August 11, 2011
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Gnome Unknown
Out of all the weird things I have on my desk, this is the only one that anyone's asked me about:

Usually, with a confused look on their face, they ask the equivalent of "What the flying fuck is that thing supposed to be?!?!"I then remove the quad coffee sleeve crown and ask them what it looks like now?

Still utterly confused, I tell them it's a ceramic garden gnome, and they make the "oh shit, yeah, I totally see it now. duh" face.Gnomie my homie (original, i know. i just came up with it right now) is courtesy of my previous job, Pronto Games. They were $1 each at Ikea, and they bought roughly a shit ton of them. There was one on just about everyone's desks, and I remember one of the window offices had the entire window lined with them. I should've grabbed more than one, cause Ikea doesn't sell them anymore
Also on my desk & in my cube, I have a Quagmire bobblehead, Buddy Christ figure (from Kevin Smith's movie, Dogma), a mini file cabinet (meant to store business cards), 4 different Oakland A's branded items, and an Apple Magic Trackpad (on a Win XP PC). But it's the stupid little Ikea garden gnome that gets all the attention.