# What's your current desktop wallpaper? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363 "2008-07-13T20:54:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/41 "2008-07-14T02:33:25Z")
> **[Is This a Picture of the Bitterroot Forest Fire?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bitterroot-forest-fire/)** > > Photograph captures wildlife fleeing a fire in Bitterroot Forest, Montana. I can’t stop staring at that forest fire, it has to be one of the best pictures ive ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/42 "2008-07-14T02:41:07Z")
My wallpaper is Wall-E. That movie was too adorable. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/43 "2008-07-14T02:52:02Z")
Mine is a picture of the Martian surface taken by one of the Mars landers, with Marvin the Martian (of Looney Tunes fame) peeking in from the side. This isn’t my desktop but it’s the same pic: [http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2776](http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2776) ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/44 "2008-07-14T03:18:28Z")
My oldest son changed mine to [this](http://elitemusical.webcindario.com/Live%20After%20Death-P.jpg) a few months ago. In an impressive display of laziness, I’ve never bothered changing it back to whatever it was I had on there before. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/45 "2008-07-14T03:32:31Z")
Just updated to [this picture](http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn210/hrhomer/screen.jpg) - I just LOVE it! Joe ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/46 "2008-07-14T04:11:49Z")
A digitally drawn picture of an anime-style elf/angel holding a sword - and I usually hate anime. ---
**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 14, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/47 "2008-07-14T04:18:13Z")
I tempt [fate](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/BSOD.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/48 "2008-07-14T05:43:17Z")
I generally just use a windows wallpaper but I put [“peep show”](http://lethaleuphoria.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/ultimate_peep_show.jpg) up as a joke last week. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/49 "2008-07-14T07:29:16Z")
I have an open-source 128x128 icon that’s tiled; it’s a black glass bead-looking thing, available as part of Gnome (Linux). An actual picture would be too distracting to me. The reason I chose it is that I spend a **lot** of time in front of my monitor – I’m a programmer. If I need to concentrate/zone out for a little bit, I can stare at my screen and get an effect similar to a Magic-eye picture. Not that the beads form an image or anything, but the background recedes while the desktop icons and mouse pointer jump forward. Nifty! ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/50 "2008-07-14T07:36:47Z")
I have [this pic](http://picasaweb.google.com/nmphil/January2008/photo#5156709145724158050) of my daughter on my work PC (she was 9 months old at the time). It makes me smile and helps keep me from strangling my idiot boss! ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/51 "2008-07-14T08:03:14Z")
[QUOTE=phil417] My wallpaper is a pic from a book from T Pratchett. I’ve tried to find the book name through my local library & Amazon. It had to do with “the oldest hero.” Sound familiar, anyone? Anyway, my wallpaper is a pic of the unseen university’s librarian piloting the wooden ship that went over the edge of the discworld. The picture is of an orangutan grinning while his hands were on the “steering wheel” and his feet were at the edge of the picture. People look at my wallpaper askance, I ask them..“what..haven’t you ever seen a librarian?” Love, Phil [/QUOTE] It’s “The Last Hero” I think 🙂 I liked that book. I love anything with Rincewind the wizard in it, though 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/52 "2008-07-14T09:28:46Z")
A picture from my [village](http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhurst/192651142/sizes/l/). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/53 "2008-07-14T10:37:38Z")
I keep an eclectic collection [here.](http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a275/PaulinSaudi/Wallpapers/) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/54 "2008-07-14T13:04:56Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] > **[FACT CHECK: Is This a Picture of the Bitterroot Forest Fire?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bitterroot-forest-fire/)** > > Photograph captures wildlife fleeing a fire in Bitterroot Forest, Montana. I can’t stop staring at that forest fire, it has to be one of the best pictures ive ever seen. [/QUOTE] It looks like a [Bierstadt](http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/weblect/lec03/manifest_bierstadt_emigrants_67.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/55 "2008-07-14T15:10:58Z")
On our main computer, we have this [lolcat](http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/31/funny-pictures-one-day-ill-be-pope/), which always makes me lol, as it were. The computer in my office at school is [this lolcat](http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/05/funny-pictures-before-big-date/) that my officemate picked out. On my laptop, I have this [photo of my kitty](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/liberty3701/Horatio/2006_09030172.jpg), helping me work. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/56 "2008-07-14T16:17:38Z")
[QUOTE=Napier] No wall paper. Jeez, PCs curl up and die often enough without asking for trouble. Besides, some software behaves stupidly when there are lots of .scr files around, as they think they are something else (“source” files, or something). [/QUOTE] \*.scr files are screensaver files, not backgrounds. There’s very little risk in using a wallpaper photo - they’re passive and only take a little memory (compared to average system memory these day) Thank God that Microsoft finally got around to allowing jpg files for wallpaper, they used to only allow \*.bmp files which were getting a bit largish as screens got bigger. ---
**Author:** ![queenquimarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/dec6dc/32.png) [@queenquimarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/queenquimarie)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/57 "2008-07-14T16:55:30Z")
This is one of my personal favorites for a desktop. It always makes me laugh…[http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute\_overload/2006/06/is\_there\_room\_e.html](http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/06/is_there_room_e.html) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/58 "2008-07-14T17:17:33Z")
[This picture](http://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/2122707101/) that I took about 7 months ago while flying over Chicago. (You need to click on “all sizes” to get a desktop size version). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/59 "2008-07-14T17:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=shamrock227] And, at work, I have the My Little Pony Glue Factory. [![](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/2665575526_44a06c3703.jpg?v=0) ](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/2665575526_44a06c3703.jpg?v=0) [/QUOTE] LMAO; that’s absolutely priceless! Nothing special for me–at home, a picture of a bowling lane; at work, a picture of Yankee Stadium. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363/60 "2008-07-14T18:30:36Z")
here is mine [![](https://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c179/chrisbooth12/bg-1.jpg) ](https://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c179/chrisbooth12/bg-1.jpg) it took me forever to get it right [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-current-desktop-wallpaper/456363.md?page=4)