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...