I've been reluctant to respond to the Five Things You Didn't Know About Me meme. I generally take Kathy Sierra's advice when it comes to describing my background:
@PL: I noticed the Vista desktop - I meant in addition to Windows.
Iām curious if Jeff has has used Linux at all - it might be interesting to hear the perspective of someone who has (apparently) mastered using Windows efficiently.
I learned more than I needed to know about you when I visited your āBoom Boom Roomā.
Great post!
AmigaBasicā¦ Those were the days. I still have my Amiga 500, somewhere around here.
Now the office stuff is very nice, and itās nice to hear others suffer the same Mathematic deficienciesā¦ but the Safety Dance, you were screwing up the Safety Dance? Havenāt you seen the video, itās like 3 straight minutes of a guy, a girl, and a ālittle personā giving you a Safety Dance demo ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg ). Thats like my favorite music video of all time! At least it worked out for you in the end.
Havenāt you seen the video, itās like 3 straight minutes of a guy, a girl, and a ālittle personā giving you a Safety Dance demo ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg ).
Youāre so right. I guess I never quite made the connection between that S-shaped hand gesture and a dance.
Where you find stuff like the tangle or the putty? They are pretty much office-must-haves. I am always on the watch for office gadgets that donāt need a lot of electric power
Itās a full-time job, finding this useless crap. You should see the gadgets that arenāt visible.
Amazing office! I enjoyed that post, even though I just started reading your blog.
Being a coder who likes being able to use keystrokes (and few of them) to do things, do you use Linux or just Windows?
The Pong Clock has been sold out, the last 10 are reserved for sale on Ebay, you can goto thier web site and they will send email when they are placed on ebay.
Original price was 199 Euro and by going to the web site you get to see a horrid web design.
Look at that desk! Itās pristine! This man does no work. No wonder you have so much time for the blog!
I love the fact that you have MS Bob permanently on display. Talk about a ācoding horrorāā¦
Is it true that Melinda was in charge of MS Bob? Thatās the rumor that Iāve heard throughout the yearsā¦
-Dave
cood pong clock, and great story on how you met your wifeā¦!! btw, itās nice to meet another 80ās freak! U2, Big Country, Flock of Seagulls, After the Fire, Falco, Mr. Mister, Men at Work, Men Without Hats, Fixx, Call, Cure, Patty Smythe and Scandal, Midnight Oil, Tom Tom Club David Byrne, etc., etc. ā¦
those were the daysā¦
You just put that last bit in point 5 to check we were still reading, right?
Well surprisingly the 5 things served as an inspiration to me. Iāve always been appauling at maths and as a programmer it reall bugged me. Thanks for making my day!
Wrapping paper is discontinued 
Thatās some high end stuff. I think Iād feel like I was in a museum where I could look at stuff put not touch or play. Take only photos and leave only footprintsā¦
Beats my slave den away from home:
http://www.morningtoast.com/feature/home_away_from_home/
Great idea with the wrapping paper art!
so, you are not co-located with anyone ?
Or is this your private office but you spend most of your time elsewhere ?
F.O.R.
āBut I do think Iād have sex with my computers if it was physically possible.ā
Ok, thatās one thing I didnāt need to know about you.
Very insightful although Iām not supposed to care. But then, why should i care about not caring? 
āThe Keyboard of the Godsā ā¦ Itās so true!
IKEA rocks! In german, it is said to be an abbreviation of āIch kaufe einfach alles.ā meaning āI purchase just anything.ā. Thatās their business model.
Clean desk!! Woooah, wait a second ā¦ you cleaned that up before taking the photos, right?
"squishy bloody brain toy, which is totally disgusting and awesome."
I have one myself ā¦ looks like giant troll booger, sticks everywhere, has a mouseball somewhere inside, disgusts AND amazes everyone, once was a silicone (or so) gymnastic finger-ball which was treated so badly it literally turned inside out. āCanāt touch this!ā
I, too, am a developer who is not great at math, and am sometimes bothered by it. It just took one semester of college-level trig and I was cryinā like a baby.
But so but anyway in my tiny day-to-day coding world, I find myself faced more frequently with tricky logic puzzles and process problems than actual capital-M Math, so for the most part Iām able to ignore the taunting voice in my head that insults my manhood with differential calculus.
That was by far the most interesting 5 things ever!
Nice one Jeff.
Does it strike you as odd, that there is a guy in a small
town youāve never heard of in a country youāll probably never
visit who now knows how you and your wife met, your music taste, your taste in clothing, your academic weaknesses etc? Such is the joy of blogging I guess.
Iāll be picking up those headphones and that keyboard this weekend.
Thanks
Des
Some responses off the top of my head:
Awesome wrapping paper.
Natural/Mathematical/etc art is the best kind. Iām working on getting some golden ratio/curve/triangle stuff up around here, but damn is it a pain to plan. Mobile is also top notch.
I wouldnāt mind actually having a hardware pong clock, but the screensaver (I think it uses the same algorithm as the clock) bores the tears out of me. I need to clean up my game time screensaver, it does multiple monitors and 3 different games. (modeled it after a Magnavox Odessey 200 instead of an Atari Pong machine. Maybe they wonāt sue me over it, heh.) I would have given it away already, but it occasionally gets āstuckā (naive algorithm) and thatās a little embarrasing.