As good a way as any to get this blog back to life...
On my desk you'll find:
A few Books:
- Howard N. Fox, Eleanor Antin, L.A. County Museum of Arts, 1999.
- P. Chabot & G. Hottois (eds), Les philosophes et la technique, J. Vrin, 2003.
- Technology and Culture, vol. 48, n. 1, Jan. 2007.
- Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken, French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830, MIT Press, 2006.
- David A. Kirsch, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History, Rutgers U.P., 2000.
- Christophe, L'idée fixe du Savant Cosinus, 1900 [reprint Armand Colin, 1946].
Two Atlases, for Paris and Metro Philadelphia and a map of the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Several packs of photographs: 3×4" prints of XIXth Century works of arts, 4×6" prints of Amsterdam, Philadelphia and Paris, 7×11" prints of many different places, plus one framed picture of Gamkaskloof, South Africa.
A pile of xeroxed archive documents concerning an XVIIIth Century gun foundry.
Lots of personal documents that ought to be stored, archived, destroyed or maybe answered, who knows. Among those: my passport, several train tickets and a heap of bank statements.
A few electronic devices among which a Canon Lide 80 scanner, a Garmin etrex GPS, a Palm Tungsten craddle, an Apple Ibook and a Dell laptop, plus various peripherals: earphones, mouse, and all kind of cables; and the old Texas Instrument 57-LCD I've had since high school.
Many pencils and pens of various types, thickness and hardness, plus rulers and dividers, all stored in a large beer mug. Also: a magnifier, scissors and two penknives.
A belt with the great buckle I got for my birthday last week. A pair of leather gloves. My keys. My watch. A few coins. A lamp
That's it - my desk. What's on yours?
