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Penny Arcade - Comic - Order
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Order
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Is it because your desk is bad in the same way as Jerry's, but worse?
Or is it because your desk so intensely organized that Jerry can't fathom a mind that would produce it?
You can't find your car keys to drive to Target, of course.
I submit that mine is worse because it also contains various types of dog food.
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Haven't you ever tried in vain at a large project with a small measure? like buying some new hangers for your closet when you shove all your clothes in your dresser anyway?
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Especially a $150 desk organizer.
See, Jerry's gotta be careful here. If you keep your desk clean, then you build up a tolerance, and you no longer get the same benefits from the cleaning frenzy.
Yes? I thought it was pretty obvious with the tone of my post that I do exactly the same thing as Tycho.
Just because you don't like a new brand of energy bar doesn't mean you should feed it to your dog.
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I think you tragically misunderstood what "eating your own dog food" means.
That would definitely be a deciding factor.
Wet or dry?
Open or closed?
Yes.
This is the kind of statement that warrants a picture of the horror.
See, my problem isn't like that. I don't need to organize post-its or pens. It's all the crap that I sit on my desk because it's the main flat surface in the area and I'm too lazy to go and put that particular thing in the place where it lives or should die in (if it has either).
Some things currently on my desk:
A mini screwdriver set
A piece of paper with notes jotted down for Echo of the Wilds
A game mat for the Catacombs Conquest kickstarter that just fulfilled
A stack of cardboard sprue from where I punched out pieces for said game, and the stickers for the discs
A useless cardboard insert from it that kept me from getting all the pieces in
A big binder of photocopies of my grandfathers memoirs, which I was temporarily using as an iPad spot because of the angle
An iPad, which was free from work but I never used it after the few days when I tried it out atop the binder
A tube of chapstick, which has peppermint in it and therefore burns when applied to chapped lips
An sculpey ashtray made and painted by my son (no one here smokes, but ashtrays are the natural byproduct of childhood artistic training)
A tiny clipboard with a sketch I made for my basement remodeling job
A stack of tax documents that I put there as they arrive so I don't lose track of them
A bottle of medication for my kid that we wound up not using because he proved unable to perform the simple task of swallowing a pill and had to get one we could open and sprinkle in water
Another tube of the same kind of chapstick because I thought it was different but we'd bought multiple
A bunch of cds I was ripping
A towel hanger that ripped out of the back of the bathroom door
This is boring enough, so I'll stop. Oh wait, FUCK is that ANOTHER tube of that demonic chapstick? No wait, this is the GOOD chapstick but I had been ignoring it because I thought it was the bad kind.
Anyway, I've left out most tech detritus, other than the iPad. That list would be almost as long. And then there's the tech that's supposed to go there.
What I'm saying is that I don't understand where you people are finding room for the donuts and dog food. Do you have a second desk? Do you desks extend up and over and around you? Do your desks have basements?
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1: People that are already very organized and just want some cool icon to communicate this to their co-workers/family.
2: Highly disorganized people who'd like to believe there is a product they can buy that will fix that.
Careful. That way lies madness.
I'm pretty sure the gather product (at least at that price) is madness.
Yeah... wow that seems a bit steep for an "artisinal craft project." I mean, you can buy a plank, some pegs, and hot glue from a hardware and etch rows into it and then make this. Or if you're feeling really lazy artistic, just strips of velcro.
Also this wouldn't help my desk situation anyway. My problem is that I don't work well in paper, everything is digital, but I still end up with a ton of printed stuff. So my desk at work is just mounds of printed projects, stacked semi chronologically around.
I may be misunderstanding you using "super-glued" as a metaphor, but from watching their video they're all attached with magnets. Both the cups and the extra bases you attach to each other. So it's modular in the sense that you can rearrange/add/subtract bases or cups however you want.
It basically just boils down to the old "a place for everything and everything in its place." But, again, see my list above. Most of my stuff is so ad hoc you'd never plan for it to have a place, much less find it feasible to have a container that is customized to its dimensions.
I bet just the ordinary Gather will end up getting pretty gunked up too. Not as bad as a keyboard gets, but there will still need to be regular times you strip out the modules and scrape and shake all the sesame seeds, nail clippings, and hair out .
Every year or two, my wife buys me a new desk organizer for father's day. Each time, part of the "gift" is organizing my desk for me. Deep under the remote controls, empty wrappers, kids' toys, old mice, lost thumb drives, not to mention the stuff SHE leaves there with it all, she finds the previous desk organizer, usually still stocked with supplies we assume we were out of and bought more, leaving the box they came in sitting on top of the stack of DVD's in the corner.
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I think what folks like us need are a ...different kind of desk. Let's call it Boxr. You insert a Boxi (special cardboard box size that only Boxr sells) into the patented Boxi Well. All your crap goes into the Boxi. At the end of a year/quarter/month/week, you remove the Boxi from the Boxi Well and attach the Boxi Binder (packaging tape). Insert a new Boxi and you're ready to be productive for the next year/quarter/month/week!
For an additional subscription, you can house your collection of Boxi at the Big Boxi (long term storage facility) or have them picked up by the Boxr Buddies (garbage collectors).
(Now I really want someone to make a fake Kickstarter for this.)