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  • ..I swear by it - I like having a clean desk. :), was: PCs

    From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, December 31, 2020 01:08:40
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Wednesday 30.12.20 - 09:59, poindexter.fortran wrote to Pparker:

    These days my parents and I all have laptops and no desktops..
    ..when I was a kid and we had no laptops and we did all
    of our internet browsing from the family computer.

    My company is all laptops. No slouches, they, we've all got Lenovo
    Yoga convertibles or Thinkpad T480 laptops.

    ..I swear by it - I like having a clean desk. :)

    My laptop tends to sit on TOP of my pile of papers, or the papers surround it like a fortress. The desktop experience is not much different; the keyboard settles on the best horizontal space it can find; I can raise the monitor on its built-in attachment to peek over the papers and from the things that tend to accumulate in front it.

    I'd love a clean desk too. But apparently I need someone to keep up with me.

    At one place I worked, one department manager with a strong military background always criticized our cluttered desks as engineers. For one thing, he had a secretary that bore the blunt of the documentation and resources he needed on *her* desk. But he had one little trick that gave the impression of an organized and tidy desk - during the day, he would simply square off the piles of books and papers on his desk into "perfect" piles - no funny odd pieces of paper sticking out anywhere - I mean they were *perfect* monolithic structures.

    In one sense that worked. He may have had as much material as any of the engineers did, but his desk gave the impression of tidy.

    Myself, I *need* to know that odd piece of paper that is sticking out from that askew pile of other papers is just the right document that I am looking for!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Ogg on Saturday, January 02, 2021 09:19:00
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    Hello poindexter!

    At one place I worked, one department manager with a strong military background always criticized our cluttered desks as engineers. For one thing, he had a secretary that bore the blunt of the documentation and resources he needed on *her* desk. But he had one little trick that
    gave the impression of an organized and tidy desk - during the day, he would simply square off the piles of books and papers on his desk into "perfect" piles - no funny odd pieces of paper sticking out anywhere -
    I mean they were *perfect* monolithic structures.

    Scott Adams suggested a neat trick to a tidy desk. Take all of the
    paperwork on your desk and shove it into an interoffice envelope (or
    several!). Mail them to yourself and they'll take a couple of days to
    get back to you.


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  • From Dream Master@VERT/CIAD to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, January 02, 2021 21:20:11
    Re: Re: ..I swear by it - I like having a clean desk. :), was: PCs
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Sat Jan 02 2021 09:19 am

    Scott Adams suggested a neat trick to a tidy desk. Take all of the
    paperwork on your desk and shove it into an interoffice envelope (or several!). Mail them to yourself and they'll take a couple of days to
    get back to you.

    Some years ago I use to take all my "junk" and put them in boxes. I had boxes up to the ceiling in my old office. When my company finally decided to go "open office floorplan" (which is the worst thing ever), my wife and daughters came to my office and helped me shred, trash, and dispose of everything. It took six hours. Never again.

    Dream Master

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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, January 03, 2021 08:08:00
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Saturday 02.01.21 - 09:19, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

    gave the impression of an organized and tidy desk - during
    the day, he would simply square off the piles of books and
    papers on his desk into "perfect" piles - no funny odd
    pieces of paper sticking out anywhere -I mean they were
    *perfect* monolithic structures.

    Scott Adams suggested a neat trick to a tidy desk. Take all
    of the paperwork on your desk and shove it into an
    interoffice envelope (or several!). Mail them to yourself
    and they'll take a couple of days to get back to you.

    :D Well.. I've done akin to that. A few times (only 3 actually,
    in the last 5 years), when I truly needed an uncluttered desk
    because I needed that space to meet a guest/client as we talked
    about some computer/website stuff, ..I just grabbed everything on
    the desk and threw it in some of those popular storage boxes and
    then took the boxes to a back room. I sorted some of those
    things into a box I labelled "recent & pending" stuff so that one
    would stand out incase I was looking for something that I handled
    within a few weeks.

    Meanwhile, those boxes have remained untouched, and new piles
    have arisen on my desk in their place. Hmmmpf.. :(


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dream Master on Sunday, January 03, 2021 09:07:00
    Dream Master wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Some years ago I use to take all my "junk" and put them in boxes. I
    had boxes up to the ceiling in my old office. When my company finally decided to go "open office floorplan" (which is the worst thing ever),
    my wife and daughters came to my office and helped me shred, trash, and dispose of everything. It took six hours. Never again.

    I worked for several years out of a half-dozen offices. I stopped keeping paper, instead taking a moment to scan to PDF anything I received. I loved being able to have searchable invoices with me and to be able to pass along all of my documentation to the next guy when I moved on.


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  • From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Ogg on Sunday, January 17, 2021 21:35:00
    These days my parents and I all have laptops and no desktops..
    ..when I was a kid and we had no laptops and we did all
    of our internet browsing from the family computer.

    I have about 3-4 laptops of various generations at home today, but I still like to use a proper standard keyboard and bigger monitor, thus I either connect one of these to docking station and peripherals or I use iMac as my desktop / not laptop experience.
    This iMac is becoming older and older and I'm thinking to replace my primary computer to something recent, and I'm heavily thinking about making my own custom desktop PC as in the old time once again.

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