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The other day, my blog on multi-camera QTKit capture showed the relative locations of cameras on my desk. Being atypically messy, here’s a tour of other points of interest (and irrelevance):

1. HP Color LaserJet 2600n – Very nice networked color laser, but surprising it’s still a current model (and not heavily discounted) two years after we bought it.
2. Fullmetal Alchemist 2007 Calendar
3. Desk light with CF bulb – I rarely use this for reading. It’s really there to provide a fill light while doing video chats or otherwise using the iSight. Lighting is huge in video.
4. Mug with pencils – I got this mug for Christmas from my parents in high school (the copyright is 1982), and it’s covered with “Murphy’s Law” type quips about computers, most of which are still valid, like “Weinberg’s Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” More dated are the names of computer languages that are used as a border: APL, Abacus, Assembler, Basic, Culprit, APG11, PL1, Cobol, Fortran, etc.
5. iPod Classic 160 GB
6. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegaas
7. A Rubik’s Snake
8. Bottle caps to redeem for MyCokeRewards
9. XCode – in the bottom left space. Using multiple apps that demand massive screen space — XCode, Soundtrack, and Final Cut — got me to try Spaces, and it really has helped clean up the window clutter. Of course, I imagine some would tell us this really just means that we’ve taken the window metaphor to the breaking point and need to develop something new.
10. iChat – looks like I’m chatting with Daniel Steinberg
11. Picture of Quinn at my parents’ place in Michigan
12. Picture of Kelly while we were snowed in on I-80 for six hours at Donner Summit
13. Final Fantasy VII figures – I never did bother getting Vincent to complete this set. Never got the whole Vincent thing, but it seems like it was the geek girl contingent that was so into Vincent. I thought he was kind of pointless (literally… he’s an optional character that you can easily fail to find).
14. Business cards – designed online at businesscards.com,which I often cite as an example of a web-based Flash productivity app.
15. Picture of Keagan – mini-golfing at Mountasia
16. Dictionary and Thesaurus – I had these on my Amazon wish-list for years. By the time I finally got them, Mac OS X shipped with a perfectly good dictionary and thesaurus, with a Dashboard widget to get at them. Still, a topic-based Thesaurus is a unique tool.
17. The Elements of Style
18. Essential computer books – currently including Cocoa in a Nutshell, Java in a Nutshell, Version control with Subversion, plus my two books.
19. Family picture of Kelly, Keagan, and Quinn -kind of need an update to this, as it shows Quinn as a three-month old.
20. Eurorack audio mixer – largely exists to provide phantom power to my podcasting mic (buried in the cables in the hutch). Could do more with it, but don’t currently need to. Connects to the computer via a Griffin iMic.
21. Fry’s mouse pad
22. Coke Zero – yes, only one this day.
23. Life Savers – 15 cal each.
24. Crank-charged flashlight
25. Stack of active or to-be-read computer books – currently Producing Flash CS3 Video, Hands-On Guide to Flash Video, and Interactive TV Standards
26. Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game cards – would be way more fun if I had someone to play it with.
27. Copier/printer/scanner – gets used like maybe once a month, mostly to send copies of checks to the Georgia Department of Revenue to prove I’ve paid monthly taxes.