# What's your wallpaper? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255 "2001-01-03T17:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/1 "2001-01-03T17:10:13Z")
I just downloaded [http://linus.differnet.com/experience/atlarge/klee-highway.htm](http://linus.differnet.com/experience/atlarge/klee-highway.htm) for my 22" monitor and [http://linus.differnet.com/experience/atlarge/klee\_parnassum.htm](http://linus.differnet.com/experience/atlarge/klee_parnassum.htm) for the 17 incher. I like them so much I don’t want to cover the screen with ugly stuff, like work 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silly\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Silly\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silly_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/2 "2001-01-03T17:16:33Z")
I use Webshots and change my wallpaper all the time 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/3 "2001-01-03T17:48:40Z")
My wallpaper is the cover of my current favorite band, Millencolin’s single “Fox”. [http://www.millencolin.com/free/fox\_cover.jpg](http://www.millencolin.com/free/fox_cover.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/4 "2001-01-03T17:53:49Z")
Now that you made me look, I’m now trying to decide between the other two here: [http://millencolin.com/free/flaming\_logo.jpg](http://millencolin.com/free/flaming_logo.jpg) [http://millencolin.com/free/penguins\_cover.jpg](http://millencolin.com/free/penguins_cover.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/5 "2001-01-03T17:55:05Z")
I have a whole bunch of Fillmore West concert posters that I rotate as wallpaper. I usually change it everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/779978/32.png) [@Zumba\_The\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zumba_The_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/6 "2001-01-03T17:57:42Z")
I use pictures I take while on vaction. I change them often. Currently I have a picture of the Trevi Fountain. I am dying to go back to Rome. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/7 "2001-01-03T17:59:25Z")
Currently, it’s a picture of the county courthouse in Sulfur Springs, TX, which looks like an old castle. It changes weekly on a whim as I play with my digital camera, though. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/8 "2001-01-03T17:59:56Z")
**DW** , Whereja get those? I’d like to checkem out. As for my wallpaper? Well, duh, it’s Speed Racer! It’s the opening sequence shot of him jumping out of the Mach 5 in such a way that instead of looking cool, he looks all contorted and whatnot. But with the ascot and brown loafers, what’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/9 "2001-01-03T18:18:06Z")
At work I have a screenshot of a GM character from EQ that was created in my honour. Before that I had a scanned pic of me and Mr Mauv (yeah I know). At home I change it quite often. Lately I’ve been rotating between these: [http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall5\_800.jpg](http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall5_800.jpg) [http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall4\_800.jpg](http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall4_800.jpg) [http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall3\_800.jpg](http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall3_800.jpg) [http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall1\_800.jpg](http://www.alice.ea.com/images/wall1_800.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/10 "2001-01-03T18:47:45Z")
I typically flip between images I’ve created via Terragen. Currently using this one: [http://www.inil.com/users/edamoth/Terragen/costa.jpg](http://www.inil.com/users/edamoth/Terragen/costa.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/11 "2001-01-03T19:01:55Z")
I actually have a pic that chef troy took a long time ago…maybe 6months?..It’s a beautiful black and white photo of a bridge. I’m going to be sorry to leave, because I can’t take it with me. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/12 "2001-01-03T19:05:07Z")
Home: Beige G3 Mac: Celtic cross design Work: iMac: painting of Yoda using an iMac I sometimes use kaleidoscope as part of my gui ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/13 "2001-01-03T19:08:56Z")
HST image of the Orion Nebula with the colors punched up a little. It actually looks pretty abstract, and not necessarily like an astronomical object. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/14 "2001-01-03T19:25:55Z")
As if anything else belonged there. The Tick. Last one was a diagram of cuts of meat. ---
**Author:** ![WickedAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f6c823/32.png) [@WickedAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WickedAngel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/15 "2001-01-03T19:37:22Z")
Comp at Home: Stormy Ocean Shot Comp at Work: Hawaiian Sea Slug via The Slug Site…changes weekly ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/16 "2001-01-03T19:42:08Z")
No wallpaper. Completely black background. Before that it was an arrangement I made of professional pics of my then-girlfriend. That had to go, obviously. Before that, it was a 3d rendered picture I made of an angelfish in a torus of water in front of a doom-style computer panel. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/17 "2001-01-03T19:52:20Z")
Right now it’s just a boring green/black gradient thing. Before, I had a cool image from the game “Terminal Velocity.” My backgrounds are typically dark/black. On my other computer I have a bunch of images that I randomly generated using a computer program I wrote. I could upload them so you could all see, they look very cool (but at the same time, they don’t totally distract you from the desktop images.) What I want to do (if it is possible) is to make a Java program that is a moving starfield of some sort, embed it into an HTM file, then do that “use webpage as background” effect that is in Win98. If it works (it probably doesn’t. :() then it would kick ass. (Note: I don’t even really know Java, but I know C++, so Java shouldn’t be that hard to learn.) ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/18 "2001-01-03T19:59:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jophiel \* > \*\*I typically flip between images I’ve created via Terragen. Currently using this one: > [http://www.inil.com/users/edamoth/Terragen/costa.jpg](http://www.inil.com/users/edamoth/Terragen/costa.jpg) \*\* Joph: I’m not sure what Terragen is, but that is simply beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/19 "2001-01-03T20:13:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spritle \* > **DW** , Whereja get those? I’d like to checkem out. Unfortunately, the Fillmore S.F. site… [http://thefillmore.com/](http://thefillmore.com/) has changed their look since last I visited. They used to have a real nice layout, where you could just click on a year and scroll through all of their posters. I do have a few other sites where you can find poster images: [http://www.artrock.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi](http://www.artrock.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi) [http://store.yahoo.com/sfxc/bghome2.html](http://store.yahoo.com/sfxc/bghome2.html) [http://blazer-usa.com/shopsite\_sc/store/html/page6.html](http://blazer-usa.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/page6.html) Also, if you search around for “fillmore art”, “fillmore posters”, etc., you can find more. p.s. - If you’re looking for any Grateful Dead posters, you can find a bunch at [http://mars.dead.net](http://mars.dead.net) ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/20 "2001-01-03T21:41:16Z")
[Hopper’s _Chop Suey_.](http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm) At this time, I believe he is my favorite American painter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255.md?page=2)