Full Version: What is on your desktop?
I am not sure of the rules with showing pictures and all that, so i guess we can just put a link of it.
This one is mine:
Lederuvdapac's Desktop
How about yours?
This one is mine:
Lederuvdapac's Desktop
How about yours?
Good topic!
I saw this picture in a gallery in Park City this past winter, and someday I hope to be able to buy one of this photographer's pictures. For now, it's on my desktop.
I saw this picture in a gallery in Park City this past winter, and someday I hope to be able to buy one of this photographer's pictures. For now, it's on my desktop.
QUOTE(Wertz @ Aug 8 2004, 05:27 PM)
Warning: this desktop contains images of male nudity which some may find offensive. 
You didn't have to do it , but you did, but you did, but you did...and I thank you!
I have nothing on my desktop. It's just blank, like my mind half the time.
I have Puss n Boots on my screen.
A true thinking man: Ben Franklin
And I have it on tile mode, so it's not one but about ten Ben Franklin's giving me inspiration all the time.
And I have it on tile mode, so it's not one but about ten Ben Franklin's giving me inspiration all the time.
Here's a mini-version of mine. It's my youngest cat, Stella Blue, photoshopped so only her eyes are in color. 
Stella Blue
Stella Blue
My desktop is a picture I took in Chamonix in June.
Chamonix
Chamonix
This is the image I have on my desktop.
Its a photograph of Io seen against Jupiter
http://www.spacer.com/images/cassini-galil...o-desk-1000.jpg
Previously I had this one, which is Jupiter alone
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/jupiter/jup...-v1_640x542.jpg
Its a photograph of Io seen against Jupiter
http://www.spacer.com/images/cassini-galil...o-desk-1000.jpg
Previously I had this one, which is Jupiter alone
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/jupiter/jup...-v1_640x542.jpg
I am not sure where I would put a pic of my desktop on the net so that I can share it here. I also doubt that it would be all that interesting to others.
However, on my desktop I alternate a few pictures (the only ones I have found) of my deceased Father, usually with my wonderful / madding daughter.
However, on my desktop I alternate a few pictures (the only ones I have found) of my deceased Father, usually with my wonderful / madding daughter.
I'm like overlandsailor. I don't know how to post a picture of my desktop. At any rate, it's an F22 picture (surprise, surprise 
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I have a picture of a Triumph Speedmaster, a motorcycle I do not yet own.
Nice one Lesly my girlfriends' going to flip when she sees that Puss in Boots wallpaper! Moif that picture of Jupiter is amazing! I've added the spacer site to my favourites.
My wallpaper is of DC comics Danger girl. If I remember where I found it I'll put up link.
Like this thread!
My wallpaper is of DC comics Danger girl. If I remember where I found it I'll put up link.
Like this thread!
Thank you mule 
Coincidently, I just so happen to be wearing my Danger girl T shirt when I read your post
Coincidently, I just so happen to be wearing my Danger girl T shirt when I read your post
This is what's on my desktop until college football starts, then it's back to my University of Oregon wallpaper.
Link
Link
QUOTE(lederuvdapac @ Aug 8 2004, 03:40 PM)
I am not sure of the rules with showing pictures and all that, so i guess we can just put a link of it.
This one is mine:
Lederuvdapac's Desktop
How about yours?
This one is mine:
Lederuvdapac's Desktop
How about yours?
oh gosh!
had me scared there for a minute.
I thought you wanted us to tell what we had on our computer desk!
Heck, I can't even SEE my desktop!
......looking forward to getting to know you guys a little better. I have absolutely had it with other forums where intelligent debate seems like a foreign language to the regulars.
QUOTE(UserName @ Aug 14 2004, 12:10 PM)
oh gosh!
had me scared there for a minute.
I thought you wanted us to tell what we had on our computer desk!
had me scared there for a minute.
I thought you wanted us to tell what we had on our computer desk!
Heh - that thread is over here: Show us your...workspace!
Welcome to AD, UserName.
This will remain until after the election.
http://www.johnkerry.com/images/downloads/wp1_1280x1024.jpg
Then, I'll have to find something having to do with cats. I've noticed that there a few cat lovers here. I feel like I'm in good company.
The two in my avatar are really mine They are brothers, two-year-old Siamese mixes and are great company.
http://www.johnkerry.com/images/downloads/wp1_1280x1024.jpg
Then, I'll have to find something having to do with cats. I've noticed that there a few cat lovers here. I feel like I'm in good company.
The two in my avatar are really mine They are brothers, two-year-old Siamese mixes and are great company.
I currently am using both a custom 2d desktop for when I am running RAM intensive applications, and I use the 3DNA 3d Loft desktop when mucking about on the net. My custom one is a Nintendo collage I put together, arranging all my icons together with their own boxes. I love being a nerd with too much free time! Also notice Doom 3 on my desktop, scaring myself to death with that 
http://www.nibor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tempfiles/desktop.jpg
http://www.nibor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tempfiles/desktop.jpg
Here's my current desktop:
Link.
It's a picture of the sun setting as seen from my sister's yard. Not a great shot, but I liked the orangeness of the clouds.
All the stuff you see on my desktop is an application I'm trying out called AveDesk. It seems to be pretty cool so far!
Mike
Link.
It's a picture of the sun setting as seen from my sister's yard. Not a great shot, but I liked the orangeness of the clouds.
All the stuff you see on my desktop is an application I'm trying out called AveDesk. It seems to be pretty cool so far!
Mike
As I tend to get bored fairly easily, my desktop changes with some frequency. Here's the current one.
In case anyone's interested in consolidating AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Yahoo! you can download the basic version of Trillian (freeware) and kill some icons. :)
I forgot to add that I have a different desktop at work than at home. 
This is what I'm sporting at work these days: Keep it Up, Brother. It's a U.S. propaganda poster from WWII.
There is a huge collection of these posters in the Northwestern University online library - WWII Poster Collection.
This is what I'm sporting at work these days: Keep it Up, Brother. It's a U.S. propaganda poster from WWII.
There is a huge collection of these posters in the Northwestern University online library - WWII Poster Collection.
Let's see, we have three shared computers in the house, all using Windows XP. What I have on a "desktop" then, depends on what has caught my fancy lately, what software is on the actual computer, perhaps even the time of day; but certainly it depends on who is logged on.
This computer, as I am working on it this morning has a Microsoft Windows Plus for Windows XP Leonardo Da Vinci wallpaper with co-ordinated screen-saver that changes the appearance of the pointer, the hourglass, and even the sounds the computer makes from time to time.
It also has a Tetris game that has been paused for a couple of weeks, and a Tri-Peaks game with a score that indicates I play it way too often.
If I am logged on to my daughter's computer, I have a sunrise on the desktop.
I haven't logged on to my wife's computer in quite awhile..
"I've spent the last 8 years trying to organize what's on my desktop."
About 40 years ago, I started to make some notes with the intention of writing a book someday. Life sort of got in the way, and those notes are in boxes under my desk, on top of my desk, in my closet, our kitchen, our bedroom, the garage...
On my pencil cup is a message,
I probably come closest to that objective when I am telling someone how to bake bread. (See my last post.)
Limitations that I am aware of when I write, include the fact that I have never learned how to study people well, and describe them.
I spent a number of years listening to my first wife, who felt every word that I put on paper was an attempt on my part to plan the perfect murder...hers. A lot of ideas got boxed up because I was listening to a biased critic.
I often felt that writing was like painting a cross section of the life in a river. Often, as soon as I put an idea on paper, it seemed foolish, dated, or irrelevant. It is a common experience for me to set out to write something brief, concise, and very clear to me; and digress. This post, for instance, began as a simple declarative sentence. "I've spent the last 8 years trying to organize what's on my desktop." I then realized, it has been closer to forty years.
I started to read the other posts and realized that I was answering the wrong question. In a conversation with Jaime however, she said my original answer sounded appropriate too.
Elizabeth Kuebler Ross died recently, and among the other messages quoted in the paper I read that in; was her advice to do something with your life, so that you don't end it with the regret that you have wasted it. At 58, my life is more than half lived by any measure. It is 4:30 in the morning. I could be sleeping, but it is as true today as it was 40 years ago, that I communicate best in writing. It is easier for me to get out of bed and write, than to keep a thought in my mind, or to open my mouth and share it with my wife.
On my desktop somewhere is a story that begins:
Among the other things on my desktop is a computer with multiple word processing programs, including this one. My view of the river is unique, and my writing is probably my most effective paintbrush. (
And either of the pizza crust recipes I have developed makes fantastic pizza! )
This computer, as I am working on it this morning has a Microsoft Windows Plus for Windows XP Leonardo Da Vinci wallpaper with co-ordinated screen-saver that changes the appearance of the pointer, the hourglass, and even the sounds the computer makes from time to time.
It also has a Tetris game that has been paused for a couple of weeks, and a Tri-Peaks game with a score that indicates I play it way too often.
If I am logged on to my daughter's computer, I have a sunrise on the desktop.
I haven't logged on to my wife's computer in quite awhile..
QUOTE(UserName @ Aug 14 2004, 12:10 PM)
had me scared there for a minute.
I thought you wanted us to tell what we had on our computer desk!
Heck, I can't even SEE my desktop!
I thought you wanted us to tell what we had on our computer desk!
Heck, I can't even SEE my desktop!
"I've spent the last 8 years trying to organize what's on my desktop."
About 40 years ago, I started to make some notes with the intention of writing a book someday. Life sort of got in the way, and those notes are in boxes under my desk, on top of my desk, in my closet, our kitchen, our bedroom, the garage...
On my pencil cup is a message,
QUOTE
What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter's evening.
--Truman Capote 1914 - 1984
--Truman Capote 1914 - 1984
I probably come closest to that objective when I am telling someone how to bake bread. (See my last post.)
Limitations that I am aware of when I write, include the fact that I have never learned how to study people well, and describe them.
I spent a number of years listening to my first wife, who felt every word that I put on paper was an attempt on my part to plan the perfect murder...hers. A lot of ideas got boxed up because I was listening to a biased critic.
I often felt that writing was like painting a cross section of the life in a river. Often, as soon as I put an idea on paper, it seemed foolish, dated, or irrelevant. It is a common experience for me to set out to write something brief, concise, and very clear to me; and digress. This post, for instance, began as a simple declarative sentence. "I've spent the last 8 years trying to organize what's on my desktop." I then realized, it has been closer to forty years.
I started to read the other posts and realized that I was answering the wrong question. In a conversation with Jaime however, she said my original answer sounded appropriate too.
Elizabeth Kuebler Ross died recently, and among the other messages quoted in the paper I read that in; was her advice to do something with your life, so that you don't end it with the regret that you have wasted it. At 58, my life is more than half lived by any measure. It is 4:30 in the morning. I could be sleeping, but it is as true today as it was 40 years ago, that I communicate best in writing. It is easier for me to get out of bed and write, than to keep a thought in my mind, or to open my mouth and share it with my wife.
On my desktop somewhere is a story that begins:
QUOTE
I had baked a lot of bread in my life, and I was not satisfied with the quality of the pizza dough that could be prepared from a mix in only 15 minutes. In 1965 I turned to an Italian cookbook for a recipe, and it was suggested that I find a recipe for French Bread. A French cookbook informed me that French Bread, by law, can only be made from flour, water, salt, and "yesterday's bread." Thus began my search to learn what was meant by "yesterday's bread," by looking for a book which told the history of bread. To date, I have found only two such histories. I found it to be a fascinating story, and today I have both of those books on my desktop. Both were written and published during the Second World War. Both have been out of print since before I was born.
Among the other things on my desktop is a computer with multiple word processing programs, including this one. My view of the river is unique, and my writing is probably my most effective paintbrush. (
And either of the pizza crust recipes I have developed makes fantastic pizza! )
In addition to the Kerry/Edwards desktop, I have hacked Windows to play the opening guitar riffs from "Johnny B. Goode" on both Windows opening and closing.
The song was often heard in the background of Kerry and Edwards appearances shortly after John(ny) chose John(ny) to be his running mate.
"Go, Johnny, Go."
The song was often heard in the background of Kerry and Edwards appearances shortly after John(ny) chose John(ny) to be his running mate.
"Go, Johnny, Go."
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I just changed my desktop to include two interests—Fort Worth local history and steam locomotives.
In the 1950s the now defunct or merged Texas & Pacific Railroad donated engine 610, a 6-10-4 Lima (a 1927 vintage) heavy freight hauler, to the city of Fort Worth. The engine and gondola combined weighed more than 700,000 lbs. It was displayed at our Will Rodgers Center. Then in 1969 it was moved across town to a federal depot owned by General Services Administration. In the mid-1970s, it was moved to the historic stockyards area and renovated in open public view to operational condition. It pulled a leg of the 1976 Bi-Centennial Freedom train. Today it is on display at the Texas State Railroad museum in Rusk, Texas.
The 610 is the only surviving member of the 2-10-4 class of steam locamotives.
T & P 610 Engine on My Desktop Click Here
In the 1950s the now defunct or merged Texas & Pacific Railroad donated engine 610, a 6-10-4 Lima (a 1927 vintage) heavy freight hauler, to the city of Fort Worth. The engine and gondola combined weighed more than 700,000 lbs. It was displayed at our Will Rodgers Center. Then in 1969 it was moved across town to a federal depot owned by General Services Administration. In the mid-1970s, it was moved to the historic stockyards area and renovated in open public view to operational condition. It pulled a leg of the 1976 Bi-Centennial Freedom train. Today it is on display at the Texas State Railroad museum in Rusk, Texas.
The 610 is the only surviving member of the 2-10-4 class of steam locamotives.
T & P 610 Engine on My Desktop Click Here
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