# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/21 "2001-01-03T22:22:25Z")
At the moment, I have Barsoom on my PC. [http://www.themeoftheday.com/td051100.htm](http://www.themeoftheday.com/td051100.htm) I change it every couple of weeks because Tucows has so many very cool ones. Also, any of the themes by CyberGypsy, especially his Egyptian motifs. Unfortunatly, I no longer have the URL for his stuff. ☹ [http://www.tucows.com](http://www.tucows.com)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/22 "2001-01-03T22:24:35Z")
crap lemme try that again [http://www.tucows.com](http://www.tucows.com) ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/23 "2001-01-03T22:35:47Z")
Mind is of the characters Willow and Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It inspires me. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/24 "2001-01-03T23:07:09Z")
Here’s a [picture](http://home.earthlink.net/~yosemitebabe/6100desktop.jpg) of my old 6100 PowerMac, complete with Yosemite wallpaper. (What else?) My iMac also has Yosemite wallpaper, and my laptop (which I am using now) has [this](http://home.earthlink.net/~yosemitebabe/merced-800x600.jpg) nice picture I took of Yosemite’s Merced River. My PC has a picture from the film “What Dreams May Come”. A friend put it on, I like it. When I do change the wallpaper, it’ll be…Yosemite wallpaper. (Like you had to ask!) ---
**Author:** ![richman2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@richman2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/richman2)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/25 "2001-01-03T23:19:07Z")
I have a marvelous high resoulution artwork image from this site, a museum’s collection of it’s paintings. \*\* [http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html](http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/26 "2001-01-03T23:21:45Z")
Both at home and at work, mine are changed quite frequently. Right now, here at home, my wallpaper is Renoir’s _Moulin Galette_: [http://hometown.aol.com/frannle/myhomepage/photo.html](http://hometown.aol.com/frannle/myhomepage/photo.html) (I hope I didn’t misspell that). Oh, and look at my taskbar – I just _love_ it! Cute, huh! Oh, it’s the li’l things that make one happy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/27 "2001-01-03T23:25:49Z")
Mine is of the “Too Hot” chick from the Altoids commercials and print on my 21 inch monitor. Something about a totally fantastic babes looking like pinup queen works for my desktop…and my room in general. [http://www.toohot.com/Stolen/Screen3-1024.htm](http://www.toohot.com/Stolen/Screen3-1024.htm) [http://www.toohot.com/Stolen/Screen2-1024.htm](http://www.toohot.com/Stolen/Screen2-1024.htm) [http://www.toohot.com/Stolen/Screen1-1024.htm](http://www.toohot.com/Stolen/Screen1-1024.htm) All of these work groovy on a desktop ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/28 "2001-01-03T23:26:00Z")
Currently a picture of Bahamut and Alexander from Final Fantasy IX. BEAUTIFUL… ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/29 "2001-01-03T23:29:44Z")
A beautiful sunrise by the sea… Who would have figured?.. ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/30 "2001-01-03T23:40:08Z")
I don’t change mine very often, for the past month or so I’ve had a photo of my baby niece, Amaya. ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/31 "2001-01-03T23:42:26Z")
Currently, it’s from a Desktop Theme called Jeweled Night…it’s really cool, but I’ve had it so long I don’t remember where I got it. I keep thinking I’m going to put together a theme of my own, and then I’ll change the background to the cover of Pink Floyd’s Pulse album. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/32 "2001-01-04T02:15:50Z")
As with **TheNerd** , I have used a solid black desktop background for years (since the days when wallpaper on a Win3X 386 would slow you down) and I’ve come to like it. At my company, we had all the machines setup that way. Recently, though, at work, where I use a machine with 3 monitors, I’ve taken to having the daily update of the [price of a barrel of NYMEX light sweet crude](http://www.oilnergy.com/1onymex.htm#year) as a ~3" x ~4" graph on my middle monitor; the lateral monitors are still all black desktop. It’s kind of silly, really, because I almost never see it with the apps I’ve always got open. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/33 "2001-01-04T02:29:04Z")
I used to have an image of Jeff Buckley (RIP) or Tom Waits on my desktop. Recently, I changed it to a gorgeous picture that a friend of mine took from the summit of Mt. Collins, in Colorado. There’s a marvelous view, and a mountain goat in the foreground. ---
**Author:** ![super\_head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@super\_head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/super_head)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/34 "2001-01-04T05:12:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ogre \* > \*\*Recently, I changed it to a gorgeous picture that a friend of mine took from the summit of Mt. Collins, in Colorado. There’s a marvelous view, and a mountain goat in the foreground. \*\* Oh Ogre, you’ve always been a sucker for a mountain goat. As for me, I’ve recently been partial to any shots of the alluring Laetitia Casta in as little as possible, without crossing a line that might offend the more sensitive people in the office, resulting in my being sent home, terminated, and living in shame. And cuddly teddy bears. Always got have the cuddly bears on the desktop. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/35 "2001-01-04T05:18:19Z")
This is my favorite wallpaper ever… I felt so lucky to find it… Meg… ahhhh… 😉[http://www.ggj.abelgratis.co.uk/meg/26-50/meg46.jpg](http://www.ggj.abelgratis.co.uk/meg/26-50/meg46.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/36 "2001-01-04T05:19:28Z")
Doh! [http://www.ggj.abelgratis.co.uk/meg/26-50/meg46.jpg](http://www.ggj.abelgratis.co.uk/meg/26-50/meg46.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/37 "2001-01-04T05:33:48Z")
My wallpaper is our running club mascot/logo–a running turkey. [http://www.turlockrunningclub.org](http://www.turlockrunningclub.org) and my screensaver I got from Runner’s World.(What did you expect?,Im a runner)😃 ---
**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 4, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/38 "2001-01-04T05:46:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \* > \*\*Joph: I’m not sure what Terragen is, but that is simply beautiful. \*\* Terragen is a Terrain Generator. You can specify any number of variables (random or fixed) like clouds, light direction and intensity, colours, depth, surfaces, etc, and it will generate a 3D image for you. It’s frighteningly realistic. My desktop is currently Angelina Jolie, as Lara Croft in the _Tomb Raider_ movie. I’d say half the time I change my wallpaper, it’s to a Lara Croft one. At work, I have mostly been using images from the new upcoming Star Wars movie, but in fact currently it’s a CGI image of the USS Enterprise as seen in the updated version of _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ which will be released later this year. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/39 "2001-01-04T05:59:37Z")
At home I have an HST shot of the Ring Nebula in Lyra, and here at work an HST shot of the Crab Nebula in Taurus… both are gorgeous images! ---
**Author:** ![HannibalV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@HannibalV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HannibalV)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255/40 "2001-01-04T06:58:26Z")
At home, it’s currently the poster from the upcoming film A.I. (please don’t tell Mr. Spielberg). It’s usually a movie poster of some kind–recent ones have included the teaser poster for “The Gift” and both of the posters for “The Grinch”. At work, it was a tiled group of bumper stickers reading things like “Don’t blame me, I voted with the majority”, and “Impeach Bush (and we’ll call it even)”. Preceding that was a tiled picture of Saddam Hussein taken from [thedictatorship.com](http://thedictatorship.com) for no good reason. On an off note, **bump** and **Astroboy14** both mentioned “HST” photos and my first thought was wondering when Hunter S Thompson started doing photography. ⭕ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wallpaper/48255.md?page=3)