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For years... nay, decades... I've been attempting to work in a paper free environment. I didn't even realize I'd achieved this goal until my wife visited my office and made the observation. No one here has any paperwork on their desks. Everyone's desk's are clear... except mine. Subconsciously, I've replaced all the missing stacks of paper with toys. Lots of Legos, a ball puzzle, a Yoda statue, and a pair of Hulk Hands. Lego sets include Hulk Buster armor, Darth Vader, and the Apollo 11. I rotate regularly with other sets: Star Destroyer, Millennium Falcon, X-Wing Fighter, etc. I also make sure a jar of jelly beans remains stocked at all times.
I'm just curious what sort of desk toys do you guys prefer? Or do you think them a waste of time?
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I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me... Bill W
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Hmm, let's see...looking around I see a few mounds of handwritten notes, notebooks, several 2'' thick manuals, a ups battery that needs replacing, a flashlight, bottle of Windex, sani-wipes, and a few rocks/crystals...and a red Swingline stapler. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Notes all over the place.
And a Hanuman (the code monkey) figurine.
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We have a clear desk policy a work. On mind I have a light saber that I took off the kids as they we hitting each other with it, a camper van model and a ball that once it hits something it will giggle for ages.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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A couple mech figures from Fang of the Sun, an old airplane compass, and a set of badge ribbons and program from the last penguicon.
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Mark Randel wrote: I'm just curious what sort of desk toys do you guys prefer?
Animist jujus blessed/empowered on a dark-of-the moon's midnight at a cremation ground by defrocked monks performing secret rites.
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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The guy swore that mine was one of a kind! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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A steaming cup of coffee.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I'm old school.
I keep my desk covered with papers so the surface doesn't get dusty.
As some periodically get coffee-stained, they're eventually passed into the desktop-remote-storage-cylinder for transport to the local waste yard.
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I am right there with you. I also have a stack of paper plates with crumbs of sandwiches I had at the desk for lunch, over the past week or so. 
It's a random chance universe...
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No stacks of paper, no toys, yet still barely enough room to move the mouse without having to pick it up.
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That's why I use a trackball
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© 2009, Rex Hammock
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There's always the trackball guy.
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Stops people trying to drive my PC to just "show me something"!
Every.
Single.
Time!
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Go hardcore and get a Dvorak keyboard as well.
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A guy here who used Dvorak had the opposite problem. Every time he went to use someone else's computer, he'd type garbage for a minute until he mentally swapped out his keyboard mapping.
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I suppose it goes both ways.
I've never been curious enough to try them out. I'm fast enough already with qwerty keyboards.
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I keep a "guest mouse" just for them. It was so just so sad watching them try to figure out the trackball (which never struck me as that difficult).
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I'm right handed, but I use a left hand mouse. People try to grab it with their right hands but get completely lost when the buttons don't do what they want. Secretly, hidden among all the clutter on my desk, is another mouse they can use if I show them.
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Most of my current and past co-workers have their assortment of pictures and toys. As for me, I have no decorations except a calendar. I do have papers scattered around; so I am no 5S.
Having toys and decorations in your work environment is not a waste of time if it makes you happy.
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1 squeezy ball to excercise the fingers when I sit and think, 1 pad, 1 pencil and computers is all. Oh and a bloody phone which I regularly disconnect.
The idea of lots of toys on a desk I find silly, I'm there to work not fiddle with toys. This place is enough of a distraction, I don't need toys as well.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Besides the actual hardware I use to do my job - 2 external monitors hooked up to a laptop - giving me 3 screens of virtual desktop, I usually only have my coffee, lunch and a Rubik's cube to keep me company.
Other developers in the office have various doodads, including trolls and desk plants, but I prefer my trusty cube.
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If it isn't either wireless or USB powered, it doesn't belong on the desk of a computer guy!
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Mark Randel wrote: I'd rather have a frontal lobotomy than a bottle in front of me... Bill W
The only thing that I ever drink is water. I can easily refill my office bottle from the cold tap.
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I prefer to have a nice ass on my desk from time to time...
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