I have a shiny thing (http://pics.livejournal.com/hairyears/pic/0001parg/g4) (visible directly below the coffee mug) that works better than an upside-down USB mouse when I put batteries in it.
The desk is perfectly tidy: I know the location (and approximate age in the stratigraphic column) of every item on it.
Vain attempts to rearrange the piles of mess into rectiliear heaps are neither tidy nor organised, for the universe will hurtle toward entropic doom and missed deadlines at pretty much the same rate.
Yes, but there's desk visible. This is just wrong: you don't even have the excuse that it's at the edges where crap keeps falling off and exposing the surface.
Oh, and a logic problem: could I have posted that pic with a screenshot of this page with the picture on the monitor?
Take the picture. Post the comment. View the comment. Take another picture. Upload the new picture so that it replaces the first one.
I don't know if that last step is possible on pics.livejournal.com, not having used it much.
If that's cheating,
View the comments page. Save source. Edit the source to insert a fake comment with a picture. View the edited comments page. Take a picture. Post the picture.
Ta. I knew it had to be possible, but couldn't for the life of me work out how. Someday I'll use it, and freak out the kind of fellow-geek who looks far too closely for his own good.
Of course, if you want a picture in the comment in the picture in the comment in the picture you'll have to iterate.
What would be cooler would be to have the HTML on the screen include not an image but an embedded live video feed from the camera, so you got the full infinite-recursion effect...
The computer room currently contains seven computers of various vintages, and the gutted remains of an eighth. The rest are stored in the garage. No ducks, sadly, but plenty of soft toys.
The lounge computer isn't quite so chaotic, but is hooked into a whole bunch of music-making stuff, and a rather nice AV system. Unfortunately, this leaves no room for a sofa…
Here are two ways to save space by buying more stuff:
Get a KVM switch so you can share your keyboard, video, and mouse between your Mac and PC.
Replace your mouse with a trackball. Then you won't need space to push the mouse around. (Yes, I know, it's no good if you play lots of first-person shooters. But excellent otherwise.)
Belkin (http://www.belkin.com/) make KVM switches. The cheapest one that supports USB is the Omniview 2-Port KVM (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202717&pcount=&Product_Id=177468&Section.Section_Path=%2FRoot%2FPeripheralSharing%2FOmniview%2E%2E%2ESwitches%2FDesktopSeries%2FCASeries%2F). Or you can get one that switches audio too (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202717&pcount=&Product_Id=177457&Section.Section_Path=%2FRoot%2FPeripheralSharing%2FOmniview%2E%2E%2ESwitches%2FDesktopSeries%2FCASeries%2F).
Linksys (http://www.linksys.com/) make KVM switches too but theirs seem to be for PS/2 keyboards only and so won't work with your Mac unless you buy a PS/2 to USB adaptor too.
For what it's worth, my preferred brand of KVM switches is Adder Technology. They're not the cheapest, but they work extremely well. They make a USB model — one of the few that emulates the presence of a keyboard when it's switched away to another computer, which is handy when dealing with machines that aren't happy to boot without one.
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Date: 2005-02-06 12:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-06 01:38 pm (UTC)I have a small yellow rubber duck on my desk at work.
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Date: 2005-02-06 01:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-02-06 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-06 05:05 pm (UTC)Vain attempts to rearrange the piles of mess into rectiliear heaps are neither tidy nor organised, for the universe will hurtle toward entropic doom and missed deadlines at pretty much the same rate.
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Date: 2005-02-06 01:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-06 01:59 pm (UTC)Oh, and a logic problem: could I have posted that pic with a screenshot of this page with the picture on the monitor?
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Date: 2005-02-06 02:34 pm (UTC)Post the comment.
View the comment.
Take another picture.
Upload the new picture so that it replaces the first one.
I don't know if that last step is possible on pics.livejournal.com, not having used it much.
If that's cheating,
View the comments page.
Save source.
Edit the source to insert a fake comment with a picture.
View the edited comments page.
Take a picture.
Post the picture.
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Date: 2005-02-06 03:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-06 03:20 pm (UTC)What would be cooler would be to have the HTML on the screen include not an image but an embedded live video feed from the camera, so you got the full infinite-recursion effect...
No, this is full...
Date: 2005-02-06 06:52 pm (UTC)(Current setup actually has the laptop on the left edge where the mess is on that picture.)
Re: No, this is full...
Date: 2005-02-06 07:04 pm (UTC)Re: No, this is full...
Date: 2005-02-06 07:06 pm (UTC)Re: No, this is full...
Date: 2005-02-06 07:13 pm (UTC)Trystan and Lucy competed in the 1999 Cambridge Duck Race.
Re: No, this is full...
Date: 2005-02-06 07:15 pm (UTC)Re: No, this is full...
Date: 2005-02-06 07:20 pm (UTC)I think .'s illuminated duck won that one.
How does this compare?
Date: 2005-02-06 08:07 pm (UTC)And then the overspill into the lounge:
The computer room currently contains seven computers of various vintages, and the gutted remains of an eighth. The rest are stored in the garage. No ducks, sadly, but plenty of soft toys.
The lounge computer isn't quite so chaotic, but is hooked into a whole bunch of music-making stuff, and a rather nice AV system. Unfortunately, this leaves no room for a sofa…
Re: No, this is full...
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Date: 2005-02-06 08:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-06 03:43 pm (UTC)http://www.spodlife.org/pictures/20030509-Organised/Img_0626small.jpg
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Date: 2005-02-06 07:03 pm (UTC)oooo shiny!
Date: 2005-02-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-06 10:34 pm (UTC)Linksys (http://www.linksys.com/) make KVM switches too but theirs seem to be for PS/2 keyboards only and so won't work with your Mac unless you buy a PS/2 to USB adaptor too.
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Date: 2005-02-07 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
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