Nerdy Ideas for Decorating a Cubicle?

[krebsicle]

So, I've been spending my whole summer working in a cubicle, and just found out that I'll be continuing my research into the year. Since I'm an undergrad, I was getting shuffled from cube to cube for a big part of the summer, but now I finally have one that I get to call my own.

 

I'd like to decorate my cubicle to make it look less like a boring grey box, but I'm not sure where to start. I'd love to include some nerdy or fitness inspirational decorations, if I can.

 

Do any of you guys work in cubes? How are yours decorated/do you have anything that you think is particularly cool?

[Teros]

get the dimensions right for a rasterbated photo.   No, that's not dirty. I believe this thing will split up pictures into 8x11s that you can print out and then tack together to make giant photos. http://rasterbator.net/

[RisenPhoenix]

I've got a couple things.  A SWAG slinky from a company trying to sell me things, a few giant microbes (I'm a microbiologist), Batman and Rouge Happy Meal toys (bequeathed to me by a friend who left the company), and three pins on my wall: a Mordin Solus face my friend sold at PAX a year or two ago, an "I <3 Nerds" one with Beaker as the "I" and Dr. Honeydew as the "<3," and a quote from Einstein: "If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research."

 

If I had a slightly cleaner desk, I'd add in some more microbes, but my house is loaded up enough with them that my nerd is sufficiently covered there.

[Caution]

I have some game posters, custom keyboards / mice, some figurines, a nerdy coffee mug, and a USB Rocket Launcher. I 

[insanity]

Photos I've taken, Walter the Dummy, a large Wal-Mart Minion and a small Mcdonalds Minion, a stupid quotes calender and a papercraft owl here...

[Callaeidae]

The general formula in labs I've worked in seems to be:
- A few scarily accurate PhD comics/xkcd comics to soothe the frayed nerves 
- Trophy swag procured from conferences or company rep visits 
- Perhaps some giant microbes (the girl sitting opposite me had this giant MRSA which used to peer accusingly over the partition into my cubicle as I was typing up my work ("you lysed them! YOU MONSTER"))

Also, depending on your particular nerdy tastes there is always another papercraft template to procrastinate with  
 

[TheOtherScott]

ThinkGeek.com has a lot of cubicle-friendly items.

[Evicious]

ThinkGeek.com has a lot of cubicle-friendly items.

 

I second the ThinkGeek.com suggestion! LOVE that site - I get lost for hours just daydreaming about all the things I could do with all the things I'll probably never buy....

[Daystar]

Video Game Home Decor on Pinterest

 

I saved this a little while ago for use in my future apartment. A lot of home stuff like pillows and the like, but a lot of great cubicle potential too!

[dntspard]

If you go with the Thinkgeek stuff make sure your work place doesn't have a rule against it...I got a whole lot of hell for having a missile launcher on the desk. Also got hell for making figures out of paperclips and D&D dice but that's different.

[Batgirl]

I've got action figures all over my desk in my cubical

[Frost of the Gloaming]

I have race bibs and movie/music posters decorating my cubicle. Plus I have wooden peg games scattered about; you know the pyramid where you have to leave one peg empty and then jump pegs until you just leave one

 

 

The local theater does old movies and re-releases the posters with it, the Scifi ones get taken as soon as they go up, but I did manage to score a Rocky Horror Picture Show and a Pink Floyd Exp "Animals"  poster

[Raxie]

I've got a floating TARDIS, a Jacob's ladder, a slinky, various little figurines & little creatures (yay dragons).  I ordered a bunch of desk stuff from Think Geek... they have AWESOME stuff as people have said already, but I liked them so much I never brought them to work.

[Minty Keen]

I wish I worked in a cube. I work retail at the moment and hate it.

Maybe decorate with a TriForce?

If it were me I'd have some pokeballs laying about, perhaps as paperweights.

Gosh, I should make pokeball paperweights. Genius.

[Batgirl]

Now I want a pokeball paperweight.