I'm with you on the periodic cleaning/rearrangement gig. The combination of refreshing cleanliness and improvement in arrangement is awesome. I got a little of that action going the other day, actually.

I dig hand-holdable personal crap. I don't understand having lame shit like model airplanes or art prints from K-Mart around. I like stuff I can pick up and think about or just play with for a while, like, a stepper motor from an old hard disk drive, a sphere of fused optical fibers, or a castle nut from my car. Stuff that's interesting up close and personal and that constantly reminds of me of important concepts or events.

If I walk into somebody's office area thingy, and all I see besides a computer is van Gogh's Starry Night and a 747, I'll be unimpressed instantly.

I hope to work for somebody in the future who's down with my hauling in an old Zenith and my Super Nintendo so I can rock Super Metroid now and again, if I'm stumped by some problem, or just on a lunch break. That would be the ultimate situation. Probably not realistic.