What adorns your monitor?

[limbo]

It's Friday, I Have been having a clear out, but before I bin it all I thought I'd share what useless tat has been perched upon my monitor for the last two years. It is starting to resemble a car bootsale up-there.

*A seventies styled calendar - Spherical silver and black that clicks over in a groundhog-day-esque manner each day.

*A 1/2 pound steel Karabiner (used as paper weight - No air-con so the fans kick up a boisterous zephyr in the summer)

*A Porsche 550a Spider (miniature!)

*My name plate - pre requiste where I work.

*A Miniature 'Cartman' figure complete with blue tac horns

*A 1970's postcard print of DR NO. James Bond Movie Poster - (not the best Bond by far but a cool postcard!)

*Half a dozen post-it notes; 3 permanent - with phone numbers, hexi-refs for my most favoured colours, and HTML/CSS references.

*And the oddest aquisition - a toffee scorpion - which is a bar of clear orange toffee with, you guessed it, a scorpion imbedded in it. Looks like an amber fossil and no less appetising.

So have what you got gathering dust? Are you Clean living minimalist or Mucky Pup Squirrel?

Ta

Limbo

[Woz]

Um, er, sorry to be boring, er, but, um, well, actually, nothing!

Onya
Woz

[Macguru]

I guess, I am boring too.

I usually keep the pile of junk on my phone, so I can get some real work done. :)

[HelenDev]

How exactly did you fit all of that stuff on your monitor?

I have a freebie baseball cap perched on top of my files, and even that keeps falling off.

I dare you to eat the scorpion ;)

H.

[limbo]

I have a big Monitor. :)

I dare you to eat the scorpion

Two words: - absolutely not a chance on earth that I am chewing that bloody thing. (two words wasn't enough!)

Anyway - I've junked most of it now, and I have to say I feel a little naked. ;)

[eWhisper]

Peweter figures of djinni, dragons, and castles.
A castle made of sand.
A glass cat hanging its paw over the top of the monitor.
Glasses, and glass case.

Copies of receipts I need to add as business expenses.

On Monday, 30+ post-its.
On Friday, those 5 post-its that have been there for 2+ months as they stay on 'the list', just not done.

[Woz]

>I feel a little naked.

Ahem, spare us the details.

Onya
Woz

[Sanenet]

Copy of todays "The Times", a kinder egg toy (a dog that moves it's tail when you roll it - called snuffled!), a penguin (company unofficial mascot), sunglasses case with €1.38 in small change, my last pubcon badge, a frog that doubles as a paperweight, and 8 post-its. Oh, and a beer (hey, it's Friday!)

[grelmar]

Thge Dilbert cartoon "du moment"(this changes when I get one funnier than the one currently in residence).

Various "Captain Underpants" stickers. (Don't ask).

[Macguru]

This one [merrymakersinc.com] is for you grelmar.

[troels nybo nielsen]

Dust. Fingerprints.

[bunltd]

I have the secret margarita recipe from my favorite mexican restaurant which is written on the back of a receipt stuck to my monitor... It makes a huge quantity of industrial strength margaritas.

An LGM sticker from Toy Story (thanks to my son)

A Figment figurine from Disney.

Only one sticky note... today.

grelmar: did you get the set of Captain Underpants books with the whoopie cushion? ;)

LisaB

[HelenDev]

Sticky notes won't stick to my monitor :( I wonder why this is?

I always end up having to stick them on with sellotape which rather defeats the purpose.

[volatilegx]

the middle channel surround speaker for my system

[DrDoc]

But monitor is no excuse. ;)
Mine is big too, but I can't fit anything on it. It can barely collect dust! :o
Then again, I guess the fact of it being a flat screen has something to do with it ;)

I do have something on it though -- a miniature viking. Double-sided tape required to keep him from falling off

[mivox]

...secret margarita recipe ... huge quantity of industrial strength margaritas.

OK. Time to share. :)

Sticky notes don't stick to my monitor either... but on top I have a set of inspirational notecards in a business-card holder, a foam stress-squeeze ball shaped like a brain, and a pink plastic brain with a green parasite thing stuck to it.

On the front I have a glass-tape-laminated copy of all the addresses and phone numbers for our company's three offices, a taped-on printout of some codes I need to remember for the shopping cart software, and a doctor's appointment reminder.

[Macguru]

mivox, are you pregnant?

[mivox]

Um, no. What made you think that? The parasite comment?

[Llama]

I have the sticker that came with it still on it. I'm still waiting till the glue on the back of it's blackish-green and the edgest are yellowish-orange and curling.

That's it.

However, the bookshelf to my left is more like a garbage can.

[ThomasB]

My never used monitors, working on my notebook only since months, is guarded by a lion and has a Google sticker on it. :)

[vkaryl]

....a kinder egg toy

Ah. German, are you?

[edit_g]

not a sausage. I mean, er, nothing. ;)

[Liane]

I don't have anything as imaginative as a "pink plastic brain with a green parasite thing stuck to it." ... just a really cool miniature replica of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.

OK ... so I have sterotyped myself. So what? Its what I like!

[Robert Charlton]

A PostIt with a deep breathing relaxation exercise a friend sent me...

- inhale
- hold
- exhale up spine

- inhale
- hold
- exhale up spine

etc....

It's helpful, when I remember to look at it.

[Sanenet]

Ah. German, are you?

Nope, British living in Spain. We call them that out here as well. (It's a chocolate egg with a little toy inside!)

[grelmar]

We get kinder eggs here too (Canada)

The Cpt. Underpants set with the whoopee cusion included?!?!?!?

How did I miss THAT one! (Rushes off to Amazon)

[tbear]

Wow, what a great idea!
I never thought of stashing junk on top of the monitor, that would leave me room elsewhere for more important junk. (dreams)
Thanx folks........ ;)

[vkaryl]

Nope, British living in Spain. We call them that out here as well. (It's a chocolate egg with a little toy inside!)

Yup - my granddaughters (living in Germany since 1994, and never coming home far as I know) have adored them since day one..... their windowsills are carpeted in the toys....

[whoisgregg]

I keep all my stuff in front of my monitor. Dilbert Google mug (need a logo by Friday), picture with niece in frame made by niece, empty chai tea pouch (still smells good), a Baden-Powell bobble head, that google badge they passed out at pubcon orlando (with the batteries removed permanently), some business cards from pubcon orlando, a dried flower (?), six CD's I burned but don't remember what's on any of them (and never labeled them), lol ... I'd go on but my desk is really cluttered with about a hundred other random items! Although I have just been inspired to make a comprehensive list at some point. :D

My monitor [apple.com] does not suit itself well to having anything on it. Everything keeps falling off! ;)

[Macguru]

>>My monitor

Wow! With such a monitor who needs a window office? :)