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Well, either that or an empty mind.
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more like someone with to much time on their hands.
They need to be given more work.
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I once said, "A clean desk is the sign of not enough work to do". We had hired a new COO who happened to be a big advocate for "lean" and he said he disagreed.
Yet, in the years to come, despite him saying "we should do lean" and talking about putting shadow boards in the workshop I cannot think of one single thing he ever achieved.
So much for lean.
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Phone, calulator, tablet, keyboard, mouse, graphics tablet, two monitors, glass full of pens, PC, mobile phone, headphones, stapler, reading glasses, walk-about glasses, tape measure, ear buds, scrap paper for notes, two invoices to put on system, clamp current meter, cat.
Cat hair, cat paw prints, more cat hair.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: cat
I am feline that there should be a claws against such impurrfections.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Meow calm down everybody.
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First table:
- my first computer, working like a charm for the last 38 years
- tape recorder and stacks of old tapes with programs
- old celery 300 notebook, runs terminal emulation for the old computer
- some circuit boards in various stages of reconstruction
Desk 1:
- oscilloscope, multimeter, assorted tools
- lamp
- breadboard with my replacement for the unavailable hex keyboard encoder
- the still unfinished body for my UH-1E scale model, ready for adding the rivets
- (EDIT) forgot the Stormtrooper helmet
Desk 2:
- PC stuff, monitor, keyboard, mouse
- piles of USB sticks, DVDs and even floppies
- a small TV for distraction, the entire wall above the desks for entertainment
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 19-Oct-16 6:06am.
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CDP1802 wrote: the entire wall above the desks for entertainment
To watch paint dry?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Nope. Usually I sit in the chair at the other side of the room and use the entire wall to watch movies.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Hey @chris-maunder this is strange. I replied to only one post (the other one), but it's appeared as responses to two different posts! The second one is not meow post, and I smell some catspiracy. 
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Have to operate on a clean desk, parent company policy sadly  I as do prefer organised chaos
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Doesn't clean desk mean that no confidential documents should be lying around unattended? We have it too but I guess it is not intended to be taken literally.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Not when you have the policy Police working overtime.
Business Operation Manager that take policies too literally.
Parent company Security Department that also do random security checks on the office location
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Never knew you work in area 51.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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At home it is a total mess - very comfortable...
However, at work it is ISO dictated 'clean table'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That would seriously suck. I need some messy in order to clear my mind.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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You'll find a year's worth of printed papers for the look of busyness, but in reality I don't print much because I'm a closet environmentalist. By the end of the day there will be 3 empty cans of diet coke, perfectly spaced and in the same position from the previous day. A computer bag and a not so smart cell phone. And most importantly, two monitors perfectly positioned, so no one can get behind me and see what is on my screen, with the desktop positioned to hide my personnel computer, in case I need it in an emergency.
There are no pictures or any other nonsense; everything has a purpose. It is close to meeting the 5S's of Lean Six Sigma.
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Stuff on my desk:
1) Cool angle poise light,
2) Laser Printer/Scanner Combo
3) Top off a signal conditioning box prototype,
4) USB Hub with 3 USB to 9 Way ports
5) Kemo potted Audio Amp for test
6) Platten out of Hard Drive I was told to destroy used as coaster.
7) Multimeter, Gaffer Tape
8) Complete guts of a PAM system connected to 250 meters of 15 core shield cable (on a drum on floor but connected to PAM system)
9) Digital Vernier (wonder where that was!)  found Vern....
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glennPattonWorking wrote: 2) Laser Printer/Scanner Combo
It's not that good an idea to sit too close to a printer, all day[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 19-Oct-16 10:51am.
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Error 404: Fail not found
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Hmm. Apparently, the CP link-inserter-thingy appears to believe that .asp files should be renamed as ".as"
Fixed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Doesn't get used for a printer that much other than the scanner attachment, but as a coffee mug stand ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) .
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I'm a firm believer in the clean-desk policy!
Which is why I keep my desk covered with papers and junk -- no dirt can even get close to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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