Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The Challenge

John Calypso in Veracruz, MX challenged us Bloggers to show our computer stations. He showed his and it is a maze of technology! Steve in Melaque was quick to take the challenge showing his sort of organized desk, followed by Babs in San Miguel de Allende with her tidy, small circular glass topped table beside her bed.

Here is mine. If a neat desk is the sign of a well organized mind you have some insight into the state of my mind. The table is a rescued two drawer oak library table that survived an early 70's school fire, intact but smoke and water damaged. It served as our dining room table in Terrace. On the left is my scanner and laser printer. In the center, my Samsung monitor on top of Norma's old XP machine that I have yet to load Linux into. On the right is my TV, Acer desktop computer, two external hard drives, stand alone CD/DVD reader/writer, telephone, camera card reader, Bill Clinton Center mouse pad and various other items. There is also a small lamp with a mysteriously missing shade. Norma's desk is on the other side of the small room and is much neater!


 
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9 comments:

  1. Looks like Mission Control at NASA.

    Our "computer station" consists of one Mac laptop and one iPad.

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  2. I'll have to wait until we get home to check my desktop - it's not pretty!

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  3. Your desk set-up would take up ALL of the floor space in my teeny RV office and half of our bedroom. But I lovelovelove that old library table with the pull drawers. Classic.

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  4. Coft I would call your setup "functional" I too like the old library table. Thanks for joining in!

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  5. Being an IT person with a family who lives within my IT world, you would get a kick out of all the computers and laptops we each have. Wife and I have a desktop each while each of the kids have a laptop. Not to mention the 2 servers that keep us all connected as well as a RAID unit to store all our data/pictures. If we have a blackout/brownout, and we are all running, we don't notice with all the light we produce. LOL

    I'll have to get a picture up of our cyberworld.

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  6. I love the library table. My own setup (freshly documented on my blog) is rather minimalist by comparison.

    Saludos,

    Kim G
    Boston, MA
    Where we're wondering whether to show the desktop setup in a subsequent post.

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  7. Did you ever get my comment? I left a comment a while ago. Initially, I was thinking it was stuck in "approval," but now I'm wondering if you got it at all.

    The original comment, (which you could substitute for the above) was as follows:

    I like your table, it's quite attractive. JFK Library mouse pad? I live right across the boulevard from there!

    Saludos,

    Kim G
    Boston, MA
    Where we posted our own setup on http://gringosuelto.wordpress.com.

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    1. So sorry Kim, I do not check my awaiting moderation near often enough. Thanks for commenting!

      I misspoke on the mousepad, it is actually from the Bill Clinton Center where I also bought my "I Miss Bill" t-shirt! The shots of the inside of your house are great! An old Boston home! Beautiful!

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    2. Thanks! I miss Bill Clinton too. I regard him as the best president of my lifetime, a pragmatic centrist with a heart.

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