This is pretty neat, but most of my stuff is cans, tissues (that's right), and cups half-full of water.

So, I should stop laying my nuts out on my desktop?

This seems like a great idea, until you realize (generally less than a week after you complete the project) just how often things have to move. Oh, crap, I need the external burner in the server room. Oh, crap the hub died, and I have to replace it.

I actually did something similar to my space once. It lasted in its pristine form less than two weeks.

I would keep hitting my knees on this shit.

like the floor isn't a reasonable place for power distribution or routing equipment.

Seems like a lot of work, and I'm leery of screwing into my sweet 8'x4' racetrack conference desk, but I'd consider it just to get rid of the goddamn dustbunny corral.

A place for everything, and everything in it's place.

I don't want to post pics of my office, it might set the internets on fire.

I completely agree with the 'everything in its place' sentiment. For me, everything's place is generally 'over there somewhere'

D'oh. Sized that wrong. Sorry. Should be 320 x 240

We don't slay for the first one.

That black laptop looks giant enough of keyboard to be the venerable Thinkpad 770.

Kinda does, doesn't it? It's actually an old Inspiron 8100. It's still not a half-bad machine, and I use it every day, but the battery's pretty much toast, and with the power brick, it weighs a fucking ton, so it lives on the desk any more. The little one's a Sharp M4000. A little pokey now too, but I like it mainly because it weighs like 2 pounds. Also, I just put another gig of ram in it a couple weeks ago, so I'm still enjoying that. I was going to get the Toshiba Tablet, but my budget got slashed at the last minute.