What Does Your Desktop Background Say About You?

[StevieTNZ]

What's your desktop background?

Mine is

The View <3, with love.

 

[FreeMitya]

https://www.physicsforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=59403&stc=1&d=1370832675

 

[fluidistic]

For my tablet I use http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/4158588003/.
For my desktop pc a picture I took from a famous beverage's bottle.

 

[WannabeNewton]

This has been mine for as long as I can remember.

 

[Astrum]

This has been mine for as long as I can remember.

I'm surprised it's not a photo of Kate Upton... what kind of "fan" are you, anyway?!

 

[Borek]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=453218

 

[nitsuj]

my work desktop is a black screen, to better contrast the mess that's on top.

If I put a picture up now it'd be a "where's Waldo?" file search.

Although that "The View" desktop looks inviting.

 

[CFDFEAGURU]

This has been mine for as long as I can remember.

Nice! Great background.

 

[turbo]

My background is plain black. It used to be M-51 (from petty pictures) but after a couple of years and thousands of hours studying interacting galaxies, I needed a break.

 

[reenmachine]

this picture , it's been at least 2 years now with this one , I really like it for some reasons.

 

[lisab]

This gorgeous bird :!):

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

This gorgeous bird :!):

Once upon a midnight dreary ...

 

[George Jones]

Bullet Cluster.

 

[Janus]

I just starting using this one. It betrays my inner geekiness, but also has some nice black areas for my icons.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I am only allowed to share this information with Polish Administrators.

 

[Borek]

I am only allowed to share this information with Polish Administrators.

My is surprisingly empty - but then I have reinstalled Windows not long ago and I am not switching my computer off at all, so I almost never see the desktop.

(actually this is just half of the desktop on the first monitor, but the other half is just a copy of the same image)

 

[OmCheeto]

I just starting using this one. It betrays my inner geekiness, but also has some nice black areas for my icons.

10 thumbs up.

I've had my new laptop for 6 months now, and just changed the installed background, to this:

Locals should look closely at the mountain. (This means you Janus!)

I was going to save this for "Where's the Landmark" thread, but this is too awesome not to share.

Not to mention, that I'll probably die of old age before I figure out Fuzzy's latest landmark.

 

[OmCheeto]

10 thumbs up.

I've had my new laptop for 6 months now, and just changed the installed background, to this:

Locals should look closely at the mountain. (This means you Janus!)

I was going to save this for "Where's the Landmark" thread, but this is too awesome not to share.

Not to mention, that I'll probably die of old age before I figure out Fuzzy's latest landmark.

clue: Ben Coffman Photography

 

[nsaspook]

Clue. Harry Truman?

 

[Janus]

Clue. Harry Truman?

May his Spirit live on!

 

[Borek]

Not to mention, that I'll probably die of old age before I figure out Fuzzy's latest landmark.

Look in Switzerland

 

[nsaspook]

May his Spirit live on!

With the Spirits of his 16 cats.

 

[lisab]

Locals should look closely at the mountain. (This means you Janus!)

Former mountain, you mean.

 

[OmCheeto]

Former mountain, you mean.

My new boss and I were discussing it last week, so I reviewed the wiki entry on it. Simply incredible.

The resulting blast laterally directed the pyroclastic flow of very hot volcanic gases, ash and pumice formed from new lava, while pulverized old rock hugged the ground, initially moving at 220 miles per hour (350 km/h) but quickly accelerating to 670 miles per hour (1,080 km/h) (it may have briefly passed the speed of sound).

...

By the time this pyroclastic flow hit its first human victims, it was still as hot as 360 °C (680 °F) and filled with suffocating gas and flying angular material.

Hotter than the broiler setting in your oven, and faster than a commercial airliner. Good God.

Then, with all the talk of "Spirit", I watched a video this morning. Excellent sciency stuff.

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ps. thank you Borek. ;)

 

[nsaspook]

It's a nice clear view today. http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/views/static-highdef.php

 

[Janus]

Back in November of '81 I made a solo x-country flight from Kelso, WA to Yakima, WA and back which offered me the chance to get a nice close up aerial view of the mountain and the surrounding devastation. It was about a year and a half after the eruption.

I think I've already mentioned before how I got a personal memento in the form of 10 stitches from the awakening of that volcano.

 

[Janus]

Former mountain, you mean.

It's still a mountain, it's just a little shorter now.

 

[DennisN]

Coldplay. I like the photo and I like the album.

 

[drizzle]

A poppy :)

 

[206PiruBlood]

http://postimg.org/image/5b52zx5uz/

I use this for my phone as well!