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paragraphs) wrote2009-08-30 09:08 am
paragraphs) wrote2009-08-30 09:08 am
Post Your Desktop!
So, everyone is posting their desktops. Some are only posting their desktop pics, but I like seeing all the little folders people have.
I have two computers in my room that I bounce between--my laptop, with Vista, and my desktop, with XP. It can be somewhat of a pain to do that, but that's the way I roll, bouncing between one and the other depending on mood.
(I have yet to truly fall in love with Vista--I find it annoyingly complicated and prefer the simplicity of XP, but I love my laptop, so I deal with it. I barely have that thing's internals organized. I sure hope the next OS is a hell of a lot better than Vista but I'm stuck with it for now at least. Have XP at work too).
Because I am a doofus and don't know how to make the images bigger just by clicking them, and don't want to bother Nick since he is eyeball deep in thesis work, I'll just do it like this:
So here's my laptop: (clicky to see the big view)
And here's my big computer: (clicky)
We're supposed to say WHY these desktop layouts:
For the laptop (which is named Cyberman lol) the second I saw that photograph of the TARDIS whirling through space, and the Come, Travel with Me I knew that was the perfect thing for me. I love to travel, I LIVE to travel. My time here in FW is time spent preparing for the next time I can travel. I love seeing new places, experiencing new cultures, meeting people from all over...oh if only I had more money to do it, that's what I'd do all the time! (well, except I'd worry about my puppies alot...) I spent my first 43 years of my life hardly moving beyond Texas. I did manage to get away long enough to see Seattle a couple of times, Washington DC, Tucson, a few other places---all mystery convention-connected. Not enough. Never enough. I always wanted to go, the spouse always wanted to stay. He did not like me to go anywhere. I went anyway, when I could, but he always made it difficult. Kept my wings clipped best he could, but I'm fully-feathered now so when I have the cash, I make the time. I plan to do more in the coming years. Have to. HAVE to. So I love this desktop as it is a constant reminder of who I am, what I am now. FREE!
The icons are nice and neat on my laptop primarily because it is used mostly only for writing and emails and 'net-surfing. I also, on the sidebar, have a clock for Nick, and his weather, and then the same for myself. I also have a photo gallery display gadget--and if you squint really really hard you may be able to tell who I captured in this screenshot. lol. I like that gadget alot as all my trip pics and pics of Nick and the dogs lol are constantly going past my eyes, making me smile. (Just gotta be sure they are all work-safe, tee hee).
The second one, the big computer? Those are my kids, Tiffany and Kelly. The picture is from a couple of years ago--a friend of Tiff's was learning about photography (she now studies it at uni) and the kids volunteered to be subjects. Or rather, Tiff volunteered them. I love this picture because, well, its my kids! My amazing awesome wonderful kids! I am lucky in that my two adore each other. The three of us went through a hell of a lot together during their teen years, and thankfully they've both emerged the stronger for it. My son is still finding his way--he is a senior in high school--and his father's illness and death were very hard on him, but he is doing well (he IS a teenage boy though, 17 now, so he doesn't always THINK like his sister, who is 20, does about things, but he is getting there).
The icons on the desktop aren't that exciting, though I laugh that I have the Askworld soundtrack on there.
I have two computers in my room that I bounce between--my laptop, with Vista, and my desktop, with XP. It can be somewhat of a pain to do that, but that's the way I roll, bouncing between one and the other depending on mood.
(I have yet to truly fall in love with Vista--I find it annoyingly complicated and prefer the simplicity of XP, but I love my laptop, so I deal with it. I barely have that thing's internals organized. I sure hope the next OS is a hell of a lot better than Vista but I'm stuck with it for now at least. Have XP at work too).
Because I am a doofus and don't know how to make the images bigger just by clicking them, and don't want to bother Nick since he is eyeball deep in thesis work, I'll just do it like this:
So here's my laptop: (clicky to see the big view)
And here's my big computer: (clicky)
We're supposed to say WHY these desktop layouts:
For the laptop (which is named Cyberman lol) the second I saw that photograph of the TARDIS whirling through space, and the Come, Travel with Me I knew that was the perfect thing for me. I love to travel, I LIVE to travel. My time here in FW is time spent preparing for the next time I can travel. I love seeing new places, experiencing new cultures, meeting people from all over...oh if only I had more money to do it, that's what I'd do all the time! (well, except I'd worry about my puppies alot...) I spent my first 43 years of my life hardly moving beyond Texas. I did manage to get away long enough to see Seattle a couple of times, Washington DC, Tucson, a few other places---all mystery convention-connected. Not enough. Never enough. I always wanted to go, the spouse always wanted to stay. He did not like me to go anywhere. I went anyway, when I could, but he always made it difficult. Kept my wings clipped best he could, but I'm fully-feathered now so when I have the cash, I make the time. I plan to do more in the coming years. Have to. HAVE to. So I love this desktop as it is a constant reminder of who I am, what I am now. FREE!
The icons are nice and neat on my laptop primarily because it is used mostly only for writing and emails and 'net-surfing. I also, on the sidebar, have a clock for Nick, and his weather, and then the same for myself. I also have a photo gallery display gadget--and if you squint really really hard you may be able to tell who I captured in this screenshot. lol. I like that gadget alot as all my trip pics and pics of Nick and the dogs lol are constantly going past my eyes, making me smile. (Just gotta be sure they are all work-safe, tee hee).
The second one, the big computer? Those are my kids, Tiffany and Kelly. The picture is from a couple of years ago--a friend of Tiff's was learning about photography (she now studies it at uni) and the kids volunteered to be subjects. Or rather, Tiff volunteered them. I love this picture because, well, its my kids! My amazing awesome wonderful kids! I am lucky in that my two adore each other. The three of us went through a hell of a lot together during their teen years, and thankfully they've both emerged the stronger for it. My son is still finding his way--he is a senior in high school--and his father's illness and death were very hard on him, but he is doing well (he IS a teenage boy though, 17 now, so he doesn't always THINK like his sister, who is 20, does about things, but he is getting there).
The icons on the desktop aren't that exciting, though I laugh that I have the Askworld soundtrack on there.
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Thanks. I do adore those two brats o'mine. :)
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And yay for free wings and going wherever you want to! *hugs*
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I rather like them, too.
My kids like theirs also, though only my daughter is truly aware hers were furled tight before.
Thanks--I am extraordinarily proud of those two--I have pretty kids. My son was going through Emo Hair back then. LOL.
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Your kids are awesome. :)
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Oh! That is irritating you couldn't get it to work. I love mine. For some reason yours wasn't pointing to pictures, huh.
Yes, they are. :) Kelly's changed a bit since then and won't stop growing! I have to buy him new clothes, again!
Doha? Oh! Over there!
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I would totally do this meme, but my computer skills are sadly lacking...
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But classes start again this week, and I don't have and time... :(
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Here's mine. I change my desktop pic all the time, but I change my icons less frequently, so right now I try to keep my desktop fitting my black/red/white icon theme. Right now it's one of the desktops that came with Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts album.
I've got a Mac, so most of my stuff is hidden neatly away in the dock. :-)
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I love the pic too. It is moody and dark and gloomy. :)
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I have a Mac, so desktop screenshots are... unfulfilling. I have a variety of weird folder names like "zebras have feelings too" (sheet music); "I need to live forever" (knitting patterns) and "Frankensteine" (stuff I meant to work on with Verasteine) but they're all hidden snugly away. My very clean desktop is a picture of prayer flags with the Himalayas in the background, to remind me that I'm meant to be focussing on one of the Eight Noble Truths each week.
Yeah, that's totally not working.
I like the inclusion of the horsehead nebula in that DW wallpaper. I love the melding of SF with reality. If you ever travel to Australia, I'll at least show you my city (Canberra) and if it's in the school holidays, we can hire a car and go look for more (I must say at this point that ALL the TW people live in Melbourne. And also that all the stuff on the adverts is in QLD. I live in the BORING CITY OF BORINGNESS.)
They keep telling us at work that adolescence now lasts until about age 24. Goddess help us all.