You should add "Family Pictures", including Girl/Boy friends, parents, cousins, for those of us who are not parents yet? (or better replace kid pictures by this,)
Well, I play at their game...I have a picture of a purple hydrogen powered hummer on my desktop and it scares the hell out of the men in my lab. They cannot compute female with liking big cars. Really I just have it for my personal entertainment at their reactions.
For about 3 years now, I've had my system configured so that the background is only displayed when there are no windows open. I have all windows maximised, and I see my background less than once a month, and only briefly. What is my background? Well, I had to check. It's the default X windows gray that looks like it was originally intended to detect monitor problems.
My desktop is currently a Hubble image of the Orion nebula (I chose "other"), when the TRkA staing is done though, it will become a dual colour image of double labled sprouting neurons.
My desktop is an arty image (one of the murals in Coit tower in San Fran). prior to this it was a Matisse painting. Prior to this a different painting of nature but I don't recall the artist.
Other. I download the new main image from the Hubble Heritage Project site every month, and sometimes I rotate an old one back in just 'cuz it's cool. http://heritage.stsci.edu/
I have about 2000 images in my Desktop Pictures folder that I have accumulated over the years and it picks one at random at login for each monitor. Currently the left monitor is displaying a sunset/rise from some deserted beach somewhere looking out to sea. The Right monitor is displaying one of my own creations.
[blockquote] This will also have the effect of telling you about the distribution of your readership. [/blockquote]
Perhaps not. PZ Myers linked to it (that's how I found it) and there are 97 comments there as compared to 17 here ... if the comments at each site are proportional to the voters from the regular readers from each site, the pharyngulas will have drowned out the normal audience of this blog.
llewelly--I saw the totals on the counts before I got to your comments, and I immediately checked Inside Higher Ed to see if this post had been linked. It wasn't, but PZ Myers, that explains it.
Oh well. Sorry, Female Science Professor--it would have been interesting to see the distribution of your regular readers, I think. But the larger sample for the poll is good too.
We don't want to sell' you our site. But, if you're looking for comprehensive, dedicated information and resources on computer, you're in the right place.
You should add "Family Pictures", including Girl/Boy friends, parents, cousins, for those of us who are not parents yet? (or better replace kid pictures by this,)
ReplyDeleteWell, I play at their game...I have a picture of a purple hydrogen powered hummer on my desktop and it scares the hell out of the men in my lab. They cannot compute female with liking big cars. Really I just have it for my personal entertainment at their reactions.
ReplyDeleteThis will also have the effect of telling you about the distribution of your readership.
ReplyDeleteThe results for women will have an additional "kids picture" from me. I voted before reading the "For Women" bit. Sorry 'bout that...
ReplyDeleteI use the pictures from Astronomy Picture of the Day, which has some really nice planetary science and deep-astronomy images.
ReplyDeleteMy current desktop wallpaper is one of my holiday snaps.
ReplyDeleteFor about 3 years now, I've had my system configured so that the background is only displayed when there are no windows open. I have all windows maximised, and I see my background less than once a month, and only briefly. What is my background? Well, I had to check. It's the default X windows gray that looks like it was originally intended to detect monitor problems.
ReplyDeletemy desktop is an image of earth from space. i counted that as "nature".
ReplyDeleteMy desktop is currently a Hubble image of the Orion nebula (I chose "other"), when the TRkA staing is done though, it will become a dual colour image of double labled sprouting neurons.
ReplyDeleteMy desktop is an arty image (one of the murals in Coit tower in San Fran). prior to this it was a Matisse painting. Prior to this a different painting of nature but I don't recall the artist.
ReplyDelete-Hypatia
Umm, what about wife and pet. I have a picture of my wife and my dog.
ReplyDeleteOther. I download the new main image from the Hubble Heritage Project site every month, and sometimes I rotate an old one back in just 'cuz it's cool.
ReplyDeletehttp://heritage.stsci.edu/
I have about 2000 images in my Desktop Pictures folder that I have accumulated over the years and it picks one at random at login for each monitor. Currently the left monitor is displaying a sunset/rise from some deserted beach somewhere looking out to sea. The Right monitor is displaying one of my own creations.
ReplyDeleteI would find pictures of my family too distracting, so I usually have nature pictures, or pictures with the family members *way* in the background.
ReplyDeleteI can't actually see my desktop because it's three-deep in folders and documents....
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean I can't play??
Doesn't look like a statistical difference to me....
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ReplyDeleteThis will also have the effect of telling you about the distribution of your readership.
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Perhaps not. PZ Myers linked to it (that's how I found it) and there are 97 comments there as compared to 17 here ... if the comments at each site are proportional to the voters from the regular readers from each site, the pharyngulas will have drowned out the normal audience of this blog.
llewelly--I saw the totals on the counts before I got to your comments, and I immediately checked Inside Higher Ed to see if this post had been linked. It wasn't, but PZ Myers, that explains it.
ReplyDeleteOh well. Sorry, Female Science Professor--it would have been interesting to see the distribution of your regular readers, I think. But the larger sample for the poll is good too.
We don't want to sell' you our site. But, if you're looking for comprehensive, dedicated information and resources on computer, you're in the right place.
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