show us pics of your desk

[Blade Runner]

This is my non-portable desk. The photo was taken a year ago February when I found myself wondering how my life took a turn to where having a bull on the other side of a picket fence was normal. I'm still wondering.

 

 

He seems to be eyeing you.

 

Yep, that bull was a pain in the fence. He's gone now. I've replaced him with an upside down German Shepherd dog.

 

:ltcapd: :roflmho:

[Guest Subvet642]

My humble little desk:

 

[CM07451]

Hello all,

 

I am new to these forums....Just registered actually, I thought i would start by posting a picture of my desk.

 

[Shangas]

Welcome to the FPN.

 

What's that clear plasticky box thing on the left?

[J_Rock]

My humble little desk:

 

 

Who is the baseball signed by?

[Guest Subvet642]

My humble little desk:

 

 

Who is the baseball signed by?

 

Adam Stern, he was a AAA prospect of Red Sox, centerfield, great glove, no stick.

[penguinmaster]

Just a quick and dirty update of the office again. We'll see if I'm happy with this one for a while!

 

http://facstaff.uww.edu/pellizzt/other/office2011.JPG

 

Here's a better update of my desk and it's progressed a bit more again.

 

http://facstaff.uww.edu/pellizzt/desk/4.26.11.Desk.JPG

 

I'm pretty pumped about this actually too. I took a day 2 weekends ago and moved some things around and cleaned up a bit more.

 

I wall-mounted the two 22" monitors which gave me a good 6 inches more desktop space. I added back lighting behind the monitors to illuminate that workspace a bit more, as well as add a bit of ambience, supposedly it helps your eyes as well when staring at LCDs, I'm not sure of that yet. I also was able to mount them much higher than the stands would allow which has some ergonomic benefits to it.

 

The lava lamps just arrived today, I was looking for some thing tall and thin to put on each side of the monitor and I had seen a few photos of people with lava lamps in their office. I've never had lava lamps before, but I have to say they are pretty neat, and I don't think they look as unprofessional as I worried (granted there should some fun in your office right!)

 

Netbook on the left side. On the right side I moved my security system computer onto the desk as it got tiresome having to monitor it from it's old location (wish I could have wall-mounted that too!). The keyboard w/ built in mouse is on a little shelf I built that is under the desk on the right out of view and out of the way!

 

Went to a new wireless keyboard and mouse combo. The other neat thing is I am running a program called Synergy which allows me to use the one keyboard/mouse combo to control all 3 computers. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking to clean up the clutter. It's cross-platform so it runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux. It runs over your network.

 

Not to much else has changed in the office except adding some plants.

 

Oh...the matrix screen savers...dorky I know, but walk into my office at night sometime and see them all running, it's pretty mesmerising!

 

Hopefully this stays for a while! It's been a big work in progress for around a year now.

 

-Tom

Edited April 26, 2011 by penguinmaster

[welfvet]

Hello all,

 

I am new to these forums....Just registered actually, I thought i would start by posting a picture of my desk.

 

 

 

Hi and Welcome.

 

Cool setup, elegant and well matched. Good gin too. Mmmmm!

[Nobel]

Wow, a lot of great pictures giving some insight into where everybody uses these fantastic pens. Let me add my little bit.

 

First time that I am posting a picture so I hope this works. If it does, you'll see the following:

 

my circa 225 years old Georgian bureau of solid mahogany and crotch mahogany veneer on the gallery and drawer fronts. In front of the bureau there is a Chippendale style chair that I built from tiger maple earlier in the year. The note book on the right is also of my own manufacture, as is the wooden box on top of the bureau.

 

On the Moleskine notebook rests my Montegrappa Extra 1930 and just behind the notebook you can see the Pilot Custom 742 which has the fabulous FA nib.

 

 

The box that came with the Montegrappa houses part of my collection, and at the moment it holds a:

Montblanc Noblesse Oblige,

Mabie Todd Swan,

Waterman Ideal 52 in the red hard rubber variety,

Waterman Expert,

old Conway Stewart (i don't know what model),

a Waterman Skywriter made in Canada, and

a small red Parker pen.

 

 

The book on the right is Common Sense.

 

kind regards,

 

Vincent

[pmsalty]

Vincent, very nice desk.

PMS

[Shangas]

I love the desk, Vincent! Very nice!

[svfd757]

This is the desk I use at work. I like a nice and neat work space

Edited May 3, 2011 by svfd757

[zenhikester]

So we moved out of the cabin this spring and moved into town. Smaller house meant compromise. Here is my desk in its new home, "The Tinker's Shed"

Facing the working end of the desk-

 

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3252/deskfmh.jpg

By coniferwoodsman at 2011-05-03

 

 

Same desk, looking off to the side.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3876/desk3u.jpg

By coniferwoodsman at 2011-05-03

 

View of my knife and pen bench- behind the desk-

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/8590/desk2x.jpg

By coniferwoodsman at 2011-05-03

 

Knife and pen bench looking off to the side-

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1786/desk4j.jpg

By coniferwoodsman at 2011-05-03

 

Thanks for sharing my new space with me

All the Best,

Dave

Edited May 3, 2011 by zenhikester

[andru]

We had this type of thread on another forum on which I participate. Each new post contained a picture of that persons desk and computer, with the previous post of the thread showing on their monitor. That way you end up with a desktop within a desktop within a desktop etc etc. Good fun - perhaps we should try it here?

Now that's pretty cool!

 

Yes this topic rocks, thanks davyr! Something, at least, is right in the world when this topic doesn't even need to be pinned. This goes hand in hand with a "self-portrait/photo" topic, although I don't see one here come to think of it...

 

As for my desk:

 

http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~aseniuk/nw_corner.jpg

 

http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~aseniuk/nw_corner_detail.jpg

Edited May 6, 2011 by andru

[ishimaru_kaito]

I did post to a topic like this before, but seems FPN had issues and a crash between my previous appearances and now... So.

 

In the meantime, I've moved, gotten married, moved again... still writing, a nice constant in my life. I always wanted a proper bureau, and my wife to be had one...

 

She let me have it in my own personal den office. So here's my corner away from the world....

 

 

I paint figures occassionally too - they're not inks before you ask! My inks are hidden away behind the laptop on one of the shelves. The box on the windowsill is a conversion project from a watercolours case to pen box. And yes, I still use minidiscs. Love 'em.

[plistumi]

Wow! This is a lot of nice, tidy desks. I just took a picture of mine how it looks now. I have been embarrassed into possibly organizing it and putting things where they belong. Let's see what we have here:

1) 12 fountain pens lying around. Some being used, some new, and some in the process of repair.

2) Three bottles of ink

3) Two cups of ice cream and one bowl of rice and beans with raspberry lime water to accompany.

4) Tanglefoot (to make traps for fungus gnats)

5) Workout gloves (used 5 days a week)

6) Petroleum jelly with a dip nib on top of it.

7) A bottle of hair spray and one of hair conditioner.

8) A compact

9) The cell phone

10) Piles of paper, and paid bills.

11) Pen repair book, calligraphy books, a journal, an eye glass case

12) A lighter

13) Measuring tape

14) Rechargeable batteries

15) TX jurisprudence exam study guide

16) Bag of Doritos sitting on top of a p90x nutrition guide, ha!

17) Aspirin

18) Cards for writing letters

19) One sock

20) Three scrunchies

21) Two monitors, one scanner, one desk lamp, computer speakers

22) Three external hard drives, screwdrivers, flash drives, tuning fork,

23) A nasal speculum, a watch battery, glue

24) A pen knife

25) A sweatshirt

[sombrueil]

 

After careful thought (I figured out the category & price range I wanted and bought what got the most stars on Amazon) I finally purchased a camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH20 point and shoot. So far (50 shots) it is doing okay for me although I haven't worked on any close up pen pictures yet. When there is better natural light today I will try for a better photo of my desk -- it was the first photo I took with my camera, so please excuse . . .

 

My desk is in my bedroom. As you can see from the dog bed next to it. It's an old oak teacher's desk I got from a used office-supply warehouse, for nothing because offices don't use them. It was covered with old scotch tape when I got it and had some cheap ugly drawer pulls I replaced, and I refinished the whole thing. You see these in antique stores for $, but I remember them fondly from my childhood, when they were the main furnishings of my parents' shoestring newspaper office, as at that time they were ubiquitous and cheap. Now not so much. The funny little triangular cabinet in the corner I inherited from my uncle-in-law, and it houses my ink bottles. The pens you see are all the pens I have, in a test tube rack I got from an online lab supply. I've since bought a simple "bonded leather" desk pad, but otherwise that there is my desk at present.

 

Close up of pen rack:

 

 

 

l-r: Pelikan 400NN tortoise, Burnham flattop in lapis/bronze celluloid, Vacumatic Deb brown stripe, Eversharp Skyline in navy with green/navy stripe cap, Pelikan 400NN green stripe, and in back, a Waterman pencil and Mabie Todd Blackbird. In the nice little pen rest stevlight so kindly made for me, a Waterman BCHR 52. All either flex or semi flex except the Vac.

[da vinci]

Wow, a lot of great pictures giving some insight into where everybody uses these fantastic pens. Let me add my little bit.

 

First time that I am posting a picture so I hope this works. If it does, you'll see the following:

 

my circa 225 years old Georgian bureau of solid mahogany and crotch mahogany veneer on the gallery and drawer fronts. In front of the bureau there is a Chippendale style chair that I built from tiger maple earlier in the year. The note book on the right is also of my own manufacture, as is the wooden box on top of the bureau.

 

On the Moleskine notebook rests my Montegrappa Extra 1930 and just behind the notebook you can see the Pilot Custom 742 which has the fabulous FA nib.

 

 

The box that came with the Montegrappa houses part of my collection, and at the moment it holds a:

Montblanc Noblesse Oblige,

Mabie Todd Swan,

Waterman Ideal 52 in the red hard rubber variety,

Waterman Expert,

old Conway Stewart (i don't know what model),

a Waterman Skywriter made in Canada, and

a small red Parker pen.

 

 

The book on the right is Common Sense.

 

kind regards,

 

Vincent

 

I lovely piece of furniture Vincent, I can imagine this just makes you want to sit down and write...

[padams2359]

I love my desk. I got it for $400.00 at a consignment shop. It took 4 of us to move it, and that was in two pieces. I like that it looks old, but accommodates everything new.

[noctrl02]

I love my desk. I got it for $400.00 at a consignment shop. It took 4 of us to move it, and that was in two pieces. I like that it looks old, but accommodates everything new.

 

Beautiful desk! It is amazing when something old can still be used with today's technology...you'd think they had a crystal ball!

 

Andy