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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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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 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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I have a "Game Cube", yup that's correct....
An original release Nintendo game cube.
and you know what....
It's just so bloody satisfying when a piece of code is winding you up, to fire up mortal Kombat a splatter a bit of blood everywhere.
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I prefer things that can provide a brief distraction when I start getting wrapped around the axle on an issue.
A 4" globe, a cheap K9 figure from Barnes and Noble, and an ST TOS Communicator bluetooth device that soothingly chirps at me when I flip it open.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I do think desk toys makes working a bit less stressful so I always try to keep a few on mine. Currently, my desk sports a magic 8 ball, a burned giraffe baby toy (I told my wife I'd frame it after she burned it but it's still here), a die-cast metal white Power Ranger, a Lego of my first computer and a cookie jar in the shape of a question box from Mario.
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A magic 8-ball must be massively useful.
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The only desk toy I have is a venerable Nexus 7 2nd generation tablet and an even more venerable pair of Sony MDR-V900 headphones. These supply music when there's too much noise around.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have 3 Funko Pop!s that my adult daughter gave me. Captain America, Hela (her favorite villain) and Phil Coulson. A Mexican shot glass that a co-worker at a previous job gave me which holds a couple of pens. A cup from the opening day of Avengers: Age of Ultron, picture of my wife, a cereal box cloth flying disc, also an Age of Ultron tie-in. My paper towel coaster with "DO NOT REMOVE" written on it since the cleaning crew kept taking them. (I know I have issues but the first one to go actually came from my previous job. It was still doing its job why should I abandon it?)
Tabasco sauce, a salt shaker and the three foot stack of all the programming books I've owned.
I used to have a lot more when I had a cubicle, Plastic Man, a Mach 5, a Tibetan meditation doohickey(I used to work with a couple of guys from Nepal.), and several wishbones from rotisserie chickens (just in case we needed to make a wish) and a lot more stuff/crap. Useless stuff but it made the space feel like mine.
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I do think desk toys are a good stress relief and add a bit of personality to the workplace (a much plain workspace seems so empty of life, maybe that's why some people hate their jobs).
So, currently, my desk sports a magic 8 ball, a burned teether giraffe (I told my wife I'd frame it after she burned it while boiling it), a die-cast metal white Power Ranger, a Lego model of my first computer, and a cookie jar in the shape of a question box from Mario.
- Leonardo
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Apart from the hardware, I have some paper tha becomes digital from time to time. And a bunny like toy until I replace it with a rubber duck.
Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia[^]
Paulo Gomes
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
—Bill Gates
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
—Albert Einstein
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at office desk (3 days a week) cups for caffiene delivery, assorted puters and stuff. One calendar on thhe wrong month. not much else. Not alot of room.
At home office(2 days a week) various toys, Matchbox cars primarily. Love a Jaguar I have. Loads of books none are technical. Maps of various places I have visited. barely enough room for lappy and mouse. <grin>
I prefer working from home. I actually get more done there.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Good old metal slinky is my preferred toy.
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