Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: Entsuropi on March 05, 2004, 09:07:00 AM
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Random curiosity time. What does your computers desktop look like? Mine looks thus. (http://home.comcast.net/~entropytwg/entropy_desktop_05-03-04.JPG)
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I'm game (http://www.timewastersguide.com/VG/pictures/spriggan-desktop-3-5-2004.jpg)
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I'm too lazy to link, just as I am too lazy to upload myself. Try this then, thanks to Ent's mad leet uploading skillzz: http://home.comcast.net/~entropytwg/Desk.jpg
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ok, well, there's this one (http://www.saintehlers.com/misc/images/desktop.jpg) from back when I was still in Provo doing tech writing.
Shortly after that I went to work for a guy at BYU, and here's what his computer looked like (http://www.saintehlers.com/misc/images/productivity.jpg) when I was using it and he was out of office. Yeah. I worked hard.
Then there's this one (http://www.saintehlers.com/misc/images/desktop20030412.jpg) from later where you can actually see what background I'm using.
My computer at home AND at the office don't have wallpapers, though i guess maybe you're interested in icons, I can take a shot when I get home.
it's not a desktop, but for kicks, this is what I do (http://www.saintehlers.com/misc/images/toolbar.gif) instead of, y'know, actually WRITING with the program.
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Wow, mine is not nearly so interesting. How do you get a screen shot?
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use the PrtSc button at the top of your keyboard. Then open up MSpaint (or any graphics program) and paste. Then save it as a JPEG.
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I only get a tiny tiny picture when I do that--72 dpi, couple of inches square. Impossible to see anything but the background picture, not the icons.
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Onion of Death and Spriggin have the same desktop. I'd show you mine but I'm not allowed to have one. Go stare at a wall and you'll get the basic idea.
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Mine's different now. Here: http://www.katzura-hoji.de/fallen%20angel%20wallpaper.JPG
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kinda cool. What about your icons and crud?
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I don't know how to post pictures on message boards. I've tried before, and I don't want to go through the trouble of making my own website just to upload pictures.
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This bord dosen't let people post to it.
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you have NO web space anywhere?
I can think of a dozen practical uses for a couple megs of free space on a web server somewhere though, so while something like this topic doesn't necessarily persuade anyone to do something, I'd have it for other reasons.
<shrug> Ok.
Incidentally, this msg board doesn't store the picture. It just lets you link.
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Is there anywhere where I could easily obtain some web space? I'm kinda clueless when it comes to the Internet. While I spend a lot of time on it, web page design and the like has always confused me.
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www.freeservers.com
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www.photobucket.com Mofo go there, and mofo will have fun! Mofo!
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as tage posted www.freeservers.com, probaly the best free server place on the web right now. It also allows flash embeding.
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So yeah, you wanted it, now you get it. Feel the privey of Gemm's Desktop!
Try it, Mofo! (http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Gemm09/Desktop.jpg)
Ok, I can't figure out why it did that. I've been trying to make it clearer but everything I've tried hasn't worked. SO whatever, you get what I get.
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Yeah, but PhotoBucket is cool, because its free and it gives you a certain monthly limit. But I've barely reached that yet. Plus I gave them a few dollars to have unlimited bandwidth (by a few dollars, I mean 4). So PhotoBucket it.
"Photobucket currently allows 100 megabytes of disk space per month. This is approximately 2,000 images if your average picture size is 50K. If you choose to donate, your disk space restrictions will be lifted."
AND
Photobucket currently allows 2,500 megabytes of bandwidth per month. This is approximately 50,000 image hits per month if your average picture size is 50K. If you choose to donate, your bandwidth restrictions will be lifted."
So Nyah =P
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Wow, just like Gemm himself, everything in that picture is incomprehensible and makes your head hurt trying to understand (in the picutes case, read).
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Onion, that wallpaper seriously kicks butt.
http://www.kuglerworld.com/epitaph/jtkauff/renders/sl.jpg
That's what I have for my wallpaper, um without the annoying huge watermark, though.
My laptop doesn't have a printscreen button, ya know. Icons are boring though.
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http://img31.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Strobulus/wallpaper.jpg
there we go. thanks for the help. It's unfortunately not much different than before.
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"Long Live Dead Babies"
Gemm, the more I know about you, the less I want to know the other people you know.
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hehehe. Agreed
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Well, that was more my roommate's stupidity saying something relatively funny. But, it's more me and my friends back home that are bent on taking over the world, killing each other, and dead baby jokes.
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I enjoy thoughts of taking over the world too. Perhaps some day one of us will run this rock.
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I'll take the Illuminati approach: YOu can inherit the world. I don't intend to be here.
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http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v97/maddrjeffe/desktop.jpg
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Again I must reply with, Nice.
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Hmm. As i suspected - i'm the only person who pertains any knowledge of desktop arrangedment. You people are all so... messy.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but assertions of superiority because of "artistic" layout will make me laugh in your face.
That having been fun to write...
My husband's desktop is perfect, as befits an artist of his obsessive-compulsive nature, while I like my desktop messy for the same reason I like my bedroom messy. I know where everything is.
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lol.
Gemm - did you ever manage to get Team Speak (note to everyone else - a voice over internet program, kinda like a chatroom but with voices not words) working? I know jam, during one of our yap- fests over it, mentioned that you had issues getting it to connect to servers.
Also, i love Onions wallpaper.
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Nope. And I doubt it will work since my school has some super-duper dumb firewall thingy keeping me from really doing anything like that. Refer to my rants about how I can't play games on the net.
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Hahahah, let me take the integrity of this thread down a few notches. This is me trying osmosis. (http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Gemm09/Myself/P1010012.jpg) Osmosis doesn't work, therefore it does not exist.
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Oh, I don't know about that... When I was a freshman in college, I fell asleep in my biology class every day and still managed to get an A. I think osmosis works just fine. :) On a completely unrelated note (I'm just excited about this), I just successfully defended my masters thesis on Thursday. I just need to make some minor revisions and send it to the library for binding, and it'll be completely done! :)
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Gemm, that is totally a typical dorm room. Girly poster, etc. So... in addition to the girly poster, who uses the girly shampoo I see in the closet on the right?
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Well, the poster is my roommates. My poster is of the Frozen Throne poster. The closet on the right is the roommates. Mine is the left.
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Hmmmm. Is it just me or did he avoid the question?
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well, he told me whose closet holds the girly shampoo, so close enough.
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Hmmm. I suppose tha twould be logical.
But think about this: He wakes up one morning and, noticing he's late, grabs the shampoo from his closet, taking a cold shower (because the water heater is down for the day), he becomes frazzled. Suddenly, drying off, he exits the bathroom as the phone rings, lunging for it because he is expecting a call from the his paternal unit, he grabs some fresh clothes while talking to a telemarketer. Becoming fed up he hangs up violently, runs out the door without a shirt into the cold hallway with wet, cold hair. Realizing he both forgot his backpack (with his 300000000000 point essay) and a shirt, he runs back inside, grabbing the shampoo, as it is on a dresser just by the door. He opens the drawer to see nothing clean.
"Jumping jiggofrats!" he exclaims as he runs for his closet to find a shirt, but no dice. The only thing is the closet is his roomates stash of girly mags and an old broom, along with some empty hangers. Looking at the clock and realizing he has less than 10 minuites to reach a class 15 minuites away he throws open his roomates closet, steals an old ghostbusters shirt which smells like mildew.
"I'll be all the wiser" he says as he throws on the shirt, then taking a deep breath lunges for the door, only to smell his shirt.
"Well dip me in shirt and roll me in breadcrumbs!" he exclaims at the smell, looking around he grabs some shampoo (to offset the mildew smell), spreads some on the shirt, throws it in the closet and runs off to class. Later he takes the picture and posts it. Now whoose shampoo is it? HUH?? I'M ONTO YOU!!
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Ok, now I'm confused - Is Gemm supposed to be the Message Bored freak, or was it Gorgon?
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I think they're trading off to confuse us.
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Tagteam! I'm tired, Tag out Gemm, I need a break...
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Honestly, I don't know what he's talking about. If I'm ever about to be late to a class because I don't have time to get up and shower, etc, I won't be going to that upcoming class. And on an et al, I know the difference between my closet and my roommates closet.
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Fine...
But what if: Gemm wakes up because his alarm goes off. He sluggishly rolls out of his bed onto the floor, goes to take a shower. He stays in the shower for 10 minuites, whilst singing a Grateful Dead tune, when his roomate walks into the connected dorm. He hears Gemm singing, and laughs histerically, then leaves.
Gemm gets out of the shower, realizing it's saturday, plops hiself back into bed from his exaustion. The shampoo is now on the floor. His roomate then walks in a second time, shakes Gemm histerically, then takes a shower himself, singing a rolling stones hit.
Gemm cannot get to sleep with his roomate singing, so rolls out of bed, and lands and/or steps on the shampoo. It gets all over the floor. After grabbing the broom which is in his all-too-empty closet and attempting to use it to clean up the mess, he realizes that a broom is not meant to be used this way.
"Stinking Lemons Of FRAN!!!" He exclaims, crying over his lost broom. After reminising about the good times he and his broom had together, he grabs the only clean shirt he has, a telletubies shirt some sick relative got him for christmas and/or any other holiday (religous or not) where gifts are given. His roomate walks out of the bathroom, laughs histerically, doubling over unto the floor, hitting the handle end of the broom which was precariously set over the shampoo bottle.
The brush end of the broom flings into the air, flinging shampoo into the air. This shampoo happens to hit Gemms eyes, and not thinking to buy the tear-free kind, becomes in a lot of pain.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Gemm yells. Then all is silent except the sound of Gemm yelling
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" again. He then picks up the broom and swings it wildley at where his roomate would be if he hadn't already left while Gemm screamed, which he did. Hitting the bed, and thinking that it was his roomate due to the blanket over the pole as to make a fleshy fell, Gemm yells," LIKE THAT!? @$$!" When he cannot hear breathing, Gemm realizes that in his rage he may have killed his roomate.
He then kneels on one knee and screams to the heavens a long and sad story of a boy named Pete. Stands up, feeling the shampoo bottle with his foot.
Gemms vision is still gone and his eyes sting, cutting off his rational thinking, and Gemm seems to think that the bottle is a peice of arm. He then quickly grabs every peice of material on the floor, each representing a body part, opens the nearest closet and throws it all in. Then he runs outside yelling for help, smacks into a wall, and falls on the floor uncontious.
Hours later he wakes up, goes inside his dorm, and sees his roomate!
"MIRACLE! IT'S A JOHOSEFRICKIN' MIRACLE!" running to his roomate and blubbering like a fool.
"Hey buudy." His roomate says like in a c=voice which sounds like Mr. T," I dunno why you threw all this crap in my closet, but I pity the fool who does it again, understand?" His roomate says, acting tough.
Gemm mutters, crys a little and calls the doctor for his eyes. His roomate continues to clean out the closet, gets bored of it, and throws it all into Gemms closet, missing the shampoo.
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the only part of that I read was Gemm crying like a little girl. That made me laugh.
But no.
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Fine
But this could happen: Gemm gets home one night and smells. He went bike riding to a farm a mud wrestled with the pigs. HE NEEDS TO TAKE A SHOWER. After pausing to plan out his course of action.
Grabbing his shampoo from his closet, he slips on a girly mag that is his roomates and/or his nickolodeon magazine, stunned, he is startled as a crow flies into his window.
He jumps up, does a ninja/spy roll into his roomates closet. He then realizes he is stuck, and knows that too long in his own stench will kill him.
"HELLLLLLP. DON'T MAKE ME DIE CRYING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL, PLEAAAASE." he sobs, setting down his shampoo.
Pulling himself together he devises a plan. He crouches and slides two quartes out from under the door, one into the other, sliding one out of any possible projectory he could have ahcieved with just one quarter.
This hits the cord to his alarm and/or telephone and/or radio and/or computer. That cord swings into a vent cover.The vent cover falls off, having not been screwed down.
Then Gemm takes a risk. He had had cheese for dinner at the farm, and lets one rip towards the crack in the doorframe. Only half makes it through, the rest adds to the stench choking him to death.
Suddenly, Carlithicamith, the rat, runs out of the vent seaching for cheese, and the smells slowly rises, causing Carlithicamith to follow it upwards. He climbs up a cord until he is at the highest point of the room.
"Blah Blahblahblah Blah Blah blahBLAH!!!" Gemm yells histerically to startle to the rat. But Gemm didn't remember that Carlithicamith is deaf. THe smell fades through the vents, and Carlithicamith starts to leave, but when he passes the window sill he sees the crows mangled corpse. This gives poor Carlithicamith a heart attack, and he falls of the narrow pass he had been traveling on.
Carlithicamith's body hits an astray marble,which rolls into Gemms four story house-of-cards replica of the minotonian labrinth. Two, three minuites pass and Gemm is hardley alive when the marble comes out the other side.
It rolls, bounces off a wall, and goes into an electrical outlet4. The marble is metal, and shoots out with sparks galore. Ii hits the lock on the door, Gemm stands up, twists the knob.
But it isn't unlocked. Gemm then punches the door, and it opens, falling off it's hinges.
"Whoa..." Says Gemm, astonished. Then government officails bust into his dorm and drag him away for animal abuse, wrestling pigs and killing Carlithicamith the rat. The court finds him guilty and he goes home and goes to sleep, forgetting all about the shampoo in his Roomates closet, who, by the way, is in Cancoon.
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I, without any doubt in me saying this, hate you.
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So I hit the nail right on the head, eh?
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The odd thing is, he's like this in real life. I swear I've heard him say "Jumpin' Jiggofrats!" before. I think the next time I'll give him a not so subtle kick in the nether regions when he goes off another rant.
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I would give you a not so subtle kick back, but I am afraid of losing my leg, remember the hutt fat-roll effect? It's got a lot to do with that.
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heh, more crying like a little girl. I like that. Funny stuff.
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That time it was for solely your amusment.
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most of the world is for my amusement.
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If I believed that were true, it would explain a lot.
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I do believe that is true and it esxplains nothing...
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Fool! Remove the scales from your eyes! Thou art blinded by thine own will!
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At least I'm not blinded by girly shampoo, ehhh Gemm?
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Ok, so what isn't girly shampoo nowadays?
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Uhhh, childrens' shampoo is not girly shampoo, just as an example.
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Men's Shampoo.
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Dog Shampoo. THat's right, I've seen it.
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Hooray! Time to do this again.
My current Wallpaper. (http://home.comcast.net/~entropytwg/entropy_desktop_25-06-04.JPG) I prefer white backgrounds, since bright ivory (or very slightly dirty white is another way of calling it) is my favourite colour.
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I would just like to point out that since this thread has been dead since March, the top post of this page reads like this.
What does your desktop look like?
Men's shampoo.
O_o
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So what if I want my hair to look glamorous and shiny, darling? </Camp>
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Ahh Starcraft Ghost, the next Duke Nukem Forever.
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I like the latest PA starcraft ghost wallpaper. Nova is HOT.
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And so are women that actualy exsist in the real world.
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Yes. But Imagainary ones I can have a valid excuse for not going out with.
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heh, nice one, JP.
Entropy, interesting shortcuts. I don't think I've ever met someone with a shortcut to Add/Remove Programs on their desktop.
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It's the quickest method of slapping down newbie programs.
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Well, my current one is Here:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v237/JamPaladin/?action=view¤t=wall.jpg
I badly need to clean up the icons on my desktop, half of those are destined for the recycle bin. As for the wallpaper, that's someone I know, who at the formal, took a photo of us (That trick where you point the camera at yourself). Just to be annoying, I turned her head into a slightly larger than life wallpaper. And then loaded it into my random cycle using Webshots. It's there twice because I use two monitors, that's what printscreen gave me, and I have better things to do than edit one side out. It's not my bandwidth being wasted.
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Hmm. It gives me a screen to login as you. Probably not the page you intended?
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Probably not. Try this instead:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v237/JamPaladin/wall.jpg
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my current screen
http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v97/maddrjeffe/Screen.jpg
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http://filespace.org/FuzzyOne/sail.jpg thats what my background is at the moment