Travelling Light

I love my Eee. It's about enough to run emacs, but it's a bit inadequate for real work. For real work you can never have enough RAM, screen area or MIPS. I decided to stay at my Mum's house over Easter so I can work without distraction, so I packed what I thought was a sensible minimum to get stuff done. As you can see it's a bit much.

From left to right that's

• a big sack of textbooks and papers
• an allegedly uninteruptable power supply
• a smallish desktop (2x6003 bogomips, 2GiB RAM, ≅ 1TB of disk space and enough nvidia goodness to keep the room feeling toasty) currently running (U|Ku)buntu
• six way surge protection
• Half finger-puppet, half fridge magnet, half dead fluffy cat known as Schrodinger
• ancient Goodmans stereo (I dislike 2.1 sound and I can't find anything else in stereo that sounds nice short of studio monitors, and it's just not done to hack without some kind of industrial or futurepop flavour soundtrack)
• 2 17" monitors
• MS Natural keyboard
• MS Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1A

And out of shot

• BTC 2.4GHz wireless keyboard/joystick mouse (couldn't find an unused IR reciever)
• Enough cable to steal the ethernet connection from my sister's room
• 8 Port 10/100 Mb/s ethernet switch and handful of patch cables (so my sister doesn't kill me for depriving her of net connection)
• 802.11b wireless access point so I don't have to tie the following down
• The Eee
• Pocketful of screwdrivers (for turning pictured desk from a left hander into something that's only mildly annoying to use right-handed, and not a legacy of having the allegedly more efficient left hand mouse arrangement imposed upon me)
• small bag of clothes, shaver and charger.
• nearly dead Samsung ML1500 laser printer and 3 reams of dead-tree so I can annotate documents with suitable comments¹
• camera
• emo-tastic desire to blog about the utterly inane and pointless

Did I forget anything? Did I take too much? And more importantly should I change the posters that expose just how misguided my youth was?

1. Such as "whoever wrote this needs percussive re-education", and "Why is Java wasting my life on accessors, mutators and other such trivialities"