The contents of one's desk.....
Fox
i have my pc....monster of a machine.....specs too long to bore you all
with.custome built machine.......one cup coaster
pair of speakers
one phone
one mobile phone
a bottle of bright red nail polish( for moments of extreme boredom on here)o
one note book full of ICQ#
smokes
lighter
headphones numourous CD's( not put back in cases)
eye boggling mouse mat
nasty looking j/stick one fan to keep me cool and a Barbie Doll with a
selection of clothes bigger than Gucci'S warehouse.
This is because the guys here all think I'm a Barbie:-)
oh and a printer and scanner
Fox
Rachael Nex
threads, I am left wondering.
What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
it will last til then.
I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
wholemeal breadcrumbs.
How about you lot?
Rachael
(curious)
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Well - I've got my Compaq Deskpro, a Sparc10 and an Ultra2, an external
disk/tape drive, two small puppets, shaun and gromit, and a plastic
squidgy eyeball I got from Universal studios in Florida, a huge amount
of papers/manuals (You know - like in RTFM),a Braun coffee machine, and
a copy of F1 racing. Hope this sates your curiosity (or did you mean
that you are peculiar :=) )
Kim Andrews
<Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
>
>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>
>How about you lot?
Could you give us an inventory of your television, video and hi-fi
equipment, plus the location of any small precious jewellery items? A
rough idea of when we can expect you - and more importantly BinDog -
to be away from home would be usefull too. ;o)
Kimbo aka Burglar Baggins
Formula One Cartoon Archive
Home of the RASF1 t-shirt
http://www.foca.co.uk
k...@foca.co.uk
Bob Helland
92 F1 Ferrari 1/18th model.
427 Cobra model.
YELLOW F50 model.
Picture of 91 Benneton with two unused Canada GP tickets tucked in behind
it.
Pictures of family.
Dilbert mug.
Binoculars. (For bird watching out the window. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge...)
SU-WEEEETT!!
Bob
Rachael Nex wrote in message
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joe
Quantitative Approach, two boxes of Wheaties with Alex
Zanardi and Jimmy Vasser featured, a brake disk from one
of Dan Gurney's Indy Reynards, an intake valve from a
Coventry Climax, and two computers. Oh, and a figurine of
Godzilla.
Rachael Nex wrote:
>
> After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
> threads, I am left wondering.
>
> What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
> trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
> fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
> it will last til then.
>
> I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
> and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
> Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
> phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
> paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
> wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>
> How about you lot?
>
Edgar Jessop
should be a duck but it has a long neck like a goose). On the top right hand
corner of my monitor is Gromit in his red flying sidecar apparently about to
straff the guck (The guck has its head turned looking at him). The desk is
submerged in 2 feet of paper but somewhere there is a wodge of post-its. A
road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
Malc
Rachael Nex wrote in message
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David Betts
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
hopefully
>it will last til then.
Mostly just disorganised piles of paper. But if you move them around there
is also a model of a Porsche 962, a Jaguar XJ220 pen case and one of the
old Dunlop ash trays you see in portacabin offices on back street car lots.
Plus a DFV piston from a Williams, a Boddingtons drink mat and a sea shell
full of paperclips. Not to mention the phone, Philips Velo, Microtek
PageWiz, stapler, assorted pens and other general crud.
Basically, its a fire hazard.
David Betts
"Formula One is watching a skinny Frenchman sitting in a bathtub full of
gasoline drive straight at a wall at 200 MPH to find out if his airfoils
work." - Brock Yates
Michele Barrette
know of three Gromit feature, anymore coming?
Content of my desk boring, shall spare you...
Bad...@compuserve.kenny.com
<Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>
>How about you lot?
Isn't the world full of strange coincedences - mine too - except I
don't have a breadplate with those disgustingly healthy wholemeal
crumds on it - give me good old fashion bad for ya health white bread.
>
>
>Rachael
Yes you are, aren't you ;-)
>(curious)
>
Ball and Chain
Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you get....
Spring Suprise maybe !!
Kill Kenny to reply.
Rachael Nex
Kim Andrews wrote in message <36376205....@news.powernet.co.uk>...
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:15:45 +0100, "Rachael Nex"
><Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>>threads, I am left wondering.
>>
>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
one's
>>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
hopefully
>>it will last til then.
>>
>>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my
mobile
>>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>>
>>How about you lot?
>
>Could you give us an inventory of your television, video and hi-fi
>equipment, plus the location of any small precious jewellery items? A
>rough idea of when we can expect you - and more importantly BinDog -
>to be away from home would be usefull too. ;o)
>
LOL!
Bin-Dog is the ever-present being. He knows when people are even *thinking*
about coming to the house. ;-)
(He just started barking when your post came up, Kim <g>)
You wouldn't be remotely interested in my t.v.- visuals are only important
in this household of a gp Sunday. As for the hi-fi, well, lets put it this
way, if you could get my six hundred watt, three foot high speakers down the
stairs and outta the door with Bindi hanging off yer trousers seat and the
rats hanging off your sleeves then you're welcome to it. ;-)
Rachael
Rachael Nex
Bad...@compuserve.kenny.com wrote in message
<361e6728...@news.compuserve.com>...
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:15:45 +0100, "Rachael Nex"
><Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my
mobile
>>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>>
>>How about you lot?
>
>Isn't the world full of strange coincedences - mine too - except I
>don't have a breadplate with those disgustingly healthy wholemeal
>crumds on it - give me good old fashion bad for ya health white bread.
Funny that. Maybe your wife took it downstairs and washed it up,.... in lieu
of you doing it.......;-P
>
>>
>>
>>Rachael
>
>Yes you are, aren't you ;-)
>>(curious)
Extremely.
Rachael
Rachael Nex
Michele Barrette wrote in message ...
>Gromit here, Gromit there, Gromit everywhere. Can tell the Brits here. I
>know of three Gromit feature, anymore coming?
Dunno. I should expect one around Christmas.
>
>Content of my desk boring, shall spare you...
>
Oooh, go on. Everyone else has.
Rachael Nex
Rachael Nex wrote in message
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>
>
>
>
>Michele Barrette wrote in message ...
>>Gromit here, Gromit there, Gromit everywhere. Can tell the Brits here. I
>>know of three Gromit feature, anymore coming?
>
>Dunno. I should expect one around Christmas.
>
>>
>>Content of my desk boring, shall spare you...
>>
>
>Oooh, go on. Everyone else has.
>
Told us about their desk I mean, not bored me. Thought I should make that
clear.
Kim Andrews
<Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:>
>
>Bad...@compuserve.kenny.com wrote in message
><361e6728...@news.compuserve.com>...
>>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:15:45 +0100, "Rachael Nex"
>><Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>>>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>>>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my
>mobile
>>>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>>>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>>>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>>>
>>>How about you lot?
>>
>>Isn't the world full of strange coincedences - mine too - except I
>>don't have a breadplate with those disgustingly healthy wholemeal
>>crumds on it - give me good old fashion bad for ya health white bread.
>
>Funny that. Maybe your wife took it downstairs and washed it up,.... in lieu
>of you doing it.......;-P
>>>Rachael
>>
>>Yes you are, aren't you ;-)
>>>(curious)
>
>Extremely.
>
Uh-oh. Careful children... you've started on the slippery slope to
what's known as Hesse-Williams/Miles-Ruddell syndrome. It starts with
innocent conversation via the ng. Develops to the point where you're
working separate shifts and just pass on the stairs on your way to
your [separate] computers. H-W/M-R culminates in living in different
continents. For the sake of the rats - don't do it!
Kimbo
Joona Vainio (-lark-)
>
> After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
> threads, I am left wondering.
>
> What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
> trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
> fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
> it will last til then.
This is so utterly nutty and outrageously off-topic question that I just
HAVE to play along...
6 empty beer bottles (lager)
1 half full beer bottle
4 empty Camel Lights packs
4 empty wine glasses
2 empty whisky glasses
2 empty coffee mugs
1 empty coffee cup
1 stainless steel teaspoon
1 silver teaspoon
Official guide to Babylon 5 CD-ROM box
Lots of game CDs here and there (mostly flightsims and mecha)
Various game keyboard charts
Longbow 2 manual
Bolos, book 1: Honor of the Regiment
Agfa lupe (hey WTF is that doing here?)
1 grey pastel pencil (blunt)
1 0.7mm refillable pencil
1 empty gas lighter
Various map printouts for WarBirds
CH Combatstick and Pro Throttle
Keyboard
A... yes, a blue mouse mat
Mouse
Microscan 3E/ADI monitor
A few paid bills
A few unpaid bills
Lot of used paper hankies (now don't jump into any conclusions - I had
the flu recently :)
Lots and lots of coffee stains and idiscernible junk
A bloody mess
Hmm.
Looks like I gotta do some tidying up soon.
-lark-
Jason Berkan
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
Computer, phone, printer, in basket. Dilbert desk calendar. Various
Dilbert and Far Side cartoons stuck on my computer. Two figurines of
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker locked in combat.
Also, a Jeff Gordon keychain, moose antler from Banff Alberta, KC
Chiefs pin and a shell from Nova Scotia.
Kinda cluttered, but I like it.
Jason Berkan
Rachael Nex
Kim Andrews wrote in message <363b734b....@news.powernet.co.uk>...
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:32:13 +0100, "Rachael Nex"
><Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:>
>>
>>Bad...@compuserve.kenny.com wrote in message
>><361e6728...@news.compuserve.com>...
>>>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:15:45 +0100, "Rachael Nex"
>>><Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
Apart from the different continents thing its all there already......
Rachael Nex
Joona Vainio (-lark-) wrote in message <361E873A...@kolumbus.fi>...
That's one hell of a list.
A big desk is it?
Rachael
(Add a copy of Autosport and a pint glass of Guinness to my inventory)
Irwin Sabath
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations?<
Desk? Ya mean there's actually something holding up these massive
stacks of newspapers, magazines, papers files, clippings, pens
pencils, stamps, staplers similar assorted "hardware,." envelopes,
bills, lettters to answer, notes-to-self, notes,from-self, notes of
"urgent" items-to- do? And look is that a telephone, I see peeking
beneath those CD-Roms? Just move the photos a litttle. No! to the
left.
> I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
>
>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>
>How about you lot?
>
>
>Rachael
>(curious)
>
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t.i.n.s.t.a.a.f.l.
(Helping victims of conventional wisdom)
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
<Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
[snip]
At work or at home? Both are different!
--
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
E-mail : ksmatharu # iee . org [without the spaces and where #=@]
(note : e-mail header address deliberately mangled)
Paul Cronin
Rachael Nex wrote in message
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
hopefully
>it will last til then.
>
Boring stuff,
Packet of gum, 2 coffee mugs(company logo on one, naked girl on the other) a
fan, my computer, a truck load of paper, an ashtray, phone, speakers,
baseball, Ferrari hat, picture of my dog, VW VR6 emblem paperweight.
That's it.
regards,
Paul
Bumble Bee Boy 2
known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
following...
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
>
Oh please no, not a Packard Bell!! I bet you got it from PC World as
well along with that Mastercare plan!! Is it still working??
>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>
>How about you lot?
>
>
>Rachael
>(curious)
>
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http://www.cmcuk.demon.co.uk/wannadie/
"No you won't fool the children of the revolution (no way)!"
- Marc Bolan
Ruddell
says...
> Computer, phone, printer, in basket. Dilbert desk calendar. Various
> Dilbert and Far Side cartoons stuck on my computer. Two figurines of
> Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker locked in combat.
Good comic stuff, but I do like Drabble, and of course Kimbo's
FOCA...Just love her eyes...
> Also, a Jeff Gordon keychain, moose antler from Banff Alberta, KC
> Chiefs pin and a shell from Nova Scotia.
My Dad made me a scarecrow for my farm set when I was a kid, sits close
to my monitor and works really good. Not a crow in sight which is really
nice, as I don't particularly like eating the stuff anyway.
> Kinda cluttered, but I like it.
I got used to clutter after my mum stopped picking up after me...
Dennis
--
"You see, Murray Walker and Martin Brundle do it standing up. Always."
(Electronic Telegraph, September 27/97)
Ruddell
hangtow...@thelostweb.com says...
> Mine's a homebuilt PII 266 (9.2 gigs total hd, 56k modem, 128 mb
> sdram, sb awe32 with 8mb ram
<some stuff gone>
> empty diet coke can, three
> cans of cat food I never put away, dilbert calendar... uh... that's
> about it, I guess. Oh, yeah. Me. :)
I gotta Marantz 2265 with a DBX Series-2 feed to my JVC\SEA-50 before
those JBL-36's get the story...I'm still using 7" reels as some of the
music is irreplaceable...I know it's old stuff but pumps out Dwight like
it used to do the Stones...
Couple hundred vcr tapes of gp's\fights complete with a 20" TV & VCR that
continue to broadcast my favorite F1 races and boxing cards, C&W cds, a
tea crate, that Mac without a modem, picture of the 'duke' on the wall,
uhhh...there is some suff under those magazines (mostly F1 Racing &
Racer) but haven't had the time to look, two dogs, a fish tank, and of
course, a fridgerator filled with individual servings of my favourite
beverage...
Far as the junk round here? None, as those empties are worth money, and
soon as I get the truck fixed (again) we'll cash 'em in and buy more
beer...Circle of life...
Oh yeah, my computer...it's a white one...
Joona Vainio (-lark-)
> That's one hell of a list.
>
> A big desk is it?
Um, about 2 by 5 feet. Admittedly, it's a bit crowded right now. But
most of those things are just stacked, so they don't take that much
square feet actually :)
-lark-
Ooops, there goes another wine glass crashing to the floor... Bah, who
cares. Cheap Polish crystal.
Please Sir!
Cane it.
Michele Barrette wrote in message ...
>Gromit here, Gromit there, Gromit everywhere. Can tell the Brits here. I
>know of three Gromit feature, anymore coming?
>
ADenis
.
>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
You reach a fork in the road, there is a sign on a post...
>
>Malc
Andre
>
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"In order to do battle properly, it is necessary to take
the silly notion of one's survival out of mind"
Samurai Warrior
ADenis
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations?
The usual pc stuff..printer, cd holders, phone, joystick, speakers...
A Guinness coaster...
Notes from old MUD wars that I can't through out... just in case I go back...
Top right wall... A beautiful picture of Jackie Stewart's Tyrrell number 11T , taken from the pit
roof at the CDN Grand Prix... (for inspiration when in this NG)
Just above the monitor is a birthday card made in Publisher by my two sons, featuring Jacque's
Championship Williams and Lara Croft from Tomb Raider in a thong...
A picture of Stonehenge...
Apicture of a grey alien...
A small figurine of a vampire... (for inspiration when in the Anne Rice NG)
A picture of Gillian Anderson in a red nightie, being chased by the monster from the Black
Lagoon...
My coaster is empty... got to make a trip to the fridge... just on the other side of the bar.
Tom Cosgrave
The rest by my keyboard and mousemat :-)
Tom
--
Tom Cosgrave t...@indigo.ie
"Love is to share, where words can't compare,
Love is desire, so full of fire...."
Clannad
Sarah-K :- http://www.sarah.org/
Herb Edgecomb
see what we'll come up with over the winter!
DonJuleo
>trivia,
Would, could, might pop over and clean my triva for me.. HeHeHe.
Geez, you foriegners are really strange about every day life.
Sven Baumer
A slow Sun Sparc station 4 (remote login'ed to an superfast Ultra 20),
a phone, 3 books on Theoretical Computer Science (50 more on the shelves),
5 pencils and 3 pens, a University of Cincinnati coffe mug, a load of
papers full of crazy ideas and a few papers with good ideas.
A blackboard, a huge 1998 calendar and a Rembrandt at the wall.
And a Smiley sticked to my monitor. :-)
Sven.
--
Civilization is fun! Anyway, it keeps me busy...
Alan E. Jones
ADenis said;
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:45:07 +0100, "Edgar Jessop" <m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com>
>wrote:
>
>.
>>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
>
>You reach a fork in the road, there is a sign on a post...
>
>>
"When you reach a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
--
tot ziens
Alan
"Where else would you rather be than right here, right now ?" - Marv Levy
"Remember, A Dragon is For Life, Not Just for Hogswatchnight"
Steve Smith
You don't want to know, really you don't! OK, then...
My desk at work (where I am at the moment). A Gateway 2000 17" monitor
covered in little pictures of Southpark characters (oh, and a Dilbert
cartoon, and a "post it" reminder to go to the Fleet Motor Show at
Donnington Park... which I never did). Urm, lot's of paper... correction,
piles and piles of paper. A phone, a mobile phone, various plastic drinks
cups (mostly empty). A Chef (from Southpark) mug, a Honda BTCC mug... Two
feck off huge Gateway 2000 speakers (that match the sub-woofer on the floor
currently pumping out some earth-quake bass). Various CDs removed from
their cases (4-Hero "Two Pages", The Orb "Live 93", Embrace "The Good Will
Out", DJ Shadow "Entroducing"... etc. etc.). Actually, it appears half my
CD collection (including some of those gems I thought I'd lost like The
Bends and Dummy!) is on my desk! The other half is in the MP3 directory on
our fileserver. So that's what 12 gig disks are for!
What else, a pair of Sennheiser headphones (for when other people are in the
office), various international telephone adapters, a box of gold CDs, a
broken Mitac laptop PC, dozens of Microsoft application CDs (Developer
Suite, Office, Project...), various boring magazines (you know, those
magazines you find yourself on the distribution list for, but have no idea
why), a fantastic photograph of me and my favourite female work colleague at
Chessington World of Adventures (chosen because she is looking back up at me
with an ecstatic look on her face!). A fluffy Eric Cartman doll... What's
this over in the corner... oh, it's another broken PC (this one a mini-tower
with the lid off!). Ooh, and a bottle of Jack Daniels (unopened) ... No
damn! It's just the presentation tin! An Action Computer Supplies
catalogue, various piles of faxes (unreplied), letters (unreplied), "to do"
lists (not done)...
Hmmmm, I've just realised what a mess this place is!
Anyway beat that for the most crap on or around one workstation?
Has anyone noticed that when you come in to the office at the weekend with
every intention of doing work, you instead surf the WWW, download Southpark
Episodes (yeah! Chef Aid coming down the wire as we speak) and read
newsgroups? I've got four animated slide presentations to do in Powerpoint
by Monday... Doh!
Steve.
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
Singh Matharu) wrote:
[snip]
>At work or at home? Both are different!
OK, I've decided to describe my home desk.
1. 17" PC monitor.
2. Win95 keyboard.
3. MS Intellimouse.
4. Mouse mat (Loony Tunes with Daffy Duck being strangled!).
5. Radio synched clock.
6. Palm3 (and cradle).
7. Microphone.
8. Amplifier.
9. CD/Tuner.
10. Audio mixer.
11. About 200 audio CDs (on a rack on my desk).
12. About 200 CD-ROMs (on a rack on my desk).
13. F1SIM steering wheel on top of my monitor (great for F1 sims).
14. A dragon and a snake (wrapped around a tree) tagua nut carvings
which I bought from Hong Kong...both resting on top of my monitor.
15. Swiss Army knife.
16. Headphones.
Pretty boring. It's important that I keep it well organised as I
sometimes also use my PC for work. These are just the items *on* my
desk. Inside the desk...well, that's another story!
Mark Sadler
but I was foolish enough to leave the country for
a few minutes and when I returned the entire
contents of my desk had removed, and
someone elses garbage put in its place !
Still looking for those important mountains
of paperwork...(Not!)
Mark
zbip
Tom Cosgrave a écrit dans le message <6vmf2b$ber$1...@news.indigo.ie>...
>My desk is mostly taken up by my 21 inch monitor.
>The rest by my keyboard and mousemat :-)
>
>Tom
>--
Tom, you're just too darn neat! Make a mess of your workspace and enjoy
life a little (more...). :0)
regards,
zbip de Montréal
zbip
Rachael Nex a écrit dans le message
<6vljtm$2ac$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>...
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>... a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>
>How about you lot?
>
>
>Rachael
>(curious)
>
a 'biro'?
Regards,
zbip de Montréal
Joona Vainio (-lark-)
> Rachael, I can't refrain myself from being so bold, but what in the world is
> a 'biro'?
Sorry but I can't refrain myself from being so bold as stepping in to
answer... A biro is a ballpoint pen brand that has become so universal
that it can mean any ballpoint pen. Sorta like any paper hankie is
called "kleenex".
-lark-
Mike Durning
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
>How about you lot?
>Rachael
>(curious)
>--
>Remove kecks to reply.
Hello all...
I've been lurking for several months now and find these off topic
threads most interesting. Here's my junk;
Homebuilt P200 (well that's sort of under the desk), monitor and two
speakers, small white-metal dragon figure on top of the monitor,
countless floppy disks, telephone, pad of graph paper, pad of tracing
paper, three pencils, two pens, lots of notes, stack of unopened junk
mail, two books on Java programming, a book on C programming, a pair
of socks, an unbuilt Tamiya 1/20 scale Ferrari F189 (in box), a big
chunk of quartz/K-feldspar pegmatite with several large tourmaline
crystals in it, F1 racing mag, 4 Modern Drummer mags., extra set of
car keys, CD player remote, receiver remote, one broken drumstick, a
friend of mine's tax return (I really should get that back to him),
mouse pad with a picture of a tugboat on it, old lottery ticket (not a
winner), a small vial with some gold I panned in it, two small
fossils, a roll of duct tape, some earplugs, an 8" Sabian splash
cymbal, 4 reprints of a paper I was 2nd author on, empty pack of
smokes, and a lighter that doesn't work. I think that's it.
I really should clean this up...
Mike (no on topic posts yet)
Reply to the hotmail address or:
mdur...@is2.dal.ca
dur...@cs.dal.ca
home page coming soon!
Roz Simmons
my office now for two weeks, and when I return, I fully expect to have
lost my chair, my printer, my anti-glare screen and my rolodex.
If I'm lucky, my pile of outstanding work will have disappeared too
(there goes that flying pig again).
ROZ
Mark Sadler wrote in message <361F4696...@guildford.ericsson.se>...
Stephen M Baines
Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk "Rachael Nex" writes:
> How about you lot?
At work a Compaq presario 'puter, monitor, one of those in/out/filing
trays (with the in one overflowing, the filing one pushing up the out
one, and the out one empty), various magazine files filled with
anything but magazines, assorted biros (non-working), a zillion post-
it notes with "useful" things on that I can't remember what for, a
thinkpad (sometimes), a pile of those computer industry magazines
that arrive and never get opened, instructions for the voice mail
system, a telephone, a compaq mouse, a microsoft mouse, blue (again)
mousemat, keyboard, Delphi 4 box and manuals, assorted RFCs printed
out and highlighted in relevant places, and for some reason a snorkel
(which was on the desk when I started, and I've been hoping someone
would claim it), cup of black tea and a carton of Hollywood chewing
gum.
Exciting, eh?
--
Stephen M Baines
"[The Autosport sticker] started to peel off in the middle of Eau Rouge
and it distracted me. In fact it was the first thing to hit the barrier"
Tiff Needell - Jaguar XJR-15 Challenge - Interview with Autosport
F1/TouringCars http://www.motorsport.org.uk stephen @ motorsport * org * uk
Stephen M Baines
> Rachael, I can't refrain myself from being so bold, but what in the world is
> a 'biro'?
A ball point pen made by bic. You can get more details from bic's web
site, and you can even ask questions where they reply to them!
We were concerned that that little hole half way down the barrel had
disappeared, and wondered why. They wrote back and told us they'd
moved it on some models to the bit of plastic around the nib. You
learn something every day. Wonderful thing the internet.
Tom Cosgrave
Joona Vainio (-lark-) wrote in message <361F72C2...@kolumbus.fi>...
>
>Sorry but I can't refrain myself from being so bold as stepping in to
>answer... A biro is a ballpoint pen brand that has become so universal
>that it can mean any ballpoint pen. Sorta like any paper hankie is
>called "kleenex".
It has ink that develops a skin very quickly so the ink won't get smudged -
it was invented by Lazlo Biro - hence the name :-)
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
<joona....@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>zbip wrote:
>
>> Rachael, I can't refrain myself from being so bold, but what in the world is
>> a 'biro'?
>
>Sorry but I can't refrain myself from being so bold as stepping in to
>answer... A biro is a ballpoint pen brand that has become so universal
>that it can mean any ballpoint pen. Sorta like any paper hankie is
>called "kleenex".
>
>-lark-
Or how vacuum cleaners are still called Hoovers. Or Phillips
screwdrivers..
Irwin Sabath
>You can definitely tell there's a long break between races. I can't wait to
>see what we'll come up with over the winter!<
I can.
--
Irwin
t.i.n.s.t.a.a.f.l.
(Helping victims of conventional wisdom)
Argus
> >threads, I am left wondering.
> >
> >What do people have on their desks/ workstations?
Hats, shoes, books, newspapers, lp's, phone, pillows, plants, a throw
rug - everything that was rescued from the clutches of my new puppy,
Dinsdale. She's a cute lil' thing but lethal to my possessions! My
adult dog would be on my desk, too if there was room for the poor guy.
(An exhausted) Liz
Stevie
1 homebuild P200 puter, loads of cool toys inside. A lasermaster laser
printer, Jazz drive, 3 Yes CD's (Drama, 90125 and Fragile), todays Times, an
AOL CD coaster, a cheshire cat sat on top of the monitor (not real), cup of
tea in a Star Trek mug, picture of my wife, packet of McCoy's Wild Chilli
crisps (chips for our transatlantic cousins), and a phone,
that's all
Regards
Stevie
Spudgun
<Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
I got my PC and mouse/keyboard etc. a printer, some post-it notes with
crap on, the boxes of MGPRS2 and GPL games (plus manuals and stuff) and
a framed, signed photo of Chris Hankey.
--
Spudgun
Spudgun
os...@thelostweb.com> writes
>Mine's a homebuilt PII 266 (9.2 gigs total hd, 56k modem, 128 mb
>sdram, sb awe32 with 8mb ram), Sony 17" monitor, altec lansing
>speakers, Fatar SL-161 midi controller, MS Sidewinder Pro joystick, MS
>intellimouse, microphone, Connectix quickcam, Epson Stylus II ink jet,
>Umax Astra 300p scanner, 7 cd's (Thomas Dolby "Gate to the Mind's
>Eye", Thomas Dolby "Astronauts and Heretics", Hootie and the Blowfish
>"Cracked Rear View", Filter "Short Bus", Howard Jones "Best of Howard
>Jones", Candlebox "Candlebox", U2 "Passengers: Original Soundtracks
>1"), lots of software cd's (NT4 Server, Visual Studio 6, Grand Prix
>II, Triple Play '98, Win98, Office Pro '97, etc ad nauseum), Truck
>Trader magazine, guns and ammo magazine, web builder magazine, visual
>basic programmers journal magazine, microsoft interactive developer
>magazine, microsoft msj magazine, wired magazine, printer paper, cell
>phone battery, empty "sports" water bottle, empty diet coke can, three
>cans of cat food I never put away, dilbert calendar... uh... that's
>about it, I guess. Oh, yeah. Me. :)
In the middle of the above paragraph you may notice the line 'Howard
Jones "Best of Howard Jones".' This leads me to believe that Scott
Willsey should be terminated at once.
Now if it was a Nik Kershaw album... ;-)
--
Spudgun
Peter J Tilmanis
>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
>and remote control with two beanie babies sat on top of the monitor), a
>Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
>phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
>paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
>wholemeal breadcrumbs.
well my computer isnt exactly on my desk, (its a tower), but the keyboard,
mouse, 17" monitor, and modem live here. and so does the printer. umm
got my palmpilot cradle right *there*, my drivers disk for my cdrom and
soundcard, a telephone, my calculator, a dictionary, an (empty) can of
pepsi, a drink holder thingy, "communications engineering 1: lecture notes
semester two 1998", a can of fly spray, & a minidisc walkman.
on my 'other' desk; a decrepit half broken just working 486 laptop that i
use to test out my parallel port creations, a pile of misc. papers in a
neat stack about half a metre high, soldering iron, power supply, misc.
electronic smegma, IC datasheets strewn all over the desk, a few cables
here and there, a bar of soap (!), umbrella, road map, watch, broken
syquest drive (trust me, it broke by itself, it has nothing to do with the
soldering iron or screwdrivers :) a stapler and a bicycle helmet.
aren't you glad you asked?
--
peter tilmanis "...and this matrix can simply be visualised
1st yr cse/compsci as a vector in five dimensions."
tilm...@cs.rmit.edu.au - MA251 lecture
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~tilmanis/
Mike Durning
>x-no-archive: yes
>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:48:44 GMT, mrdu...@hotmail.com (Mike Durning)
>wrote:
><snip>
>>Hello all...
>Hi Mike!
>>I've been lurking for several months now and find these off topic
>>threads most interesting. Here's my junk;
>Now *that's* a nice way of introducing oneself - beats the "Hello, i'm
>new and i think XY sucks and should die" by far...
Thanks for the welcome. :D
I've found it curious that so many say "so and so sucks" when most of
them have never driven a race car ( I haven't ) let alone an F1 car.
I'll leave that judgement to those who know how to race.
<my junk snipped>
>>I really should clean this up...
>Hmm, a bit perhaps...;-)
You should see the rest of the room...
>>Mike (no on topic posts yet)
>Don't worry, it'll soon be off-season and we'll need good off-topic
>posters then!
Well, I won't be watching TV on Sunday morning anymore...
>And while i'm at it, here's what's on my desk at the moment:
>monitor/ printer/pair of speakers/mouse mat plus mouse
>cigarettes/matches/full ashtray
>lots of papers/pens/pencils...
>a lamp/ an alarm clock/a candle/vitamine pills
>a calendar/ a bus timetable/ a pack of disks/ a coffe mug (empty)
>a beer bottle (half empty)/chocolate
Is that all? :)
>Lona
Mike (3:30AM and headed for bed.)
niko.so...@pp.inet.fi
"Rachael Nex" <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
> threads, I am left wondering.
>
No hasty conclusions please :-);
The old war horse, aka a Compaq 486 workstation, HP ScanJet 4P, HP Laser
printer, McLaren F1 GTR Le Mans 95 1:18 model, McLaren Mercedes MP 4/12 1:18
model, McLaren/Hakkinen '97 1:43 19 men pitstop diorama, paper knife shaped
like a duck, paper knife shaped like african tribal-totem-thing, grandad's
small rally goblet from 1949, 9 drawing pens in Batman mug, 6 writing pens in
Tintin mug, picture of girlfriend, copy of F1 Racing, picture of small
pinguin guarding small sleeping pinguin, matchbox, mob phone, unopened mail,
"The Guinness Guide to Motor Racing", picture of drunk friends, McLaren mouse
mat, Irvine Welsch's "Filth", The Wordsworth Golden Treasury of verse, book
on Java programming, small statue of king Henry VIII in foot combat armour,
CD remote and on top of computer a couple of smurfs and a small Mon'chichi.
niko
Nikodemus Solitander
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Irwin Sabath said;
>"Herb Edgecomb" <he...@edgecomb.com> wrote:
>
>>You can definitely tell there's a long break between races. I can't wait to
>>see what we'll come up with over the winter!<
>
>I can.
>
But you probably won't hafta.
Rachael Nex
Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message <65kF38AT...@cmcuk.demon.co.uk>...
>In article <6vljtm$2ac$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>following...
>>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>>threads, I am left wondering.
>>
>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
one's
>>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
hopefully
>>it will last til then.
>>
>>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Oh please no, not a Packard Bell!! I bet you got it from PC World as
>well along with that Mastercare plan!! Is it still working??
No, no and yes. I have also upgraded it, you cheeky little bugger. As much
as you can with a Packard Bell.
Rachael
Jeff York
>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but hopefully
>it will last til then.
Well.. There's a 17" monitor and keyboard, (computer is a tower
under the desk), mouse and mouse mat (blue with bloodstains),
Ethernet hub, modem, 2 telephones and answering machine, 2
speakers, stapler, a model of a 935 Porsche, a couple of ribbon
cables, a collection od pens, biros, pencils, highlighters,
assorted manuals, my briefcase, a laptop in its docking-station, an
"in" tray (full), a couple of old writable-CDs as drinks coasters, a
"sculpture" made of dozens of ethernet 10base2 "T" pieces, a stack of
spec sheets pricelists and other exciting stuff topped off with a
spare drum for my laser, a copy of the lastest "750 Motor Club"
bulletin, at this moment - a large black cat asleep in the lid of an
"A4" paper box(!), and, as we have the builders in at the moment, a
considerable amount of plaster dust.!
--
Jeff. Ironbridge, Shrops, U.K.
je...@jakfield.xu-netx.com (remove the x..x round u-net for return address)
"-but as he was a York, I am rather inclined to suppose him a
very respectable Man."
Jane Austen, The History of England
Bumble Bee Boy 2
known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
following...
>
>
>
>
>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message <65kF38AT...@cmcuk.demon.co.uk>...
>>In article <6vljtm$2ac$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>>following...
>>>threads, I am left wondering.
>>>
>>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>>>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
>one's
>>>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
>hopefully
>>>it will last til then.
>>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>Oh please no, not a Packard Bell!! I bet you got it from PC World as
>>well along with that Mastercare plan!! Is it still working??
>
>No, no and yes. I have also upgraded it, you cheeky little bugger. As much
>as you can with a Packard Bell.
>
OK, so you bought it from Dixons or Currys??
>Rachael
>--
>Remove kecks to reply.
>
>
>
--
Bumble Bee Boy 2.00
bb...@cmcuk.deleteme.demon.co.uk
http://www.cmcuk.demon.co.uk/wannadie/
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy
Gunter Roland
>
>>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>>threads, I am left wondering.
>>
>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations?
My junk currently occupies 2 1/2 tables in my office (at CERN) -
let's see: A 19" IBM monitor, connected to an X-terminal sitting
on the floow, a keyboard, mouse, CERN mousepad, CERN phone (+41 22
767 6451), a Coke can (empty), San Pellegrino bottle (empty),
various pens, my glasses, 2 cups (empty, except for some greenish
residue), car keys, some french and swiss small change, an UBS
account statement (317.20 Sfr), a pile of transperancies,
another pile of transparencies, my log-book, a VHS tape of
the Luxembourg race (mental note: Erase!), lots and lots of papers:
Disoriented Chiral Condensates in Pb+Pb collisions, Event-by-Event
fluctuations in string hadronic models, Event mixing and extraction
of resonance signals etc. Some napkins, some folders with more papers,
a plastic spoon with pink residue (probably cherry joghurt). More
paper.
In general one of my better organized desks.
Gunther
--
Tom Cosgrave
Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>
>OK, so you bought it from Dixons or Currys??
You are evil :-) :-)
I thoguht I was the heeky bugger? :-)
Oh well, at least Kimbo thinks so!
Mike Durning
>x-no-archive: yes
>On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 06:36:00 GMT, mrdu...@hotmail.com (Mike Durning)
>wrote:
>>me@die_spam_die.com (Lona) wrote:
><snip>
>>I've found it curious that so many say "so and so sucks" when most of
>>them have never driven a race car ( I haven't ) let alone an F1 car.
>>I'll leave that judgement to those who know how to race.
>There's nothing wrong with a bit of constructive criticism by armchair
>racers IMO, as long as they are managing to rise above the four letter
>words level - but that's obviously too much to ask from *some* people
>here...
I guess if a driver is constantly causing accidents, or off in the
gravel, he's open to crticism from anyone. I just think that the
unjustified (and often personal) attacks I see a lot of here, are
kinda silly. I'm not, however, above poking fun at the IRL and
NASCAR. <grin>
<snip>
>Just realized that i forgot my keyboard (and the coffe mug's full now
>whereas the beer bottle is empty...).
I forgot to mention my laser printer and a burned out lightbulb.
<snip>
Mike (taking a break from my C assignment)
Rachael Nex
Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>In article <6vq5qb$q91$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>following...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message <65kF38AT...@cmcuk.demon.co.uk>...
>>>In article <6vljtm$2ac$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>>>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>>>following...
>>>>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>>>>threads, I am left wondering.
>>>>
>>>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>>>>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
>>one's
>>>>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
>>hopefully
>>>>it will last til then.
>>>>
>>>>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse,
microphone,
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>>Oh please no, not a Packard Bell!! I bet you got it from PC World as
>>>well along with that Mastercare plan!! Is it still working??
>>
>>No, no and yes. I have also upgraded it, you cheeky little bugger. As much
>>as you can with a Packard Bell.
>>
>
>OK, so you bought it from Dixons or Currys??
>
Wrong again. I didn't buy it at all.
So where'd your Daddy buy you yours, hhhmmmn?
Bumble Bee Boy 2
Cosgrave <xxt...@indigo.ie> said the following...
>
>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>>
>>OK, so you bought it from Dixons or Currys??
>
It comes with listening to rock music.
>I thoguht I was the heeky bugger? :-)
I would prefer not to be a 'heeky' bugger, don't know what it means but
it sounds bad!! :)
>Oh well, at least Kimbo thinks so!
>
>Tom
>--
>Tom Cosgrave t...@indigo.ie
>
>"Love is to share, where words can't compare,
>Love is desire, so full of fire...."
>Clannad
>
>Sarah-K :- http://www.sarah.org/
>
>
>
>
--
Bumble Bee Boy 2
known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
following...
>
>
>
>
>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>>following...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message <65kF38AT...@cmcuk.demon.co.uk>...
>>>>In article <6vljtm$2ac$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>>>>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>>>>following...
>>>>>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>>>>>threads, I am left wondering.
>>>>>
>>>>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
>>>>>trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
>>>one's
>>>>>fellow posters (aaaw!) I know I should save this until Monday, but
>>>hopefully
>>>>>it will last til then.
>>>>>
>>>>>I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse,
>microphone,
>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>>Oh please no, not a Packard Bell!! I bet you got it from PC World as
>>>>well along with that Mastercare plan!! Is it still working??
>>>
>>>No, no and yes. I have also upgraded it, you cheeky little bugger. As much
>>>as you can with a Packard Bell.
>>>
>>
>>
>
So where was it bought from/stolen from/won from in the first place
then??
>
>So where'd your Daddy buy you yours, hhhmmmn?
>
He bought it from RAM Computers in Manchester before he buggered off. A
proper computer with lots of different make parts that don't work
together!! :)
>
>Rachael
>--
>Remove kecks to reply.
>
>
>
--
Tom Cosgrave
Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>
>it sounds bad!! :)
I meant "cheeky bugger" :-)
Rachael Nex
Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>In article <6vqonh$5fc$1...@newsreader1.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>following...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message ...
>>>In article <6vq5qb$q91$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>, the person
>>>known as Rachael Nex <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> said the
>>>following...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Bumble Bee Boy 2 wrote in message
It was a gift. Feck knows where it came from. I didn't ask. Well, you don't,
so you?
>
>>
>>So where'd your Daddy buy you yours, hhhmmmn?
>>
>
>He bought it from RAM Computers in Manchester before he buggered off. A
>proper computer with lots of different make parts that don't work
>together!! :)
That sounds familiar of some of the machines I've known. And it also sounds
familiar of some of the Dad's I've known......(mine included....not that he
has anything to do with my pc you understand...)
Dab
>>>How about you lot?
>>
>>Isn't the world full of strange coincedences - mine too - except I
>>don't have a breadplate with those disgustingly healthy wholemeal
>>crumds on it - give me good old fashion bad for ya health white bread.
>
>Funny that. Maybe your wife took it downstairs and washed it up,.... in
lieu
>of you doing it.......;-P
This is *disturbingly* cosy.
Slippers and pyjamas soon ??
Dab
Mike Durning
<snip>
>Did you realize that we're almost back on topic again?
>So you've managed to do your first on-topic and your first off-topic
>post in one thread - congratulations! :-)
Whoops! I didn't mean to venture too close to being on-topic. ;-)
Desk update!!
I put the socks (they were clean) away.
>Lona
Mike (off to the unix lab again)
Mark J. Frusciante
>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:48:44 GMT, mrdu...@hotmail.com (Mike Durning) wrote:
>>Hello all...
>Hi Mike!
>
>>I've been lurking for several months now and find these off topic
>>threads most interesting. Here's my junk;
>
>Now *that's* a nice way of introducing oneself - beats the "Hello, i'm
>new and i think XY sucks and should die" by far...
What she said...
Forward:
17" monitor (one Post-It: reminding me to not forget a birthday I
"forgot" a month ago)/ color printer (two helpdesk emails, and test
prints of photo scans; "the attractive nuisance", and Dasher the
dachshund, in the output tray)/ the "disposable" scanner/ label printer/
Palm Pilot hotsync cradle (where *is* that thing ?, and which idiot
programmed it to beep every 57minutes ?)/ satellite speakers/ mobile
phone cradle, phone/ mouse, pad/ 1/43 "Paul's Model Art" M. Hakkinen
McLaren MP4/10/ cordless phone handset/ leaning tower of Zip disks/
attorney's business card (prominant).
Horizontal:
Unanswered snail mail/ unanswered email printouts/ "Swan Tie Dyes"
business card/ Grand Prix Legends Demo documentation/ GPL Demo bug "fix"
instructions/ Palm Pilot 2.1 upgrade documentation/ data/ p-work from
three ongoing projects/ unsent invoices/ uncashed check/ editing output
from "the treatment"/ 1997 SI swimsuit issue/ Dilbert ("This has 'Long
Day' written all over it") coffee mug (needs washing)/ binder of
system, program CDs/ four unlabeled 2HD "floppies" (?)/ one program
(WinZip) floppy/ RedShift CD (astronomy)/ Eudora CD/ microphone/
stapler/ two-year old Racecar Engineering/ Julie's 1997 Christmas card.
To my immediate left:
Floor to ceiling bookshelf of old college texts, legal texts-refs,
general books ("Why a Duck?"), software manuals/ picture of some fat guy
who vaguely resembles me laughing with Corinna Schumacher and a friend/
as yet unframed year-old rejection letter from Ferrari NA Human
Resources department/ file drawers full of old financial records &
research papers ranging from aerospace to xenon lasers.
On the wall: Framed Bugs Bunny, Snoopy animation production cells/
photo of the full disk of the earth (Afro-centric) from Apollo 8.
On the, immediate, floor: Computer tower/ subwoofer/ TM2 wheel and
pedals set/ stack of data-work product/ annex stack of data-work
product/ flying buttresses of data-work product/ satellite colonies and
tertairy trading settlements of data-work product/ secondary audio CD
tower/ yellow Ferrari ashtray (containing pens and Post-Its) duct taped
(with scavenged red genuine Ferrari team vintage Montreal 1998 duct
tape) (Yes: I'm pathetic) from underneath to top of double-jeroboam Moet
bottle/ shoebox-manilla folder of business receipts, phone records/
free-range Rolodex cards (Mmm; Tasty!)/ shirtbox of unscanned
photographs/ shoebox of scanned photos/ blank audio cassettes/ Vivaldi
"Four Seasons" CD missing its artwork (in the scanner)/ Annie Lennox
"Medusa" CD missing its disk (in the player).
Fe'yewe...
[..."I used to be a lunatic from the gracious days
I used to feel woebegone and so restless nights
My aching heart would bleed for you to see
Oh, but now
I don't find myself bouncing home
Whistling buttonhole tunes to make me cry
No more I love you's
The language is leaving me
No more I love you's
Changes are shifting
Outside the words"...]
Mark
F1 Racing Page http://www.pipeline.com/~opus/racing.htm
Home of the RASF1 autobiographies.
"If there are no stupid questions, then what sort of questions do stupid people ask?" - Dogbert
Mark J. Frusciante
>Has anyone noticed that when you come in to the office at the weekend with
>every intention of doing work, you instead surf the WWW, download Southpark
>Episodes (yeah! Chef Aid coming down the wire as we speak) and read
>newsgroups? I've got four animated slide presentations to do in Powerpoint
>by Monday... Doh!
"Well, sodomise me at Christmastime... " (From "Chef Aid" episode)
Christian Ehrnrooth
>
> After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
> threads, I am left wondering.
>
> What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
> trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
> fellow posters (aaaw!)
I've got my PC, a Fujitsu with all the bells and whistles and a Nokia
(Yuk!) monitor, an Ericsson phone, eight stacks of all kinds of paper
I'm supposed to be working with, lots of other papers spread all over, a
Time System I haven't used for a year or so..., a white safety helmet to
use on our construction site (expanding our office), pictures of my
daughters and my dog, an unopened bottle of Vodka and a small Triumph
Spitfire. Oh yes and a Greek Satypos-statue...
X-ian
Finland
Doug Finch
>threads, I am left wondering.
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations?
Oh boy, let's see... not really on the desk, but an integral
part of it is my semi-brand new P200. On the desk are the monitor (a
teeny tiny 14", but size isn't important!), speakers (just ordinary PC
speakers - no JBL here), a calculator, my chequebook, pay stubs,
unpaid bills, paid bills, boarding passes from this year's trip to
Montreal, empty beer bottles, various junk food wrappers, and an
AM/FM/CD clock radio (have managed to screw up my PC's CD in only 2
months...), a Miles Davis Quintet CD "Green Dolphin Street", my
Day-Runner, and a foca order form which I'll fill out one of these
days.
Gee, maybe it's time I cleaned up...
-----------------------------------------------------
"For days we hacked our way through the impenetrable
jungle that lined the arterial road."
(Spike Milligan's Goon Show)
-----------------------------------------------------
Do...@pobox.com (CDN)
rg mitchley
: in reply to contents of desk....
: i have my pc....monster of a machine.....specs too long to bore you all
: with.custome built machine.......one cup coaster
: pair of speakers
: one phone
: one mobile phone
: a bottle of bright red nail polish( for moments of extreme boredom on here)o
: one note book full of ICQ#
: smokes
: lighter
: headphones numourous CD's( not put back in cases)
: eye boggling mouse mat
: nasty looking j/stick one fan to keep me cool and a Barbie Doll with a
: selection of clothes bigger than Gucci'S warehouse.
: This is because the guys here all think I'm a Barbie:-)
: oh and a printer and scanner
:
: Fox
:
:
Joona Vainio (-lark-)
> daughters and my dog, an unopened bottle of Vodka and a small Triumph
> Spitfire. Oh yes and a Greek Satypos-statue...
Now I know those Triumphs are small but this is ridiculous :)
Hope it's at least Finlandia vodka.
-lark-
P.S. What/who's Satypos btw? Something to do with Satyrs?
Christian Ehrnrooth
>
> Christian Ehrnrooth wrote:
>
> > daughters and my dog, an unopened bottle of Vodka and a small Triumph
> > Spitfire. Oh yes and a Greek Satypos-statue...
>
> Now I know those Triumphs are small but this is ridiculous :)
>
> Hope it's at least Finlandia vodka.
>
> -lark-
>
> P.S. What/who's Satypos btw? Something to do with Satyrs?
Satypos is a Greek god. A small guy with a Huge, er... Viagrette?
X-ian
Finland
Dab
Doug Finch wrote in message <3621a68b...@news.netcom.ca>...
>> Rachael Nex wrote in message
>> <6vljtm$2ac$1...@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net>...
>>After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>>threads, I am left wondering.
>
>>What do people have on their desks/ workstations?
>
> Oh boy, let's see... not really on the desk, but an integral
>part of it is my semi-brand new P200. On the desk are the monitor (a
>teeny tiny 14", but size isn't important!), speakers (just ordinary PC
>speakers - no JBL here), a calculator, my chequebook, pay stubs,
>unpaid bills, paid bills, boarding passes from this year's trip to
>Montreal, empty beer bottles, various junk food wrappers, and an
>AM/FM/CD clock radio (have managed to screw up my PC's CD in only 2
>months...), a Miles Davis Quintet CD "Green Dolphin Street",
The only CD on my desk is Sonny Rollins "On green Dolphin Street"
spooky.
Dab
Mark Sempers
Christian Ehrnrooth wrote in message <36219C4F...@lmf.ericsson.se>...
>Rachael Nex wrote:
>>
>> After the "what do you listen to/drive" and "describe your mouse mat"
>> threads, I am left wondering.
>>
>> trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about
one's
>> fellow posters (aaaw!)
>
>I've got my PC, a Fujitsu with all the bells and whistles and a Nokia
>(Yuk!) monitor, an Ericsson phone, eight stacks of all kinds of paper
>I'm supposed to be working with, lots of other papers spread all over, a
>Time System I haven't used for a year or so..., a white safety helmet to
>use on our construction site (expanding our office), pictures of my
>Spitfire. Oh yes and a Greek Satypos-statue...
>
>Finland
Work:
Hewlett Packard P somethingorother 256 Mb mem, 10 Gb, 21in Idek IIyama. Lan
etc. Phone, Blue! mousemat, piles of paper strewn about with s/w design
scribbles on them (paperless office - pah!) coke, collection of racing
tickets, postcards, autosport cutouts, cartoons, etc. pinned to the
partition. CD player, multiple copies of RaceTech. Window seat with a view
of the carpark (gee!) Bad news is I'm sat under the aircon vent. Great in
summer, but atm it's like a polar bear's larder.
Home. (not used much, get too much of 'puters at work)
486Sx-33, 17in monitor, 1Gb, 16Mb mem (used to be a P166 but the keyboard
i/f on the motherboard blew up, so it reverted to previous spec as I can't
be bothered to spend money on it.) Not branded, evolved over last 5 years.
486-Dx4-100 16Mb, 1/2 Gb laptop (colour) Multiple copies of racetech,
3xguiness can, pint glass, chocolate biccies. Books on/by Unix Kernel
internals, TCP/IP networking, Distributed Computing systems, Pratchett,
Tolkien, Nietzsche, Race to Win. Notepad full of scribbles of racing car
dynamics.
- Mark.
Rachael Nex
Dab wrote in message <6vr8ks$sp2$4...@eros.clara.net>...
It's odd that no one has picked up the fact that I was having a go at him
for not doing the washing up (again). Cozy isn't really the word I'd use for
*that*.....
Emma
>
>What do people have on their desks/ workstations?
Nice to see that such an off topic subject as desks has generated one of
the longest threads around...
I might aswell add my contents to the pile. My desk at work is the most
interesting...it's L shaped for more surface space...working from the
short side, left to right...
Xerox 4505 Laser Printer
Colour Flatbed Scanner - works when it feels like it.
Various magazine files with invoices/paperwork.
Soft Toy Dog sitting on top of Motor Racing Book of Quotations &
Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing.
Pentium 133 computer - can't remember exact spec but it was made
especially for me.
On top of computer - 1 soft toy turtle, 1 Smurf holding Burger, 1 toy
Renault Twingo car, 1 Gromit in aeroplane, 3 BMW toy racers (Red/Purple
& White), 1 Keke Rosberg DTM Calibra (1:64 scale model), 1 Jeff Gordon
Chevy Monte Carlo (don't know what scale, bigger than the Calibra).
On top of the monitor - 1 Pengiun from Wallace & Gromit
Various cartoons, reminders of holidays past, disc box, etc.
Far Side desk calender (Happy Columbus Day to all in the USA!)
Telephone (Panasonic KX-T7130E) - 3 lines in, 1 black hole if I put you
on hold.
Keyboard, Blue mousemat, dinosaur wrist pad, mouse.
Bottle of Limeade, half drink, still fizzy.
AOL CD used as drinks mat.
Various letters that need posting
Two Blue filing trays, full of junk
Desk diary (Blue) nothing written in it since 22nd Sept.
Oh and some crumbs because I've just finished my lunch... :-)
Anything else you want to know about my workplace?
--
Emma
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
James Robson
OK, from left to right - my desk at work
Big pile of paper,
Backpack CD rom drive with Tricom tempest 34 modem sitting on top,
pens, propelling pencil,
telephone (BT Relate 250)
wee pad with "While you were out the buck was passed to you" written on it
PC (Intel P200MMX, 1GB drive, sound card, speakers, 14" monitor, microphone,
ISDN T/A, netwrok card, W95, etc)
on top of PC - small notelet type things with "Nemesis" written on the cover
(pressie from colleague who went to Alton Towers) Post-It notes (two sizes),
a lego model of a pirate island (small), one of the blanking plates from a
PC's 5.25" drive bay, a couple of business cards and a calculator
highlighter
paper-clip dispenser (free from NWS bank)
US Robotics Pilot docking bay
poly-tube
another highlighter
mobile phone
4 x plastic trays filled with total crap that I haven't got a clue about
notepad
Enjoy
Jamie
James Robson
"Mercury
Interactive
01634 262525
Make Testing Successful with Quality Training and Services"
I've never used their software - my sister works for them...
Jamie
James Robson wrote in message
<908201114.22398.0...@news.demon.co.uk>...
Glenys Williams
<m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com> wrote:
>submerged in 2 feet of paper but somewhere there is a wodge of post-its. A
>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
It is dark. You have been eaten by a grue.
Glenys
----
We don't need less roads, we need less pavements.
Put pop.onwe and my real first name in the relevant places
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
Williams) wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:45:07 +0100, "Edgar Jessop"
><m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com> wrote:
>
>>submerged in 2 feet of paper but somewhere there is a wodge of post-its. A
>>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
>
>It is dark. You have been eaten by a grue.
An ogre attacks. A bat attacks. Boy, I used to love those games :-0
--
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
E-mail : ksmatharu # iee . org [without the spaces and where #=@]
(note : e-mail header address deliberately mangled)
ADenis
>On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:59:52 GMT, myn...@replace.this.co.za (Glenys
>Williams) wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:45:07 +0100, "Edgar Jessop"
>><m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com> wrote:
>>
>>>submerged in 2 feet of paper but somewhere there is a wodge of post-its. A
>>>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
>>
>>It is dark. You have been eaten by a grue.
>
>An ogre attacks. A bat attacks. Boy, I used to love those games :-0
>
A red snake bites you, You feel yourself becoming weaker, A strange mist surrounds you.....HELP!!
HELP!!!
Can some one help me find my corpse? (3:00am) It was hard to get up for work some days...
Andre
take out the TAKEOUT to reply by e mail
ade...@idirect.com
"In order to do battle properly, it is necessary to take
the silly notion of one's survival out of mind"
Samurai Warrior
Edgar Jessop
Malc
Glenys Williams wrote in message <3622fc4...@jhb-news.iafrica.com>...
>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:45:07 +0100, "Edgar Jessop"
><m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com> wrote:
>
>>submerged in 2 feet of paper but somewhere there is a wodge of post-its. A
>>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
>
>It is dark. You have been eaten by a grue.
>
>Glenys
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
<ja...@indexsystems.nospam.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
>US Robotics Pilot docking bay
[snip]
I've noticed a few people here who use the PalmPilot or Palm3
devices. I also know that Dillon Pyron's got one but he hasn't posted
here for a while.
Bloody useful little blighters aren't they! My Palm3 has replaced my
filofax (which was BIG n' HEAVY). Now all I need to go to work is a
Palm3 in my jacket pocket and a 3.5" floppy disk. It's fully synced
to my work and home machines and I'd be lost without it. It's always
there within easy reach and has saved my bacon many a day. And the
batteries just keep going, and going, and going, and...
Mike Durning
>me@die_spam_die.com (Lona) wrote:
>>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:48:44 GMT, mrdu...@hotmail.com (Mike Durning) wrote:
>>>Hello all...
>>Hi Mike!
>>
>>>I've been lurking for several months now and find these off topic
>>>threads most interesting. Here's my junk;
>>
>>Now *that's* a nice way of introducing oneself - beats the "Hello, i'm
>>new and i think XY sucks and should die" by far...
>What she said...
More kind words... :-)
<lots of stuff snipped>
So... what job at Ferrari did you apply for?
>Mark
>F1 Racing Page http://www.pipeline.com/~opus/racing.htm
>Home of the RASF1 autobiographies.
Nice site. Lots of great links. It'll take a week to go through them
all.
>"If there are no stupid questions, then what sort of questions do stupid people ask?" - Dogbert
Desk update!! Found my Integra owners manual, and a Buddy Rich CD. I
think this desk spontaneously generates matter.
Mike
Mark J. Frusciante
>op...@pipeline.com (Mark J. Frusciante) wrote:
>>me@die_spam_die.com (Lona) wrote:
>>>On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:48:44 GMT, mrdu...@hotmail.com (Mike Durning) wrote:
>>>>Hello all...
>>>Hi Mike!
>>>>I've been lurking for several months now and find these off topic
>>>>threads most interesting. Here's my junk;
>>>
>>>Now *that's* a nice way of introducing oneself - beats the "Hello, i'm
>>>new and i think XY sucks and should die" by far...
>
>>What she said...
>
>More kind words... :-)
Well, it's true.
><lots of stuff snipped>
>
>So... what job at Ferrari did you apply for?
Anything... I'd make the coffee, just to get in the door... I figured
I was a natural for Event Press Liaison.
>>Mark
>>F1 Racing Page http://www.pipeline.com/~opus/racing.htm
>>Home of the RASF1 autobiographies.
>
>Nice site. Lots of great links. It'll take a week to go through them
>all.
Thanks, I'm thinking of a major over hall, the things been stagnant for
quite sometime.
Mark
F1 Racing Page http://www.pipeline.com/~opus/racing.htm
Home of the RASF1 autobiographies.
"If there are no stupid questions, then what sort of questions do stupid people ask?" - Dogbert
Doug Finch
<bu...@haidresser.enterprise-plc.com> wrote:
>>AM/FM/CD clock radio (have managed to screw up my PC's CD in only 2
>>months...), a Miles Davis Quintet CD "Green Dolphin Street",
>
>The only CD on my desk is Sonny Rollins "On green Dolphin Street"
>
>spooky.
Eeep - that'd be spooky if it weren't quite so common an
occurrence here in the land of rasf1... Actually I haven't yet
"gotten into" Rollins - I've been in a bit of a Dexter Gordon/Coltrane
rut (though that's not what I call a rut). Small world, ain't it?
James Robson
US Robotics Pilot. I find its most useful when I am out because my
colleagues can add to my diary with a fair chance of the blank spaces being
free.
Did you have to buy something like Intellisync or do you use the PC diary
supplied?
Jamie
Kulvinder Singh Matharu wrote in message
<36266c8c...@news.demon.co.uk>...
Paul Berry
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:15:45 +0100, "Rachael Nex"
> <Rachael...@magicpie.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I've got me pc; a belligerent Packard Bell effort (plus mouse, microphone,
> >Roland D-50 keyboard with a MIDI thru box perched on top, a phone, my mobile
> >phone, three minidiscs, a Future Music cd, a copy of F1 Racing, a piece of
> >paper my dog stole from my bag, a biro and a green bread plate covered in
> >wholemeal breadcrumbs.
> >
> >How about you lot?
Depends on which desk.
At work I have (currently) my PC (a cobbled-together-from-spare-parts
P200 with a monitor that's slowly dying), a HP Scanjet scanner, a
(spare) Cirrus video card (which seems totally incompatible with my
machine... *schniff*), a phone, a half-empty box of disks, an empty can
of coke, an empty cup, a pencil sharpener, a blunt pencil, several
elastic bands, paper clips and scribbled post-it notes for jobs that
should have been done six moths ago, several sheets of printouts,
today's Daily Telegraph, next years diary, several disks filled with
god-knows-what, Coreldraw's clipart disks, 'Java in a Nutshell' (my
bible 8) and too many pieces of paper all saying 'do this Paul' or 'do
that Paul'.
At home I have three desks. One is covered in boxes from my last move
(two years ago) containing all sorts of crap and about five years worth
of old 'Autosports'. The second has an old ICL monitor and a load of
stationary (mostly pens. Pens seem to migrate to that desk.) The third
is where my computer sits in all its glory (it's my pride and joy - a
DIY PII-400 with all the trimmings), and is hence covered in old Aero
wrappers, bus tickets, small change, coffee-cup stains, bits of cutlery,
CD-Roms, notes for setups on GP2, disks and cat paw-prints. Oh, and my
monitor and keyboard. I suppose my big tower case could *vaguely*
classify as a desk too, seeing as though I use it as a mousemat/zip
drive holder/ashtray holder/coffee cup holder.
And that's on a 'tidy' day... 8)
--
"Hear all, see all, say nowt; Eat all, sup all, pay nowt;
And if tha ever does owt for nowt, allus do it for thassen."
Paul Berry, Java developer Supporting Sarah-K
http://pc018084.mat.liv.ac.uk/paulsweb http://www.sarah.org
mailto:pjb...@nospam.liv.ac.uk --------------------
ICQ UIN 11508568 Wow! A new .sig!
rg mitchley
: What do people have on their desks/ workstations? I'm fascinated my such
: trivia, as it brings a nice personal touch to know these things about one's
: it will last til then.
</SEMI_LURK_MODE>
Aside from obligatory computer: DSP board I'm currently programming, Roland
XP-10, mouse-mat with photo of Australian roadsign warning of kangaroos for next
120km!, Ben Folds Five and Stravinsky "Rite of Spring" CDs, JV's 1996
Williams Minichamps, MFC class diagram, GP2 and Toca gameboxes.
<SEMI_LURK_MODE>
Ryan
Glenys Williams
<m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com> wrote:
>Rats, I'll never get past the rank of sorcerers's sweeper-upper!
Don't think I ever got past the second level of hack ;)) I could see
just what a time waster it was going to be, and backed off.
Now, last christmas, I made the mistake of actually playing Age of
Empires two days in a row. *That* one's been hard to kick ...
Jeff York
>On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:59:52 GMT, myn...@replace.this.co.za (Glenys
>Williams) wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 20:45:07 +0100, "Edgar Jessop"
>><m...@mgmsystems.u-net.com> wrote:
>>
>>>submerged in 2 feet of paper but somewhere there is a wodge of post-its. A
>>>road leads off to the North. A troll is here.
>>
>>It is dark. You have been eaten by a grue.
>
>An ogre attacks. A bat attacks. Boy, I used to love those games :-0
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike..
--
Jeff. Ironbridge, Shrops, U.K.
je...@jakfield.xu-netx.com (remove the x..x round u-net for return address)
"-but as he was a York, I am rather inclined to suppose him a
very respectable Man."
Jane Austen, The History of England
Julie Miles
> Uh-oh. Careful children... you've started on the slippery slope to
> what's known as Hesse-Williams/Miles-Ruddell syndrome. It starts with
> innocent conversation via the ng. Develops to the point where you're
> working separate shifts and just pass on the stairs on your way to
> your [separate] computers. H-W/M-R culminates in living in different
> continents. For the sake of the rats - don't do it!
At the risk of being picky, I think you have to distinguish between
Hesse/Williams syndrome and Miles/Ruddell syndrome. Although similar,
these two conditions have some distinctive differences, and are known
to affect married couples with quite different symptoms.
The first manifestations of HWS are apparently innocent differences of
opinion regarding driving techniques. These quickly escalate to
arguments about the ethics of said driving techniques, leading
eventually to accusations, levelled by each partner against the other,
of moral turpitude in the parties who practice said driving
techniques. In the advanced stages of the disease, the affected
partners occupy different parts of the house, and converse only
through an electronic medium such as a computer, or through third
parties who can be relied upon to be supportive.
MRS, on the other hand, is a far more benevolent condition, brought on
by excessive quantities of sweetness and light during the initial
stages of a marital relationship. The parties afflicted with the
condition may in fact notice very few symptoms; the majority of the
discomfort is felt by those around them, who are stricken with an
overpowering urge to find the nearest bucket. In fact, the only real
symptom of the disease is felt by the female partner, who may notice
that strange women from other countries seem to feel an irresistible
urge to kiss the male partner whenever she isn't looking.
Cheers,
Julie
--
Julie Miles
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
jmi...@unibase.com
Never ascribe to malice
that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
Kim Andrews
wrote:
-major snip-
> In fact, the only real
>symptom of the disease is felt by the female partner, who may notice
>that strange women from other countries seem to feel an irresistible
>urge to kiss the male partner whenever she isn't looking.
>
Oh. -ahem- Um. Gosh. Aha. So... who told you?
<blush>
Kimbo
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Mark J. Frusciante
>>So... what job at Ferrari did you apply for?
>Anything... I'd make the coffee, just to get in the door... I figured
>I was a natural for Event Press Liaison.
>
>
>Thanks, I'm thinking of a major over hall, the things been stagnant for
>quite sometime.
Look Irwin: I got a spell chucker !!!
Rachael Nex
Julie Miles wrote in message ...
>Kim Andrews said ...
>
>> Uh-oh. Careful children... you've started on the slippery slope to
>> what's known as Hesse-Williams/Miles-Ruddell syndrome. It starts with
>> innocent conversation via the ng. Develops to the point where you're
>> working separate shifts and just pass on the stairs on your way to
>> your [separate] computers. H-W/M-R culminates in living in different
>> continents. For the sake of the rats - don't do it!
>
>At the risk of being picky, I think you have to distinguish between
>Hesse/Williams syndrome and Miles/Ruddell syndrome. Although similar,
>these two conditions have some distinctive differences, and are known
>to affect married couples with quite different symptoms.
>
>The first manifestations of HWS are apparently innocent differences of
>opinion regarding driving techniques. These quickly escalate to
>arguments about the ethics of said driving techniques, leading
>eventually to accusations, levelled by each partner against the other,
>of moral turpitude in the parties who practice said driving
>techniques. In the advanced stages of the disease, the affected
>partners occupy different parts of the house, and converse only
>through an electronic medium such as a computer, or through third
>parties who can be relied upon to be supportive.
Ooooh, that sounds nasty. I wouldn't want to catch that.
>
>MRS, on the other hand, is a far more benevolent condition, brought on
>by excessive quantities of sweetness and light during the initial
>stages of a marital relationship. The parties afflicted with the
>condition may in fact notice very few symptoms; the majority of the
>discomfort is felt by those around them, who are stricken with an
>overpowering urge to find the nearest bucket. In fact, the only real
>symptom of the disease is felt by the female partner, who may notice
>that strange women from other countries seem to feel an irresistible
>urge to kiss the male partner whenever she isn't looking.
Funny that. Can that sometimes include workmates?
Do either of these syndromes also cause symptoms such as not bothering to
get the female partners birthday off from work, and asking her to sort out
her own birthday dinner?
Emma
>In fact, the only real
>symptom of the disease is felt by the female partner, who may notice
>that strange women from other countries seem to feel an irresistible
>urge to kiss the male partner whenever she isn't looking.
Wasn't me - I can safely say I have never been near him.
--
Emma
Vice Chairperson of the NCGWWM (Nothing Can Go Wrong Without Me) club
Sven Baumer
> Emma
> Vice Chairperson of the NCGWWM (Nothing Can Go Wrong Without Me) club
is that the same as the MWOD?
Sven.
(sure that nobody will understand except the MWOD)
--
Theory is no magic, and it doesn't avoid errors, but your mistakes
become more precise.