Holy frijoles. How big are these freaking desks?
DVD players?
KISS action figures?
CHINESE MEDICINE BALLS???
I want to go on record and say I started this thread because I honestly thought my desk was amassing too much clutter.
I’m glad you all can provide some matter of perspective.
Truly, I am amazed.
I have:[ul]
[li]Lexmark printer[/li][li]‘Catch Your Dream Girl Scout Cookies 1997’ cup full of pens[/li][li]bag of peanut M&Ms[/li][li]two piles of important mail I’m keeping around[/li][li]Escape From Monkey Island game CDs[/li][li]glass of lemonade[/li][li]two checks I need to deposit[/li][li]stereo remote control[/li][li]nail file[/li][li]Linksys cable modem[/li][li]notepads[/ul][/li]
Heh, kind of an odd assortment. I’m still not moved in totally and when I don’t know where to put something, it ends up here.
Ahhh the spider’s back again! I swear it’s the same one I saw about eight years ago in here.
To the left:
ahem Brand new PC tower, with new external cable modem on top (nope, not overly proud of this! 
)
mid-range printer
plastic bag for new keyboard (intended to protect it from cat hair until I can get a proper keyboard cover)
wire letter/pen holder inherited from my grandmother containing my bookmark collection and no pen
speakers
To the right:
my cat (staring right at me, like if she sits close enough I’ll stop using the 'puter). :eek:
a can of Barq’s rootbeer on a wooden coaster
three-hole punch
stapler
pen-can
stack of install cd’s to put to use (or to procrastinate on)
basket of ignorable mail
pile of bills, notices and other actionable mail I am ignoring
pile of textbooks and assignment sheets I am also ignoring, but which (like the cat) are watching me intently
Directly in front:
old shaky monitor with a forest of “notes to self”, “notes to study groups” and a very large “note to 'puter guru”
Liberally scattered everywhere: aforementioned cat hair.
Besides my monitor, CPU, and speakers?
two cups
cd case for the RPG Nox and manual for same
CGW demo cd disc
my watch
the Clash’s “Combat Rock”
a piece of pink paper with my class schedule scribbled on it
2 silver necklaces.
I also have a desk right behind my computer desk in easy reach,which is the only reason that list isn’t much, much longer.
Well, first off, there’s lots of junk. Random bits of paper and such.
But, actual computer-related stuff:
Front:
17" Flat-panel monitor.
Two sets of speakers—one for Mac, one for PC.
Wireless keyboard,
Extra mice,
Extra micepads,
Special gloves to help prevent carpal tunnel.
Wacom Digital Table & wireless mouse
Right:
Apple G4 PowerMac computer. Love it. 1 GB of RAM.
Some papers, CDs, parts of my Epson Scanner (negative holders, etc.)
Vitamins. (Must have vitamins)
On top of G4: USB Floppy Drive, USB Zip Drive, misc other weird stuff. Dust.
To the far right, stacked up on top of each other:
Sony Firewire CD-RW drive for G4, Fantom 80 GB Hard Drive for G4, Ethernet switcher (for G4 and PC) and Cable modem.
Left:
Container of Kraft Shredded Three Cheese
Ceramic pencil holder (I made it) with pencils, pens and scissors.
Espon 3200 PHOTO USB/Firewire scanner (for slides, transparencies and prints). Love that thing.
“Star Wars” and “Betrayed” (Deborah Winger/Tom Berenger movie) DVDs
Some CDs relating to a class I am currently enrolled i.
Prints on the wall of my Yosemite photos, printed on my ink jet printer.
Underneath:
Purple PC. Custom built PC, bought this year. I had it put in a purple case, hence the title “Purple PC.” Very nice. 1 GB of RAM.
KVM switch. (This allows me to share the monitor, Wacom tablet, printer and keyboard between Mac and PC. Love this thing.)
40 GB external Firewire HDD for PC.
Everywhere: Lots of paper towels and a few gum wrappers.
[ul]
TOP
[li]Canon BJC-255SP Printer[/li][li]A small paper calendar[/li][li]A notepad[/li][li]A mug (with a picture of me when I was 8) holding a bunch of pens, pencils and a pair of scissors.[/li][li]Speakers[/li]
MIDDLE
[li]15" Acer monitor[/li][li]Logitech optical mouse w/mousepad[/li][li]A pen[/li][li]A few notes-to-self taped against the side[/li][li]Keyboard[/li]
BOTTOM
[li]CPU[/li][li]Cable modem[/li][li]Iomega zipdrive[/li][/ul]
Well…a bag of Doritos, the computer(speakers/printer/etc), several shredded or partially shredded popsicle sticks, a lone Reeses Cup…thing…you know, the black thingy…a water bottle, a telephone, an answering machine, a book of German Internet adresses, and a lamp with a bunch of stuff in it’s little holders. And my white tiger plushie is sitting on the computer, if that counts…Really needs to clean up the desk
I live at my desk. It makes me happy. I have:
computer, printer, power strip, alarm clock, fan, desk lamp, white board, pencil holder, post-it notes (both stuck all over the desk and still attached to the pad of notes), crayons, random papers, books, napkins, camera, a container of cashews, and an empty Pepsi bottle.
I don’t even want to think about what’s in the shelf underneath my desk. I could be here for hours.
On the left: a mid-tower ATX case with ASUS A7V-E motherboard, 800 MHz AMD Athlon processor, 256 MB SDRAM, 7200 rpm 40 GB Seagate hard drive, 16/10/40x Plextor CD-writer, standard 90 mm floppy drive, 32 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX AGP video card, 10/100 Linksys ethernet adapter, and SoundBlaster SB Live Value sound card.
In the middle: 17" AOC Spectrum 7Elr monitor, set at 1024x768 resolution, and a Model M keyboard set to use the Dvorak keyboard layout.
On the right: three identical mousepads, and a Logitech optical wheel mouse connected to one of the two USB ports on the motherboard.
Mine’s about 2’×2½’ and is a heavy steel thing. I’m gonna get rid of it if we ever move again.
Left - phone, digital camera, notepad and pen, scriptures and a card with some memory stuff I am working on.
Left and right - stacks of music cd’s and cd roms.
Right right - scanner.
Right up -software manuals and 5 little gateway cd rom binders. Right up up - Some awards and keepsakes from a former place of employment.
Directly up from the monitor - some religious study guides.
Left - pictures in frames of all the boys.
Left up - dictionary, thesayrys, a secretarial handbook, and some letter writing and style guides and a scrabble dictionary.
Left up up - TeenSthrnAccents Eagle medal, merit badge sash, proclamation from the mayor and state senate and scrapbook.
Right hip level - the tree part of the computer.
At knees - a pull out shelf with the printer.
Behind right hip level door - reams of different kinds of paper, a basket with different kinds of scissors and glue sticks, and a folio with some scout record keeping and mementos.
Behind left hip level door - pens, pencils, paperclips, erasers, small notebooks, rulers, staplers, printer cartridges, batteries, a hole punch and other stuff along the same vein and a couple of stacks of “to be filed” type documents.
:smack: thesaurus
OK, here we go, this could take a while.
Right
Three books detailing The Simpsons episodes and one dealing with The Tick animated series.
Two Futurama DVD’s
Cube DVD
Fellowship of the Ring DVD
A USB to PS/2 converter, which in turn is plugged into a PS/2 to serial converter
A keychain full of nothing but keychains
A vulture beany baby
A harmonica
A few buttons (one says crows, the other says RPI class of 2004)
An AC adapter for mu USB hub
A boc of thumbtacks
A can of air
A camera
A plush Cthulu
My USB hub to which the aforementioned AC adapter goes to
A box full of stickers from The Tick
A can of American Star peas, with all the stuff written on the label duplicated in Russian
A bottle of LCD screen cleaner
A CD spindle of a hundred CD-R’s I burnt a lot of stuff onto when I had to backup my PC before reformatting
Three bags of hardware for putting together a PC
10 Canadian dollars
A tube of thermal grease
A bottle opener
My Palm Pilot and it’s cradle
My digital camera
Another spibdle of CD’s
A plastic basket full of pens and pencils
Two memo pads
A shot glass
My PC tower
Headphones
My GBA SP
Left
A phillips head screwdriver
A pad of post-its
Many pieces of paper for various things, such as receipts, bank statements, recipes, etc…all in a big pile
Pens and pencils scattered about
A bottle of ibuprofen
A bag of Lifesavers strawberry creamsavers
Two cups
A bean-bag ball thingy
My set of keys
My spare car key
A coaster
A bag of yogurt chips for my hamster
A box of floppies
A portable CD player
Boxes for my GBA games
Software CD’s for important things (like OS, anti-virus, etc…)
Electrical tape
Bag of dice
Graphing calculator
A foam beetle keychain (the car, not the insect)
Labyrinth DVD
Monty Python and the Holy Grail DVD
A pair of pliers
A monkey wrench
A tube of chapstick
A Gamecube memory card
The floppy drive to my laptop
Staples
A three hold punch
Hardware driver CD’s
A bottle of Dish Detergent
All my roomates stuff (the desk is one long piece of wood, so technically, all of the stuff on “his” desk is merely on the right side of my desk, but I won’t go into those things, suffice to say there is aa computer and stereo and some books, not much else.)
I think that’s about it…I rally need to clean it, seeing as I have to dig through all the papers and used post-it notes on the right side to find anythnig useful.
Anthro cart, 24" wide, 4 shelves.
Top shelf:
Canon scanner
Ikea swivel lamp
Gumball machine
Broken Lego car 
Mini plastic punch-out dinosaur
Cute fluffy bunny stuffed animal
Two mini inflatable beach balls
Shallow woven basket with my keys, wallet, watch, etc.
Silvery-metal cell phone holder (shaped like a hand)
Several Post-It® note reminders/amusing notes
Main shelf:
2003 calendar
An empty skinny 8.4oz can of Coke
Various remote controls
Spindle of CD-Rs
4-port USB hub
A plaster jewelry bust with a necklace on it
My iMac (with a D2 play disc sticking out of the CD slot)
Two SD cards, one 128MB and one 256MB
A cut-out UPC code from one of the SD cards
Hanging on desk’s shelf supports:
Digital camera (in carrying bag)
Atlanta Braves cap
Keyboard shelf:
Keyboard
Wireless optical mouse on pad-wrist rest
A black-gray-white color chart torn from a book
My CD writer and external hard drive cases, stacked
Stack of MtG cards (all lands)
Lowest shelf:
Catalogs
Wire mesh CD holders
Photo albums
Can of air
Below desk:
Three 256 CD binders
Box with random cables, cable labels (rhymes!), and an old SuperDisk drive
I’m bored, so here’s the Random Crap on My Desk:
laptop
printer, now running out of ink
lamp
cable modem
cordless phone (the phone bit, I mean, not the cradle or whatever it’s called)
DVD player
scanner
flashlight
stapler (in a nifty shade of purple)
mug of pencils and pens (it says “Mercy Field Hockey Inaugural Team, 1993” on it)
three different remote controls
assorted papers including a printout of “A Modest Proposal,” the script for the radio Shakespeare production I’m working on, excerpts from the eclogues of Alexander Barclay, some poetry by John Skelton, some journal articles on Sidney’s “Lady of May,” a note from some friends who sent me a book a while back, my schedule, and strategies for writing instructors who wish to use the computer lab in class
the Poor Yorick catalogue (best video store ever)
box containing necklace with gold cross pendant and class ring
several dollar bills and assorted change
fork (not sure why that’s there)
two empty Squirt cans
ticket stub from 2003 St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
a few napkins
a ketchup packet (apparently from Jack in the Box)
a Tupperware thingie containing semi-edible peanut butter cookies
a stack of floppy disks
another Tupperware thingie with assorted receipts and ticket stubs in it
random scraps of things including notes written to myself and a reminder to fill out FAFSA forms
one of those plug thingies that you can use to plug a three-pronged plug into a two-pronged outlet
Thrilling, huh? 
Wow, guys, I dont even know what these things are called. Monitor keyboard tower under desk…
At work I have a voodoo doll on top of my monitor for anyone who strolls by and wants to know just by peering at my desk what kind of person I might be. The doll has two safety pins in it. One for my manager and one for Ford Motor Credit (that one is a favor for a buddy in Kansas).
Left
Candle warmer
sugar cookie candle, liquid
empty dr pepper can
doritos guitar pick
cap to Snapple bottle
cordless phone
alarm clock/radio
speaker
Right
mouse
mouse pad
speaker
Welcome Home candle, solid
carpenters glue
pacific digital drive (only know the name 'cause the label is still on it)
Elmers glue
spindle of blank cd’s
printer, epson
printer, lexmark
scanner, never used
router
Two imitation-jade “Foo Dogs;” a Zip disk; a “Piccolo” drive; two pairs of headphones (one working); a “Freedom Force” jewel case; an “X-Plane” jewel case; the “String Quartet Tribute to Black Sabbath” CD; a “cyborg” joystick; my computer, my CRT monitor, my keyboard, and my Mac’s original “hockey puck” mouse.
Red checked kitchen towel
Laser pointer
Dragonfly banker’s lamp
Big Van Gogh mug full of pens
Nalgene bottle
Check book
Can of Diet Cherry 7-Up
A mini… Mini Cooper
“see no evil” monkeys, except they’re peeking
Cable Modem
CD wallets
Karate Elvis
Blue Hawaii Elvis
A pyramid puzzle game
A bird made out of a cow horn
A sequined Uncle Sam hat from Vegas
Talking Heads pictur record
Sgt. Pepper tin sign
Digital camera
Webster’s Dictionary
(I have a three-story desk)