Here’s a list of some things in my office, along with a representative example from each group.
- Number of O’Reilly books in my office: 5 (random example: Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition)
- Number of action figures: 25 (random example: Total Justice Black Lightning)
- Number of cartoons attached to various surfaces: 7 (random example: Dilbert, February 18, 1996, the story of my corporate life, if you can find it)
- Number of comic books: 2 (random example: Fray #6)
- Number of beanie baby like stuffed animals: 3 (random example: a Mugato beanie baby)
- Number of Pez dispensers: 12 (random example: Princess Leia (and here is Matthew Battles’ Princess Leia Pez Dispenser site: very funny))
- Number of empty coke bottles, cans, etc: 4 (random example: Wild Cherry Pepsi (ANOTHER site that needs to define its background, dammit))
- Number of condiment packets from our cafeteria: 8 (3 barbecue, 5 ketchup)
Other odd items:
- A picture of Helen Slater as Supergirl
- The Hellstrom Chronicle video tape
- The packaging for the first Half-Life game
- An odd thing I fished out of the garbage one day
- A party hat
- A Sebulba Taco Bell straw thing
- A monster mask, handed down from worker to worker for many years
- A miniature Mars Pathfinder rover
- A Silicon Graphics WebForce Indy workstation (currently not plugged in)
- A ring to protect me from the evil eye
- A foam earbud I thought I had lost from my iPod earphones
- A box of Quisp cereal
- A pair of chopsticks
- Printer ink for an apparently missing HP printer (both a black and a tri-color cartridge)
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The thing you fished out of the trash looked familiar to me. I believe it is a model of the alternate video streaming room/generator-looking thing from the final fight scenes in the movie “Serenity,” a movie my son (your now 21-year-old namesake) forced me to watch. Those exchanges in that room between Mal and the unranked, unnamed operative (1) made me think of the “Star Wars” battle between Luke and Darth Vader, only without light sabers and (2) disappointed me because no one lost an arm or ended up at the bottom of that generator-looking thing. Anyway, I think it belongs with your dolls … er, action figures.
December 30th, 2005 at 7:43 pm |
When you said “O’Reilly books,” I was really scared for a minute. I was ready to send you Michael Moore’s “Dude, Where’s My Country,” and an assortment of works by Al Franken.
The only action figure in my office is Sir Stuart, of the Marx Noble Knight series (actually, a reissue). I can’t play with him because the reissue box stated that it was “not a toy.” I do have a number of completed Lego sets, though, including the Red Baron, the Sopwith Camel, the Apollo lunar module and a BNSF locomotive.
January 4th, 2006 at 9:52 am |
Already got the Franken books! Make sure you read my new series over on Spandex Justice: Toys I Wish I Still Had. Methinks the good silver knight will be making an appears somewhere along the way. Plus, you can correct my errors. :)
January 6th, 2006 at 9:39 pm |
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