Who/What's on your Screen Saver?

[PunditLisa]

Sometimes I like to go back to the Desktop of my computer, just to admire a most awesome picture I have on Patrick Rafter....I'd post it here but then again, I'm techno-impaired.

Which begs the question? What/Who do you have set as your wallpaper or screen saver?

[PunditLisa]

Aw, geesh, I MUST learn to proofread. I have a picture OF Patrick Rafter, not ON Patrick Rafter. Freudian slip.

[TheThill]

Various trains crossing the screen with train information. And no, I didn't pay for the full version (yet).

[Sunshine]

Hmm...my screen saver is the time. In 3-d. Pretty boring.
But my wallpaper is a picture I drew myself in Paintbrush. Cool, except it makes people think I have a 4 year old child.

[lieu]

My nine month old child... which makes people think I have a nine month old child.

[Chance the Gardener]

Mine has the Roman numeral CCXLVII in red on a scrolling marquee. It means something to me, anyway.

[vix]

Screen saver=sig.

[caveman]

the Gorillaz: Murdoc, 2-D, Russel and Noodle...

[racinchikki]

I had Opal's screensaver of Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, but my roommate was annoyed by the constant boinging so I have it set to blank screen.

[fish in the sky]

I have Opal's pogo Jesus for my screensaver, too.

::boingboingboing::

Right now my desktop wallpaper is this photo of a "Bucth/Femme Party" (http://www.sappho.com/vintage/photos/ButchFemmeParty.html) but I usually change it every couple days. Last week it was Van Gogh's "Starry Night".

[Mythos45]

My Wallpaper: A black 2001 Chevrolet Z-28 Camaro hardtop.

My screensaver: 75 or so Lamborghini Diablo pictures, changing every 5 seconds, made with SaverWiz. Coming soon: Chevy Camaro screensaver.

[NutWrench]

I've got UD Agent Screensaver running (http://members.ud.com/home.htm), looking for a cure for cancer.
But the Jesus Christ on a pogo stick sounds pretty cool, too. :)

[Mauvaise]

I don't use screen savers. Whenever I'm away from my computer long enough to warrant one, I just turn off the monitor.

My wallpaper is varied .. I usually change it every few days (at home). At work it's a kalidescope picture of my cat that a friend made for me.

[Eutychus]

Spongebob Squarepants ... both as a desktop theme and a screen saver.

[Michael Ellis]

Wallpaper: The "Don't Panic" guy.
Screensaver: Plain old starfield

[MrVisible]

I've got the Renee Magritte desktop theme, with a screensaver based on Golconde, with guys in bowler hats falling down the screen at a stately pace.

[bobkitty]

Mmmmmmm.. At home, Anthony Stewart Head, in many incarnations (including one snip of Adam Klaus.. HAH!). On both work computers are different Buffy: tVS compliations, though I had to change one because it had a *very* revealing pic of Charisma Carpenter (in a bra) and my boss would completely lose track of what he was saying whenever it came on. :D

-BK

[Guinastasia]

Wallpaper-one I made, featuring pictures of Grand Duchess Olga of Russia and King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia.

Screensaver-the 3D maze set to psychadelic colors.

[GuanoLad]

I make my own wallpapers, with images I obtain from my other job. Some of them are really nice too.

I don't have a screensaver. Modern monitors don't really need them, actually. Or so I've been told.

[PlanMan]

At home,
wallpaper = Earth at night, that I got from a link on the SDMB
screen saver = Organic Art, many many morphing images

At work,
wallpaper = night time pic. of a cable-stayed bridge here in town
screen saver = Globe from virtual geo-sync orbit over home town, the day/night terminator moves in real time - you can set it over any Lat/Long, sometimes I shift to the North or South Pole (The North Pole, a guy named Nanook Walinski)

[AbbySthrnAccent]

The wallpaper is a pretty good shot of the kid waterskiing barefoot. The screen saver is the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project (http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=4E1B6637-F496-46EF-BA6B-CC173E128EFB ). It shows the molecule and protein the package is researching at the moment.

[PunditLisa]

Chance, I've been staring at you expectantly for a few hours. Are you going to tell us what those Roman numerals mean or not???

[thermalribbon]

Wallpaper: Picture of the Boundary Waters National Wilderness & Canoe Area in No. Minnesota

Screen Saver: O Brother Where Art Thou

[slortar]

At home I don't use screensavers--I usually just turn the monitor off.

At work, when I often leave my desk w/o notice and don't want passing coworkers to be able to read my monitor, I use a version of MAME that's been modified to run as a screensaver--it plays PacMan or Ms Pacman. No sound, though. :( You can, however, drop a few "quarters" in and play a game or two.

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

Wallpaper: a picture of my husband and son in matching carhartts in the workshop. My son is 6 months old and bald as a cueball.

Screen Saver: Iron Giant

[lolagranola]

I have a Buffy the Vampire Slayer desktop and screensaver. I had to get a perfect score on a Buffy quiz to get the background.

[Mikahw]

I have a scrolling marquee which reads This Screen saver really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, sucks.

[Skelji]

My monitor just blanks out after 20 minutes of inactivity.

Dull, I know.

[Chance the Gardener]

Originally posted by PunditLisa
Chance, I've been staring at you expectantly for a few hours. Are you going to tell us what those Roman numerals mean or not???

Heh... sorry. I would have cleared things up last night, but it was a late night out in exciting Hoboken, New Jersey, and I was in no condition to post when I got in. So I didn't.

Anyhow, CCXLVII is the greatest number of miles I've ever managed to ride my bike in a week's time—technically, three days' biking, from Boston and across Connecticut to the New York border. It's a challenge I've laid down to myself to exceed that number, but I never managed to do it this summer. I might have been able to, but having to spend my days at work cuts in to my biking time something awful, you see...

So I've got a pipe dream to bike from New York City to the western border of Pennsylvania, right into the small burg of Brookfield, Ohio. That's close to... um... CD miles, or so (sticking with the Roman numeral motif). This summer, I barely managed a hundred in one week. I've been a little too busy, like I said.

(Oi, why can't I give short answers?)

[Legomancer]

Wallpaper rotates, currently is this neat rendered scene of a gazebo or something. You can see it here:

http://www.geocities.com/dlartigue/deskcam.html

when I have my dekcam on, which lately hasn't been that often.

My screensaver is usually Folding At Home, but I turned it off a few days ago cause it was messing with my SNES Emulator and I forgot to turn it back on.

[bobkitty]

Originally posted by lolagranola
I have a Buffy the Vampire Slayer desktop and screensaver. I had to get a perfect score on a Buffy quiz to get the background.

HEY! Where can I get that???? You know, you can never have enough Buffy!!!

(says the woman who has Buffy sounds for *everything* on *all* computers and is slowly driving her hubby mad with Giles' "A vampire in love with a Slayer. It's rather poetic. In a maudlin sort of way.' quote.)

-BK

[Bumbazine]

At work:
Wallpaper: Earth at Night, from a BMP sent to me by Zenster.
Screen saver: An AVI screensaver I put together featuring AVIs of the French Aerotrain (http://aernav.free.fr/Galerie/I80_HV_1.html) monorail experiments. The AVIs could be downloaded from here, (http://aernav.free.fr/Aerotrain/Video/Video_Aerotrain.html) if the site were working properly. There is, or was, an English language version of this site, but I can't find it at present.

At home:
Wallpaper: A picture of myself and my 4 year old granddaughter.
Screen saver: Some underwater theme thing. It may even be a Microsquash screensaver, I don't remember.

[FairyChatMom]

I have the earth at night for my work wallpaper, and my screen saver is 3-D text that says "Save the screens" - I'm so clever!!

At home, the wallpaper is a photo of the Thomas Point light in the Chesapeake Bay. We don't use a screen saver because the monitor goes to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity.

[ninja_rydr]

My wallpaper came from http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/ and my screen saver is the falling matrix code.

[berdollos]

a photo of a red hollyhock, previously
a picture of the earth at summer solstice from "earth and Moon Viewer"

[beegirl13]

Wallpaper: Hannibal Lecter, tiled
Screen Saver: The phrase "No killing, only maiming" scrolling in a scary red font on a black background. This is one of my favorite phrases, and was not meant to go with the wallpaper.

I am not mentally disturbed. Really.

[Ross]

I'd have crawled over broken glass to download a screensaver by Opal, but... well, I guess y'all will understand. Not that I'm suggesting He wouldn't like pogo sticks.

So I download pretty much every screensaver I find. My favourites are the trumpet player and the jester from expressit.com (http://www.expressit.com/150_Freestuff/153_Screen_Savers/ssavers.asp), the incomparable Johnny Castaway (http://www.freesaver.com/johnny.htm), who is frankly miles more entertaining than Mr Hanks, and his spacefaring disciple PcPete (run a search).

As for wallpaper I have a copy of my impending child's ultrasound. Before that it was pretty much a free-for-all. I used Webshots for a while, and downloaded archives of cartoons to use as progressive wallpaper, but it's too hard.

[Miss Pippi]

I use WebShots and have them rotating every 10 seconds when the screen saver is on and every hour for the wallpaper. With 13 million to choose from I'm never tired of seeing them and everyone in the house can choose what they want. No one has too look at anything they don't like for more than an hour.

[lolagranola]

bobkitty, it is at:

http://www.fox.co.uk/buffy

Take the Slayer Quiz (http://www.fox.co.uk/buffy/slayerquiz.html) to get the wallpaper. If you are a fan, it's pretty easy to score perfect on the quiz. I got it on my first try. They also have another wallpaper available (without taking the quiz), and one screensaver.

[stoneytom]

Wallpaper is a shot of the Earth taken from the Moon on one of the Apollo missions.

Screensaver is Mrs. Stoney's choice - A changing series of Maxfield Parrish art. Not my favorite stuff, but in the name of harmony, I can stand it.

[brianjedi]

Wallpaper- The eclipse wallpaper that comes with Windows, although I sometimes use random Photoshop plugins to make a background.

Screensaver- The A-Team right now, but I may get a Dale Earnhardt Jr. screensaver sometime.

-Brianjedi

[Chas.E]

I like to actually SAVE my screen phosphors, so I have the screensaver set to black. Just black.

[Cyndar]

Screen saver is Catz. (of course)

Wallpaper is clouds.

[sdarr2002]

i got a great scene of a saturn 5 taking off. over and over again. i think my brother, the brain, got it from some nasa assosiated web site. it is waaaay cool.

[Annie-Xmas]

The office computer has our company name, slogan, and a list of all the people who work it. I have to update it about once a month.

I recently changed my office computer to an alphabetical list of the 18 languages of all my cast CDS. Soon to be 20!

[Cougarfang]

my wallpaper is a shot i pulled off the web of an aDORable little orange kitten in someone's hand. i luv cats. period. and my screensaver is the bouncing jubjubs one that i got off neopets. boink boink boink...

[The_Raven]

Howyadoin,

Office:
Paper - Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans Prototype or my '93 STS (random at startup)

Screen saver - Slideshow of my photos from race day at Indy 2001


Home:
Paper - Screenshot of my '59 Caddy Eldorado Biarritz from Motor City Online (racing sim)

Screen saver - None, my aging battleship monitor gets shut off when not in use, it keeps the heat in my room down. :)

-Rav

[PlanMan]

The other day at work, I downloaded a US Flag wallpaper from http://www.rock105i.com (the flagship station of Lex and Terry, but that's not why I listen, in fact, I don't listen to them).
Had to rearrange my desktop to get the shortcuts out of the stars, made the Windows desktop white, and parked the shortcuts in the bottom white stripe.
Don't tell the STO.

[frock75]

Screen Saver- I still have a Napster Screen saver. It has the Napster cat's head bouncing about the screen.

Wall paper- I have a picture of a dragon weaving in and out of a pentagram.

[Lok]

No Wallpaper, had a James Bond Goldeneye last.

SETI@Home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) for a screensaver.

[ruadh]

Mine is a Celtic FC (http://www.celticfc.net/) screensaver, of course.

[Saint Zero]

I've been through quite a few backgrounds. I've been through a lot of digitalblasphmey, and othersites. I now have one I picked up someplace, it's an Apple OSX background (I think) ported to windows. My screen saver is of Earth, from about 38k above Jackson in Geosync orbit. Cool.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Wallpaper--

Various Sorajima Prints, especially his "Sexy Robot" Series

Cartoons, simple

Cartoons, pornographic

Cartoons, Transformers-related

A couple of images of modern Russian paintings, by a veteran of the Afghan war.

Women in Gold or Silver body paint, including the famous Goldfinger Bond Girl.

Scrolling screensaver, various slogans & quotes the latter, always attributed to their authors.

[Tinkertoy]

Wallpaper: Tom Keifer (Cinderella)
Screen saver: Mel Gibson

[Jet Jaguar]

I don't have a screen saver, my monitor just blanks itself after 10 minutes and shuts itself off after another 5.

I use a random wallpaper changer so my wallpaper changes every time I start up. Some of my favourite wallpapers:

- A scene from Godzilla 2000, with the big G backlit against a huge fireball.
- A Ford GT40 in the rain at Le Mans in the mid-60's.
- A lineup of three NASA lifting body aircraft.
- A pair of SR-71 Blackbirds in the desert.
- Ayrton Senna (F1 driver) mentally preparing himself before a race.
- Gilles Villeneuve (another F1 driver) sliding through a turn at Monaco.
- A MiG-29 engulfed in flames, from a pair that collided in mid-air at the Paris air show a few years ago. (Note: the pilots of both planes ejected and landed safely.)
- A computational fluid dynamics model of the Thrust SSC (the first car to break the speed of sound).

I'm beginning to see a pattern here. They're all explosions, fast cars, and fast airplanes.

[Tuckerfan]

Wallpaper's a shot of a rather attractive red head (fully clothed, damn it!). Screen saver's the last version of After Dark, which I've set up to rotate through the various selections randomly (except for a couple of them, can't stand Out & About).

[galen ubal]

http://www.webshots.com for my screensaver and often the wallpaper. I've put in various pretty lady shots I've gathered from wandering the web. Sometimes other pictures from digitalblasphemy.com

[Infidel]

I've got a shot of Betty Page, the sexiest woman of all time, as my screensaver.

[Fiver]

At home I have a "Slide Show" screensaver that flips randomly among dozens of photos of LeAnna Scott, Lexa Doig, Eliza Dushku, Alyson Hannigan, Michelle Trachtenberg, a certain female Doper and many anonymous lovelies.

The wallpaper is usually one of these.

At work my current wallpaper is Michelle Trachtenberg in the leather pants from the new sixth-season publicity stills.

The screensaver is the three-D waving Windows logo one, only instead of the logo I've got it set to a close-up of Maggie Cheung in costume as Irma Vep.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Wallpaper: Mrs Phoenix

Screen saver: slide show of my fave actresses and singers (Winona Ryder, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Demi Moore, Natalie Imbruglia and so on).

The wife is cool with both ideas. :D

[UrbanChic]

Caillebotte's The Floor Scrapers is my wallpaper.

[slortar]

Background has now been updated to this:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010929.html

[Xixox]

My desktop image has a home-made rusty mesh motif. For screensaver, I use the 3D Flying Objects module with this little guy (http://images.cafepress.com/zoom/678546_zoom.jpg) set as the flag bitmap. I also hacked user.exe to put that guy wherever the Windows logo would normally go (Start button, error messages, etc). He's my pet project at the moment - a desktop theme I call Schiz-OS. Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com/tzar) has a couple more images I've used too.