What is on the shelf or desk near where you do your ot.com posting?

A printer, a pack of Beatles playing cards, a $25 Caesar's Palace chip I found at Vegas in the airport on the way home (hence why it hasn't been cashed in), my glasses which I never wear, a graphing calculator, the part of my bike lock I never use, Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (just started reading it), some syllabi for this semester, a guitar capo, several empty glasses, a stack of random burned discs, a spindle with one blank DVD-R in it, my three hard drives (one 2TB for editing work, two 1TB for storing movies and TV shows), a 16GB thumb drive, several CTA farecards, my fan which is pointing to my bed, a tape dispenser, a picture of my father's side of the family, a magnetic funeral flag (put on cars during funeral processions; my father's an undertaker), my checkbook, a bunch of old bills, an empty Zippo, an ashtray, and a pack of Camel Menthols (not my usual brand, but they were out of Marlboro Menthols).

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By the way, I'm not sure why, but I like this thread.

What does this magazine do here...?!! I swear it's not mine !

Bills. Sesame Street DVD's. Picture of me with wife and daughter. Ipod Classic 4th Gen 20 Gig. Cell Phone. More bills. Breakfast. Universal remote.

One the table before me is my computer equipment, a small ornate wooden chest full of tea, a carved Victorian military sword stick, two chrome bowls full of rocks, a well thumbed marked up copy of Dracula and notes, a Sony DVD marker, my mobile phone (switched off), a box of Tesco DVD-Rs, a charity endorsed retractable ball point pen, a mostly depleted sheet of nicotine gum, a shot glass full of used batteries, a 8 GB Sandisk flash ram, a penguin, an owl, a menorah which tinkles while I type and a noticeable layer of stoor.

Forgot to mention my Netflix copy of Funny Games (more recent version) ready to mail back.

Lets see , on my table we have four bacon sandwiches ,a three litre bottle of Dr Pepper , p.c. speakers ( not working ) a note pad and pen ,a Darkest Hour cd , The Warriors dvd and a copy of F.E.A.R. the p.c. game .

I got my Verbatim 47514 2TB drive rather cheap and it works a dream :

HotRod said:

This is pretty close to what I am looking at also.  Plus a picture of the fam (which is only me) and two hotwheels cars (a hearse and the 60's Batmobile).

Coffe thermos, picture of my kid, leather cup full of pens, stack of papers to grade. I have three Star Wars collectors plates hanging on the wall above the desk.

I have two Western Digital powered USB drives (that's the 2TB and one of the 1TB's), and one portable (USB-powered) Seagate 1TB.

I also used to have a Maxtor 500GB, but it just stopped working one day.

Now, the reason I have the portable one is my Seagate FreeAgent Theater+, which is a thing that plugs into your TV, that you put a hard drive into, and you can watch almost anything (including 1080p MKVs, in 1080p, with Dolby or DTS 5.1 and all that).  It has two USB ports, plus a slot on top that fits a Seagate portable hard drive.  Hence, my owning a Seagate portable hard drive.

To be honest, I love the portable one so much that I almost never unplug the other two.  The WD 1TB holds all my movies, and the Seagate portable 1TB holds all my TV shows (I put those on the portable since I watch them more often), but it's so much easier to use the portable that I just copy whatever movie I want to watch from the WD to the Seagate whenever I want to watch it.

So, my recommendations:

- Western Digital is always good
- Seagate's not bad
- Don't get Maxtor
- Portable HDs are great if you know you're going to be going back and forth with it a lot, HOWEVER I have noticed that if I try to HandBrake something directly to the portable, it has about a 98% chance of failing.  I have to HandBrake it to the desktop, then copy it to the portable.
- USB is decent unless you know you need something faster, in which case I'd recommend FireWire.

CompMovieGuy said:

TV's Frink said:

Picture of me with wife and daughter..

lol, you mean the picture that came with the frame?

Yep, you're a real class act.  Why don't you stick to your BMX preservations and stay the fuck out of off-topic?

Look at least he allows pictures on his desk you just have the a framed needle point sampler with the words "Seat belt? Over my wife and daughter's dead body!" in it.

TV's Frink said:

Yep, you're a real class act.  Why don't you stick to your BMX preservations and stay the fuck out of off-topic?

Come on, guys, can't we all just ...

... be reasonable?

Apparently not.