What have you got on your monitor?

[whotheheckami]

In an attempt to post something that isn't too depressed I have been inspred by purrthecat...

What have you got on your monitor?

What items of tat, crap and other ephemera have you got surrounding your monitor in all contravention of your company's clear desk policy and good taste

I have:
My name board
A blue euro mascot
A fuse wire ballerina (made for me by deamongirl)
A monkey on a pole
Two pheasant feathers
Some Dilbert cartoon
Picture of Alexi and Ivan looking cute and mad respectively
Edit
I've just found a nice piece of rose quartz hiding behind the "Wheretheheckishe" notice!

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[kissycat1000.livejournal.com]

I have:

• My PC speakers (the type that just do the treble while the box on the floor does the bass).


• A couple of plasticine cats, made for me by Tianna.


• A Bomble. (A Bomble is a little glass nugget with tiny googly eyes stuck on it.)


• A webcam that isn't set up and actually doesn't qualify due to the fact it's fallen off again and is somewhere down the back of the monitor.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

>>A webcam that isn't set up and actually doesn't qualify due to the fact it's fallen off again and is somewhere down the back of the monitor
We've got about 3 of those down the back of the PC at home too! 2 are Lego cams for Alexi and Ivans Robots and Movies whilst the third is one of the new £25 mini digi-cams that take about 3 miinutes of video but also work as stills cameras and webcams

Hmmm...

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

Countless boxes of herbal tea.
A kilt pin (present from Duncan, bless)
239,131,854,093 Pret A Manger napkins
Earmuffs
Box of sherbet vitamins
Loads of reference books
Pile of unread Hague tribunal indictments
Empty wallet
Box of nurofen
Two payslips (unopened)
Broken floppy drive
Reflective vest and ankle cuffs
Mobile phone
Promethea Book III
Bicycle pump
Cutesy post-it note from doja35
Jar of CafeDirect coffee.
Box of Fruit'n'Fibre
Phone
Fan
Eyedrops

I should really tidy up.

Re: Hmmm...

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

...or have a car boot sale!

Re: Hmmm...

[daemongirl.livejournal.com]

will duncan get me a kilt pin too? my kilt keeps blowing up in the wind. some obviously appreciate it , but i don't!

Re: Hmmm...

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with chewing gum?

Re: Hmmm...

[daemongirl.livejournal.com]

chewing gum doesnt keep a kilt together, it just goes gooky
and plus, here its an illegal substance.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

How big is your monitor. It appears to be the size of a small country.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

A box containing my great-grandmother's hunter watch and wedding ring.
A roll of sellotape.
A slip of paper with three words and a symbol written on it in someone else's handwriting.
An old colour ink cartridge for my printer.
A new black ink cartridge for my printer.
A BT operator card for my answering machine. Probably of no use now I have Telewest.
A Metrocard for the New York subway.
The 3 Promise card for the Scottish blood donor centre, of no use now I'm no longer a blood donor.
A Tesco ClubCard. Never of any use.
A card for Improvers Astanga yoga class, well out of date now, and another for Astanga Level 2.
My MSF union card. Must put that back in my wallet.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

absolutely nothing, as I have a pair of TFT monitors on this machine.

don't you lot have cats? We can't have anything on the CRTs, cos the Tribe just go round knocking everything off.

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Cats at work - now there's an interesting concept in Chaos Theory - must put in into the suggestions box

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[ramtops.livejournal.com]

> cats at work

I work at home. Nine cats (http://www.jordan-cats.org), industrial espresso machine (for 'im indoors) and huge quantities of Assam and Earl Grey tea (for me).

[daemongirl.livejournal.com]

nine cats..... i'm in heaven! i have four...

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[ramtops.livejournal.com]

> heaven

erm ... not always ... :)

[daemongirl.livejournal.com]

i love cats. even if they are acting as an alarm clock stuck on three a.m....

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[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

I have four
at the last count...when you get home your Mum will have probably found a few more
I hear that there s a long thin blue eyed one likely to be there this evening ;@)

[daemongirl.livejournal.com]

runnnn awwwwwwaaaaayyyyy!!!!!!






:-)

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[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Nine paperweights - all your papers must be so flat

[lysana.livejournal.com]

- A ceramic horse-shaped bell designed for Chinese New Year.
- A white plush cat which serves as a monitor cleaner (it has a cloth belly).
- A floppy plush cat.
- A small plastic P-Chan (pig from an anime series called Ranma 1/2).
- A small plastic Growlith (Pokemon).
- A few Post-It Notes.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

No company policy (mainly because there's no company here but me) so nothing to kick against.

My momitor sits on a rather nice metal stand with a tray underneath it. Right by the monitor are the stamp box, the box full of plain metal paperclips, and the jar full of coloured paperclips I never use. In the tray are two folders, containing Daily Files, and the other Daily Files, an academic paper I really ought to read, an academic paper I really ought to rewrite, and an abridged copy of Trelawny:Adventures of a Younger Son, a colourful and inaccurate autobiography by Edward Trelawny, friend of Byron. Under the tray is my filofax and my journal.

All rather minimalist and earnest, really. I abhor clutter when I am working.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Here, by my home PC, I have:

- A pair of speakers
- An AOL CD doing duty as a coster
- An actual Lucent coaster, with real coffee rings over the 'coffee ring' logo
- A small pile of paperwork (inc a Swecon 03 flyer)
- A plush Dogbert
- An eraser-tipped pencil with ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB on the side
- A comb (I don't use it, why is it there?)
- A London Underground Map mouse-mat

Now, to answer the question properly, at work I have (scattered around my two PCs):

- Assorted post-its
- A round orange foam-rubber stress-reliever
- Another foam rubber stress-reliever, in the shape of a PC mouse
- A wedding photo of bugshaw and I
- A thick A3 pad of scribble-sheets (with 2002/2003 calendars on each sheet)
- A couple of pen-holders
- A small dinky-toy type model Chrysler PT Cruiser (like what I drive)
- A stapler, usually holding down the less sticky post-its
- An absolutely 100% genuine National Security Agency mouse-mat
- Miscellaneous white-board pens, and a tatty white-board eraser
- Two 6" deep in-trays

MC

Re: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

Are you still a member

I cancelled mine when I retired and have toyed with the idea of re-joining. Do you think it offers value for money?

>>- Two 6" deep in-trays
Shouldn't all that be filed away? ;@)

Re: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Now that I can stay with purplecthulhu when I need to overnight in London, I don't use the RAF Club as much as I might. However, I did stay there again recently when I had to be in London one afternoon then get an early train from Paddington the next day, and the trip across from Bethnal Green would have been a bit awkward.

It's very cheap for what effectively is a 4-star hotel next to Green Park. If you don't mind the dress code (which is only an issue if you want to use the facilities as well as the accommodation) then it is a low cost and very nice place to stay in central London.

Shouldn't all that be filed away?

(Very embarrassed cough) Erm, yes. Especially the bits of paper with SECRET at the top and bottom of each page. Yes, of course I lock them away in a safe every night, but this afternoon I finally got round to spending an hour sorting out the stuff which had to be booked into proper files. The actual filing is tomorrow's fun job...

MC

Re: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB

[whotheheckami.livejournal.com]

>>I finally got round to spending an hour sorting out the stuff which had to be booked into proper files.
I usually do that when I don't want to do the real work that's sitting at the top of the tray ;@)