It’s 2:25 on a Friday night and it occured to me to wonder what other people have on their computers. I mean physically ON TOP of them. On the screen or on the tower itself, doesn’t matter. I have:
On the monitor:
Two little green plastic soldiers, one at either end. One has half his face painted white because I decided he was the military version of the Phantom of the Opera.
A Tom (from Tom and Jerry) Kinder-Egg surprise. He’s wearing a red sombrero and playing a guitar.
3)Hi Opal!
Another Kinder-Egg toy. This one’s a stupid little elf combing his beard and wearing what appears to be a purple dress.
An Oscar-the-Grouch craft made from a green fuzzball, googly eyes and a camera film case.
My tower currently holds the weight of:
A mostly-finished box of chocolate fudge cookies
A half-finished bag of Tostitos
Hi Opal! (again!)
The “Box of Stuff” containing all the CDs/disks and instuction manuals I occasionally need for my computer.
How about all you guys?
Nothing on mine. Of course, it’s a laptop. Can’t support a toothpick on the screen.
I also stripped off everything that was strippable as soon as it came in the mail, everything except the Toshiba brand. No “Intel” sticker. No “Windows Inside” sticker. No clear plastic sheet telling me everything that’s in the computer.
Now, if you asked what’s on the walls around my computer . . . well, then you’d hear about some interesting things. Or about my screen saver (heh-heh-heh)
on my tower lies a sDSL modem, and video-input for my ATI All-in-wonder Radeon, and a :QueCat. Until I got my new 19inch monitor, I had tons of post-it notes on my monitor, but nothing on this new one.
One sheet of paper.
One Mary Kay Bottle (Wifes)
One spindle of blank CD-R’s (30+ left)
One drugstore.com box on top of the spindle, with two towels and some broken glass in the box.
On the tower: figurines of a camel, a tiger sitting on top of coins, a chinese dragon, a baby dragon asleep on a crescent moon, and a pewter figurine of a pteradactyl (sp?).
Plus, I have a clock made out of a CD blank with a dragon painted on it, an agate drop, and a citrine crystal-topped piece of agate in the rough.
Under the monitor and beside the printer, I have a piece of black beach rock (undetermined) anchoring down some stamps, some pumice-obsidian, lepidolite, a dragon chime-set I have to fix up, a little dragon in it’s egg, a rabbit (Chinese birth year), a plush dragon given by a friend, a rough hunk of hawkseye, a hunk of nundorite, mahoghany obsidian, ordinary pumice from beside Lake Rotorua (a volcanic lake), and a birthday card from last year drawn by my friend The Jackal (who I’m hoping gets a computer before the end of the world so she can get on the SDMB too. Watch this space.)
On the monitor:
A small tartan lizard stuffed with sand. It’s leaning over the front of the monitor and leering at me.
On the 'puter
Nothing much, coz I removed the outer case. There is a CD single of a dance version of the Sesame St Theme sitting on top of the CD-ROM drive.
On my DESK, however… Photo of the luvverly Kim my G/F, A little glass ball with bits of crap in it (supposed to be art, I think), two empty beer bottles… -hang on -three, one beer bottle which is a going concern, a claw hammer (WTF?), an empty packet of Chinese green peas crisps, a book on HTML, a candle, an empty coffee mug, a jar full of marbles and little bits of origami paper, a clock, a Marvin the Martian mousemat, two unused light bulbs, sundry pens, pencils, disks… hmmmm, some cigarette papers.
On the monitor: Two anime figures from Rurouni Kenshin, one of Kenshin as rurouni, and one of him as the Hitokiri Battousai (eBay retail price: $150+; price paid, $5).
On the tower: Five computer game boxes (Populous 3, Battlezone 2, Myth: The Total Codex, Rougue Spear, Deus Ex), one 100 disc spindle of 74 minute CDs (approx. 20 left), one 100 disc spindle of 80 minute CDs (approx. 30 left), one pewter (european) dragon, one orange made from glass, one music box mechanism thing (Yesterday).
And scraps of papers and small piles of CDs all around…
On my monitor, there’s an (empty) yoo-hoo can, the 1992 Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations, 3 napkins from McDonalds, and the DVD case for Charade.
On my tower, there’s a cup of lemonade, an Utena CD, the second US released Utena DVD and the case (seperate), $7, and an Easter card.
On the monitor: two Beanie Kids. One is Leo the Lion, born 24.7.1997, the other is Lenny the Leopard, born 1.4.1998.
On the tower: Victorian Deaths Index 1921-1985, the Edwardian Index (births, deaths and marriages 1902-1913) and the Great War Index (births, deaths and marriages 1914-1920).
The actual junk factor kicks in when you look at what’s on the rest of the desk!!
On the monitor: the Mighty God of Grad Student Angst (a stuffed Eeyore, to the prosaic), and a knitted mouse from the Yorkshire Museum of Rural Life, named Andrew after the male porpentine, who gave him to me.
On the tower: many disks, most of them unidentifiable.
Hanging over the keyboard: bank records, and a copy of my grandmother’s memoirs.
Under the desk: syllabus for my class, complete works of Shakespeare, selected works of Milton, anthology of medieval drama, and assorted critical books and journal articles.
On the tower of limited power: one old zenith clock-radio covered by a large cookie sheet. On the cookie sheet is a bowl full of bird food and a perch.
On the monitor: my bird, occasionally. Sometimes he’s on his perch or sometimes he’s asleep behind the clock. Right now he’s climbing the curtains behind the tower, all wet from a recent bath.
On the monitor: Beelzebub the Satanic Stuffed Tiger Who Wears a Tiara and Beads, wearing his tiara and beads with panache. (The tiara, I now notice, is a bit crooked. I think it adds to his rakish appeal as a transvestite tiger.)
On the cube: A very stylized statue of Ganesh painted a dark metallic grey.
On the rest of the desk, coasters, Tylenol bottles, my camera, speakers, nail polish, pens, mail, books, a cup, an empty bottle of Dasani, bracelets, rings, my watch, various office supplies, and take-out menus.
Stuck to the side of the monitor: two yellow post-it notes with a total of three phone numbers, three “Sign Here” stickies, two labels with passwords for some company applications (yes, I know it’s a security risk.)
On the CPU: two small speakers, one Homer Simpson Pez dispenser, one of those dry white-out guns, a winning scratch lottery ticket (worth $2,) 7 keys, one contest entry that I really should send in, a scrap of paper listing some trucks that I’m supposed to track down, a box of my business cards, and a twist-tie (not sure how that got there.)
On top of my monitor I have my nameplate from my old job (maiden name), a beanie baby (Bernie the St. Bernard) and a plastic alien. I don’t have anything on my tower but a layer of dust. My scanner is piled high with printer paper, software boxes and a bunch of manuals and stuff. My desk is a giant mess of papers, office supplies and CDs, a remote control, about 10 pens scattered in a random fashion, and other miscellaneous junk.
On the monitor I have a Cheshire Cat monitor thingy… It’s purple and yellow.
On the towe I have an empty 2 port USB upgrade box, which will soon be full again when I return said upgrade because it won’t work on my computer. I have the latest Disney Catalog, open to the page of the stuff I Want. And a Large tin of Altoids.
There is too much crap on the desk around my computer to name, I really should resolve to not clutter so much.
On the monitor: Pistachio (my squirrel beanie) and Gatomon (one of my Digimon beanies). The Puffkins, one bear and three bunnies, sit on the shelf above the monitor. My Bubbles doll used to sit on top of one speaker, but now she sits next to it.
On the tower: nothing right now. Occasionally a floppy disk when I’m too lazy to put it back in the box.
On the printer: Dermot (a stuffed duck that a friend gave me) and Patomon (another Digimon beanie).
On the scanner: Gomamon, yet another Digimon beanie.
I have several other stuffed animals sitting on the shelves all over the desk. I’ll try to scan some pics in later if I can.
On the tower, Akira action figures and my DSL modem. On the scanner is a stuffed cow upon which rests my webcam. Behind that is the gateway router. On the monitor are stickers, nothing on top. A little Dancing Shiva statuette below the monitor and a couple piles of sailing books/pamphlets.
