What do you use for your computer background?

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Mine's an homage to memes (a work in progress :smile:):

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What's yours?
 
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That's great!
Now we just have to re-equip Moonbear's kitty with a raygun in place of the sniper rifle and insert it. It's a new movie in the offing: "Fur Wars". :biggrin:
 
I tend to have a new one every week, currently it is this one: little sumo in love :biggrin:

[PLAIN]http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/files/imagecache/desktop_interstitial/thumbnails/LITTLE+SUMO+IN+LOVE.jpg
 
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I use a version of this picture (scaled to just the right size for my monitor), which I took during my first trip to Europe, while I was a college student.
 

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This is a picture I took on my phone when I was on a picnic nothing special really.
 

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I use an SDSS image of M51, since interacting galaxies of that type are my research specialty.

http://hera.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~heintzma/EndSt/Messier/bilder/M51SDSS.jpe Just Google "SDSS pretty pictures" and there it is!
 
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I almost never see my background; either PF, Google, or Adventure Quest (or sometimes all of them) is always up and running full screen. I just open new windows over top of them to access other functions. It is, however, the pretty purplish color spray (sort of like a nebula crossed with the Northern Lights) that comes with Tiger. My screen-saver is also a Tiger inclusion: shifting space scenes.
 
I've had the same background for several months; I don't remember when I changed it to the current one, but I couldn't even tell you what it is without minimizing.
It's one of the default Windows pictures of an up close picture of a leaf.
 
Monique said:
I tend to have a new one every week, currently it is this one: little sumo in love :biggrin:

[PLAIN]http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/files/imagecache/desktop_interstitial/thumbnails/LITTLE+SUMO+IN+LOVE.jpg[/QUOTE]

Haha, love it!


I'm a bit moody about it, I usually photoshop the photo, and add a number of lines of whatever I find interesting. Sometimes I use some of Andre's shots. But currently, I have the blue stones that comes with Vista.


Love yours too Lisa, so creative.
 
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Mostly just a white background.
 
Monique said:
little sumo
Congratulations! You have brought a new dimension to the term "oxymoron".
 
brewnog said:
PICT0018_1.jpg

You have pretty funny-shaped monitor...
 
russ_watters said:
Mine's plain black.

:eek:

Plain white.
 
Currently this, but I have a folder of pics for backgrounds.
 

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The Hubble Deep Field image - a constant reminder of my place in the universe.

[PLAIN]http://harleyk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/HubbleDeepFieldL.jpg
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I usually have this Bora Bora photo, but I change it up sometimes.

http://www.1stclasswallpapers.com/h...land,_tahiti,_french_polynesia_wallpaper.html
That looks like the lagoon in one of the chat backgrounds.

Here's another Hubble shot - really spectacular!
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/24/image/a/format/large_web/

or this
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/22/image/a/format/large_web/
 
Here's what I currently use:
Mandel_zoom_07_satellite.jpg

I also like some of the images found on hubblesite.org or clever/funny images that aren't blurry when I set them as desktop backgrounds.
 
Mine's attached, but I'm starting to get tired of it... what I'd really like is to have one 4096×1152 image that can be split across my two monitors. Haven't found a good one yet though.
 

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Ivan Seeking said:
The Hubble Deep Field image - a constant reminder of my place in the universe.
I'm sorry. could you put "I am here" on the photo for us rookies? (I can't make you out.)
Thanks!
 
When I first saw this thread I thought it was about what you put in your CV to show that you got a background with computers...

I took this from my summer place:
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