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Title: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 26, 2018, 09:26:25 PM
If you have a computer desk! Lotsa folks have laptops, I reckon. I have a pack of tobacco and papers, an orange lighter, a wood pipe, my glasses, a whiskey bottle cap, an ink pen,a coverless issue of Fangoria, a grey Frankenstein mug with a Black Velvet swizzle stick in it, a Popeye spinach can with pens and index cards in it, a fruit jar, a Coca Cola glass mug, a Howdy Dowdy milk glass (has whiskey in it right now), 2 speakers, a metal painted Gloria Swanson candy box from 1928 that I stash my weed in, and a piece of paper to write s**t down if I need to. And a phone book. And a double 'A' battery.
Oh- a coaster with a 'Shock Monster' on it.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: retrorussell on November 26, 2018, 10:11:28 PM
My current computer desk (at work) has my lunch strewn around me.  Cheese sandwich, apples and a strawberry protein drink.  Plus staplers, a tape dispenser, battery recycle box, hand sanitizer, etc.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: LilCerberus on November 26, 2018, 11:37:00 PM
A huge mess.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Trevor on November 27, 2018, 01:52:01 AM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. 

:teddyr:
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Trevor on November 27, 2018, 01:54:30 AM
PC, monitor, phone, underpants, 3TB hard drive, wallet, catalogue cards, a DVD of Death Drums Along The River, false teeth and my forearms and hands.  :teddyr:
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 02:05:26 AM
Did you wrap your false teeth in your old underpants?
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Trevor on November 27, 2018, 02:19:26 AM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 02:05:26 AM
Did you wrap your false teeth in your old underpants?

:teddyr: :teddyr:
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Alex on November 27, 2018, 02:26:32 AM
Not quite my own computer desk, but I have my laptop, phone, ID and The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus. My usual desk at home is generally much more entertaining.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 02:33:12 AM
Half the time I have a cat on mine...
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Trevor on November 27, 2018, 02:43:03 AM
Quote from: Dark Alex on November 27, 2018, 02:26:32 AM
Not quite my own computer desk, but I have my laptop, phone, ID and The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus. My usual desk at home is generally much more entertaining.

At home I have several DVD shelves on the desk, pics of Princess Diana, Tom Servo, Crow, some turtles hanging around, a poster of Chuck Norris in An Eye For An Eye and a portrait from a South African film called Die Kandidaat [The Candidate].

Also a certificate for attending a film school in 2011.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Alex on November 27, 2018, 11:06:03 AM
Quote from: Trevor on November 27, 2018, 02:43:03 AM
Quote from: Dark Alex on November 27, 2018, 02:26:32 AM
Not quite my own computer desk, but I have my laptop, phone, ID and The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus. My usual desk at home is generally much more entertaining.

At home I have several DVD shelves on the desk, pics of Princess Diana, Tom Servo, Crow, some turtles hanging around, a poster of Chuck Norris in An Eye For An Eye and a portrait from a South African film called Die Kandidaat [The Candidate].

Also a certificate for attending a film school in 2011.

At home I have my almost complete collection of vintage Star Wars figures, my meds, assorted bits of paper that may at one random point in the future prove helpful, whatever figures I happen to be painting, a novel or three. Along the top of my monitor are glued various random small action figures (some horror icons, few wrestlers). The back edge has another collection, this time Lego Star Wars figures. I also have a Star Trek phasor kicking around and sometimes we are the wife duel with them, since she has one too, as well as a water pistol to squirt at the cat if it is about to climb in somewhere it shouldn't.

It is vitally important not to confuse which gun is used on whom, as Kristi get's upset if I squirt her with the water pistol.

Oh and a more recent addition, something to distract Ash from touching all of the other stuff on my desk. Just behind my desk I have my signed pictures of Erin Grey and Sam Jones.

Occasionally I can fit my keyboard onto my computer desk.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:12:15 PM
I don't have a computer desk, exactly, but, well, on my work desk is....virtually nothing. Mostly a bare wood surface, no personal mementos, no Calvin and Hobbes tea mug, no drawings from my children, no mini TARDIS, no slim volume of Chesterton's poems or The Picture of Dorian Gray, no E.A. Poe bobblehead, no letter opener in the form of a Hello Kitty, nothing non-work related at all, just a work-only computer, a college-ruled paper notebook, some pens, some paper files and notes, a few sample flyers for an art show coming up in Krakow, that's about it, all as bland as vanilla in vanilla sauce, with vanilla sprinkles on a white plate under white light. I tend to be a carefully private person in my work environment and I think my desk reflects that.

Heck I tell more about myself in here in a random thought post than I do to those I work with for half a year or those living down the road from me.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:15:20 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: retrorussell on November 27, 2018, 02:32:43 PM
My home computer is hooked up to my 60 inch tv set in the living room.  It sits on a bench with no room for anything else.  Surrounding my computer on the floor is a mishmash of cables and wires.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:15:20 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 04:06:25 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:15:20 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.
Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Alex on November 27, 2018, 05:56:00 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 04:06:25 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:15:20 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.
Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

Chances are, given these people have been isolated from the rest of the world for so long that contacting them would unfortunately quite quickly lead to them being decimated by modern diseases since they will have no resistance to them. Given this and how hostile they are to the rest of the world I think just leaving them alone would be the best thing to do, although I'd love to know just why they are so aggresive towards outsiders. You'd have thought curiosity alone would have led to one non-violent encounter.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 06:43:47 PM
Hell, would you want to be a part of all this!  :buggedout:

I saw on the news that a missionary over on some island near India -it was against the law. They warned him-'If you go there, they will kill you." And they did.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 07:32:05 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 06:43:47 PM
Hell, would you want to be a part of all this!  :buggedout:

I saw on the news that a missionary over on some island near India -it was against the law. They warned him-'If you go there, they will kill you." And they did.

Yeah, but according to what they told us in school that missionary died as a martyr, which means he's floating around Heaven happy as.... Wait, he was a Protestant, wasn't he? Nope, nope, straight to Hell. Zoom!
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 08:04:15 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 04:06:25 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:15:20 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.
Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

Maybe we could send fine christian Matt shea to preach to them that they must accept Christianity and submit to christian law or all tneir males will be killed and their women and property taken as spoils of just and righteous war under biblical law.

https://thinkprogress.org/washington-state-lawmaker-matt-shea-biblical-basis-for-war-1675753b0bc8/


Things like this are why i'm OK with those "xenophobic savages"  using this guy for a pin cushion.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 08:14:09 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 08:04:15 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 04:06:25 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:15:20 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 26, 2018, 11:45:59 PM
A brand new shrunken head. In fact it just arrived.  I just got it from a pen pal of mine on a remote island. I remember telling him how annoyed I was by some of these missionaries who go around  trying to convert me to their religion and he said he agreed.

Shame you couldn't have gone and picked it up in person.

Hey, as long as you don';t try to go in and change everything about those people they're ok.
Not really. In 1981 they tried to kill the crew of a stranded Dutch ship and about a decade ago murdered two fishermen who'd anchored offshore. None of those people were on the island and none were trying to "change"  them. They sound like xenophobic savages who'd be much improved by hearing the love one another message of Jesus.

Maybe we could send fine christian Matt shea to preach to them that they must accept Christianity and submit to christian law or all tneir males will be killed and their women and property taken as spoils of just and righteous war under biblical law.

https://thinkprogress.org/washington-state-lawmaker-matt-shea-biblical-basis-for-war-1675753b0bc8/


Things like this are why i'm OK with those "xenophobic savages"  using this guy for a pin cushion.
I have this theory, the guano-crazzzy savages actually understand contagious disease theory, and they understand, as the suicidal thumper didn't, that by breathing in their general direction he might've wiped out their weak and pristine immune systems with his superior germ resistance and so that's why the lesser savages kilt 'im with their Geena Davis-like archery skills.

I'm all in favor of border defense, after all.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 08:23:20 PM
Umm, I read your link between Brit Floyd pledge breaks, Sven, and, yes, we should definitely send that man to the island. With you 100-percent. Maybe we could set up a direct flight there, parachute the right people down....? Just sayin'? Maybe make a reality series, Trevor or Indy might know some people to get it started? I'm sensing my kids' education getting paid for this way Who,-hoo, me likee these unclad savages!
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 08:23:48 PM
Historically yes,  euopreans evolved a stronger than normal immune system as a result of the black plague, and became resistant to many diseases that were  orevelant in europe and other peoples in other lands had little resistance ce too.

Smallpox devastated the indigenous populations of north america and Hawaii.

Maybe Christians think that native populations should be willing to accept plagues,  decimations and the annihilation of their culture and way of life as a fair price to lay to be brought under jesus' dominion,  I understand they may disagree.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 08:26:05 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on November 27, 2018, 08:23:48 PM
Historically yes,  euopreans evolved a stronger than normal immune system as a result of the black plague, and became resistant to many diseases that were  orevelant in europe and other peoples in other lands had little resistance ce too.

Smallpox devastated the indigenous populations of north america and Hawaii.

Maybe Christians think that native populations should be willing to accept plagues,  decimations and the annihilation of their culture and way of life as a fair price to lay to be brought under jesus' dominion,  I understand they may disagree.

I know, man, as a European (sort of) I used to resent Asians for sending us the Black Death, but I got over it.

You shore do spend a lotta time talking about a God you say isn't real, man.

Eew, Brit Floyd's back on!
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 08:41:04 PM
f**k man. We 'civiliized' (and I'm sure I spelt that wrong) folks kill each other on a massive scale. I wouldn't wan't us stupid, crazy f**kers around either!
Dam! Just leave them the f**k alone!
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 08:49:55 PM
Oh yeah- what's on your computer desk?
Mine- much the same as it was the day I posted this. With the addition of a M'm! M'm! Good! Soup mug.
I have whiskey and tea in it. Otherwise it's exactly the same.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 09:10:05 PM
Mothballs. My computer room smells like mothballs. Because there are 3 old coat closets that smelled like old lady clothes when we moved in. The woman who sold it to us had it built in 1940.
But it has a large window right in back of me.  :smile:
I got a chair next to the window so the cat can look outside.  :cheers:
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 27, 2018, 09:31:05 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:12:15 PM
I don't have a computer desk, exactly, but, well, on my work desk is....virtually nothing. Mostly a bare wood surface, no personal mementos, no Calvin and Hobbes tea mug, no drawings from my children, no mini TARDIS, no slim volume of Chesterton's poems or The Picture of Dorian Gray, no E.A. Poe bobblehead, no letter opener in the form of a Hello Kitty, nothing non-work related at all, just a work-only computer, a college-ruled paper notebook, some pens, some paper files and notes, a few sample flyers for an art show coming up in Krakow, that's about it, all as bland as vanilla in vanilla sauce, with vanilla sprinkles on a white plate under white light. I tend to be a carefully private person in my work environment and I think my desk reflects that.

Heck I tell more about myself in here in a random thought post than I do to those I work with for half a year or those living down the road from me.

Maybe 'cause they run away...
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: LilCerberus on November 27, 2018, 09:44:07 PM
All sorts of 57mm lens filters, but I can't seem to find any of my star filters...
And I still have the engine head to my '75 Honda Cb400f Supersport...
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 10:10:35 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on November 27, 2018, 09:31:05 PM
Quote from: ER on November 27, 2018, 12:12:15 PM
I don't have a computer desk, exactly, but, well, on my work desk is....virtually nothing. Mostly a bare wood surface, no personal mementos, no Calvin and Hobbes tea mug, no drawings from my children, no mini TARDIS, no slim volume of Chesterton's poems or The Picture of Dorian Gray, no E.A. Poe bobblehead, no letter opener in the form of a Hello Kitty, nothing non-work related at all, just a work-only computer, a college-ruled paper notebook, some pens, some paper files and notes, a few sample flyers for an art show coming up in Krakow, that's about it, all as bland as vanilla in vanilla sauce, with vanilla sprinkles on a white plate under white light. I tend to be a carefully private person in my work environment and I think my desk reflects that.

Heck I tell more about myself in here in a random thought post than I do to those I work with for half a year or those living down the road from me.

Maybe 'cause they run away...

Or die, leaving only their memory to everafter mourn and the day of their passing to faithfully mark.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 10:21:19 PM
Sweet Satan. This sounds like an Anne Rice novel.
'Say to yourself-
It's only a movie!"

http://youtu.be/j7TaOaLPLxU (http://youtu.be/j7TaOaLPLxU)
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: ER on November 27, 2018, 10:24:19 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 10:21:19 PM
Sweet Satan. This sounds like your writing an Anne Rice Novel.
'Say to yourself-
It's only a movie!"

http://youtu.be/j7TaOaLPLxU (http://youtu.be/j7TaOaLPLxU)

Ha! Does kinda sound like her. I have lost a lot of people and get obsessive about remembering when they died. I'm told I have sadness in my DNA.
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 10:28:09 PM
I don't have 'sadness' in my DNA.
'Madness' for sure.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: What's on your computer desk right now?
Post by: Allhallowsday on November 27, 2018, 10:31:59 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 27, 2018, 10:28:09 PM
I don't have 'sadness' in my DNA.
'Madness' for sure.  :thumbup:

Excellent segway.   :thumbup: