the ineffable sign of a productive theorist

or, why I am not a mathematician at heart

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Isn't that Fred's desk? I base this on the girlie cell phone wrapper...

It certainly doesn't look like a mathematician's desk. Too tidy, and not enough trashed paper.

@Brad: I'm not too girlie myself, but I bet my mother (the only member of my family with a sense of fashion) would be caught DEAD rather than owning something as hideous. That's obviously a gagdet bought by the average colour-uninterested scientist, like me.

Hey, that is my guest desk!
My real desk is much messier, well it used to be 'till THEY made me clean it...

The bright orange thing is a portable hard drive - "toughened" - ie they wrapped it in soft rubber and doubled the price
I think the colour is so you can find it quickly in an emergency, or something, maybe they just got a good deal on burnt orange, or the designer is a fan of obscure football teams