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Next to my monitor
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:39 pm
by ik911
Name up to six objects lying next to your monitor.
(excluding loudspeakers, pc, mouse(/pad) and keyboard)
Do it in this format:
Left: Phone, CD-roms (Mohaa), Dictionaries (DU-EN, EN-DU... me cheater!

)
Right: Printer/Scanner, Empty Minidisk package, Ball-Point Pen.
Keep it short. Could be interesting... I don't know.

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:45 pm
by moltovir
Left: Dictionary En-Du/Du-En

, TI-83 Calculator, lots of empty chocomousse pots
Right: Extra keyboard, extra keyboard #2, circular saw (still working on my self-made desk), an empty bottle of chocolat jenever (no, I didn't drink it all on my own, it's just a nice bottle

)
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:30 pm
by Malta Soron
Every where before me, a.o.: newspaper, headset, pile and row of CD's, CD-R boxes, toys, books, letters (no dictionary

).
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:31 pm
by arno_v
Left: A half fallen pile of 15 books (and hey while counting them I finally find my france book, so I can learn for my test tomorrow), 3 pens, and my mp3 player.
Right: Digital photocamera, microphone, and a perforator (I don't know if it's the same word in English, but it makes holes in paper)
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:34 pm
by Grimar
left:Some cd's, a yellow ball, some dog-candy
right:An oil lamp

Some photos and a visa card
i am using my mothers computer...
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:34 pm
by Locke Da'averan
left-zebra looking PEZ-container(empty), a minisized metal policecar(both gifts)
right-letter from a newspaper, boxy thing attached to the monitor(dunno the word in english..)
what can i say, my monitor is on a very small "desk"

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:37 pm
by Fiberfar
Right: Neverwinter Nights cover, money, cellphone,
Left: Manowar cd #1, Manowar cd #2, Manowar cd #3

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:39 pm
by Brynn
@Molto: Two extra keyboards? Just in case the main one with the brain breaks down?
@Fiber: may I borrow your CDs?
OK, my display is surrounded wtih:
- a pinboard with Iron Maiden concert tickets pinned on it (ah, my pride!)
- a calendar, two hard disks in a box
- a pocket of Haribo gummy bears (almost full)
- a box of vitamins
- a yellow mug
- and my cellphone, key and an archery score-keeping notepad forming something that looks like Laocon but is a mess in fact
- aaand a totally useless empty platic box on the top of it, which I'm chucking out right away, thx for calling my attention to it

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:12 pm
by Mccool
Lets see on my desk theres- an ipod mini box (birthday present), 2 CD players, some neclaces, a juggaling ball, Neverwinter Nights with Sou, some floppy disks, a pair of speakers and a phone.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:16 pm
by Bloodmist
Left: Empty cds, remote control for the stereo, water bottle.
Right: Cell phone, my beloved iPod (20gb), Iron Maiden - Edward The Great, The Rule of Four (book).
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:22 pm
by giles337
Digicam, CD/Rs My Phone (Cell) Some pens, a few photo's, many many games, french/eng dictionary.
and my 31/2 inch floppy

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:31 pm
by Luis Antonio
Left: My rpg cd case (BG, SoA, ToB and others), a cup of coff-ay (now empty but I love coff-ay) my modem, a printer, books, and my hp48g.
Right: a window, a book, a cup of coff-ay (full) my mouse.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:44 pm
by Vicsun
TI-83, two physics books, a math book, a plethora of papers, o\zon mints, tic-tacs, a nail clipper, some batteries, some money, two bottles of water, a couple of writing utensils, an amp, a pair of scissors, a hole-puncher, a folder of contents uncertain, an iPod, a USB cable, a couple of rulers, some CDRs, a cup formerly containing tea, and other objects I can't see right now because they're covered under the pile of papers.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:48 pm
by ik911
Vicsun wrote:
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?
Let me answer that! ME, CHOOSE ME!!!
Some-one who read the thread rules!
Name up to [highlight]six[/highlight] objects lying next to your monitor.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:51 pm
by Magrus
Mines a mess. And it's all in front of me around my moniter. Just six?
Right:
Batteries, standard and rechargable.
Bottle of wine for a female friend.
Left:
Cool Gardens by Serj Tankian. (lead singer to System of a Down's poems)
Dave Chapelle dvd, need to find the case for that...
Right side under-desk shelves:
Stash of game discs
Candy and empty liqour bottles.
There's more, mostly junk though. Change, screws from fixing computer and such.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:02 pm
by Vicsun
[QUOTE=ik911]Let me answer that! ME, CHOOSE ME!!!
Some-one who read the thread rules![/QUOTE]
I felt the limit of 6 wouldn't allow me to properly convey the current situation of my desk

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:27 pm
by Fiberfar
[QUOTE=Brynn]@Fiber: may I borrow your CDs?
[/QUOTE]
Sure thing.... I got 7 of a total 11, so take your pick

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:31 pm
by C Elegans
Funny question
At home:
Left: A marble mushroom, a bottle with sand and an old arabic perfume bottle in silver.
Right: An antilope horn, a camel-bone box and a plush airplane with a worm as a pilot.
At work:
Left: A pile of results papers from one of my cognition studies, a pile of papers from another cognition study and a pile of reference articles about serotonin and cognition.
Right: Some CD:s with MRI and PET-images on, a pile of papers with data from a collegue in Japan, another pile of reference articles about details of brain image analysis.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:51 pm
by Galuf the Dwarf
Left: A wall, Dreamwave Comics 2005 Transformers calendar, wierd baseball-sized Christmas bells, and a half-dismantled wall lamp.
Right: Computer tower; Webster's dictionary/thesaurus/spelling dictionary 3-set; plastic containers that contain game manuals, game CDs (in cases, of course), game maps, and Transformer DVDs; Game Boy Color; joystick, lamp, drawer that holds various personal paraphernalia (all stuff that I could talk about but you really wouldn't care).
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:03 pm
by werebeargoddess
Eh, I'll give this a try.
Right: Folder, boy scout book, pencils.
Left: McDonald's cup, paper, speakers.
Front: Glasses, book, mp3 player.