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Re: Contents of my Office

by talexb (Chancellor)
on May 23, 2002 at 16:04 UTC ( [id://168805]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to (OT) Contents of my Office

  • Bookshelf
    • Top Shelf
      • Perl Cookbook
      • Running Linux
      • MySQL & mSQL
      • Learning the bash shell
      • Schwager on Technical Analysis
      • Last three years of DayTimer booklets
    • Second Shelf
      • Digital modem w/ two stuffed animals from fiancee
      • 'TALEX' carved from a single block of wood
      • scanner
      • hub
      • old audio tapes
      • unused phone
    • Third Shelf
      • XML-RPC
      • Cascading Style Sheets
      • HTML & XHTML
      • Programming PHP (gag)
      • HTML
      • The C Programming Language, K&R (with original receipt dated November, 1981 from UW bookstore)
      • Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
      • Java in a Nutshell
      • XSLT
      • JavaScript
      • Turbo C Reference guide (about ten years old -- Borland)
      • Learning the vi editor
      • Designed Active Server Pages (gag again)
      • stack of fan-fold paper for dot matrix printer
      • various audio and video tapes
      • 17" monitor
      • empty file folder
      • various manuals on CPU and monitor
      • Cheesy digital clock giveaway from Inc. magazine
    • Fourth Shelf
      • cranky HP LJ 1100 printer that insists on printing using a dozen or more sheets at once.
      • Two year old P3-450 w/384M RAM with cover off after installing new memory. Cover should be back on in time for Christmas.
      • Various 3 1/2" diskettes, dust bunnies
    • Bottom Shelf
      • even crankier Sharp FO-760 fax that forgets to ingest paper until the received page is half way through. Thanks, I didn't need that fax anyway. </ul
  • Desk
    • Dusty box of business cards
    • Box of 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" diskettes. Don't ask what the 5 1/4" diskettes are doing here, the last machine that had a drive that took those hasn't been turned on in three years.
    • Can with assorted pens, markers, nail file, steak knide letter opener and flowcharting template.
    • More business cards
    • Lamp
    • Photos of my two sisters and my cousins.
    • printout of CGI.pm doco
    • replacement ribbon for dot matrix printer sold a year ago
    • Perl DBI
    • Programming Perl (3rd edition -- 2nd edition now retired on another bookcase)
    • various boxes of cheques
    • unopened pack of Trident gum
    • Junk mail from register.com
    • headphones
    • P.Eng. stamp with stamp pad
    • rosters for East York Barbershoppers going back a few years
    • roster for Board of Trade Young Professionals (February 1999)
    • box of staples
    • red mouse pad from OTA systems where I hought my 486 in '91 or so
    • Cool wireless mouse from LogiTech
    • Radio Shack calculator
    • white drafting eraser

Update: All books are the O'Reilly versions unless otherwise noted. I have another 15 or so O'Reilly's on another bookshelf.

--t. alex

"Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny

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