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First table:
- my first computer, working like a charm for the last 38 years
- tape recorder and stacks of old tapes with programs
- old celery 300 notebook, runs terminal emulation for the old computer
- some circuit boards in various stages of reconstruction
Desk 1:
- oscilloscope, multimeter, assorted tools
- lamp
- breadboard with my replacement for the unavailable hex keyboard encoder
- the still unfinished body for my UH-1E scale model, ready for adding the rivets
- (EDIT) forgot the Stormtrooper helmet
Desk 2:
- PC stuff, monitor, keyboard, mouse
- piles of USB sticks, DVDs and even floppies
- a small TV for distraction, the entire wall above the desks for entertainment
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 19-Oct-16 6:06am.
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CDP1802 wrote: the entire wall above the desks for entertainment
To watch paint dry?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Nope. Usually I sit in the chair at the other side of the room and use the entire wall to watch movies.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Hey @chris-maunder this is strange. I replied to only one post (the other one), but it's appeared as responses to two different posts! The second one is not meow post, and I smell some catspiracy. 
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Have to operate on a clean desk, parent company policy sadly  I as do prefer organised chaos
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Doesn't clean desk mean that no confidential documents should be lying around unattended? We have it too but I guess it is not intended to be taken literally.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Not when you have the policy Police working overtime.
Business Operation Manager that take policies too literally.
Parent company Security Department that also do random security checks on the office location
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Never knew you work in area 51.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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At home it is a total mess - very comfortable...
However, at work it is ISO dictated 'clean table'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That would seriously suck. I need some messy in order to clear my mind.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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You'll find a year's worth of printed papers for the look of busyness, but in reality I don't print much because I'm a closet environmentalist. By the end of the day there will be 3 empty cans of diet coke, perfectly spaced and in the same position from the previous day. A computer bag and a not so smart cell phone. And most importantly, two monitors perfectly positioned, so no one can get behind me and see what is on my screen, with the desktop positioned to hide my personnel computer, in case I need it in an emergency.
There are no pictures or any other nonsense; everything has a purpose. It is close to meeting the 5S's of Lean Six Sigma.
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Stuff on my desk:
1) Cool angle poise light,
2) Laser Printer/Scanner Combo
3) Top off a signal conditioning box prototype,
4) USB Hub with 3 USB to 9 Way ports
5) Kemo potted Audio Amp for test
6) Platten out of Hard Drive I was told to destroy used as coaster.
7) Multimeter, Gaffer Tape
8) Complete guts of a PAM system connected to 250 meters of 15 core shield cable (on a drum on floor but connected to PAM system)
9) Digital Vernier (wonder where that was!)  found Vern....
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glennPattonWorking wrote: 2) Laser Printer/Scanner Combo
It's not that good an idea to sit too close to a printer, all day[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 19-Oct-16 10:51am.
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Error 404: Fail not found
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Hmm. Apparently, the CP link-inserter-thingy appears to believe that .asp files should be renamed as ".as"
Fixed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Doesn't get used for a printer that much other than the scanner attachment, but as a coffee mug stand ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) .
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I'm a firm believer in the clean-desk policy!
Which is why I keep my desk covered with papers and junk -- no dirt can even get close to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Which is why I keep my desk covered with papers and junk -- no dirt can even get close to it.
I've used a similar explanation to those uninitiated to being busy doing things (vs. undoing things by neatening up).
My desktop layers, however, are organized something more akin to:
TirassicJurrasicCretaciousetc.What's most interesting - they're not even chronologically stratified.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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More or less a mess.
- used, but clean glass yogurt pot; plastic plant.
- clean lunch box (tupperware-ish) that I forgot to bring home.
- dust bunnies.
- empty coffee cup (from this morning)
- screen.
- dust bunnies.
- screen.
- dust bunnies.
- star wars Lego.
- dust bunnies.
- flashing office phone with a couple of voice mail (forgot the password, and don't care).
- radio (just in case the internet is down)
- dust bunnies.
...
I'd rather be phishing!
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More messy than I would have preferred, but not too bad:
1) Laptop
2) Docking Station
3) A mug
4) A "Bing Bang Theory" calendar
5) Cell phone
6) Keyboard
7) Mouse
8) Two monitors
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Empty Desk - Empty Mind.
But that's well known. If one has time to clean the desktop every day then you've truly not enough to do. Or one just sits there and smiles behind the shiny wood.
For us real workers? If I put IT down and IT is there when I look for IT again, then IT had been functionally been properly put away.
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1. Work PC
2. Two monitors
3. Keyboard and mouse
4. Water cup
5. Water pitcher
6. Coffee cup
7. Box of tissues
8. VOIP phone
9. Towel (always have a towel)
10. Cell phone
11. Post-It notes
12. Various odd papers
13. Live plant
14. HTML & CSS Reference Book
15. Oracle DBA Handlbook
16. Mail
17. Pens
18. ... there's more
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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My desk has a shelf on which sits:
laptop
two monitors
scanner
various receipts
various iButtons[^]
ibutton reader
On the desk itself sits:
another laptop
Ingenico iSC480
Verifone pinpad
Magtek card swiper
ScanShell drivers license scanner
ESeek swiper / scanner
Two USB hubs
500GB USB SSD drive
Plugable USB 3.0 box
My Book backup drive
Keyboard
Mouse
Oh, and did I mention the desk next to me?
two monitors
two keyboards
Beaglebone test fixture
5 more beaglebones
lamp
Oh, and did I mention the pull out drawer on that desk?
VOIP box
5 port PoE hub
24 port hub
wireless router
Another beaglebone
And on the shelf next to that desk:
ancient HP470 printer
And on the floor:
power strips for 22 or so plugs / adapters, etc.
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Sounds like mine, except desktop.
(and not riding today)
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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