Stuff on my desk
What's on your desk?
posted by L-Boogie at 1:46 PM
Thursday, September 14, 2006
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My desk is covered in about 63 layers of paper of details and then a bunch of highliters and red pencils.
I use a hanging folder as my mouse pad, and have various stacks of product manuals for things I will never specify. I keep a SMACNA manual handy to remind myself of how much I love Dabone.
I am a slob at work.
At work?????
yes, your office desk, OR if you are Danimal -- dorm desk works too!
IF you have a camera phone, take a picture, then send it to your email and post it.
I am also a slob at work. Read: piles of papers, dirty dishes, a thousand pens, post-its about things I don't remember, and dust. Above my desk is my favorite Weekender cover page: Laura Bush with the pull quote, "I just wish I could stop shitting blood." Also, two monitors, which I think is pretty cool.
daniel, i may be messy, but at least my life is not a mess.
why have you wasted all your god given talents?
I have a pathophysiology textbook, two nursing textbooks and two binders neatly next to each other on my dorm desk. There are a few other random boring things on the shelf ie. ipod, a lamp and a Leatherman. I do have a USM campus bus schedule with 6 bands that I scribbled on there from Bro-Man's suggestions via gmail chat. Clutter makes my head spin.
2 monitors are great. I have such a setup. The only thing better would be 4. On my desk:
Domo Kun: http://www.jbox.com/IMAGE/pxnqz
Honda S2000 (everyone at my work has some sort of die cast car on their desk).
Ceramic sumo figure.
Pepe on vaction ("I am NOT a shrimp. I am a king PRAWN, mmkay?"): http://www.oafe.net/shocka/muppkp.php
Evel Knievel bobblehead: http://www.fadtoys.com/collectors_corner/evel-knievel-bobblehead.shtml
EyeVelocity coffee mug (used to work there...they went under...cool dot com artifact).
Swingline red stapler.
Mini palm tree plant. We all got these as a company gift, but mine has grown unusually well, while almost all of the others in our building have died. It's a source of pride.
Henry pictures. He's sticking his tongue out.
Just got into work & saw I missed a couple of key items:
Sudoko-a-day calendar. I can do the 3 star puzzles without any notation. Sometimes I can squeak by on the 4 stars.
Sirius tuner. Can't remember how I survived without it, especially since I don't have a huge MP3 player.
Dan.
I have no idea what you do for a job. I think I've always guessed it had something to do with art. and cars. I am now guessing you sell calendars of art about cars.
Sudoku is dumb. Jumble is the only one true form of newspaper puzzle.
I'm no good at sales. Not slick enough.
I once interviewed with a "company" in Seattle to sell "art", and the interview went well so they wanted me to come back for the day to see how things "worked". They sent me out with one of their salesmen and we hit the pavement, visiting businesses in the area trying to get them to check out, and hopefully buy, the prints* he had in the trunk of the car.
I remember going to a Denny's in the middle of a breakfast rush, and a Sons of Norway lodge. The thing with selling stuff to a business is that you need to get in touch with the person who controls the money...and they aren't usually in.
He bought me lunch at McDonald's (whoo!) and showed me his company's step system, where I would work on the bottom rung for a few months or so & then move up a step, to where I would be controlling salespeople below me & taking a portion of their sales. And then keep moving up the PYRAMID. See where I'm going?
The company offered no pay, so it was sales commissions or nothing. There's no risk to them hiring somebody. "What if I don't sell anything?" "You will. I won't let you fail." Then we went back out & kept walking. We walked around town for 11 HOURS. We sold ZERO paintings. Oooh boy what a fun day. Late in the afternoon he started making up stuff about the artists (Limited time only! Special show this weekend! This artist is showing with so-and-so!). He justified it as "the customer is happy, we're happy, it's all good". We weren't very happy at the end of the day. I didn't take the job.
Kyle, you can think of me as a data monkey.
* These were "limited edition" prints of "nature paintings". By limited edition, I mean they made THOUSANDS of prints, but the number of prints was not infinite. Wow, I can get #2871 of 5000? SWEET.
By nature paintings, I mean really crappy looking pictures of birds surrounded by bushes. Like a Ducks Unlimited picture, but much worse.
Not what I imagined I would be pushing when I was an art history major.
I have a laptop, 2 monitors, a dusty JAZ drive about 400 CDRWS, a bunch of papers all thrown about. 10 AA batteries, headphones, phone with headset, jam, nutella, some pens, a nalgene, and a mug for drinking green tea.
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