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Bolty's Desk!
Okay, continuing the trend in desk reviews, here she blows:
A packet of tesco's economy plain chocolate digestives. An 18" long
packet of chocky bickies for 98p. Essential!
[I prefer the 64p bourbon double-barrel packet from Tesco's meself.
Kei]
A peecee minus case, due to Win95 completely spagging up again. I love
peecees I do!
The side off my peecee. A 50x50cm lump of sheet metal leant against the
wall. I aint got one of these tacky little mini towers, its a proper
case it is. All the sides slide off in bits and that!
Lots of peecee screws.
My favourite reversible philips/flat head screwdriver.
A 100 meg quantum hard drive. Used for backups, I got this for £2 at a
local pooty shop. Assorted HDs, £2 each, or 3 for a fiver!
My mates 300 meg hd which I killed and haven't told him about yet
(gulp!) I mounted it using the precision method of dangling it from its
power cable. It was working fine until it went "clunk". I presume the
heads hit the disk from the way it jerked violently as it dangled.
My pride and joy, a 15" Iiyama monitor. After spending 4 years watching
my amiga through the RF socket on a 14" alba telly, you should be able
to appreciate why I want sex with my monitor, and why I will hit anyone
who puts so much as a finger print on the screen.
Lots of black labeless disks. I don't know what's on em. Some have
been scribbled on in yellow pencil crayon.
Er there's my windows desktop. Probably an acquired taste, it has a
rich blue background textured with blurry letters, and post-it note
style icon captions in pale yellow.
The instructions from my roller blades. Includes such gems as "don't
skate on oil, you might fall over" and "skating on main roads could be
dangerous". Nowhere does it say "Don't skate down steep hills as the
only way of stopping at the bottom by the time you're doing 30mph is to
throw yourself on the floor, inflicting massive gravel rash" as I
discovered for myself the hard way.
A prit stick. Dunno why. Its crap at sticking stuff.
A surprisingly cool looking sound card driver cd, to go with my £15.99
sound card.
Various night club flyers.
A black Rotring "Art Pen", chewed.
A knackered, matte black, metal cased, parker biro.
An empty packet of cheese and onion square crisps
A compaq mouse. You know the ones, two buttons, square corners, with a
curved rectangular slab on top to stick yer hand on.
A sheet of A4 paper taped to the desk for a mouse mat. I haven't had to
clean my mouse in 6 months using this! Its a miracle!
Scattered zip disks and cases.
A nearly empty bog roll. What could that be used for eh?
Sketches and notes for the new TW15 download page which I've just done..
A mug containing a very dodgy looking seedling :)
A taped copy of Enigma's "MCMXC a.d."
A stack of miscellaneous cds, on the verge of toppling over. The
Chemical Brother's "Dig Your Own Hole" is on top.
One receipt from Tescos as follows: Smiths Snacks, GW Snacks, Choc
Digestive, Pork Chops, Beef mince, Penguin, Bacon Rashers, Prawn Curry,
Kia-Ora Orange, The Times, Pasta Sauce x 2, Chicken Soup, Spghti/hoops,
Farmhouse Loaf = £15.38
A bottle of surgical spirits. Smells of hospitals and cleans sticky
stuff of things.
A casio graphical calculator, complete with "BoltBrot" fractal
generator, "BoltPaint" paint package, "BoltGolf" golf game, and
Minesweeper which I got of the internet and typed in.
JVC Mini System Jobby. Got this after Currys spent 4 months completely
failing to repair my tinny Aiwa Micro job. Its a lot louder :)
AM Loop ariel, for listening to Talk Radio.
FM ariel, a 5 meter long speaker wire which hangs out of my (4th story)
window. Even then I can only just pick up Radio 1 and "Plymouth Sound"
(cack).
Letter from the bank telling me to pick up a new bank card. I can't be
arsed.
WinTV manual. Looks home made, complete with comb binder.
Completed questionnaire from a research student about my brand of
toothpaste, jeans and bank. Question 1a cracked me up: "Do you use
toothpaste? If no, go to question 2"
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