be
>captioned "Transistorized control circuit for unit 6" or something close to
>that.
>
>Chasing down the references is left as an exercise for the reader.
>--
the umpteenth time. "It's from 'Canticle For Leibowitz.' A nice enough
little story in the short form. The novel version wasn't as good, I
thought."
Sheeyun Park
> "I know! I know!" Shouts Patchmaker, stabbing himself with a pin for
>the umpteenth time. "It's from 'Canticle For Leibowitz.' A nice enough
>little story in the short form. The novel version wasn't as good, I
>thought."
"Ahh it was a short story that was expanded. That makes sense to me. I
read the book and hated it and couldn't understand why people
recommended it to me."
shpark
technomonk
Jim M. Pierce
CoastCon. Alot of it is prints, as the oils of some of these are beyond
my ability to purchase: The cover of 'Hawkmistress !' , a picture of
Lazarus Long, a Cheech Wizard print, Dragon in Winter [cover art print
from Dragon magazine done by the artist], a photo of Spider and Jeanne
Robinson, various small prints of science fiction and fantasy subjects.
I particularly like the one of a small teddy bear and stuffed toy dragon
contemplating a galaxy. I forget the exact title, but its something
like: 'Where they fear to go' ... And a few years ago I found a print by
a Texas artist of an alien and his son, landing their flying saucer next
to a Texas lake, so they can go fishing. I gave that one to my dad.
An oil painting by my grandmother of an old rutted road in Texas, with
bluebonnets growing here and there. A pen and ink sketch of a Long horn
steer skull. Various Alphonse Mucha prints clipped from a paperback book
I bought. Prints from a Gahan Wilson book.
Then I sort of ran out of wall space. I can hardly wait until I can
afford a house.
--
Jim Pierce B.Sc. Disclaimer:Standard.
"A dishwasher's work is never done." me.