What picture do you have on your desktop background?

On my main computer desktop I have a photo of a stately-looking seagull perched on a wooden post, with high rocks jutting out of the sand and surf, that I took while driving down the Pacific coastal highway. On my other computer, I have an accessories-paint drawing of a grapevine that I doodled one day and liked.

On the two systems on my desk at work: a picture of my Sonett and a picture of one of my club's Blaniks.

I keep mine black.

It's an MC Escher theme.

At work: supermodel Caprice in a great latex outfit.
At home: A sexy pic of SVML

I don't have one right now, but I normally have a poem or something up there.

an Escher background

"xsetroot -solid black"

My pet bunny.

I've got a whole bunch of stuff I've made as desktops. If you're patient with long load times (there's a 1024x768 jpeg on each page) go to this page to see a small selection of my favorites...

My desktop machine has a scanned image of an old Chinese brush and ink drawing of a horse. I have just a black background on my notebook in order to save battery life.

My machine at work has a picture of an event from our recent client conference.

We have had many patterns and pictures of ourselves even. Right now, it's just a pretty green.

It's called xearth. It's a simple map of the earth with the lighting set to depict the current sunlight on the planet.

One of Dumbentia's 'inspirational posters' based on the seven deadly sins. This week it is Sloth, although I am thinking of going to Gluttony for a while.

this drdt, where can I get those?

My background is black. I find that pictures or colors lead to eyestrain more quickly for me thank a black background does.

The old MS clouds picture.

A funny little picture of the Defiant from Star Trek Deep Space Nine flying towards the Death Star from Return of The Jedi

I prefer a solid color - I think I actually use the Windows default color, I like it. I did go through a phase where it was a Mandelbrot set image a few months ago...

dab - I use xearth at work on my Sun. I wrote a little script that varies the size and position of the image for variety. xearth is a great program. I recently used it to create this image:

In the past I had a snow scene I drew myself, then later a picture of two hexadecimal strings being reflected in a pool of water, which I scanned from an old INPUT magazine. I found the latter to be an excellent background - the only reason I don't use it now is because I lost the scanned image in a hard drive accident and I haven't got round to re-scanning it yet.

Nice, Gilly! :)

I decided to add one today. I now have a Zorb as my desktop pattern.

I have a baby monkey on a pillow...

What is a Zorb?

I alternated between a picture of a B5 shadow ship and a photo I took of the property in NH I live on.

It used to be Tickle Me Elmdor, but now it's just Squall in a blue space background. If anyone can find me a good Kenshin background, send a link, please!

I'm so vain! I have a photo of my most recent mural scanned in and used as a background. I think it's one of my best to date and I really like it. You can look at the photo if you want.

My laptop has the image it shipped with, but flipped left-for-right. I have a "cat scan" at work, but not everyone would call where it is a "desktop".

topper

Lovely!

OK, I just snagged a mac.com address (intuition@mac.com) and threw a few more of my desktops there. These have thumbnails, so are much quicker to load the main page. The thumbnails still point to the full size pictures, though...

I like being able to customize my desktop (colors, background) - makes me feel more "at home", not to mention making things more readable/easy to use for me. For backgrounds, I tend to go for pretty tiling textures that look like complex surfaces. At work I use a grey textured one I got from Propaganda. At home I use a dark purple swirly thing (you sort of have to see it :)).

Sedi: a Zorb is an inflatable hamster ball for people.

Iīm using Maartenīs computer.

A rose.

At home I use a wallpaper changer so it changes daily. Right now there's a picture of a sunset over the ocean, but I have approximately a zillion pictures for it to choose from. At work one has a picture of Saturn and the other has various built in images that I change whenever the mood strikes.

An inflatable hamster ball for people? This intrigued me so I looked it up on the net. Now I realize that you meant that people get inside this ball.

My main workhorse has a cell of Death from Neil Gaimans Sandman, the other three are just a solid shade of colour.

It's the animated cat and mice from the Chu Chu Rocket TV commercial. How obscure is that?

(At home, it's a montage of Phantom Menace characters.)

okay, I used to have a black background but now I have this:

romkey: The one with glasses recently died, didn't she?

vos: yeah - Jennifer Paterson, she died at 71 last summer. I was very sad.

Currently, this the picture I have. Isn't she gorgeous?

Dragon pictures.

romkey: I can imagine, she was fun to watch.
Brian: cute girl, who is she? (and how do you guys insert these pics?)

vos - you add a little HTML to your comment - < image src="URL"> etc...

vos: That's Meredtih Vieira. Age: 46. Marital Status: Married to some ugly guy named Richard. Children: She has 3. Ben, Gabe, and Lily. I tell, the way she describes those kids, they're certainly intelligent and sarcastic enough to be MY children! Of course, that's possible. The oldest is 10. I was 7 when he was born. She used to be on 60 Minutes, then did some work for ABC News before becoming co-host on The View. She was born and raised in Providence, RI, coincedentally the location where one of my new favorite shows is set (but not filmed mostly).

But I'm not a stalker!

Brian: You were sexually mature at 6?!

eris: No. As a matter of fact I'm still not.

I love younger men who love older women...
Way to go Brian!!!!
and Yes, she's fukkin' hot!

OK, let me try:

I can't believe it worked!
It's Louise Brooks, btw. She was sexy when I was -38 years old..

WOW! Way to go vos....
she's fabulous

TwM: So you like my taste of women then?!

Yes!

Twist: Thanks. I think so.

nice cum stains on Louise Brooks's shirt

Need that memory...

I have multiple images of Pikachu at the moment...courtesy of my nine year old.

Pikachu is hot!
but not as hot as Jigglypuff. She's a babe!

It is a jungle scene with a giant panther.

angelina jolie... mmmm

how tasty jendis!!!

Fairuza Balk.. mmm

Fairuza Balk is a pretty remarkable looking woman. I first noticed her when she starred as a girl in the movie Return to Oz.

magbast has the hots for her too... I don't think she's that attractive... There is something about her mouth that grosses me out.

Return to Oz is one of my favorite movies! I'm still afraid of the wheelers.

Jody: That's when I first noticed her too. She's so cute in that movie.
they: That's exactly why I think she is attractive: she's not perfect. Supermodels are so pretty, it's almost boring. Fairuza has a face you just keep looking at, because it's different.

I think there are plenty of women out there that are attractive in an unconventional, non-supermodel, and interesting way. I just don't think Fairuza is attractive.

they: oke, i c.

Just Felt Like Posting It Again





Why are all the good women married?

Anon2:

anonymous 2: I hate you

anonymous 3: That's nice of you, and I appreciate the effort, but I prefer the untouched photo.

Brian: anonymous#2 is gilly (http://www.apocalypse.org/~gilly).

Gee, thanks, vos >
I intentionally didn't make an effort to hide where I posted the picture from, but it's still pretty rude to publicly out someone posting anonymously.
Brian, hope you don't take it personally -- I was bored, it was a challenge, and your posting it the second time made it just too tempting.

gilly: Although I liked your drawing, I think itīs pretty cowardly to make jokes about other people anonymously. And to have a second account to criticise other SC users.. thatīs low...

Wait, am I missing something? Where do you get the info that she has a second account? I wouldn't say that anonymous posting qualifies as a second account. Maybe I'm confused.

I don't know what you're talking about with the second account... are you implying something about me, or someone else?

Pandora & Gilly: Sorry, account is not the right word, I meant that a regular user suddenly anonymously is making jokes. You donīt need that.

Vos- In my opinion that was mean. >

I thought Gilly's picture was funny and not even mean spirited. Just a little joke.

I have a plain black screen by choice

My favorite basketball player dribbling a flaming basketball. looks hype

We change ours frequently. Had a pic of mandy's car for a while, but we tend to prefer just a colored, textured desktop rather than a photo. Right now it's teal blue with a sort of bubble pattern.

I thought both those anonymous doctored pictures were hilarious! I hope Brian did, too. I don't think it was to pick on Brian...just to get a laugh.

My desktop picture is Relena Peacecraft from "Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W". I designed it myself. Visit http://www.nausicaa.net/~nihon/contact.shtml and send me a message if you want a copy of it.

I have a picture of a woman who kind of looks like Mazzy Star.

A screen shot of the classic SEGA arcade game Shinobi.

Images are both illustrations from "Kakyuusei Screen Saver Collection" from Elf

Primary Display: Nana, Mizuho, and Mahoko
Secondary Display: Nana

The computer is named Nana, and system sounds are all Nana's (Hatamiya Kanoko a.k.a. Koike Kanoko) voice :)

Mr.Rogers holding a gun

Orion's Nebula. I tried to post a miniature of it here using ftp but couldn't figure out how.

Brian: I'd love to see that "Defiant flying into the Death Star" pic.

Blueberry: I'll let you know.

Spaceship Earth 2000 at night, from Walt Disney World's Epcot Centre.

Good question! I presently have a picture I created/plagiarized by taking the two angels from the lefthand side of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" and cropping them, and placing them on a sky blue background. I have hundreds of graphics I created myself from scratch, and some that I nicked from websites and then doctored.