A shelf full of Poser history.

I have a lot of stuff on my desk.  We could do a whole series on just the Poser memorabilia on my desk.  When we moved, people kept coming by my old desk and commenting on the amount of stuff I had piling into boxes.  (To be fair, I am a collector in my real life too.)  A lot of years worth of software boxes, manuals, autographed books, comic books, etc. lined my shelves and to me became a badge of pride of the accomplishments of the community.  I've been here a long time and also inherited a lot of things a long the way and stuff just seemed to amass around me. Now I have every version of Poser released collected together showing off the mind blowing progress of digital beings while trinkets and clippings aplenty dance around them.  Poser truly is the software of 1001 uses.  Poser has been featured in the New York Times, The San Jose Mercury, and been used regularly in Maxim magazine and USA Today and I've snipped everything I can, like an addict scrapbooker determined to document this wonderful world of art.  I've attended trade shows and been told by movie studios that Poser was their "little secret" to quick previsualization and then laughed when James was used by the doctors in Nip/Tuck and the Dork solved his balding problem in the informercials on my screen.  We've come a long way baby! 

What about your Poser collections?  Do you keep all your boxes and display them with pride?  How much do you remember?  Did you hear about the Swanky Voodoo Party at Siggraph in New Orleans with Curious Labs and MetaStream?  Did you get one of the benders or fake CL tattoos we gave away the next year?  Do you have Poser 5 Demystified or the Intro to Poser DVD?  How many Poser books do you own?  Who is your favorite author?  Were you one of the lucky ones to get one of the hundreds of Poser 5 boxes the staff signed as a thank you or prize?  Do you have any random poser tidbit that you treasure?  Tell us!