# Yet another desktop/wallpaper thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802 "2007-02-12T02:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/21 "2007-02-12T16:58:50Z")
I have my system set up to rotate through all the images I have for wallpapers, one every day. A lot of them came from NASA’s [Astronomy Picture of the Day](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) page. Lots of very cool Hubble, Chandra, and other deep-space images, as well as great stuff in-system, especially Cassini’s photos of Saturn. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/22 "2007-02-12T17:03:40Z")
[Mike Rowe](http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/wallpaper/gallery/wp2_1024.jpg) looking yummy. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/23 "2007-02-12T18:20:59Z")
This is my current [one](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/Hockey%2007/hockeydesktop2.jpg). I also use the [BSOD](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/BSOD.jpg) on occasion. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/24 "2007-02-12T18:28:02Z")
[The Unknown Hinson](http://www.unknownhinson.com/images/wallpaper/fire-king1280.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/25 "2007-02-12T18:59:50Z")
I usually use a photo of a Doper cat. A couple weeks ago I fell in love with a George Sotter painting that someone brought to Antiques Roadshow. The owner had kept it in the basement because his wife didn’t like it. When the art expert told him it would probably bring over $200K at auction, he decided to bring it upstairs. I couldn’t use that Sotter painting, of course, but I found [Night Scene With Snow](http://store.encore-editions.com/artist/GSNightScenewithSnow.html) and I’m using that. Until I switch back to another Doper kitty anyway. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/26 "2007-02-12T19:04:52Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] [The Unknown Hinson](http://www.unknownhinson.com/images/wallpaper/fire-king1280.jpg) [/QUOTE] I had to check this guy out. A “country troubador” who looks like something from a 70’s vampire movie? I just listened to a snippet of I Cleaned Out A Room in my Trailer For You and laughed so hard I scared the cats. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/27 "2007-02-12T19:07:48Z")
[This](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/labtrash/DSCN3130WP.jpg) is mine, both at work & at home. I’m such a sap. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/28 "2007-02-12T19:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] I had to check this guy out. A “country troubador” who looks like something from a 70’s vampire movie? I just listened to a snippet of I Cleaned Out A Room in my Trailer For You and laughed so hard I scared the cats. 😃 [/QUOTE] He ain’t for everybody. Sample lyric “If you’re gonna talk, wear somethin’ purty.” He never breaks character, but there is a heap o’ irony going on. He’s also a crackerjack guitarist. As well as the voice of Early Cuyler on [Squidbillies.](http://www.adultswim.com/shows/squidbillies/) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/29 "2007-02-12T21:38:22Z")
I’ve been tiling blocks from [here](http://www.dlstewart.com/clipart.htm). Bright, personal interest, inoffensive at work. ---
**Author:** ![GomezK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GomezK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomezK)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/30 "2007-02-12T22:39:00Z")
Not your standard desktop… this one changes all the time. [EarthDesk](http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php) On the other display I have a Japanese garden. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/31 "2007-02-13T00:00:13Z")
My favorite [skyline.](http://usera.imagecave.com/Scruloose/Air-Show-Skyline-01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/32 "2007-02-13T00:02:49Z")
Two words: [Gaius Baltar](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/desktops/) ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/33 "2007-02-13T00:32:20Z")
[QUOTE=GomezK] Not your standard desktop… this one changes all the time. [EarthDesk](http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php) [/QUOTE] Pretty cool… …but it seems to be about an hour and a half behind reality. i watched dusk settle at about 5:30 out my window, but it didn’t get to the shaded “night” section border until about 7. And I have the proper daylight savings options set for my location, so that shouldn’t be it. …or maybe it is the problem. Looks a little more in sync now. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/34 "2007-02-13T01:19:09Z")
My desktop: [daughter Anya](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/anyaKDK33.htm) at the beach. This past weekend. Global warming indeed. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/35 "2007-02-13T22:45:29Z")
I have an assortment of various types of images I change daily. Here’s today. [http://www.usno.navy.mil/library/rare/jamieson\_plate3.jpg](http://www.usno.navy.mil/library/rare/jamieson_plate3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/36 "2007-02-14T00:01:12Z")
I took [this](http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00212ci3.jpg) myself. It’s inside my guitar. Before that I had Abbey Road. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/37 "2007-02-14T07:55:59Z")
For right now I’ve got a cute li’l catgirl. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802/38 "2007-02-15T00:46:59Z")
[This picture](http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lreed/croweagle.jpg), not so much for the bald eagle, but for the corvid above it. It looks like he’s trying to land on the eagle’s back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-desktop-wallpaper-thread/391802.md?page=1)