h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've just cleared my desk of clutter, which was something I should have done ages ago - or I could have just stayed on top of the clutter and not allowed it to get like that in the first place. But, I digress.

Right now I have:

* monitor
* speakers and volume control gizmo
* desk fan (In this weather, yes I know; but I'm too lazy to unplug it and stash it somewhere)
* broadband modem
* laptop
* keyboard
* wireless mouse

You can omit the obvious monitor/keyboard/mouse entries for the sake of relieving monotony.

the usual suspects, and

500GB HD, spare mouse mat, broken mobile phone, broken key ring, tape measure, booksforschools business card

Ok, I've *not* cleared my desk in a while, so:

Monitor
Midi tower
keyboard
mouse on its little mat
speakers
scanner

two lamps - one red with little wheels, one penguin-shaped

a glass pitcher and small clay beaker for water - they're always there - and a bowl of chocolate left over from my advent calendar

brown leather writing mat, green plastic cutting mat

several bowls, an old red tin drill bit case that's now a pen holder, a few tins and boxes with pens

inking pens, boxes of nibs, several different bottles of ink, old peanut-butter jar for washing them out

rulers, straight and curved, for cutting and drawing

scalpels, carpet knives, pliers, wire, string, soldering iron

huge bottle of wood glue, smaller bottles of other glue, tape of various kinds, and a frog-shaped sellotape dispenser

a tensegrity model (A40513295 ) and a 1:200 scale model of a rather boring street somewhere upriver

some books for Uni, some comic books, some books I just happened to be reading

sewing thread, needles, small beads, half a dozen snap hooks

playing cards, camera, maps, some CDs, stray rings and brooches


And for some reason, a thermometer, a clotheshanger, and a bag of jelly babies

All this is buried under a drift of sketching paper, mail, and bits of cardboard and styrofoam.


In short, the usual

On the desk itself (so not including the PC which is kinda under the desk).

1 set large Alesis speakers.
1 set cheapo PC speakers.
An external USB Line 6 soundcard.
An external USB M-Audio Soundcard.
A outboard volume control knob thing for the Alesis speakers.
A sure SN57 Microphone and XLR cable not plugged into anything.
A Line 6 PSU/footswitch thinggy with a line 6 Guitar lead thinggy plugged into it at one end and plugged into the line 6 soundcard the other end.
A 500 GB external harddrive.
A 250 GB external Harddrive,
1, maybe 2 2 GB pendrives,
A 4 GB penddrive.
An external Focusrite preamp with nothing plugged into it (I guess the microphone oughta be plugged into this
A PC keyboard.
And balanced fairly* securly on top of the two big speakers an USB/MIDI keyboard that I can just* reach whilst sitting down
A whole bunch of power supply units for bits of gear lurking at the back.
The useual well ordered (as they're hardly ever used), CD-ROMS of XP pro, office 2003, Office 2000 Cakewalk err 7 or 8 and cakewalk sonar XL home, and Cakewalk LE, and some other disks, in a disck storage thinggy
screwdrivers, pliers, allen key set,
two tuning forks,
a USB bluetooth dongle,
a back plate from a 1990's Fender strat,
a backplate from a 1970's Fender strat,
A couple of tremalo arm thinggies from BoB-knows what guitars,
A couple of quarter inch jack leads/patch leads,
A second Sure microphone of some description,
err some utterly unidentifible cable,
a 3.5 MM to twin RCA cable,
A pair of castonets,
A wrist watch,
and finally a swearing mini punch bag thing

Fascinating.

You really learn about people by their surroundings I think.

Taff: I don't think I can tell. Probably an avid reader but that's poor conclusion-jumping based on your Books For Schools card.

Malabarista: I guess you must be quite an artist/hobbyist/craft project...ist then? Your desk sounds interesting.

Finally, 2legs: A musician! With a home recording set-up on their PC. I like.

Architecture student, plus I draw two webcomics and just like to make things in general. Keeps me out of trouble

The desk itself is just an old door on two sawhorses.

I am tidying it up now, though, to work on my big Uni project.

Reading through all the stuff I listed makes it sound as if my desk is really cluttered, but actually its very neat and tidy, most of the very* small items are strickly speaking not on the desk but on a shelf which is an integril part of the desk underneath, I didn't include the lower shelf there as that is effectively floor level, and had a bunch of other audio things on it, most I think of which are broken
The unit to the side of the desk is quite cluttered and mainly contains cables other bits of audio stuff (including a cuica, tamborine, shaker, samba whistle, funny scrapy musicy thing, finger piano, as well as a shelf dedicated to financial documents and also spare CDrs and CD cases and I think* a whole load more CDROMS) I'm thinking of chucking this desk and building one myself into the space so it more effectively used the availible area

Nice guess FOOL....i am an avid reader, but the books card was left on the workstation by the wife

I cleaned my desk yesterday!

Now it just has the computer setup, the lamps, a single pen holder, two books, drawing and cutting mats, a model of a bridge, a wire mandala, the water jug and cup, and a red mug with white spots because I'm having

New thing on my desk... a new shiney thing.... currently charging up the NC10 netbook for the first sime as it alrived a couple hours back

My receptionist!

One Gondolier's Chocolate Cream Wafers Tin With One Pen In It
A Coffee Cup Empty
Jack Daniels Calendar 2009
One Pen that Is On My Desk Desk
My Modem
Memory Card For My Mobile Phone
Invoice For My Base Unit
And three Bits of paper with useless information on it

Mine's all messy again already - two clip-art books, sketchbook, a few pencil drawings and a few inked ones, roll of butterpaper, ruler, pens, nibs, ink, and rags... How does it happen so fast?

Also, the salt and pepper shakers. They tend to live here, because I eat at my desk so often.

Mine Gets Like That Then Out Of Nowhere I decide to spring clean my desk i Did Have A Leprechaun But I Don't Know What Has Happened To Him

PC Monitor,
An awful lot of CDs,
An empty DVD box,
A wireless usb adaptor,
The volume control thingy for my speakers,
My reading glasses (in their case)
A small bottle of shine and seal serum (from when I last dyed my hair)
The top cover of a Nintendo DS
Various batteries (cell, rechargable, and cheapo)
Usb battery charger
Animal Crossing mouse-mat
Several little pots of paint (for my Warhammer 40K armies)
One of Ben10's arms
2 Daleks
A cylindrical yellow bit of plastic
A business card for the estate used to sell MiL's house
A DVD cleaning cloth
Some Doctor Who stickers
A recipe for Black Pepper Tofu (not tried it - don't even remember putting it there)
The inlay card for 'On a Storytellers Night' (I've been ripping a *lot* of CDs recently - hoping to put them in the loft and clear some space for my console games)
Sigma Star (GBA game - don't know why)
An odd earring
and a twenty pence piece

Oh, forgot the Pokemon World decals for a DS lite

Quite tidy for me then

I've just found the odd earring's partner. It was on the kitchen table (don't ask me what's on the kitchen table - I'd have to excavate!)

Most of the stuff is behind the laptop as its a bureau type desk. I hasten to add, much of it isn't mine

External hard drive
External cd drive (laptop one is knackered)
Floppy drive
OH's SATNav
Pile of letters
Hefty Sellotape dispenser
Jungle animals pen holder with pens, scissors, letter opener, ruler
School photos
Memory card for camera

Cubby holes in the desk containing a dictionary, address book, purple hole punch, drawing pins, small pair of binoculars, a watch box, an absolut vodka tin and other junk

Same as before, netbook still on teh desk, but now an additional couple of pen drives, a newly 'compiled' pile of discs/CDROMS and a box of tissues
and err some beer mats

Items on my esk include:
iMac G5
router
base speaker
lava lamp
pack of silk cut purple
bottle of Nomad aftershave
jack Skellington stress ball
Badger soe muscle rub
ashtray
Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (borrowed)
2 signed Tim Minchin cds
voice recording key ring (gift for a friend, just need to load the appropriate sounds fo playing at the end of jokes)
scented candle
signed artwork by Robert Rankin from his recent book launch
one of those Jenga style things
watch and bracelet
tissue wrapping paper
a set of retro kitchen scales
empty dark chocolate kitkat wrappers
empty cigarette packet
another empty cigarette packet
pins and badges of the sci-fi and comedy fandom ilk
razor
phone sock
a campaign letter from the lib dems about the rise of the BNP in the area iirc.

Well the most impressive thing is probably an h2g2 mousemat!

Apart from the usual computer gubbins...

a scrabble dictionary
a big desk diary for 2009
a big desk diary for 2008 to use as scrap paper
pencil sharpener
black nail polish
a Lord of the Rings Gondor container thingy with foreign coins in it.
Pen holder
hand cream
camera
camcorder
2 calculators
ball-wall hangy thing that I keep nagging to have put up



and a Hugo Duncan CD featuring Horse it intya Cynthia.