# What's on your desktop? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412 "2004-07-03T21:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AvadaK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@AvadaK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AvadaK)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/1 "2004-07-03T21:22:56Z")
I had a colored photograph of water for a while, that I snitched from someone’s gallery on [deviantart.com](http://deviantart.com), and then I switched to a big picture of Harry Potter. Now I’m looking for something new. Anyone have anything unusual? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/2 "2004-07-03T21:29:06Z")
There are some nice selections at [Space.com](http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/collection.php?collection=hubble_3) ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/3 "2004-07-03T21:31:22Z")
I’ve got a small bunch of large flourescent mushrooms growing up from a stone floor. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/4 "2004-07-03T21:41:53Z")
[link](http://www.iupload.net/062004/TT-3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/5 "2004-07-03T21:43:03Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > [link](http://www.iupload.net/062004/TT-3.jpg) damn, that used to work. Oh well, it’s a very close up picture of a fly. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/6 "2004-07-03T21:47:47Z")
Eddie Izzard’s nekkid ass in multiplicity. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/7 "2004-07-03T21:59:51Z")
Neonatal rat cardiac myocytes, grown in culture on slides, and treated with 50 micromolar phenylephprine. These were fixed and labeled with a monoclonal antibody against sarcomeric alpha-tropomyosin and a polyclonal antibody against atrial natriuretic peptide. This labeling is visualized by immunofluorescent staining with Alexafluor 488-conjugated goat-anti-mouse IgG1, and Alexafluor 568-conjugated goat-anti-rabbit IgG. DAPI is used as a nucleic acid counterstain, and reveals the presence of some non-myocytes, which do not express the other two antigens. I’ve won a little publicity with the photomicrograph, as it has been used in some official presentations and documents. I’ve entered it into an “Art of Science” contest. The sarcomeric striations and perinuclear staining of ANP are pretty cool, I must say. ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/8 "2004-07-03T22:04:05Z")
Windows: Part of a movie poster for the original (1932) version of “The Mummy” starring Boris Karloff Linux: “The Grand Canal at the Salute Church” by Canaletto ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/9 "2004-07-03T22:41:15Z")
I have the newest of the collages that I’ve made as my desktop wallpaper. It’s the one with the word New revolving next to it.[http://www.geocities.com/mulderscreek/downloads.html](http://www.geocities.com/mulderscreek/downloads.html) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/10 "2004-07-03T22:48:21Z")
I have a very cool picture of a [bear at our back door](http://community.webshots.com/album/153989190oXjuEP) that Mr. 'addi took a couple of days ago (the first picture). ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/11 "2004-07-03T23:42:06Z")
Mac G4 553: Picture of Yosemite National Park. Half Dome and El Capitan. One of my own photos. All my Yosemite wallpaper is from my own photos. Mac G4 400: Picture of (I think) a California poppy (comes as default wallpaper with Mac OS). Or just another picture of Yosemite. Windows XP PC in purple case: Picture of (wait for it) Yosemite National Park. Is there a trend going on here? Windows XP PC, old Dell: Stargate SG-1 wallpaper (designed it myself). Okay, I broke the trend. Old PC that I hardly ever use: Yosemite National Park wallpaper. (Oh, the trend wasn’t quite broken!) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/12 "2004-07-04T00:26:25Z")
An absolutely plain medium gray background. Each of the other machines I remote control while wearing my sysadmin hat have screen backgrounds of different shades. It helps to avoid silly mistakes like rebooting the main domain controller when you meant to reboot the alternate webserver #4. Rule#1: Never do anything against the dark blue background without thinking three times before clicking once. It’s effective precisely because it’s subliminal. Pictures of any kind are merely a distraction. Then again, I look at my work machine as just a tool, not a toy or a personal artifact. My home machine used to have slide show screensaver with nekkid women . But then I realized that I was never there to see it since it only ran when I wasn’t using the machine. D’OH. My wife wasn’t getting much out of the pictures, either, so I turned it off. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/13 "2004-07-04T00:27:54Z")
I’ve got a picture from the [Astronomy picture of the day](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040613.html) site. I change it every so often, just because there are some neat pictures there. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/14 "2004-07-04T00:36:56Z")
Currently my desktop is Charisma Carpenter nekkid on a white furry rug, overlooking downtown LA. I’m sure my wife is going to make me change it soon. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/15 "2004-07-04T01:05:38Z")
Old PC:International Space Station New PC:Alitalia 747 ---
**Author:** ![Epoxy\_Moron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@Epoxy\_Moron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epoxy_Moron)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/16 "2004-07-04T01:05:47Z")
A dark theme from deviantart. No icons No toolbars A very clean fluxbox desktop ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/17 "2004-07-04T01:13:34Z")
At home: a close up of the moon at one quarter phase. At work I have two computers I am responsible for, and I often put up jpegs I’ve “taken” of several things I’ve created in Bryce. Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/18 "2004-07-04T01:24:45Z")
[A photo](http://community.webshots.com/s/image5/1/98/82/117919882pGrUAX_ph.jpg) of my kid at the beach in Florida, taken last February. (Let me know if the link doesn’t work.) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/19 "2004-07-04T01:52:18Z")
I have a folder of 271 images which include •scans of slides and photos I made, or that my Dad made when I was a kid •fractals made with Floating Fractals, PowerXplorer, or Fracture •3D worlds made in Bryce • freehand art created in Photoshop, Painter, or SuperPaint • astronomical photos downloaded from the Hubble site I have my Desktop configured to load a different at random every time I reboot. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412/20 "2004-07-04T04:01:50Z")
On my work computer: A black background with a pair of big, yellow, scary eyes staring out of the darkness. I’ve gotten used to it, but it’s great for scaring those annoying co-workers who try to read over my shoulder. I just click the ‘desktop’ button and watch them jump! Home: a photo of me with O-sama. No, not that Osama, [this one.](http://www.osama.co.jp/web/castle/profile/profile.html) He’s a musician/comedian whose schtick is making literal Japanese translations of English rock songs, without any foreign words at all. He’s an absolute scream, and a good musician as well. He was performing at a tiny little club that **Cerowyn** and I happened to stop by, so after his set I went up and told him how much I liked his act. He gave me an autograph and posed for a picture with me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-desktop/253412.md?page=2)