... is dedicate part of each Deduction Donnerstag to a single person's pictures. That way you could use all of these, but not have to do them all at once.

(One thing that would be very entertaining, I think, is for you to be given anonymous desk+hand photos and try to deduce who they're from. Might need you to hang around the Board long enough to know everyone, though...!)

hS

From this collection of pictures, I can deduce that the suspect:
- Uses keyboards.
- Which are black
- With white lettering

- Uses a laptop
- Which is also black
- Which has a keyboard
- Which is black
- Which uses white lettering

- Has a five fingered hand
- Which is used to operate keyboards
- Which are black
- With white lettering
- Which are connected to a laptop (also black)
- Which has a keyboard
- Which is black
- Which has white lettering

- Has a keyboard with white lettering
- The keyboard is black

- Has a black keyboard
- With white lettering
- That he puts his five-fingered hand on

We can conclude that Desdendelle:
- Uses keyboards.
- Which are black
- With white lettering

- Uses a laptop
- Which is also black
- Which has a keyboard
- Which is black
- Which uses white lettering

- Has a five fingered hand
- Which is used to operate keyboards
- Which are black
- With white lettering
- Which are connected to a laptop (also black)
- Which has a keyboard
- Which is black
- Which has white lettering

- Has a keyboard with white lettering
- The keyboard is black

- Has a black keyboard
- With white lettering
- That he puts his five-fingered hand on


I don't want to make any wild jumps in logic, but I think that Des might use a laptop.
Colour of keyboard and lettering shall go unconfirmed, for now.

I don't know as much about you as I do about Ix and hS, so I'll have a go. {= )

That red mark on your left hand is interesting. The image resolution isn't too good, but the edges don't appear to be distinct. I'm gonna say that's a burn, and since coming into contact with a hot object would leave a well-defined mark, I'm going to say further that it was caused by a hot liquid. Tea-making injury, perhaps?

In general, your hands don't bear any obvious scars, they're not tanned, and the nails are long and clean. You don't get outside much, and you don't do anything that requires much of your hands indoors, either. Otherwise your nails wouldn't be so neat, or else you'd keep them short. Study and office work, all the time. The redness of your fingers and lack of prominent veins suggests you're cold. You have air conditioning, probably. Israel isn't exactly known for being frigid.

The desk looks like a student's desk, though it's not a dorm configuration I'm familiar with. It's fixed to the wall and the floor is tile (I can see it in the first hand picture). It could go either way, but I think this is probably your desk at home, not at school; definitely not at work.

You live at your desk. You've got everything you could possibly want within reach, even if you don't use it very often. Whatever you're currently working on migrates to the top/front of the pile; everything else drifts to the bottom/back. Suggests a mind that keeps track of things and doesn't need external organization to stay focused. You probably know exactly what and where everything is in those piles.

The scissors puzzle me. They're for precision work, like snipping thread or personal grooming. I don't see anything that suggests you sew, so I'm leaning toward the latter. Maybe you use them on your nails, though the length and smoothness of them suggests you haven't cut them recently. I don't see a mirror, either, which you'd want if the scissors were for facial hair. Yet the scissors are right there, so you did use them, and whatever might go with them, quite recently. Maybe the roll of toilet paper is a clue, in which case I'd think you were grooming your facial hair and might have needed to blot a small cut or two, but maybe not. The paper roll might go with the empty plate. Need More Data.

Speaking of that plate, though, you like sushi, don't you? It could be something more akin to tapas, I guess, but those regular dots on the plate look a whole lot like a line of sushi roll pieces to me, with the odd dark dot of soy or maybe unagi sauce. Possibly homemade, though I'm not sure you did it yourself; if you did, it's not something you do regularly. People who work with food keep their nails short. No chopsticks, but if you rolled it with your own hands, there's no reason not to eat it with your hands. Plus, there's a bottle of what might be hand sanitizer there, and the aforementioned paper roll. You keep your hands clean enough to eat with, and also not to leave much obvious smut on your keyboard.

There's an accumulation of dust and gunk between the keys and where your hands rub against it (unless it's just shadow + low image quality), but that'll happen with regular use anyway. It's probably a few years old. You don't spring for new technology as long as the old things still work. Considering the Board's demographic, you probably couldn't afford to even if you wanted to.

I also note that, like me, you own a camera, but didn't bother using it to take these pictures. Too difficult to operate with one hand, right? And higher image quality means harder to actually get that image quality if your hands won't stay still.

... And that's what stands out to me. How'd I do?

~Neshomeh

Holding a pen.

You, Nesh, and I have similar handwriting styles in that they're not very stylized. They're more designed for speed, with little flair. The focus is more on the content of the piece rather than its presentation, if that makes sense.

So I wonder how many other Boarders have a similar style, since this is such a writing-focused community.

I took some pictures of my hands, now that there's some almost-decent light to be had. No cheating and looking at these before you're done with my handwriting, though!

Left hand: Back Palm

Right hand: Back Palm

Holding pen: Above Side

~Neshomeh

I could probably analyse something. I mean, that clock and desk are pretty cheap-looking, and I'm completely certain that you're around Uni from all those awards and posters and whatnot, but, honestly, I just want to know the story behind the butterfly.

I just deduced the room, and it told me quite a bit. This made me feel quite smart, and despite the fact that it took forever, I'm proud of the results. They are as follows:

-Right handed
-non-English writing; with some help from Google I was able to see that it was Polish.
-GMT+ 2 Time Zone, which fits. This I was able to confirm by finding the time you'd taken the picture with the image of the PPC Board open on one of your computers.
-Electrical sockets confirm that you are, in fact, somewhere in Europe.
-Student, judging by the ID badge on the wall. Diploma tells me that you're a Uni student.
-You enjoy crime shows/detective stuff as a genre.
-Pictures on the wall show that you may have siblings, though this is unclear. The tinfoil butterfly, as well as the vaguely female shapes in the photo, imply that this person/people is/are female.
-I believe you have a car, since you have what appear to be car keys. This also implies that you're not in a larger city, where transportation such as taxis and the Tube would be available.
-I'd say your phone is Samsung, judging by the fact that both your computers are of that brand.
-You enjoy video games.
-There is most likely a television somewhere in your room or flat, considering the amount of DVDs and things on your shelves.
-You have a game of Tarot cards, by the placement of them on your shelf, you aren't superstitious.
-You like to listen to music.
-Do you take some sort of medication? I'm unsure.
-You wear glasses! (Me too.)
-I also happened to find your real name hidden in this photo, which I will not reveal because this is the Internet.

That's all I was able to deduce, although I will send more if I'm able to think of others. How'd I do?

-Vee

but I know Tinypic can have some problems.

Anyway, onto the photo itself. Not looking at anything other than the photo, your love of Harry Potter is apparent, the posters for the first two movie posters makes that apparent. Bottom left is the poster for Assassin's Creed Unity, but obviously not the English poster like the one's for Harry Potter, interesting but nothing massive (that being said something looks off about the bottom Harry Potter poster, can't say what though). You have two computers (or rather a laptop and a computer) which suggests to me you need your laptop for work, and it's work not education due to the little card in the centre of the screen (OK you could be in University, but a couple of the certificates suggest to me otherwise). You don't appear to drive, or if you do you keep your car keys away from your house keys, (key ring looks like it doesn't hold a car key on it). On a slightly separate note I'd say you're right handed from the scissors on your shelf. Also you either used to, or you may need to take some form of medication (or you're super organized for when you are ill) there are too many boxes in the little shelf bit of you desk otherwise.

Now your shelf, it was the first thing that attracted my attention (I'm a massive gamer), and I can clearly see some games on there, you're a fan of the Sims series, you've got Sims 3 and two of its expansions on the shelf, nearby some other big titles like Black Ops, Watch Dogs and Saints Row IV. As the Assassins Creed poster suggests, you're a fan of that series as well, with all of the games up to Black Flag taking up a centre spot on your shelf. Saying that, and noting Mirror's Edge, I'd say you like parkour, or at least the idea of it. You're not like some gamers who prefer one type of game and you've probably been playing games for a while, I can't remember when the Sam & Max came out but it wasn't recently and its hard to get a physical copy of some of the older games now.

A quick trip to Google suggests you're Polish, and as a final thing whatever is in the left leg of your desk you want to keep private.

That's what I see anyway.

Storme Hawk

How about now?

But there is a 503 error with the link.

No, it was not creepy or weird in the slightest. I had a blast. They were also really hard, which now makes me curious as to what did cause those injuries. My abductions are below:

Hand Deductions

#1 Was this from a sharp tool, such as scissors? The shape of the indent made me immediately think of scissors. Gardener? Possibly a tool from the garden, my other guess would be a cooking tool. Your hands look rather weathered and callused, making me infer that you may work with them often (hence the gardener conclusion). It's definitely an older wound, though, and most likely had scabbed at one point.

#2 This one appears to be a burn. The signs of the "tightened" skin, and red areas are the most clear out of all of them. However, that would be an odd place to burn your hand, which casts doubts onto the conclusion. (It would, however, support the idea that #1 was from a cooking tool - I'm still unsure.) It also appears that you have a habit of picking at your wounds.

#3 Totally stumped me. I will, on occasion, get marks like those on my own thumb, and I still have no idea what caused them. However, the placement makes me think that the injury is maybe a paper cut, or even caused by another nail scraping against that area. Apart from that, though, I have no idea.

Other Abductions Include: You are right handed, due to the fact that people tend to injure their dominant hand more often simply because they use it more. Is your computer old? The keyboard is rather reminiscent of a Dell that I used to own. Also, crumbs suggest that you may have had a snack at the computer. Are you a student?

Conclusion: These were a lot of fun, but stay safe! Thank you for the lovely material to work with. :)

-Vee

I'll get to the injuries in a moment, I want to talk about other things first. Also, I don't mean any of this to be a judgement on you, if any of it comes off that way.

1) Clean and freshly clipped fingernails. Evident from the clear straight lines (especially evident on your middle finger in picture one). You are clearly not a nail biter, which rules that out as cause for the injuries. However, I see that the skin around the nails bears signs of damage. So, perhaps you pick at the skin. Still, the minor injuries around the other nails doesn't match the larger injury, so I doubt they are related.

2) Discoloration on the fingers and pads of the hand. Because of the cleanliness of the fingernails, I can say that the darkened patches are not dirt, but rather callouses. These are hands that have seen some hard work. Specifically, these are hands used to holding heavy loads by a strap or handle. The direction of the callous (thicker closer to the palm, but resetting after each joint) says the skin was rubbed toward the finger tips. I note that the injury in photo two is in line with the callouses on the other fingers, potentially making it a callous that wore off.

3) There is evidence of previous injury in photos one and three. I note a small, smooth edged scar on the inside of the thumb in photo three. Probably a small cut; likely from something pretty sharp. The current wound is too shallow to be a cut, however, so the scar is likely unrelated. In photo one, there are small abrasions on the sides of your fingers and also a milk spot, which is often caused by injury to the nail, on the ring finger's nail.

Conclusions:

Your hands have it pretty rough. You work in a pretty physical job, which caused the callouses and injury in photo two. You pick the skin around your nails, which likely led to the small injury in photo three. The injury in photo one is the interesting one, for me. It is beyond normal wear and tear. I would suspect that that finger got pinched or caught in something, which ripped the skin away in that larger, almost blister-like area.

So, there you have it. Was I close or was I totally off the mark?

-Phobos Holmes

Analyzing the pictures, if those are the only three injuries on your hands I doubt it was self inflicted for three reasons 1) they're the only injuries on your hand, 2) they're placed all wrong for any tool I know of, unless the sharp edge of said tool inflicted the injuries (I'll explain that one later). 3) the injury on the little finger of your right hand, looking at it, it looks like one wound, but on inspection there is a bridge of skin between the two parts of the injury, given the pictures I doubt your hands have had that long to recover making it part of the healing process impossible (for now).

So picking up from 2), I noticed in the edge of the first picture there's some corrugated card with something resting on top of it, my guess would be that, due to the shape of the thing on the corrugated card and the size of the desk your computer stands upon, that you are into modelling of one thing or another, this suggests to me that the injuries are from a craft knife (or something similar) when you were trying to ether cut out or customize some sort of model. I'm fairly certain I've seen similar injuries on a friend who did that sort of thing.

My other guess would be in the vicinity of a rough encounter with some overenthusiastic ducks or swans or geese who thought your hand contained more bread than it did.

So, they are my guesses, they're probably completely wrong but, hey.

Very small crocodiles.

WARNING: AMATEUR, SLEEP-DEPRIVED DEDUCTION AHEAD.

Two of the three injuries are on your right hand. This implies to me that (assuming these were accidentally self-inflicted) you're left-handed, since I'm right-handed and I tend to injure my left more, since I clumsily wield the offending tool in my dominant hand.

Of course, this is also working on the assumption these injuries weren't caused by you not yanking your fingers away fast enough from a hungry emu...

I quite like that suggestion, especially with the fact that I'm German myself. Thank you!

A shame about the links. Here they are, plain and simple:
http://everydaydeductionist.tumblr.com
http://everydaydeductionist.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-fun-little-computer-trick.html?m=1
Ta-da!

-Vee