Show us your desk
 

A person's personal space can say a lot about them. WAY more than their keychain.

*cough*

Here is my desk at home:

http://www.alanbellows.com/cellar.org/desk.jpg

A few items of interest:

• On top of the monitor, a scale model of my beloved 2000 Camaro SS, which is no longer with us. Sniff.
• The hideous wallpaper is a Tourettes-inducing abomination, I know. You should see the rest of the house. Baby steps.
• Multimonitor kicks ass!
• The mouse is a Microsoft trackball explorer. There is also an Aiptek drawing pad hiding under the keyboard.
• Yes, that IS dust you can see. Please note my complete lack of concern regarding aforementioned dust.

So, I showed you mine, so now you show me yours. Don't be shy. I'll try to remember to take a shot of my cube at work, and post that, too. If you're lucky.

I like sharing time.

I was more interested that you had an old style safe built into your desk

:eek:

Edited to add: Sorry it's so big, how do you stop that from happening? Anyway, you can see that I don't actually choose clarity over clutter, I just wish I could!

Well, it's not actually built in... when I went desk-shopping and saw this beauty, I thought to myself, "That otherwise useless opening there is probably the perfect size for my safe." And what do you know... I was right.

My desk: brought to you (and me!) thanks to the great kindness of an 80 year old retired Air Force Colonel who read my story in the local paper. Upon hearing that I wanted to try to rehabilitate myself with my writing, he bought me a new computer! What a compassionate and generous gift! My desk is proof that there are still good people in this world. I would thank him by name, but he wishes to remain anonymous.

http://cellar.org/2004/area.jpg

Spot the 27 fire hazards. (Actually the lens compresses the shot and those piles of paper are actually 2 feet away from the lit candles.)

Disclaimer: it looks a LOT better when lit with the cave-like lighting and not a harsh flash. Still a total mess though.

Was it last week or the week before that you were trying to get Word2K4 to run on your "terrible old laptop"? Desk looks pretty good for being on the edge of poverty too.

You took the words right off my keyboard.

UT, you watch TV that close?

His eyesight is already bad.

I'll bet he watches it in the dark too. Doesn't leave a light on.

(That's one of those parental scolds I never understood. Why the heck to I have to have a light on somewhere else in the room to distract me from the important television program?)

Just got it this weekend and found the desk second hand at a garage sale. It's got a split in the middle which the keyboard covers up. Jeez, something really nice is done for me by a kind soul, and that's your response? You sure seem bitter toward the world.

No difference between watching TV that close and working at monitors that close.

My eyes went slightly near-sighted, four months after beginning full-time work as a programmer, and haven't changed much since.

Resolution?

And they're off! Neck and neck heading into the first turn...

Yes, I'm sure if I described my style of jacking off, Jag would be posting the next message to criticize it. "Doesn't that chafe??"

The bottom line is that I am happy with my setup, so gloriously happy that I have posted it online for all to see. If it gets me off, it works for me, end of argument.

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." You are absolutely right, Patrick! I chant the beauty of Lt. Colonel - -, USAF, retired. I wish he'd let me give out his name. What a wonderful human being!

christ steady on, I was just curious, it wasn't meant as a critisism, just a question. I don't give a damn if you control your mouse my firing an industrial laser at your eye, I was just wondering if the tv was just for when you sat a bit further back or as something to look at diagonallywhile you waited for a kernel to compile.

http://addisonrd.com/pics/studio_a1_pop.jpg


The desk in the front office



http://addisonrd.com/pics/studio_c_main.jpg

The back office. These are the rooms that I do a majority of my work out of here in LA.

-sm

I'm tellin'.
Katkeeper, Katkeeper, UT's sitting close to the TV again.:p

That a motherfucker of a mixer board....man haven't seen one of those since I was last in an OB van years ago.

don't do it, jinx.

DO IT JINX !!!! We all need to see Jims ballet pics and totoo collection !!!!!!:rolleyes:

UT always did have a mind of his own...

I don't dare show a picture of my desk. It isn't actually a desk at all but a table that used to be part of an outdoor display for craft shows. There is often a cat sleeping on the pile of papers, and sometimes the improve on the filing system by knocking some papers onto the floor. But don't you move anything because I know where everything is!

I forgot to add that I do own a desk, which I used to use, and which I actually sat at for 15 minutes today. However, it became so piled with papers and files that I had to move the computer to a different table in a different room.

It sounds amazing. It's a custom built, made with gutted and upgraded API 500 series modules. You've no doubt heard it before - Austin Powers was mixed on it, REM, Mariah Carey, and Sugar Ray have all recorded on that console.

Also, I have no idea what an OB van is?

-sm

You ARE kidding, sm!?!?!??!! :eek:

I'm in a similar industry, and I've never heard of one either... :confused:

I'll post mine (y'all are gonna have fun making fun of the cluttered-ness of it) but I'm taking a mini-vacation this week so it'll have to wait for next Monday.

Ah, the miracle of Google.

Apparently an OB van is one of those mobile news vans capable of live video/audio feed. But every website I found that referred to it by that name was either British, Australian, Japanese, or New Zealander. We just call 'em news vans here...

There! That proves it! I knew it all along. Jag is really an Australian masquerading as a Swiss!:eek:

yeah, but he aspires to be french. :rolleyes:

you guys had an 80 channel API console in a news van?

-sm

I would swear I've seen those exact studio pics somewhere before, SM...have I?

Egad...
 

...it looks a lot worse in the picture than it does in reality. Also, I have *got* to get a better digicam. The quality of my pictures in comparision to everyone else's is starting to become terribly embarassing.

maybe - I scalped them straight from the studio website. It's O'Henry Sound Studios here in Burbank.

Also, they all start to look alike after a while.

-sm

I think smoothmoniker wins the "coolest desk" prize.

Mine:

http://scribe.fork.org/cellar/desk.jpg

Easily, that mixer board still has me drooling. Ye, onsite A/V basically, range from small vans with microwave links to semis that cost over a million bucks and have full studio recording capabilites. I couldn't tell you specs now, last time I was there would have been around '97 or so but it would have been around 2/3 the size of that. My dad used to be in the business so I got to explore them, editing rooms, mixing rooms, studios....was a llittle geeks dream.

I'm guessing behind that board there are about 5 racks worth of equipment right? =)

*ahem* I'm Swiss-French thankyou very much :P

Weren't you Australian when you started here? G'day mate, shrimp on the barbie, 25/32 quart cans of beer and all?

If you want to get fussy, I'm tri-national, Aus, Swiss, Brit.

Is that painful? ;)

immigration can be.

Mine:

I love the walls Happy Monkey

Mine.

http://pic7.picturetrail.com:80/VOL2...5/56009274.jpg

i hope you clean mine up like that before you take a picture of it. hell, forget the picture, just go clean up my desk.......that loooks great compared to the way I left it this morning. ;)

Thanks, but I can't take credit. Those are thanks to the previous occupant, who did a pretty good job with the exception of some questionable wallpaper at the top of the bedroom walls.

I just threw all the crap you had on my desk down the basement steps... I can do that for your desk too, no problem honey...

you're dead.

here's what I cleaned up last night:
1 empty bag of marshmallows( after i ate the one that was left in the corner of the bag)
1 halfeaten dish of potato salad
3 empty mike's hard lemonade bottles
2 nasty napkins

prepare to be beaten.

the love flows deep, and thick in these parts.

actually, she's more likely to beat me for not mentioning that at least one of those mike's bottles was mine. and for leaving my shoes in the hallway. and for leaving my pants on the steps. and for not feeding the kids breakfast because i was late. and for the huge pile of laundry in our hamper. and for......well, i think you get the point.

oh, man. i;m in for it. uh...i have to work really late tonight honey...don't wait up. ;)

love you, sweetie. :) :joylove: :lovers: :lovers: :joylove: :lovers:

sorry - offtopic: LJ, do i understand correctly that you are in the car business? i should have spotted that earlier, with your excellent ability to hold up a jag session.

i worked at a ford dealership here in phoenix for a couple of years.

is this in relationship to me or some thread I have not read involving those wonderful moters? (no, didn't pick my name after them)

yup. finance manager at a jeep dealer. and part time philosopher. i don't get any extra pay for that though.

from the euphEmism thread by lookout

sorry, no reference to you.

a jag session (at least in the southwest) is just carguy terminology for a BS session.

Jag can be a noun or a verb.

that guy is a real jag (may be good or bad depending on situation)

we were just jagging

oh, and for what it's worth, I had never heard 'jag' used for anything other than short for jaguar ( car or cellarite) or with 'off' immediately following it. ~~jagoff~~. almost always a negative connotation.

I'm guessing that the etymological root of that term also includes the word "off" appended to the end of the word being bandied about, here?

To change the subject (somewhat), just how good a car is a Jaguar these days? I used to love the old ones - my kind of car - fast, classy, high maintenance, and unreliable as hell (LOL)! Are they still like that or have they improved? (Just in case I win the lottery - one likes to be prepared for such things;) )

let's just say Ford owns them now, and let it go at that.