The campy work station

[campylobacter]

Halrloprillalar requested snapshots of personal work stations, so

It looks tidier when clients come over. However, they don't ever see the bedroom, which is a den of blissful, untidy chaos.


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For a closer view of my desktop wallpaper, an old LJ entry explains it. I've used the same old picture for over 3 years.

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[prillalar]

Cool! I wish your bookshelf wasn't so fuzzy -- I can't make out all the titles. I recognize Uncle Jakob by the colours, though.

I have a rubber skeleton too. Mine even has rubber squeaking viscera. I don't have it up anywhere right now, though. When I was doing tech support, I had it in my cubicle and every time someone got a capslock call, they'd come in and give it a sqeak.

[jsmichel.livejournal.com]

Thanks, the geek-voyeur in me lives for this kind of insight on people. And I'll echo Hal's frustration regarding the inability to read the titles on the shelves -- I'm nosy, damn it!

And is that a COBOL text I see in the "frequently unused" pile? Heh. I've found mine makes a great doorstop too. Or, you know, kindling.

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[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Uncle Jakob and Uncle Tim (Berners-Lee) are my heroes. I think I'd swoon if I ever met them.

The "frequently used books" are a dictionary, thesaurus, and The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary, which is the only rhyming dictionary you'd ever need. All entries are cross-referenced in the index. It's quite a triumph of electronic databasing. It's only failing is mine: a lot of the words that end in "r" rhyme in British pronunciation, but not my harsh American pronunciation.

Your skeleton must have squeaked itself into retirement. Mine, thankfully, is mute.

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[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Most of the top shelf holds multimedia manuals (Photoshop, Director, Flash), web reference (HTML, Java, CGI), and Mac support.

Some of the buried stuff includes the "For Dummies" books about PCs, so that I could help my Windows friends. The books are obsolete, because the only questions they ask me now are about what XP spyware and malware to delete from their hard drives.