Comments on: Tuesday: Desktop Management http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2006/11/15/tuesday-desktop-management/ over 5 billion neurons served Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Steven Gould http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2006/11/15/tuesday-desktop-management/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Steven Gould Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:41:14 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2006/11/15/tuesday-desktop-management/#comment-38 9 comments moved from Blogger. <hr />LauraJMixon said...Oh, god. Oh god. OHGOD. Don't get me started, or I swear I will never stop. house mess makes me feel like Rumplestiltskin. I swear I'm going to tear myself to tatters. I HATE cleaning. I HATE a messy house. I HATE nagging everybody to clean up. But I HATE the mess! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGH. *ahem* [straightens top] You were saying...? 11/15/2006 9:01 PM <hr />Steven Gould said...And this from the stackmeister. (If I put it in a neat stack, it will be o-kay.) 11/15/2006 9:34 PM <hr /> Madeleine Robins said...I love you, Laura. Next time we're in the same timezone let us drown our sorrows and speak of someone else's dustbunnies...My inlaws (who keep an otherwise neat house) are unbelievable stackers in their kitchen. I think mostly they're collecting articles from the New York Times and New Yorker to send to us (see, the Internet has contributed to less paper pollution!). 11/16/2006 12:23 AM <hr />Alis said...Oh god, she said, repeating what Laura said. I also find it easier to focus where there is less chaos, and I utterly hate a messy house, but I hate picking up after others perhaps even more, so there you are. Much weeping and gnashing of teeth. 11/16/2006 1:16 AM <hr />Maureen McHugh said...That thing about realizing that other your way is not other people's way? In spades. But how come other people in my life feel quite comfortable doing things to 'help' me? (Of course, at this moment I am entirely surrounded by boxes of stuff. Which is a weird kind of, not very useful order, I suppose.) 11/16/2006 7:03 AM <hr />Caroline Spector said...I'm with Laura on this, too. There is nothing worse than a disorganized house. And given the fact that I appear to be living with one of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers" rel="nofollow">Collyer Brothers</a>  it's enough to drive one to drink. And Warren thinks I LIKE cleaning. No, like writing, I like HAVING DONE it. Oh god, I promised myself I would only rant on my day. 11/16/2006 8:12 AM <hr />Madeleine Robins said...Oh, rant all you like, Caroline. At least on my day. Are we going to have to spin off a Female Brains site to contain this sort of ranting? Cause I notice that none of the guys are coming in to weigh in... But really, while I could go on all day about disorder and its discontents, I was really thinking in terms of how different our (my family's) organizational thinking is. My husband (a prince!) wants and needs to do certain things just so. Maintaining his desktop (or his desk) is not one of them. If I paint a wall, it's enough that it's painted and not excruciating to look at; if he does it, it's done right. Maybe it's a guy thing? Except that my kids are both female... 11/16/2006 9:30 AM <hr />Steven Gould said...Oddly enough, Rory is really quite a neatnik (though he has to accept certain chaos when his daughter is around.) I've never seen Brad and Barb's messy except in the middle of a band practice when we're all sprawled everywhere. (But they could have secret messiness. It could happen.) I'm somewhat of a slob but an odd one. If I pick up something I want it to go where it lives, not some temporary place for the sake of "tidiness" because then it's three time harder to find stuff when I want it. It's not where I left it and it's not where it's supposed to go. This leads to acrimony and domestic discord. Especially when I'm ready to blame anyone and everyone for moving my cheese and it turns out that I was the one who moved it, but forgot. 11/17/2006 9:14 AM <hr />LauraJMixon said...Oh, yes. I really irritate Steve when I move his stuff from the middle of the floor or whatever. Emma's probably the neatest among us four. Carita is *ahem* as prone to disorganization as her father. I'm somewhere in between. Though as you mentioned, Mad, we all have our "special" areas of preferred neatness/ slobbiness. 11/17/2006 11:48 AM 9 comments moved from Blogger.

LauraJMixon said…Oh, god. Oh god. OHGOD.

Don’t get me started, or I swear I will never stop. house mess makes me feel like Rumplestiltskin. I swear I’m going to tear myself to tatters. I HATE cleaning. I HATE a messy house. I HATE nagging everybody to clean up. But I HATE the mess!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGH.

*ahem* [straightens top]

You were saying…?
11/15/2006 9:01 PM

Steven Gould said…And this from the stackmeister. (If I put it in a neat stack, it will be o-kay.)
11/15/2006 9:34 PM

Madeleine Robins said…I love you, Laura. Next time we’re in the same timezone let us drown our sorrows and speak of someone else’s dustbunnies…My inlaws (who keep an otherwise neat house) are unbelievable stackers in their kitchen. I think mostly they’re collecting articles from the New York Times and New Yorker to send to us (see, the Internet has contributed to less paper pollution!).
11/16/2006 12:23 AM

Alis said…Oh god, she said, repeating what Laura said. I also find it easier to focus where there is less chaos, and I utterly hate a messy house, but I hate picking up after others perhaps even more, so there you are. Much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
11/16/2006 1:16 AM

Maureen McHugh said…That thing about realizing that other your way is not other people’s way? In spades.

But how come other people in my life feel quite comfortable doing things to ‘help’ me?

(Of course, at this moment I am entirely surrounded by boxes of stuff. Which is a weird kind of, not very useful order, I suppose.)
11/16/2006 7:03 AM

Caroline Spector said…I’m with Laura on this, too. There is nothing worse than a disorganized house. And given the fact that I appear to be living with one of the Collyer Brothers  it’s enough to drive one to drink.
And Warren thinks I LIKE cleaning. No, like writing, I like HAVING DONE it.

Oh god, I promised myself I would only rant on my day.
11/16/2006 8:12 AM

Madeleine Robins said…Oh, rant all you like, Caroline. At least on my day.

Are we going to have to spin off a Female Brains site to contain this sort of ranting? Cause I notice that none of the guys are coming in to weigh in…

But really, while I could go on all day about disorder and its discontents, I was really thinking in terms of how different our (my family’s) organizational thinking is. My husband (a prince!) wants and needs to do certain things just so. Maintaining his desktop (or his desk) is not one of them. If I paint a wall, it’s enough that it’s painted and not excruciating to look at; if he does it, it’s done right. Maybe it’s a guy thing? Except that my kids are both female…
11/16/2006 9:30 AM

Steven Gould said…Oddly enough, Rory is really quite a neatnik (though he has to accept certain chaos when his daughter is around.) I’ve never seen Brad and Barb’s messy except in the middle of a band practice when we’re all sprawled everywhere. (But they could have secret messiness. It could happen.)

I’m somewhat of a slob but an odd one. If I pick up something I want it to go where it lives, not some temporary place for the sake of “tidiness” because then it’s three time harder to find stuff when I want it. It’s not where I left it and it’s not where it’s supposed to go.

This leads to acrimony and domestic discord. Especially when I’m ready to blame anyone and everyone for moving my cheese and it turns out that I was the one who moved it, but forgot.
11/17/2006 9:14 AM

LauraJMixon said…Oh, yes. I really irritate Steve when I move his stuff from the middle of the floor or whatever.

Emma’s probably the neatest among us four. Carita is *ahem* as prone to disorganization as her father. I’m somewhere in between.

Though as you mentioned, Mad, we all have our “special” areas of preferred neatness/ slobbiness.
11/17/2006 11:48 AM

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