Thread: What's on your desktop?

Yeah we've had what music, what job, what school etc, now what's on your desktop? ie background picture or any unusual icons etc

Mine is a picture of a dinner, pie potatoes and vegetables to remind me of what I used to eat, but with kidney problems it's a crap diet now, yep boring, but what's on yours??

Previous to that it was a nightime shuttle launch, before that A salvador Dali next? who knows I might steal an idea from one of you.

Why did you choose the picture you have?

Recently I had a load of shit on it. Icons, pictures, documents, folders... all sorts. So I just put them all in one folder and put it in my documents. Out of sight...... >

The aged can never understand the pointlessness of youth eh? Its called the world as it is is pointless and pathetic.

I vary my backdrop, its always nature or man though. Either a really good natural formation or a city skyline. Right now its some mountains in the forests in a temperate area witha small lake/river there.

Keep that to yourself BW or they'll build on it.....

Made my day again...

Originally Posted by Bad Wolf

Right now its some mountains in the forests in a temperate area witha small lake/river there.

Mine is also forested mountains, but snow covered, from a snowshoe trip two weekends ago. National Forest so no one will build on it. I used it because of the amazing experience of having hiked up in a snowstorm, unaware of the scenery around us, then hiking back down in glorious sunshine through fresh deep snow and seeing everything we had missed on the way up. Stunning and unforgettable.

a view of the setting sun over the sea off the west coast of the isle of wight

Mine is one of those cool word illusions, except this one is "Defeat within Victory"

an alternative one is a logo my son developed for his Design Technology project

Originally Posted by tritai

Mine is one of those cool word illusions, except this one is "Defeat within Victory"

Cool!

Mine is a picture of a dinner, pie potatoes and vegetables to remind me of what I used to eat, but with kidney problems it's a crap diet now, yep boring, but what's on yours??

megabrain, mine is also of food, A healthy dinner I made late one night last summer.

Beans, Potatoes Smile Faces and Processed Chicken Shapes - which had peas and sweet corn inside, some bright Idea by birds eye to get kids to eat vegetables here in Ireland. Worked for me





Also my desktop is extreamly messy - but it normally is organised messy. Until a play a game which changes the resolution and suddenly its all over the place.

Good god, goodgod3rd.....

The food of gods :-D

Quick to make, tasty, and nutritionally balanced (ish).

My desktop was riddled with sh!t (in 1280x720 too), so I just made a folder called 'sh!t' put all the sh!t in it and then chucked it in some god forsaken outback area of my computer. Along with all the other 'sh!t' folders there are...

If I recall that night it wasn’t easy to make, I was oven cooking them, but my oven stopped working – I didn’t realise this till I got up to check them. So I had to grill them instead, which explains why some of the smiles look a little bit burnt.


goodgod indeed

My desktop was riddled with sh!t (in 1280x720 too), so I just made a folder called 'sh!t' put all the sh!t in it and then chucked it in some god forsaken outback area of my computer. Along with all the other 'sh!t' folders there are...

I also do that quite often - but I find that sooner or later I need something that I can't find.

And for some reason, my desktop is filled with stuff, presentations, reports and other such documents that I REALLY don't need anymore, but I still see them and say I’ll delete them later. I think I'm just too proud of my work :P

Just for the record - I am a decent cook, might post pictures of my other meals sometime.

I got a naked mans back on mine. I used to have an US flag before, and don't recall what was it before that.

Now it's all black and the nude to the right. I love it a lot.

Oh so much to explain. Various programs I've tested or am testing (PixaMSN sucks), some things I've written (I'm sure your eyes have focused on "eroticism example", which is actually a criticism of modern erotica), some 4chan images, saved youtube videos (VideoCacheView ftw), and so on and so forth. I also have some CSS files, and a new mmo I'm going to try (eventually).

My desktop, basically, is always changing. Stuff I keep I move to "crap" and various subfolders, good images (desktops, art, etc) go to "images", and articles I write generally move to a .7z file (ye gods I have so many).

Oh, and most of my exe's on the desktop are from http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/

Edit: Oh, and here is my wallpaper

Edit2: Sigh, and before anyone says anything, "Movies" is stuff from youtube or digital backups of stuff I own (I'm a voyager junkie, I have every single season on DVD). Music? Free stuff from websites like "garageband". You have no idea how awesome free music can be.

solid black with a warning in the bottom right hand corner that says "you may be the victim of software counterfeiting"

...i feel victimized :wink:

I changed my desktop to some text that goes:

Hey, you.

Yeah you.

You got something on your face.



.....stupidity.



8)

It's being the US flag again. What a cozy image it was. Sad I can't upload to the thread.

Steve

computer desktop is a boring concept so:

my desktop is a mess.

assortment of papers.
stapler
laptop
marker pens
regular pens
pencils
data cd
coffee cup lid
various epigenetics product catalogues
one sudoku booklet
two bananas
rye bread
butter (going to lunch soon)
Dr Pepper
empty teacup
backup hardrive
microtome knifeblade in a greiner tube
post-it notes
dirty napkin
ruler (twice)
multivitamins

likewise with spurious, my computer desktop remains UNpersonalized. But my desk is all aclutter. Let's see...

Papers
Empty soda cup
Trash bag
Small Bowl holding pens and whatnot
ruler
Abacus
Xun
Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy
Cell Phone
Computer
Mouse
Keyboard
Speakers
Tower of Blank DVDs
Tower of Used DVDs
3 Binders
What appears to be a puddle of dried paint?
My hands.

Computer
Lots of scattered papers
Unused CRT monitor
Cellphone
Stapler
Punch
Pens
Markers
Ruler
Business card holder with cards in it
DVD catalogues
Order forms
Keys
Coffee mug
Colour laser printer
Office laser scanner copier printer fax
Scissors
Earphones
Cordless phone

Mine is a big desk, and so fuller:

3 remote controlls
electric fan
biro multipack
5 folders full of notes
TV & freeview box
empty half-bottle of wine (where'd that come from?!?!)
gum
footwear waterproofer
swiss army knife
fire extinguisher
various items fo clothing strewn around
pen holder
post-it notes (clean and used)
DVDs
2 torches
several lighters
superglue
golf balls
bicycle lock
bicycle tyre hand-pump
2 camel-backs (a type of water container, for taking hiking/biking)
a stack of instruction manuels (unused)
3 empty budweiser bottles
batteries
a stack of university prospecti
the book I am currently reading (Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan)
Matches
lightbulbs
dice
needle and thread
various wires, leads, adapters, etc.
A hexi-block
digital camera
computer (plus moniter, keyboard, speakers, mouse...)
Mug (empty currently)
empty boxes
shuttlecock

Sorry, it's a bit empty today...

because you forgot to bring your bicycle in - sorry, but by now someone will have nicked it

It's happened before.

It was considered a major crime for these parts, as well.

People lose bikes here in the tens a day... the police don't even care

If I dropped something in the street, unless it was particularly valuable, all that would happen is someone would move it off the ground and either hand it in at the post office, or put it somewhere off the ground where it can easily be seen by the owner.

Although we do have approximately 3 chavs in our village, who would just steal it. But still, not exactly crime central.

approximately ? like, one is sitting on the fence ?

Originally Posted by marnixR

approximately ? like, one is sitting on the fence ?

Well, despite my suggestion, they refuse to wear labels saying they are chavs. Sometimes someone loks like a chav, right up until their mum calls them in to tea.

I would estimate between 2 and 4 people in the village who I would politely refer to as 'scum'. Although, since there's a new housing estate here, I no longer know pretty much everyone in the village, so there could be more.

If someone moved here from London, they would go slowly insane, and would be considered rude and paranoid.

I actually know someone who has never seen a farm, or any farm animals...

My wallpaper is of the Helix Nebula, my desk is pretty organized. Here is a list 1.monitor
2. Wireless key board
3. Wireless mouse
4. WoW guide book
5. Printer/fax/scan
6. Psychology dictionary
7. PDR
8. Pathologic Basis of Disease
9. Pharmacology
10. Neuroanatomy
11. Histopathology
12. High Yield Psychiatry
12. Rumi love poems
13. What Do You say After You Say Hello
14. Be Here Now
15. All of Kaplan step one and two USMLE prep books
16. Michio Kaku books Physics of The Impossible, Parallel Worlds, Quantum Field Theory
17. Fractal Time Gregg Braden
18. Chariots of The Gods
19. Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion
20. Horizons Exploring The Universe
21. The Biology of Belief
22. Virus of The Mind
23. Pens, pencils, white out, post it notes
24. IPhone
25. iPod
26. Atlas Shrugged
27. A Briefer History of Time
28. Bible New American, and King James.
29. Quran
30. Inner Temple of Witchcraft
31. Bhagavad Gita
32. Nutritional Healing
32. Water from tonight
33. Pack of gum
34. Various silicates.

K that's everything on my big desk. I have way more books but these are the ones stacked on my desk at the moment.

WoW...

Originally Posted by Arcane_Mathematician

WoW...

Yes.....

Originally Posted by Arcane_Mathematician

WoW...

DO you play?

NO!!! I play warcraft 3, and I play NWN.

Edit: BUT, I do have Frostmourne

Sweet... Are you ever on MMORPG.COM ?

Naw, I usually just play nwn offline, because I play the original one. But, when I do go online, I have a tendency to stick to a few select worlds. Warcraft 3 I play offline exclusive. Not a fan of the cheaters.

Oh, and Frostmourne is a real sword, I had to shell out a pretty penny for it, but it was WORTH it.

The sword is awesome...

How many people have you decapitated?

hundreds. They're buried in my backyard.

much be a big backyard.

Naw, just a big pit.

Originally Posted by spuriousmonkey

much be a big backyard.

wtf.

why do I write much if I meant must?

no idea, but I had a good feeling you meant must :wink:

Music files, rocket dock, a pokemon card of samuel l jackson and a woman tied and gagged

my background is normally of a photo of my girlfriend... but it can sometimes vary to some screenshots of the games i play.... Devil May Cry 4, Call of Duty: World at War... etc

Real desk from Left to right:

Returned packages of fossils sent back to finders
Pencil sharpener
Lamp
all sitting on a 16 drawer small specimen case
"Flowering Plants of the World" by heywood
"Treatise on Invertebrate paleontology: Arthropoda" vol.1 & 2
all on a 6 drawer small specimen case
cheap speakers
ipod
unidentified ?fruit? fossil
unidentified catkin (pinaceae?) fossil
10x loupe
2 mechanical pencils
1 ballpoint pen
1 archival pen
1 bottle Paleobond PB100
phone
blank cd/rs
Paperwork
coal with amber
dud thunderegg
Rosaceae & Alder leaves fossil
power strip
"Deviacer" samra fossil
5 Rosaceae flower fossils
1 elm fruit fossil
3 Bryophyta fossils
1 "burr like" samara fossil
misc dud shale chunks
plastic baseball card boxes for fossil storage
stapler
ID tags for fossils
Manilla folder boxes for fossil storage
more paperwork
Copies of loan paperwork for scientists
"Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants from Republic, Northeastern Washington"
"Cruzin' the Fossil Freeway"
all on the Computer tower
Ruler
misc Cercidiphyllum, Alnus, Ulmus, and Sassafras leaf fossils
Mouseon mouse pad

Desktop (computer):

Picture is that picture of the Earth as seen from the moon...all blue and shiny-like.
Icons are in folders and in two rows on the left hand side. I had tried to skatter them all around the screen, but the people I share a computer with don't like that, so they put them back in two neat rows. Urg. Some people.

Desktop (desk, oh so much more literal):

Computer
Stacks of Books
Stacks of papers
skattered papers
pencils + pens
TEA
fossil collection
parts of rock collection
parts of plant collection
parts of microscope slide collection
parts of feather collection
parts of marble collection
parts of assorted junk collection
MORE TEA
notebooks (many)
sketchbooks (two)
Journal (one)
Text books for next year's AP classes
Summer Coursework
Post card from the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC

Microsoft Word
Documents folder
A Firefox that reads internet explorer
A Regular Mozilla Firefox shortcut
A computer shortcut
Force open task manager
Avast
Music folder
Recycling bin
pure black background

I've got a picture of my family. I haven't seen them in almost a year because of this Marine Corps thing I signed up for. We all wore cloths to make us look like we were in the twenties, and than they sepia'd it so that it looks like a cheep wannabe oldie photograph. It's my favorite picture to look at.

I've got a picture of my family. I haven't seen them in almost a year because of this Marine Corps thing I signed up for. We all wore cloths to make us look like we were in the twenties, and than they sepia'd it so that it looks like a cheep wannabe oldie photograph. It's my favorite picture to look at.

That's so sweet! ♥