# What's picture are you using as your computer wallpaper right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259 "2006-09-19T02:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/21 "2006-09-19T03:47:10Z")
[This picture](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/Korval/kids/darien1.jpg) is my current wallpaper. It’s my niece and nephew, during her “It’s _my_ baby!” stage, which is actually still going on over a year later (although it’s been slightly adjusted to “It’s _my_ brother!” and allows Mommy and Daddy some claim to the baby as well). ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/22 "2006-09-19T15:14:26Z")
[This painting by Franz Marc.](http://www.dekunsten.net/images/franz_marc_gelbe_pferde.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/23 "2006-09-19T15:21:41Z")
A desktop-sized version of [this pic](http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIAL/editorial_images/1_Ducati-Desmosedici-RR-proto.jpg) _Droooool_ ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/24 "2006-09-19T15:24:58Z")
I use webshots for my wallpaper at work (no formal complaints from IT just yet). It lets my backgroud change every 15 minutes. Most of my choosen wallpapers are of tropical islands, beaches, or diving scenes (all places I would rather be that at work). It also lets you use your own photos for wallpaper, so I have a few pictures from my saltwater aquarium tossed into the mix… ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/25 "2006-09-19T15:26:27Z")
A photograph of the San Francisco skyline. It’s a double-exposure (correct terminology?) so that the sky looks like dusk, but the lights from the buildings are as bright as they’d be when it’s dark. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/26 "2006-09-19T15:37:59Z")
[This picture](http://home.earthlink.net/~jones240/Farmhouse/piggies_001.JPG) of my pigs the day that we got them. They are considerably bigger now and much less cute. ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/27 "2006-09-19T15:44:19Z")
On my work computer I am using a picture of the [CLS63 AMG](http://www.autoblog.nl/images/cls63.jpg). On my home computer, I have a picture of my family. On my laptop, I am using the standard windows provided screen. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/28 "2006-09-19T15:55:14Z")
A picture of the whirlpool galaxy [M51](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020710.html). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/29 "2006-09-19T16:01:35Z")
A rice paddy similar to [this one.](http://www.snowlion.com/trip/47) ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/30 "2006-09-19T16:08:48Z")
[this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/MiscellanyPix/pic0001.jpg) “double” exposure ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/31 "2006-09-19T16:33:43Z")
My wallpaper on my work computer is a picture of the plant, desk and cubical wall behind it, lined up so that when you look at the screen it’s like looking through a window. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/32 "2006-09-19T16:33:57Z")
Meet [Ms. Subways](http://www.hanasiana.com/archives/pooping450.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Lilairen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lilairen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilairen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/33 "2006-09-19T16:41:02Z")
Whee, posting’s working. My desktop image is a portrait of the Egyptian goddess Hathor that I commissioned from the very strange artist Ursula Vernon (of [metalandmagic.com](http://metalandmagic.com)). (Her response to the commission was “Cow heads! Woo!” which should give some sense of her normal levels of peculiarity.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/34 "2006-09-19T16:47:51Z")
I’m currently displaying this photo of [taro fields](http://gallery.photo.net/photo/1022015-lg.jpg) in Kaua’i. It reminds me of our vacation there a couple of years ago and how much I love a tropical, simmering, jungly landscape. One of these days I’d like to go to Bali, as Tony Bourdain’s show about that country shows heartrendingly beautiful tropics. ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/35 "2006-09-19T16:51:15Z")
Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, in mid- face-melting guitar solo. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/36 "2006-09-19T16:51:35Z")
A photo of Mt. McKinley I took this summer. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/37 "2006-09-19T17:27:31Z")
At work: a shot of Stonehenge At home: a freeze-frame of a water droplet landing in a puddle ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/38 "2006-09-19T17:36:17Z")
Something similar to \*\* silenus\*\* only mine is a drop of milk and the crown formed as it hits ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/39 "2006-09-19T18:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] My wallpaper on my work computer is a picture of the plant, desk and cubical wall behind it, lined up so that when you look at the screen it’s like looking through a window. [/QUOTE] Same here – my desktop is a photo of the wall behind my monitor. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259/40 "2006-09-19T18:28:03Z")
At home I have [this picture](http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/234611545/in/set-1067542/), that I took a few weeks ago on one monitor and [this picture](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.parminderonline.com/images/wallpapers/POL_dt21_tn.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.parminderonline.com/wallpapers.shtml&h=150&w=200&sz=7&hl=en&start=12&tbnid=OFPyeHsIqt4Y_M:&tbnh=78&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522parminder%2Bnagra%2522%2Bwallpaper%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG), since removed from the site, on the other. At work, I just set [this](http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/images/posters/palacehotel.jpg) as my wallpaper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-picture-are-you-using-as-your-computer-wallpaper-right-now/373259.md?page=3)