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!

 

[nsaspook]

My shop computer background.

 

[Dr Transport]

off and on this has been mine

 

[Ben Niehoff]

My wallpaper randomly rotates every 15 minutes through a collection of photos I've taken at national parks and other places.

 

[sanil.tamang]

i have a image of me and my gf photo attached with each other as my desktop background

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Bump.

 

[DiracPool]

Your computer's at risk, Freeze, you need to run a scan and do a live update, brother..

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Your computer's at risk, Freeze, you need to run a scan and do a live update, brother..

I have other adequate virus protection But Norton is driving me crazy.

 

[Crake2]

I have other adequate virus protection But Norton is driving me crazy.

Use microsoft security essentials. It's all you need. (And malware bytes)

 

[davenn]

here's my current desktop...

cheers
Dave

 

[JorisL]

This is my current one. Is a rotation though. Every month one or 2 new are added.
I never use the icons on my desktop so I hide them always.

 

[HayleySarg]

Mine has a funny story. Back when I played WoW, I had some sort of crush on a person, well, their mind anyways. I never met them, never really talked to them much. They were active on the forums and I thought they were hilarious and enjoyable. We'd derail a thread on occasion just to talk about people, IT, science, whatever. In an OT thread, they left my name, and this picture. I've used it ever since

I use rainmaker at home, to modify my desktop environment and I have dual monitors. I always have my task bar on the farthest right side of the right monitor. I don't like them at the bottom!
It's a Snowfox.

At home, my wallpaper is generally something anime related. Atm I believe it's Saber. I rotate through a pack of wallpapers for each show. Her pack has like 500 wallpapers in it.

Cheers

 

[krash661]

mine is probably inappropriate.

 

[HayleySarg]

Hehehe. I few of mine were for sometime, but I have others using my computer now. I don't want to have too much incriminating evidence.

 

[MathJakob]

I like to be reminded of how insignificant I am.



and when I'm feeling optimistic.

 

[WannabeNewton]

I changed mine to something radically different from before:

 

[nitsuj]

me too! saw it in 4 pics 1 word, had to have it

 

[YYaaSSeeRR]

it just amaze me how many people use Windows in the US.
WHY DON'T YOU USE LINUX PEOPLE?

 

[HayleySarg]

it just amaze me how many people use Windows in the US.
WHY DON'T YOU USE LINUX PEOPLE?

Because Wine is Not an Emulator. Oh okay, WINE isn't too bad.

I duel-box scientific linux at home, and my old laptop (RIP) used Ubuntu.

 

[micromass]

it just amaze me how many people use Windows in the US.
WHY DON'T YOU USE LINUX PEOPLE?

Because linux is really not user friendly. I absolutely have no problems with windows. But with linux I've often spent dozens of hours to get the clock show up. It's not worth it.

 

[HayleySarg]

It depends on the distro, honestly. Ubuntu and further, Mint, is excellent for the average user. I found Scientific Linux to be great, but it's stable at the cost of flash. There is a huge library of open source science and math apps as well, which is excellent.

It serves itself well to small home networks too. But it's not for everyone, of course.

It's become much easier to set up in the past few years.

Cheers