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30 July 2008

5 interesting things on your desk, go →[More:]Me, I have:

*A broken iPod
*A green piggy bank with an American flag in the coin slot
*A bent penny I found under the elevated railroad tracks
*A birth announcement for my cousin
*A picture drawn by my friend John: "Kate (LastName) Rocks My Face Off", with a picture of some rocks and two Johns, one with a face, and one without a face. A trophy from the last time we did karaoke.
post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 14:24 | 48 comments
A souvenir box from Century of Progress the 1933 Chicago World's fair
A little black book full of cocktail recipes
A tag cut from a sweater "knitted in Mongolia"
Printer's blocks which spell out my name
And a stack of conflicting District Court opinions.
posted by crush-onastick 30 July | 14:31
A framed printout of the first program I ever wrote (1979 on an HP 2000)
A reading light with no bulb, that's been that way for over two years now
A stuffed tux the penguin
A binary clock
A phone that I've probably used five times in three years
posted by octothorpe 30 July | 14:36
-- A heart defibrillating machine
-- A bobblehead pen with poofy orange hair and the name of my health insurance company on the side
-- 7 different sets of post-its, 3 with writing on them
-- A shaker cup for my diet shakes
-- Some manuals for said machine in various foreign languages
posted by Melismata 30 July | 14:36
Kid's baseball glove (so the dog won't chew it)
Husband's Crocs (so the dog won't eat them)
Two gigantic hex nuts wrapped in brown paper
One baseball
An iZ toy.
posted by LoriFLA 30 July | 14:43
-A pencil-sharpening robot
-An autographed Toots & The Maytals Postcard
-Five packets of soy sauce
-A toner cartridge that's been waiting to be recycled for 10 months
-A 12 pack of Coke Zero with five cans in it. Despite the fact that it is sweet sweet nectar, I'll never drink them, because after the 7th can, I realized that all of the ones from this particular pack taste rather terrible.
posted by SpiffyRob 30 July | 14:43
An empty vase

A submittal review stamp

Ceramic tile samples

Community College course listing (I hope to take a class)

3" tall Eiffel tower
posted by mightshould 30 July | 14:43
Does computer desk count?

* Hubby's leftover cherry limeade from Sonic
* Salt and pepper shaker
* my cell phone
* a paperback Bible
* Phone book
posted by bunnyfire 30 July | 14:45
Coffee mug
Another coffee mug
coffee flask
90% Isopropyl alcohol
Moleskine notebook


I got nothing interesting.
posted by special-k 30 July | 14:48
1. ipod
2. olympus bx60 microscope
3. immersion oil
4. lab book
5. kimwipes
posted by gaspode 30 July | 14:52
1. Empty bowl of cottage cheese
2. Mug of iced tea
3. Eye drops
4. Edible Brooklyn
5. Cat (see #1)
posted by mudpuppie 30 July | 14:54
1. empty red and clear ikea tupperware container
2. a copy of Saint Thomas's summa theologian (volume 2) from 1948 in latin.
3. "detailed" statistics on forty faces
4. a diet coke bottle half filled with water
5. i just noticed that my coworker pushed the stack of scrap paper (that he assembled) off his side of the desk and onto mine. grrrrr.
posted by stynxno 30 July | 14:55
--New Yorker page-a-day calendar

--MIT Libraries computer punch card from the bad old days of library catalogs

--A pencil holder made from a birch limb (thanks, Grampa!)

--A 5-volume set of the Library of Congress subject headings (a.k.a. "the red books")

--Postcards of Antarctica and the Grand Canyon
posted by initapplette 30 July | 14:55
1. A die from Las Vegas

2. A poppy from the last Poppy Day. (I have a horrible suspicion I saved it to re-use next year.)

3. A glass tankard (empty)

4. My USB HDD.

5. My camera, a Panasonic Lumix FZ-7.
posted by essexjan 30 July | 15:01
Constructivist-inspired coffee mug with Lenin announcing "Better Coffee for Better Workers!"

Postcard with a mid-'90s picture of Paul Weller wearing a Nehru jacket and standing in a wheat field

A picture of a man dressed up like a giant sausage

Several hundred pages of 1st and second galleys of my book, covered in hundreds of post-it notes, each one representing a query I have to answer before the book goes to press

Breakfast, which I haven't yet had a chance to eat
posted by scody 30 July | 15:02
1. Framed picture by a mechazen - I'm in the background, but you can't tell unless I point it out. People comment on its interestingness often - I should tell flickr.
2. Virginia Tech rememberance ribbon - orange and maroon, hand assembled.
3. Paper color copy of a DO NOT WANT LOL cat over my inbox.
4. My montessori school evaluation letter.
5. Magnet - "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." - Charles Bukowski
posted by rainbaby 30 July | 15:03
A tin Choo-Choo
Soldered wire camel from India
Cast metal stamp box
Bag of small bolts used for computer hardware
Stuffed toy dill pickle
posted by arse_hat 30 July | 15:05
* a glass paperweight with a pink jellyfish in it
* a cat macro (filecat is searching please wait)
* apple shaped post-its
* a pharamceutical promototional calendar
* empty tea cup
posted by sperose 30 July | 15:08
I like when people ask about my pictures, because if they say "Is that your husband?" I say "one of them." If they say "is that your baby?" I simply say "no." "Are those your pets?" Yeah, that's them. I don't have a snappy answer for that one.
posted by rainbaby 30 July | 15:12
- 2 troll dolls
- Small panasonic digital camera which someone lost the cord to so I can't get the damn pictures off it. And I need them.
- Ugly "Life of the Arts 1989" mug full of pens and rulers and so on in it. It predates my tenure in this office. Come to think of it, it's entirely possible that mug has been sitting on this desk with the same pencils in it since 1989.
- glass once tea now water bottle with piece of notebook paper stuck to the gluey spot on it where the label used to be.
- a large pearl in a small silk bag
posted by mygothlaundry 30 July | 15:14
= click to see image =

Yellow Submarine Hey Bulldog
Ivysaur papercraft
The Scream mousepad
Japanese weird erasers someone gave me
happy bunny sticker: 'i hate everything'
posted by eatdonuts 30 July | 15:17
1. A mug of tea (nearly empty)
2. Marvin the Paranoid Android
3. D&D rulebooks (3.5e)
4. A cat (he's mostly just passing through, though)
5. A book about Stalinist architecture
posted by Daniel Charms 30 July | 15:30
- old red poisonous liter nalgene with campagnolo stickers all over it
- stamp rack containing "confidential" "copy" "restricted" "received" and "destroy" stamps
- stack of barcoded archive tags that I just beeped into the system to send offsite.
- barcode reader
- a digital micrometer that appeared this morning and which I am about to email lost & found on behalf of, as I imagine someone left it here by mistake

posted by lonefrontranger 30 July | 15:34
1. two pewter wizards (one from my birth mom and one from Goodwill)
2. a connical glass tea-light holder with vanilla tea-light
3. silver click/clack balls
4. mechanical metal chickens -- you squeeze the handle and the chickens alternate pecking (I like toys)
5. fifteen pages of a short story in progress
6. various stickers on the sides, including one that says Jackass (this is my desk at home, of course)

(ej: I also have a pair of Vegas dice on my desk! Not as lucky as yours, alas. : )
posted by Pips 30 July | 15:43
1. Chad Cordero bobblehead
2. glass turtle paperweight
3. prototype blood test device
4. about 50 lbs. worth of paper files (oh, wait, you said interesting)
5. small stuffed (well, sand-filled) frog from my last job.
posted by Joe Invisible 30 July | 15:46
A blueberry, peach & banana smoothie with Greek yogurt, OJ, and local wildflower honey (yum) that elizard just made for me. Greek yogurt rocks and should be consumed as often as possible, btw.

A copy of John Scalzi's "The Last Colony" that I bought yesterday at Barnes & Noble and which I plan on finishing in the next hour or so. Unless I remain sucked into the 'tubes.

A set of broken iPod earbuds that were gnawed on by brown retarded cats. I hate them so. The cats, that is.

A stack of yellow legal pads because I keep breaking out a new one every time I misplace the old one and I just found all of them.

A copy of The Economist dated July 12 that I haven't gotten around to reading yet.
posted by BitterOldPunk 30 July | 15:49
1. Solar-powered head-nodding penguin. Apparently, he's on a Japanese children's television program, though I don't watch Japanese children's television. But this penguin just nods his head all day, and I find it very reassuring. And somebody who's very important to me has the same penguin on their desk, which, yeah, even more so.
2. Stack of CDs including Edwin McCain, Natalie Imbruglia, Tonic and the Romeo and Juliet (Leo/Claire) soundtrack. I've been doing occasional free tables at the library, and these, well, I literally can't give 'em away.
3. Atlas of Sperm Morphology. This old science book is not as funny as one might hope, but I haven't gotten rid of it yet.
4. Signs talking about computer outages, which I keep meaning to go downtown and laminate.
5. Copy of Skinny Bitch in the Kitch, which a girl at my grocery store wanted to check out.
posted by box 30 July | 15:50
A coozy that says "If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done!"

A plushy stuffed cat toy from my baby brother that's named Callous Cat after ≡ Click to see image ≡

My 1/2 liter thermos filled with ice and pepsi

A ghirardelli chocolate tin

an origami box made out of my business cards to hold my business cards.

posted by lysdexic 30 July | 16:40
A bottle of Pepto
An iced tea can I have converted into a pen holder with my Leatherman.
My motorcycle helmet and gloves
posted by Eideteker 30 July | 16:53
kazoo
Jaw Harp
Lap Steel Guitar
45 recording of "Raunchy" recorded by "Billy Vaughn und sein Orchester"
Whatever the fuck this thing is.
posted by chillmost 30 July | 17:31
A miniature Carolina Panthers helmet with Steve Smith's autograph.
A bronze statue of a golfer.
A relative humidity meter.
A can of Thymes Eucalyptus home fragrance mist.
An orchid.

MGL, you can get those photos off your camera if your computer has memory card slots, or with a USB memory card reader.
posted by netbros 30 July | 17:45
First aid kit
CDs and a portable CD player
Beef lables
Pork lables
Shelf tags
posted by redvixen 30 July | 17:52
Abalone buttons
Xylitol gum
What i assume is porn
First piercing, missing a ball end
Hairpins
posted by ethylene 30 July | 18:17
A crumpled-up piece of striped silk fabric with fringe. Bigger than a scarf, not quite big enough to be a shawl or blanket.

The deflated remains of a co-worker's birthday balloon horse.

Three (3) sushi-shaped erasers.
posted by tangerine 30 July | 18:37
1. Phone number of the guy who picked me up after the Dinosaur BBQ meetup in the subway and then didn't call.
2. 19 bottles of nailpolish (whoa)
3. A ruler that says "McGraw Hill Math Measures Up to the Standards"
4. Orange button and thread that came with a newish shirt
5. The hilarious haggadah that my friends wrote for Passover last year.
Excerpt:
Moses: I tried warning Pharoah before the next plague. I told him that the next plague is ice, covered in fire, falling form the sky. I said "I'm not speaking metaphorically, this is literally ice smothered in flame, plunging towards the Earth. I shit you not."
Pharoah: In what I still believe what my biggest error in judgment, I was convinced that he was shitting me. Who could comprehend ice covered in fire? Who could make such a thing? Fire melts ice, then the water would quench the fire. How could it possibly work otherwise?
posted by rmless2 30 July | 19:30
1. a cat shaped paper holder
2. a half eaten blueberry muffin
3. a container of "Acerola" flavoured tic-tacs, that are mixed with my orange tic-tacs
4. a collection of asian lollies from the asian grocery store
5. a huge towering pile of booking forms and invoices I'm studiously avoiding.
posted by jonathanstrange 30 July | 19:47
1. The desk, that I inherited from my late Uncle, that belonged to the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University (Delhi) who went on to become the President of India.

2. A photograph of my sister taken in London (in the dead of winter) where she's all bundled up in blankets and a woolen cap over her head. She was maybe a year old at the time.

3. A digital camera that my Cousin Brother just got for me from Ireland where he's been studying for the past two years.

4. My computer. I love this machine. I don't know what I would've done without it.

5. The pictures of all the people that I've been able to see through it.
posted by hadjiboy 30 July | 20:00
My "desk" is only about 2-1/2 times the size of my keyboard, so there's...
My keyboard (it's a ZBoard gaming one because games rule)
The wireless receiver for my mouse
The slide-out part under the desk that has the mouse on it
The volume control little knob thingy for my speakers
My cellphone
A little carved head from Belize
A Laibach pin, but I don't know why it's still here and not pinned to something probably because I keep forgetting about it
A pen and a piece of paper for writing down stuff (notes from phone calls, game hints, etc.)
...boring.
posted by Zack_Replica 31 July | 00:11
What is not on the desk is the beer I need to remove jonmc's image from my head that is preventing me from knowing anything about the number 5 and stopping thereupon.
posted by Zack_Replica 31 July | 00:21
Blower fan from an 82 BMW 323i
Sponge Bob lunch box kind of thing
Model airplane
A Sun Studios auto license plate
A Grinch doll

I could go on.
posted by Carbolic 31 July | 12:41
NSF(Y)W:

A letter that begins: "There tongue not a speck of sweat left on her ass and her pussy hole gets cleaned and sucked make it hot! hot! make them kinky and hot!"

A page from our styleguide that includes the entry on breasts: "Also: baloons, bazongas, basooms, boob, boobies, boobs, booby, bust, canteloupes, casabas, chest, crenshaws, 44s, frontal lobes, globes, gourds, grapefruits, headlights, hee-haws, honeydews, hooters, jugs, knockers, lemons, lungs, mammaries, manchesters, melons, milkers, pair, paps, quadraphonic speakers, set, 38s, tit, tits, titties."

My girlfriend's copy of The Crying of Lot 49.

A new Matti Klatt set, with some girl tied up in a traincoach.

The copybook for Taboo Illustrated with the dildo edited out, but the alligator clips still on the cheerleader's nipples.
posted by klangklangston 31 July | 16:19
- 2/3 full bottle of La Fee Absinthe Parisinne complete with absinthe spoon
- small sample sized bottle of Baines Pacharan from Navarra
- a bottle of Antipodes sparkling water from New Zealand that I keep simply because it looks like a glass IV bottle.
- a copy of "Old Mr. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender's Guide" (1962 edition)
- a copy of The New York Times "International Cook Book" from 1971 by Craig Claiborne
posted by kkokkodalk 31 July | 16:38
A silver necklace with a miniature propeller on it that I need to take to the jeweller to get a new catch (it's worn out - I normally wear it 24/7).

A "Far Side" calendar.

A miniature toolkit that I use for fixing stuff around the office.

Coaster that used to be a DVD telling us about our IT platform migration.

Reminder to follow up why my iPhone hasn't arrived (interesting to me, anyway).
posted by dg 31 July | 17:24
Quadraphonic speakers?
posted by box 31 July | 22:29
constituency map
Canvass sheets
A record player
Basil
Rosemary (cats)
posted by By the Grace of God 01 August | 19:43
1) a try with several cups loaded with markers, pens, and colored pencils.

2) the Shame Idol's CD (pulled it out after this thread)

3) a recipe box full of ticket stubs (I've been feeling nostalgic lately and scanning groups of my old ticket stubs).

4. Two Syd Barrett CDs (Mrs Slack wanted them loaded onto your MP3 player)

5. Several Moleskine sketchbooks and a pocket Moleskine notebook.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 02 August | 07:54
- a box shaped like a fish, painted and decorated with sequins (made for me five years ago by my then seven-year-old niece Peaches) which I use to hold paper clips etc.

- two novels by Faith Sullivan, which I am in the process of writing about for my blog

- red leather-covered planner

- a mouse pad with my employer's logo on, which since it doesn't work with my mouse, I use as an extra large coaster.
posted by Orange Swan 10 August | 08:40
1. a valentine

2. a mug from ali shan

3. a (plush) neuron

4. the Fisher Catalog

5. an overview of embryonic mouse development
posted by oreonax 13 August | 17:48
1. a little plastic box with about 12 of these kinds of jawharps in it.

2. my current song notebook (never far away)

3. three of my daughter's little wind-up music boxes (with 3 different songs) that I listen to simultaneously from time to time

4. a little wiggly rubber skeleton

5. my laptop, running Logic (recording/sequencing software) on which I'm currently making music for an upcoming Tokyo Collection fashion show
posted by flapjax at midnite 15 August | 02:06
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