[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:03:50AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 @ 22:51 -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo said:
> 
> > What item that you might put on your desk means "this cubicle slave must
> > be a geek" to you?
> 
> The word hack is written on my keyboard in Japanese.
> 
> Most normal people only have one computer, a desktop, and it runs Windows or
> MacOS. So all of us with UNIX on the desktop, and servers sitting nearby are
> pretty well announcing our geekness with that alone.

Frankly, I'd rather that the servers not sit near by.  Having the server
sit in the office is for non-geeks.  The real geeks will create a
dedicated space for their servers.

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