Topic: My Annotated Dorm Room (Read 37237 times)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #50 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:16 »

Then maybe you can show me yours.

We'll make a sort of party out of it.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #51 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:19 »

Hang on let me check.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #52 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:20 »

Oh shit there's a hair on it.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #53 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:20 »

Okay now it is.

jmrz · « **Reply #54 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:45 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 30 Nov 2009, 16:59

*ahem*

Quote from: IronOxide on 29 Nov 2009, 11:10
Tidying up is not allowed under any circumstances.

Pffft, it's not clutter, it's washing. The internet does not need to see my piles of clean washing and I need to put it away anyway.

I will do before and after shots.

Allybee · « **Reply #55 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:47 »

I have a two room double, so my roommate has to walk through my room to get outside.

Quote from: sean on 30 Nov 2009, 14:24

bhhhhhhhhhhhh i wanna balcony i can smoke on.

pretty much all we use it for.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #56 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 17:55 »

I have the same problem with a 'home home' Tommy. People who have lived in the one room all their lives bewilder me.

Inlander · « **Reply #57 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:06 »

"Boo boo", "ding dong", "home home". Can't you people use grown-up words for your genitals?!

pilsner · « **Reply #58 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:09 »

Like "perineum." Incidentally, never, ever google "perineum."

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #59 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:19 »

Quote from: Allybee on 30 Nov 2009, 17:47

I have a two room double, so my roommate has to walk through my room to get outside.

In my undergrad school, the rooms containing only one person (whether they were part of a suite or a slightly sillier arrangement) were approximately the size of the biggest closet in my last apartment. My current apartment does not have a walk-in closet and that makes me a little sad.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #60 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:23 »

Quote from: pilsner on 30 Nov 2009, 19:09

Like "perineum." Incidentally, never, ever google "perineum."

I definitely just did.
Thanks.

Inlander · « **Reply #61 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:25 »

Word google, or image google?

pilsner · « **Reply #62 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:40 »

They are both horrifying each in their own special way. In related news, there are words you never want to see after the word "pre-natal" and before the word "massage." I learn new things every day.

JD · « **Reply #63 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 19:46 »

Gross

Allybee · « **Reply #64 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 21:50 »

room update: we're having a big party thursday night so we put my bed into my roommate's room. we collapsed both of our beds and she has a futon so her room is effectively a giant bed and my room is effectively a dance floor. it RULES.

Beren · « **Reply #65 on:** 30 Nov 2009, 23:32 »

Some of you have very busy walls. I have clutter all over, but the walls are mostly balanced space. I couldn't deal with covered walls.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #66 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 00:28 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 30 Nov 2009, 17:55

I have the same problem with a 'home home' Tommy. People who have lived in the one room all their lives bewilder me.

This, yeah. I've moved...24 times in the last nine years, and 10 years before that in one house (which I'm incidentally living in again!). But those first ten years I moved to a different bedroom like, every year. Yeah, I've had seven different bedrooms in this house.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #67 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 02:00 »

How many bedrooms are there in your house?!

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #68 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 02:04 »

I guess he lives in Hilbert's Hotel.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #69 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 03:26 »

Quote from: pilsner on 30 Nov 2009, 17:01

$20 Canadian dollars for the first guy to photograph his desktop with the lights off after spraying it with Luminol. I've got the bill right in front of me ready to be mailed. C'mon, it will totally be worth the embarrassment.

Send the cash first so I can buy some Luminol. And a blacklight

Zingoleb · « **Reply #70 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 03:30 »

'Net crashed just after I typed this all out. Thankfully I compulsively copy/paste everything I type just in case.

This house was built back in the early 1800's if that tells you anything. Let's see.

Right now there are...eight bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms, two kitchens, and a 'sun room' which occasionally gets converted into yet another bedroom (but it's unlivable in winter). We've sectioned off half the house now to rent the other side. It could be a really awesome if it was fixed up proper but as it is it kind of needs a new roof, new siding, and an exterminator because we have a termite infestation. Bleh.

Wait, no, nine bedrooms, I missed one

McTaggart · « **Reply #71 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 04:42 »

I doubt my desk would need luminol to look dodgy under a blacklight.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #72 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 05:28 »

I just figured out what you were talking about. Considering a) this is a student room, b) this desk is antique and c) I get frequent nosebleeds, I don't even want to think about it.

valley_parade · « **Reply #73 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 06:55 »

Quote from: Ladybug on 30 Nov 2009, 15:59

7. Bodø/Glimt scarf and flag. Yes, the last time we won something was in 1993.

Nice, Mari. I've been trying to think of a way to hang up my Man United scarf, but in a way that looks kinda arty and classy instead of "RARGH FOOTBALL SCARF!"

pilsner · « **Reply #74 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 07:10 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 01 Dec 2009, 04:42

I doubt my desk would need luminol to look dodgy under a blacklight.

Tonic water... is even cooler than I ever knew. Wow.

Reed · « **Reply #75 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 08:05 »

Yeah, my spectroscopy professor actually used tonic water when trying to illustrate inner filter effects!

Ok, here's some awesome work/bedroom synergy (excuse the shitty cell phone images):

1. Laptop (open to JBact, of course)
2. Dry erase board in place of the window that all but 4 desks on the floor get. All of our PTS mutants and their phenotypes are listed
3. Cork board!
4. Fairly wide variety of textbooks, including my 900 page fluorescence spectroscopy bible
5. Crunk!!!
6 (part 1). Wadded up lab coat that I only use when I teach (so hopefully never again)
6 (part 2). Stack of papers/lab notebook. Usually much, much taller, but most of the papers in my to be read pile are at home right now
7. Bitchin sounds system (yes, I do get to decide what the lab listens to)
8. Stack of product manuals/Odwalla bar/stray fork

1. Solution bottles
2. Polyacrylamide gels in progress (resolving gel is currently polymerizing)
3. Micropipettes
4. Water bath shaker that actually gets used more often as a dry shaker
5. Microcentrifuge
6. 250mL LB + 1M sorbitol, soon to be inoculated with tuner/pDG142P
7. Used gloves

1. Computer monitor
2. Closet (which also contains my dresser)
3. Sheet I stapled over my window to keep out the evil sunlight when I want to sleep in on the weekends
4. Super comfy office chair
5. Cheap ass walmart boxes that hold my PC games
6. Desk lamp that I never use
7. Anna Karenina and The Satanic Verses, both half read, as well as a couple issues of Microbe and some CDs that I need to find the cases for
8. My beautiful blue cock

1. Bed
2. Laptop (yes, I actually do use both my laptop and my desktop at the same time, I'm wasteful like that)
3. Boring, empty wall
4. TV that never gets used
5. Laundry basket/bag containing dirty clothing. Unusual in that my clothes are folded for once and not just sitting in the basket
6. Surprisingly clean floor

Not pictured: Stack of posters and diploma that I am too damn lazy to hang
Note: My room is significantly cleaner than usual since I cleaned it Sunday night while I couldn't get to sleep.

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #76 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 08:21 »

I'll do it if you buy me the Luminol.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #77 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 10:32 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 01 Dec 2009, 04:42

I doubt my desk would need luminol to look dodgy under a blacklight.

Oh crap. I've spilled all sorts of gin and tonic on my desk (my mouspad is still a bit sticky from one particularly nasty spill).

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #78 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 10:51 »

Argh! I want to find Luis Royo and give him a little slap for the amount of time I've spent staring at those posters whilst being tattooed. I Share a whole house, There is not much in my room, but I like this thread I think Imma gonna post pictures in a bit.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #79 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 20:51 »

My bed, my bedside table which includes two electric blanket controls, my phone charger and a lamp but all you can see is the lamp and a sewing machine that doesn't work right now. I'm still working on it. Of course, my poster of the joker.

From left to right: in the crack between bed and table, we have a collection of plastic instruments, then, the playstation, the xbox, the stereo i use for my DIY stereo sound system and last, my television with gamecube and and external hard drive on top.

My living quarters. The computer is a Powerbook G4. The red blobs are bean bags, if you couldn't tell. On either side of those are speakers that connect to the stereo in the second picture. This picture does not include my bookbag. It almost does but not quite.

My old laptop, on a desk, hooked to a monitor for no reason. The chair in front is currently holding my entire wardrobe except for the little bit on the back of the couch. In the bottom corners of our picture, we have a trashcan and a clothes hamper.

That is all.

Apologies for bad quality phone pictures.

JD · « **Reply #80 on:** 01 Dec 2009, 20:55 »

Xbawks, PS2 and Gamecube?

wut

Zingoleb · « **Reply #81 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 03:25 »

Are you going to say something? The most recent thing I have is a Sega Saturn.

Ladybug · « **Reply #82 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 06:10 »

What is an electric blanket controller and what does it do?

valley_parade · « **Reply #83 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 06:28 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 01 Dec 2009, 10:32

Oh crap. I've spilled all sorts of gin and tonic on my desk (my mouspad is still a bit sticky from one particularly nasty spill).

Sir, I'm giving you an award for "Worst possible use of gin & tonic".

The only acceptable useage is "DRINK". Not spill.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #84 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 07:37 »

Well, if you spend enough time with any beverage, some of it will get spilled. I've spent lots of time with lots of gin and tonics. I'd say 99.9% of the ones I have when at my desk end up drunk by me, but 0.1% is still pretty significant when you're talking about spilling something made with high fructose corn syrup.

valley_parade · « **Reply #85 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 07:38 »

Quote from: valley_parade on 02 Dec 2009, 06:28

The only acceptable useage is "DRINK".

DRINK!

Eris · « **Reply #86 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 13:12 »

Quote from: Ladybug on 02 Dec 2009, 06:10

What is an electric blanket controller and what does it do?

It is a thing that controls the electric blanket? Like, with mine it is connected to the blanket, so I can turn it from 1-9, depending on how hot I want it. The label recommends that if you have it on super high that you turn it off before you go to bed though. I do that anyway because I overheat during the night on my own body heat, I don't need any extra heat helping out.

Ladybug · « **Reply #87 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 13:47 »

Hm. I...did not know electric blankets were a common thing, I think? When I think about it, I've heard about it once or twice, I suppose, but didn't realize they, well, existed. For regular people. If that makes any sense.

We just, uhm, add an extra blanket, I suppose. But I rarely use anything more than my duvet and one fleece or wool blanket if it's cold.

Ballard · « **Reply #88 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 13:53 »

Quote from: Allybee on 30 Nov 2009, 21:50

room update: we're having a big party thursday night so we put my bed into my roommate's room. we collapsed both of our beds and she has a futon so her room is effectively a giant bed and my room is effectively a dance floor. it RULES.

Wesleyan..

allison · « **Reply #89 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 20:20 »

1. Embarrassing posters leftover from my highschool days. My walls used to be plastered with posters, and these are the last remaining. I should take them down sometime.
2. Souvenir Pirates of the Caribbean book brought back after my friend went to Disney, big poster of Jason Mraz
3. Jacket, towels, bags, belts and scarves!
4. Clothes - my closet looks a little empty because I haven't done laundry in a while.
5. Shoes! I am steadily gathering a nice collection of shoes.
6. Christmas presents for my friends!
7. Junk n' stuff. Can't bring myself to throw it away.

1. Messages on my wall from people who have been in my room!
2. Various postcards and photos; the board was a Christmas present from my friend Meagan
3. Drawing of me as Snow White (also a Christmas present, from my friend Sarah) that inspired the costume
4. Fraction of the metric fuckton of laundry I have to do (my hamper is downstairs in the laundry room)
5. Novelty license plate from my 8th grade teacher/bff, champagne glass & dried rose from prom, Grogg figurine from my trip to Wales
6. Stuffed toys from friends: Mark, Mango, Hubert, Rufus and Bernard
7. Course readers & text books from first year

1. Photo wall! I love this. I am working on expanding it.
2. Books & DVDs
3. School texts
4a. Shelf with Hello Kitty Band-Aids, spare change, mini-pitchers, tacky snowglobes, empty JD bottle...
4b. Shelf with cameras, pens, assorted cords, hair accessories, manicure stuff, and my best friend's Christmas present: two tickets to see Rent!
5. Chalk for my wall
6. My pretty laptop with pretty speakers. Obviously it is open to Meebo.
7. Hair dryer - I blowdry my hair while I talk to the people who hang out in Meebo in the morning.
8. Hangy thing from Ikea - holds my underwear and socks and assorted winter clothing (hats, scarves, mittens) and headphones and stuff
9. Books for Celtic Studies class
10. My new-ish chair that I love love love.

1. Bookshelf. One time this fell on me in the middle of the night. It holds books and small trinkets. And a photo of me with my highschool friends.
2. Dresser. There is a Polaroid of me with my Dad, he was dressed as Santa! My highschool diploma, behind a beer bottle... also Adidas deodorant oh my god best stuff. My work security pass, a headband with a bow and some poppies from November are there too.
3. MY BED! I love my bed more than anything.

JD · « **Reply #90 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 20:36 »

I love your giant blackboard

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #91 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 20:44 »

It is certainly sweet.

My room in the apartment I shared with a few friends junior year of college (I just realized that was three and a half years ago).

1. A picture of Igor Stravinsky to inspire me
2. Tools of the trade
3. I will never go back to a single monitor
4. Receiver hooked up to the speakers on the desk. Has since been replaced with a legitimate surround sound receiver. Behind you can see my old computer (barely).
5. Assorted detritus including my awesome, wireless joystick, a wang hanger, the remote for the receiver and a w00t priority puck containing items for school.
6. Drawers with useful supplies in them, such as notebook paper and printer paper. On top resides a printer.
7. Other assorted detritus including my battery charger (which very recently died) and a bunch of CDs that I probably had to listen to for class.

1. Poster from when I played at Carnigie hall with my youth orchestra and Arturo Sandoval.
2. Panda art thing procured by my aunt when she adopted my cousin from China.
3. Awesome car blanket.

1. Bicycle. Since stolen. I now have a nice, white one intended for road use rather than off-road use.
2. MMW hat. It's nice and warm, but now I have a Redskins hat so it rarely gets used.
3. Fan sitting on top of speaker boxes in front of my air conditioner because the fan in the air conditioner was so weak that it couldn't circulate the cold air by itself. Also, the insulation was so bad that the air needed to be moved quickly to where it was useful so it didn't have a chance to warm up to outside temperature.
4. Steamer. Useful for getting wrinkles out of large numbers of shirts at once.
5. Laundry. Large is awesome since we didn't have on-site laundry.
6. Dresser. There are clothes in here.
7. Assorted detritus including alarm clock, my awesome lamp, a bear playing upright bass and the beginning of my Bombay Sapphire bottle collection (I have since collected all sizes).
8. A picture of Leonard Berstein to inspire me to greatness (it has been unsuccessful so far).
9. Trash can. There is trash in there.

1. Door to the outside. There is duct tape around to substitute for the door actually filling up the frame.
2. DVD collection. I've only added two more shelves of DVDs.
3. Books. Mostly for school, since I didn't have space for anything else.
4. My binder of 200+ CDs that I no longer have since it was in my car when the car was stolen. I'm still sad about that, since I still haven't replaced any significant percentage. Luckily most of my classical recordings were in a different binder (my Beethoven was not).
5. Wardrobe to hang things up in since I didn't have a closet in my room. Mostly work clothes, i.e. nice shirts and suits and stuff like that.

Ballard · « **Reply #92 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 20:46 »

Khar, your flat is 80% more cozy and 75% less metal than I presumed it would be.

JD · « **Reply #93 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 20:51 »

What were you expecting? bags of pigs blood everywhere?

Ballard · « **Reply #94 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 20:55 »

scarred · « **Reply #95 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 21:06 »

Is that last one Khar himself, or just the typical unfortunate passerby?

Drill King · « **Reply #96 on:** 02 Dec 2009, 21:11 »

1 My bed
2 notes on persepolis the graphic novel
3 painting I'm working on
4 painting I'm working on
5 picasso print from my father
6 clarinet
7 dead flowers and coffee cups
8 paint
9 tripod
10 best sweater
11 sketchbook :c
12 little owl from kvpjohn<3

Obviously I am not really concerned with staying here, I haven't decorated at all really, I have yet to hang up a single painting, I can't wait to move.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #97 on:** 03 Dec 2009, 02:32 »

Khar's place actually reminds me of a witch I used to stay with sometimes

Oh and Andy I know what you mean. Usually I have like 20 posters on my ceiling.

jhocking · « **Reply #98 on:** 03 Dec 2009, 05:52 »

Quote from: Drill King on 02 Dec 2009, 21:11

3 painting I'm working on

These paintings are naughty. Why are you painting naked ladies, young lady?

Ballard · « **Reply #99 on:** 03 Dec 2009, 08:54 »

They are self-portraits, Joe.

(I'm not sure whether that makes it better or worse)

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