# Once more, with feeling: what's on your desktop? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171 "2009-01-27T02:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/21 "2009-01-27T05:58:11Z")
I can’t remember the last time I had wallpaper. My desktop gets so messy all the time. But I took [this photo](http://flickr.com/photos/zipperjj/2865146569/) of my baby Dolly swimming in a pond, and it made me so excited that I put her up in the top right corner with a gradient into a matching green. Looks like she’s swimming on my desktop! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/22 "2009-01-27T06:50:42Z")
> [@Millit\_the\_Frail](#): > > I’ve had [this](http://www.losthatch.com/images%5Cscreen_captures%5CS1E15_Driveshaft_134.jpg) up for a while. Most people think it looks cool. And then some of them look closer and start laughing. That’s great! I had a slideshow of a couple of LOL Cats pictures, but I just switched a few weeks ago to [this picture](http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p241/Betsey38/cats/bigboomer.jpg) of my cat Boomer. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/23 "2009-01-27T07:19:57Z")
> [@Millit\_the\_Frail](#): > > I’ve had [this](http://www.losthatch.com/images%5Cscreen_captures%5CS1E15_Driveshaft_134.jpg) up for a while. Most people think it looks cool. And then some of them look closer and start laughing. Surely it should be song number 815. I change my wallpapers regularly, to all sorts of esoteric stuff. I’ve been in a bit of a solitary mood, so [this one](http://www.guanolad.com/stuff/desktop_27jan.jpg) seems to suit me for now. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/24 "2009-01-27T07:36:02Z")
I have a [picture](http://picasaweb.google.com/izodonia/UntitledAlbum#5295872835288678866)of my son parading down Rothschild Blvd. last Purim. I really should change it - it’s been almost a year. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/25 "2009-01-27T07:41:39Z")
[Before i switched to Linux](http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c179/chrisbooth12/bg-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/26 "2009-01-27T09:19:44Z")
I can’t stand having too many desktop icons. [Mine! Unf unf.](http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll135/WithButterflies/desktop.jpg?t=1233047916) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/27 "2009-01-27T09:58:54Z")
[![](https://melevsreef.com/29g/above_maxima.jpg) ](https://melevsreef.com/29g/above_maxima.jpg) A nice picture of a Maxima Clam. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/28 "2009-01-27T10:14:50Z")
A picture of the fire in our fireplace, it looks good on a cold winter night. [![](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/3230439925_6c0dffb4ed.jpg?v=0) ](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/3230439925_6c0dffb4ed.jpg?v=0) ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/29 "2009-01-27T14:01:49Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Lovely - beautiful flowers. I’m using this picture of my [lollypop Asiatic lily from last summer.](http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lollypoplilyvj6.jpg) It’s a gorgeous flower - it starts out almost pure white, and gradually pinks up as it ages. That’s beautiful. I have a [few](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/Flowers/PinkLily.jpg) [lily](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/Flowers/000_0078.jpg) [pictures](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/Flowers/000_0089.jpg) that I used last week. I can’t wait for Spring. At least it comes early here. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/30 "2009-01-27T14:34:06Z")
Here at work, I’ve got a colorful pentomino design that I like. At home, I’m still clinging to old obsessions - various collages of the female cast from “Roswell” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/31 "2009-01-27T14:34:46Z")
> [@Karyn](#): > > That’s beautiful. I have a [few](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/Flowers/PinkLily.jpg) [lily](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/Flowers/000_0078.jpg) [pictures](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/KGpictures/Flowers/000_0089.jpg) that I used last week. > > I can’t wait for Spring. At least it comes early here. Ooh, so pretty. I love lilies - I’ll be taking many pictures next summer since I discovered how to take pictures of flowers (close-up - I don’t know why it took me so long to figure that out). ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/32 "2009-01-27T14:39:21Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Ooh, so pretty. I love lilies - I’ll be taking many pictures next summer since I discovered how to take pictures of flowers (close-up - I don’t know why it took me so long to figure that out). That was the first thing that I learned to do with my new camera. I still don’t have a lot of pictures of the garden areas as a whole but I have close-ups of most of the flowers. It’s fun to see how close you can get before it blurs. Maybe we should start a flower picture thread so that I don’t have to change screen savers every hour or so to have an excuse to post flowers : ) ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/33 "2009-01-27T14:48:34Z")
I love the way this looks at [night](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28666247@N03/3231672996/). I’m kind of cutting down on icons and I’ve recently been converted to having the taskbar hidden. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/34 "2009-01-27T14:55:48Z")
The lovely [Jezebel](http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g161/twickster/kitties/jez20808.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/35 "2009-01-27T19:50:15Z")
Very Jezebel-y pose there, **twickster**! I can’t code to save my life, but mine at home is a pic from Life/Google images of an elderly lady licking frosting off her fingers. She’s very starched and prissy, and then eating frosting like there’s no tomorrow. I put it up after my birthday Christmas – that’s going to be me in fifty years. Except for the prissy part. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/36 "2009-01-27T20:04:19Z")
Got a [picture](http://www.flickr.com/photos/33412445@N04/3232320896/sizes/l/) of me and sweetie at an art festival in Detroit last September. It was in an old converted industrial complex, and one of the tenants was a photographer who was offering free portraits. You had 10 seconds after you poked your head in the door to sit down on the yellow chair or miss your chance. It’s not a terribly _flattering_ photo -I was caught mid-giggle- but I think it’s sweet. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/37 "2009-01-27T20:48:01Z")
[Monthly Calendar Desktop](http://www.eaa.org/wallpaper/) ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/38 "2009-01-27T20:52:16Z")
> [@Millit\_the\_Frail](#): > > I’ve had [this](http://www.losthatch.com/images%5Cscreen_captures%5CS1E15_Driveshaft_134.jpg) up for a while. Most people think it looks cool. And then some of them look closer and start laughing. Can someone slip me a clue on this one? I really don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/39 "2009-01-27T20:59:00Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > Some hotness and too many desktop icons for my liking: > > [http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/E9m5BaIUkG8qjF6hi\_IsXQ?feat=directlink](http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/E9m5BaIUkG8qjF6hi_IsXQ?feat=directlink) I _must_ have that! Can you link it without the icons? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171/40 "2009-01-27T21:13:42Z")
> [@brewha](#): > > Can someone slip me a clue on this one? I really don’t get it. I’m guessing the joke is because it’s a screen capture from LOST, so Drive Shaft is not a real band. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-more-with-feeling-whats-on-your-desktop/483171.md?page=3)