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A work in progress. On my desktop primarily to remind me to keep progressing, with it.
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That is way too many icons for a desktop to have.
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Desktop would look empty without them.
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My son David, who is a big fan of the new Iron Man movie, prevailed upon me to take some screenshots from the Iron Man Blu-Ray disc to use as his desktop background. He switches back and forth between these three:

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It's the dullest background ever, but I like it.
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It's the dullest background ever, but I like it.
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This is my desktop at work. Mike, your son might like this one.
This is essentially my desktop at home, but without the blur effects and on a plain black background.
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Just found it and made it my desktop for my laptop and I'm about to do the same to the desktop.
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Anyone who can tell me what town that is, or what fictional town was modeled after it, gets a cookie. :D
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Newer better desktop, click for fullsize. Wee. . .

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I find there is elegance in simplicity.

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Schuyler Colfax wrote:Image

Just found it and made it my desktop for my laptop and I'm about to do the same to the desktop.
Looks good, found a bigger version here. ;)

And this is mine at the moment.
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Argosh wrote:
Schuyler Colfax wrote:Image

Just found it and made it my desktop for my laptop and I'm about to do the same to the desktop.
Looks good, found a bigger version here. ;)
:roll: I had to make it smaller so I wouldn't widen this page.
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My indecision is final. On the other hand, this one may be a keeper for at least a few weeks.
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Executor32 wrote:Image

Anyone who can tell me what town that is, or what fictional town was modeled after it, gets a cookie. :D
I'm guessing Salzburg, and Hogsmeade.
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I was thinking Hogsmeade too.
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Not even the same continent. :)
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Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
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Well, with a new monitor obviously comes a new wallpaper, plus one for the other monitor that I'm still using. Ultramon is my best friend. :D

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They're different resolutions (1920x1080 and 1280x1024), so it looks a little wonky as a single image.

Since no one guessed it, the previous wallpaper was of Shirakawa-gō, a village in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The village modeled after it was Hinamizawa, from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. Like I said, not even the same continent. :P
どうして?お前が夜に自身お触れるから。
Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
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phongn wrote:*snip*
That's a very cool background. Could you post the original?
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