Here's what my desk looks like...
[img]http://bash.org/mess/albums/accepted/382128_PinkFuzzyBunny.sized.jpg[/img]

Looks like mine!

it's actually the winner of the messy desk contest at bash.org, but I just love these messy computer bits so much, please post more if you find them :D

An ashtray would make that completely disgusting.

My parents would kill me if my desk got a quarter that messy.

[quote author=Newby link=board=4;threadid=6185;start=0#msg53782 date=1081292196]
My parents would kill me if my desk got a quarter that messy.
[/quote]What about an 8th? Slob.

How do you know what is where?

there is a distinct pattern to this guys orginization pattern. I think it should be obvious, though I can't express this pattern using an elementry function or an infinite series... it's there though.

[quote author=Etheran link=board=4;threadid=6185;start=0#msg54288 date=1081546143]
I can't express this pattern using an elementry function or an infinite series... it's there though.
[/quote]
Just plug in the details into the Lagrange interpolating polynomial formula and/or apply a Fourier transform...