whats on your night table?

whats on your night table?

  • favourite book (specify bellow if you wish)

    Votes: 57 41.9%

  • days news paper, weekly magazine etc.

    Votes: 6 4.4%

  • notebook with wireless internet

    Votes: 21 15.4%

  • remote, news/movies/series etc from TV

    Votes: 8 5.9%

  • keep working till sleep comes

    Votes: 4 2.9%

  • I have kids, I sleep instantly

    Votes: 10 7.4%

  • none above

    Votes: 30 22.1%
  • Total voters
    136
Here in Warrensburg: Flonase, cortisone cream, clock radio, emory boards,car keys, and some loose change. In NYC my desk is to the left of my bed (lying down) and there is: telephone, flonase, cortisone cream, a cintar lens for magnifying prints, cellphone charger and cellphone if its being charged, other allergy medications for use as needed. I think thats about it.
Kurt M.
 
I sleep on a futon so no night table. Under my pillow is an old Pocket PC which acts as an alarm clock. Next to my pillow is a Zaurus w/WiFi card. I read the news and check tomorrows weather before going to bed.
 
Actually my desk is next to my bed, so I've got 2 bookcases worth of books there, mostly WW2-related, a color laser printer, a scanner, a computer, a subwoofer, a flatscreen monitor, keyboard, mouse, webcame, Speed Graphic, Kodak No.2 Box Brownie, Canon Ixus V2, Kiev2a, currently also my wallet, watch, house keys, car keys, TL-122-B anglehead flashlight, 2 bookcases worth of CDs and DVDs, 5 years worth of White Dwarf Magazine, a WW1 US Army Mess tin, Some spare Jeep Parts, a regular cornucopiea of model aircraft bits, paint, brushes, glue, a few WW2 helmets, and a stuffed Unix Penguin called Tux....

A regular hoard you might call it...except that there's no gold.
 
"None of the above". On mine, I have a Palm Lifedrive loaded with Goon Show recordings and a glass of water (great for recovering from a night on the guinness).

No renditions of "He's fallen in the water" please. 🙂
 
Currently the only thing I have next to my bed (don't have a night table, so it just lays on the floor...) is the book The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
 
robbiechad said:
350D-User,
How many of the people on here will know what " he's fallen into the water" is or where it comes from!!
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Well I, for one, got the reference.

On my "night table" (which isn't, really, but a chest of drawers suffices) is a lamp, a pile of books I'm in the process of reading (I pick up whichever one suits the mood) and the contents of my pockets from the night before. The alarm clock sits further away, so I have to get up to hit it. I refuse to do the notebook (in my case a tablet PC) and wireless internet thing. While I might be tempted to read internet forums or whatever, what would really happen is that I'd get e-mail then start working. No thanks. All computers stay resolutely away from that part of the house.

Oh, and right now there's a Kiev IIa sitting there 'cause I was looking at it last night, trying to spot an obvious reason why the RF is so thoroughly out of alignment (a recently received eBay acquisition). Since I know nothing of Contax, Kiev or even Nikon RFs, I remain as clueless as I was before looking.

...Mike
 
Let's see... lamp, Oregon Scientific atomic clock projection thinggy, Per-Olov Enquist's "Captain Nemo's Library" (in Swedish), and a roll of XP2 (unexposed).
 
Well, since I've left the cocoon of bachelorhood for about the last two years (cohabitation, actually...in my childhood it would simply be called Living in Sin), I've had to clean up my bedside act a bit. No, not what you think – just a tidiness issue, although I'd largely gotten it together before really getting together with galfriend.

On my side of the bed resides a cheap-but-cheerful iPod clock radio. The thing is, I'm actually into old-school alarm clocks...the kind you wind up, and have gorgeous luminous hands and indices. For a lot of people, even a soft ticking can drive them up the wall; not me...it actually has something of a lulling effect upon me (perhaps being horologically inclined has something to do with it, but I'm not speculating on that for now). For the moment, however, it's all-digital with my choice of music, complete with remote control, which ican be addictive. I just wish the display had a better dimmer control...galfriend still considers the "dimmest" level way-the-bleep too bright, so I have to throw something over the thing.

What else? A book or two, maybe an article from a website that I printed out, or my notebook and (fountain) pen, in case I have some weird or revelatory dream where the details have to be written down immediately upon awakening. This does happen, but not with terrible frequency.

But, all communications devices are banished from the bedside. No phones, cellular or landline, are allowed, nor is the laptop (my idea, reinforced by GF). In the 21st century, you have to draw a line somewhere. 🙂


- Barrett
 
Lamp, phone, watch, change tray, wallet, Moleskine, pen, glass of water, latest copy of collective agreement, Newton 2100 Messagepad, two batteries for a Mac Portable, and some dust.
 
Book I am currently reading, (The Accidental by Ali Smith) Lamp, photos of my kids, my notebook and pencil - I tend to get inspiration in the middle of the night.

Beside my night table is a pile of books, waiting to be read, I tend to get given books at Xmas and birthdays, so have a stockpile, then re stock every couple of months. ( I read one to two books a week) I also have a "I am Not This Body" by Barbara Ess to look at. There is also a small bottle of mineral water.....

Pretty much the same as everyone else......yawn
 
Right now its a bunch of my prized "toys" as a matter of fact. An Asahi Pentax S-1 with an 85mm f 1.8 preset lens, a Leica 111a and Summaron 35 with a Canon 35mm finder, an M3 with a bayonet mount Summaron and Leica finder multi-finder and an M4-P with a 90mm Tele-elmarit. All lined up nicely like good little children, so I can kiss them good night.
 
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