Challenge - The State of Your Desk NOW

[Heath Bennett]

Everyone needs a private untidy place - for me it is my shed, and all too often my vehicle.

Geoff - a workspace fit for an ALDI catalogue

[tasadam]

OK. I don't think I will put myself through that much shame. I can tell you that my work area used to be my walk in robe. An area of about 1.5 x 1.4 metres, with a door that closes. Most important, the closing door...
I have shelving and a bench. In this room I have a PC in a full tower case with a disk hanging out, via USB. Covers off of course. A large UPS - APC1000. A Lexmark T520 laser with 500 sheet tray. Another PC for work. A D-Image Elite 5400 II neg scanner. A HP 3300C flatbed scanner. A Canon i865 printer. A wall full of various CD's. A pile of hard disks, currently 4 high. A hard disk USB cradle with another disk. Ink bottles and syringes for refilling ink. Cambridge speakers & sub. External DVD drive in case. 17" CRT monitor, keyboard, mouse, KVM switch box, dead laptop, spare router, modem on the floor at my feet (it served me well but now it is scum), lots of wires all over the floor, boxes of slides to scan, piles of film negatives, piles of paperwork, er, piles and piles...., a 5 draw paper tray for printing paper, a dead motherboard and CPU needing a couple of capacitors, a great pile of LP's (nowhere else to hide them from SWMBO), a box of DVD covers, a spare 500 sheet paper tray, a box of, something, can't be bothered digging down to it for this post right now, another pile of hard disks (some dead), batteries, torch, USB card reader, Thom Hogan's D200 e-book CD that arrived in the mail recently, tape deck, dead microphone on its side, new microphone (somewhere in here, currently cannot locate), a few other boxes that belong to things in here such as XsDrivePro, Netgear router, 2 x 50CD boxes in jewel case...
Crimpers and network cable on floor,
This is crap. The more I look the more I find.
A picture tells a thousand words. No picture of this mess. I lose. Mine is more than twice as messy as anything posted so far. I just can't bring myself to post a photo of this crap.

[DJXtreme]

Took me a while to work out the best way to approach this as my room is quite narrow and was thus difficult to capture the whole desk. This is looking through the door. Rest assured the theme is continued to the left of the frame as well as under the desk.


I must confess that this is after the end of semester tidy it recently received.

[stubbsy]

Wow Will

Biggest PC speaker I've ever seen

[Nnnnsic]

I have shot my desks (I use two), but I've shot it in its current state and will be shooting it in its clean state since I was planning on cleaning it this week anyway.

[Jonesy]

Well this is where I'm sitting when not at work, which lately has been to much... probably why my desk is reasonalbly tidy

Oh and Wil... whers your monitor??

[Mal]

That is one serious microphone there Jonesy.... me thinks another musical member here...

[DJXtreme]

Well this is where I'm sitting when not at work, which lately has been to much... probably why my desk is reasonalbly tidy

Oh and Wil... whers your monitor??

Its hiding behind the computer box... couldn't work out a way to get it into the shot as well.

interesting looking mic set up but I guess this isn't really the place to discuss that.

[Jonesy]

Slightly musical, but more from being an ex radio jock. also finding it handy in my new job in TV production. Only problem is TV has seen the d70 sit in the corner for to long!

ha thansk will. I gathered it was there some where....

[Colcam]

this is a tad messy though i think neat compared to a few

the real mess is under the desk though so I made sure to include that in the shot!

Okay, so far you are in big trouble! This desk is disgusting. I know I said you should not clean up before posting, but maybe you could have messed up a bit first? Tell me that this is a new desk about two minutes old please??

Mine was like that for about two minutes once.
Okay folks, keep 'em coming.
Col

[Colcam]

OK. I don't think I will put myself through that much shame. I can tell you that my work area used to be my walk in robe. An area of about 1.5 x 1.4 metres, with a door that closes. Most important, the closing door...<snip>
This is crap. The more I look the more I find.
A picture tells a thousand words. No picture of this mess. I lose. Mine is more than twice as messy as anything posted so far. I just can't bring myself to post a photo of this crap.

Aww, comeon. it would have taken you twice as long to write that encyclopaeadic description as to post the photo. Let's see it?
Col

[Colcam]

I decided to 'fess up & show my office looking from the desk back into the room. Actually, I can see a few spots I can still put stuff! I even have my copy stand at the back full of computer being rebuilt. This is the back view of the first post in this thread if anyone didn't figure it.
Thanks
Col

[Jamie]

Mine isnt too bad ATM. I need a bigger one so i cant afford to have to much crap on it.

I dont know how some of you find anything!

[gecko]

Leek - you forgot to mention your techie external cooling fan for your monitor....

Actually I missed a photo opportunity tonight, my whole office at work (4 x 4 m) was stacked chest high with luggage - could not even see the desk!

Gecko

[makario]

excellent timing for this challenge, I was made to tidy my desk over the weekend and it has managed to survive so far... here it is



Mak

[ozimax]

I'm guilty, I am sick, in need of a doctor or a psychiatrist, here goes, my minimalist desk,

1 x iBook G4
1 x Treo 650
1 x set Klipse speakers
1 x cordless phone
1 x colour laser printer

http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php?album=252&pos=6

That's all folks.

[Colcam]

I'm guilty, I am sick, in need of a doctor or a psychiatrist, here goes, my minimalist desk,
http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php?album=252&pos=6
That's all folks.

I checked your desk on the link and feel that no psychiatrist would touch you with a desk that neat. You are far gone my friend!
All the best
Col

[ozimax]

I checked your desk on the link and feel that no psychiatrist would touch you with a desk that neat. You are far gone my friend!
All the best
Col

Goon, but not forgotten!

[sirhc55]

Holy Moses Max - I can’t even see any dust

[ozimax]

Holy Moses Max - I can’t even see any dust

Not even Moses desk was this clean. Actually I don't think he had a desk. How did they get by in those days without PCs and printers?

I actually cheated a tad, had I panned beside the desk there is a great pile of junk/letters/bills/books/cables/forms/associated filth but I thought a nice clear desk would scare some people!

...I am now perusing phone directory under "P" for psychiatry...

[thaddeus]

A clean, ordered desk is the sign of a clean, ordered mind!

[wendellt]

thaddeus i think you have one of the best views in sydney!!

[phillipb]

... Or one of the best murals

[Zeeke]

Heres my desk.. well.. one of them.. dont spend alot of time in here because ive got a laptop and it sits infront of the tele most of the time.. fishing gear in boxes on the floor, bit of a compound bow showing in the bottom left corner, a printer on my desk and one on the table next to my desk.. and a shit load of crap in the way!



Tim

[daniel_r]

thaddeus i think you have one of the best views in sydney!!

I think you more politely wrote what I was thinking ... something about lucky and bastard

Thaddeus - that is one awfully good view.

[ozimax]

A clean, ordered desk is the sign of a clean, ordered mind!

Thad,

Where did you get that monitor? Hoyts cinemas? Now there's something else I need...

[admajic]

A clean, ordered desk is the sign of a clean, ordered mind!

Frikin Awesome view!! I bet your bored of it by now!

[Laurie]

is that an Apple Cinema Display?

[Steffen]

is that an Apple Cinema Display?

Looks like one, and a Mac mini...

Cheers
Steffen.

[thaddeus]

Yes, it's a 23' Cinema HD Display connected to a Mac Mini. The display is wonderful - vibrant and bright enough to use when the sun streams in.

I've been here for 6 years or so and haven't got sick of the view, especially on New Year's Eve!

Now, never mind the view and the computer, look at the desk! Clean!

[gstark]

NYE minimeet at Thaddeus's.

[Colcam]

Now, never mind the view and the computer, look at the desk! Clean!

The view is spectacular in the extreme Thad my man, but the desk is invisible in the dark. How about hitting it with a flash?
C'mon, don't be ashamed just because it might be clean!!
Col

[Steffen]

NYE minimeet at Thaddeus's.

Ok, booked in!


Cheers
Steffen.

[admajic]

Now, never mind the view and the computer, look at the desk! Clean!

The view is spectacular in the extreme Thad my man, but the desk is invisible in the dark. How about hitting it with a flash?
C'mon, don't be ashamed just because it might be clean!!
Col

How about a HDR shot of both view and desk

Im booked in for NYE tooo! BYO tripod

[Colcam]

NYE minimeet at Thaddeus's.

YES!
How many tripods can we get on the roof. So far confirmed bookings are running at 75, all needing tripod space.
Col

[ozimax]

NYE minimeet at Thaddeus's.

YES!
How many tripods can we get on the roof. So far confirmed bookings are running at 75, all needing tripod space.
Col

I'll be there too, with my extended family of 34...

[Matt. K]

thaddeus
There's nothing on your desk? What do you do? Policy maker?

[thaddeus]

I'm a cleaner!

[sirhc55]

I'm a cleaner!

Well they do say that ’copters are called ”dusters”

[Nnnnsic]

Geeze, I still don't want to show people the state of my desks.

I've got a computer I'm rebuilding on my script desk and my scripts on my computer desk... it's all wrong!

[ozimax]

Geeze, I still don't want to show people the state of my desks.

If the truth be known Leigh, you can't even see the desks!

Max

[ozimax]

A Bible verse that commends messy desks:

"Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox." Proverbs 14:3

[Mal]

A Bible verse that commends messy desks:

"Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox." Proverbs 14:3

Sorry to get theological on you Max but Proverbs 14:3 is
A fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
I think you meant Proverbs 14:4.
But hey all of Proverbs is good!

NOTE: Must be careful turning this into a religious post as some of the Mods may lock it

[ozimax]

Sorry to get theological on you Max but Proverbs 14:3 is
A fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
I think you meant Proverbs 14:4.
But hey all of Proverbs is good!

A thousand pardons my friend, but you are correct! Proverbs 14:4 it is. In any case, I think the truth is pertinent to this theme, that of "a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind..." etc! I try to keep my desk tidy, sometimes it is, sometimes it just builds up into a mountain!