Dorky Poll: The View from (Outside) Your Office

I just moved. The only thing on my new door is a large vintage "Pigs in Space" poster. It's getting a little tattered.

I share an office, so there's nothing but my name and my officemate's name on the door. Inside, taped to the side of one of my bookshelves, there's a copy of the Far Side cartoon captioned "It's time we face reality, my friends... We're not exactly rocket scientists." (Actually, we are, though we have had the occasional first stage motor anomaly.) There is also a sticker from one of the missions I have worked on and a "Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty" sticker on the side of my other bookshelf.

The only personal thing I have on my door is a fortune cookie fortune that says "The only normal people you know are the ones you don't know well." I've personalized the my office (started with bare white walls) with lots of pictures (almost all cut from old calendars) and some geologic maps and cross-sections (mostly for areas I'm actually doing work in). I don't have my camera with me today or I'd take some pictures. Our halls are "decorated" with posters, maps, cross-sections, outcrop descriptions... This is a huge step up from a few State Geologists ago who wouldn't let anything be put up in the halls and no thumbtacks in the offices.

I don't have an office, but the area around the desk in my dorm room is pretty well postered (crappy pics: large view, small view).

Lots of xkcd. The ticket and the playbill cover from when I saw Wicked. The high school calendar page where my karate class was featured. Periodic table. Dragon banner. MIT admit poster. Also, since those pics were taken, I've added a sagittal MRI of my head that I got as a thank-you for being an experimental subject.

Now, if I didn't live in a dorm that prohibited painting on the walls...

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Initally preceived as a jest, then not.

Mostly cartoons of my own creation ( http://home.netcom.com/~swansont/ ) -- I cover up the little window with them -- and a Dilbert or two.

I have absolutely nothing on my door, granted I just moved into this office a few months ago, so give me time ...

Last april fools I was in my fourth year of undergrad, and was handing in an assignment in one night. It was on a weekend, a sunday, so I had to get a key from security to unlock the science building.

In any case, when I was up there I realized that the name pieces on 3 profs doors could be slid out. Inspired, I spent the next 45 minutes juggling the contents of these three profs doors around. I was meticulous, everything was in the exact same position on a different door, I moved posters which were up outside the doors (3 in total), and lastly, the nametags.

The next day, I came in, not telling them that I did it (they still don't know who did it, in fact they blamed someone else ...), to gauge their reactions.

One grad student thought that all the profs switched offices (smart one, him) and two of the profs themselves were standing around shaking their heads as though someone had kicked a puppy muttering "who would do this? I don't understand".

The third prof (who has a great sense of humour) was regrettably away at a conference, upon finding out asked why the culprit made it so easy to switch the doors back (and didn't use superglue instead of the original tape).

In my cubicle I have two Far Side cartoons: the one with Satan leading a maestro into a room full of banjo players, and the one with a mountaineer climbing a peak holding a flag while two tobogganers play on the other side, having obviously climbed to the summit many times. Also, a bunch of photos and postcards.

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I have just one thing on my door: a piece of art a friend did, depicting a small blue creature in a lab coat with an enormous toothy grin and a syringe, surrounded by B-movie lab paraphernalia. I'd post a photo, but my camera is at home.

My Door is a Window to My Soul.

at ibiblio, we cover more than one door. It's a shared office with desks for (currently) nine grad students, an undergrad, a faculty member, and two staff. Collectively we never sleep.

What's on my office door?

A quote from Wodehouse, a quote from Waugh, and
"Life Without Mozart"

I've got nothing exciting (I'm an adjunct sharing with a partially-retired professor so it's just not worth it) but my husband has a magnetic marble run on his door. The students are upset when he's there and the door is open.

Which xkcd is on complex exponentials?

Nothing of consequence on the door. Inside there are framed pictures, all sorts of detritus (cartoons and the like on a bulletin board) as you might guess from that photo I linked, and one item so unique that I can't describe it.

A random collection of PhD and Dilbert comics. I try to change them out regularly but some are pretty stale....

I'm academic staff (sysadmin responsible for assorted web systems and the Horror Known Only As Blackboard) and I keep my door pretty spare, but I've added Goeff Chaucer's "Theme from Shaft" and the "bobcat" strip of xkcd.

I believe those summarize my institutional role pretty nicely. :)

PS: At some point I have to add Bob the Angry Flower's screed on the proper use of the apostrophe to the door. Just because I'm in IT doesn't mean I can't try to uphold some basic standards of literacy.

Thank you so much. . .I've been trying to remember the name of "that comic I used to read with a murderous gerbil" for months now.

I keep my desk and office perfectly clear of personalization just to shock the people who know me. The first time people walk into it they consistently comment on how it is "so not you."

A copy of A is for Alanine, since we are in the protein business here.

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Because we have a brand new building, the main donors still care about the appearance. Thus we aren't allowed to put things on our doors yet, beyond sign-up sheets or schedules. I'm told this will be relaxed in about a year.

I have a sticker with a foamy mug and the slogan, "Beer Makes You Schmart".