I am about to leave Rome for a holiday+work trip that will also take me to London to the great Science Blogging Conference, on August 30.
When I will be back to Rome I will have to change desk. So, just like Seed Magazine, I am going to feature my soon-to-be-ex workbench.

Probably you will read the text better on this larger version
See ya in London.
Massimo
I love this! I should have taken a picture of my desk, but I already took my favourite desk toys and all of my papers home. I do have a picture of my old lab bench, from when I didn’t have a lot of space.
Great picture, Massimo – I look forward to meeting you at the blogfest.
Your picture is great. I have to say, though, that your office space looks suspiciously neat and organized. Mine (at home, at least) looks like this
but as I have a laptop it has the potential to look like this
oops – sorry – wrong photo. What I Meant was this:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2619695334_ee5ec331c3.jpg?v=0
Buggeration!!!
Haha. Henry – in the picture of your desk, what are those yelow and grey things to the left of the laptop? It looks like you’re cultivating giant bumble bees.
That’s because they are giant bumble-bees.
Ha! I can be messier than that, though…
Henry, and what is the lovely pen drawing of a lady stuck on the board?
It’s a picture by either Gee Minor or Minima…
It looks like you’re cultivating giant bumble bees.
I thought they were marzipan hedgehogs.
I’ve never seen marzipan hedgehogs, but I’d like to believe that they exist.
Massimo, your workspace is so tidy! I’ve tried keeping the papers I’m working on in nice neat files, but they refuse to stay that way.
Actually, they are hosepipe couplings, connected with me ongoing rainwater-saving projects.
By my standards, my workspace is pretty tidy actually. Us
lion tamersproperty loss adjusters where possible like to have a tidy desk.Do marzipan hedgehogs often look like they’ve been shaved around the middle? I’ll admit to being ignorant about their particulars, although I too would like to believe they exist.
Massimo – I’m looking forward to seeing you at the end of the month!
My desk looks tidy, because everything is piled underneath it. Soon my desk will reach the ceiling…
Do marzipan hedgehogs often look like they’ve been shaved around the middle?
I don’t think so, Bob-it looked to me as if there were two marzipan hedgehogs in the white bowl. Or perhaps two hard-boiled egg yolks.
Have a wonderful time at the blogging conference, Massimo! I shall be very envious of all of you, and I expect to be notified immediately if any marzipan hedgehogs are spotted. Or striped.
Are marzipan hedgehogs inermous?