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jenett and brooksmoses.
Why that background?
Well, a while back I was talking with the gang and had this really great idea for an image of Ht-Hrw. And realised that, well, I had nowhere near the artistic skill to do it. And then I thought, "But I know someone who does, and I think it's right up her alley."
So I contactedursulav for a commission, and that was the result. She sent me a print of it, and a .jpg copy. And I said, "Hmm, what do I do with a .jpg?" and set it as my desktop. :) Every so often I hit F11 to clear my screen so I can see Her expression of delighted, "All this for me?"
Why is your toolbar where it is?
Because anywhere else I put it it was in my way. I keep MacSOUP aligned with the left edge of my screen, as well as several Eudora windows; I use all the vertical territory. Off to the right it's not interfering.
What's on the toolbar and why?
Top to bottom: The finder window opener thing, MacSOUP, Eudora, Terminal, Mozilla, iJournal, Mega Minesweeper, ZWrite, BBEdit, Civilization III, two games I haven't loaded since I changed computers (Tropico, dominions), the System Prefs opener, Appleworks, GraphicConverter, iTunes, Safari, nitfol.
The top four default to being open all the time that I'm using the computer. I open it up and go click click click click right down the line. Newsreader, mail, tinyfugue, web. (Mozilla's homepage is my front journal page, which I've modified to have links to the things I read routinely, including window-opening links to the forums I read.)
iJournal is my LJ client. Minesweeper is my default timewaster. ZWrite is my default writing program; I never close it. It contains not only the WIP, the Fairly Standard Man notes, and a couple of other writing projects, but the character stats and information for several roleplaying characters. At the moment only the WIP is open of that. BBEdit I use for short stories, though not often. The three games are things I've played regularly in the past and may do again. System Prefs is because I got irritated at fishing for it and put it there so when I wanted it it was easy to get to. Appleworks and GraphicConverter are for other projects; I use GC much more often. iTunes is on whenever I'm not in the living room, almost always on random-all. Safari I use for a few specific rare web things that get grumpy at Mozilla. nitfol is a player for Infocom flatfiles, and at the bottom so I don't click on it by accident.
What the desktop icons are:
Mostly stuff that I haven't gotten around to filing somewhere more intelligent. The disk icon and the quotes file icon are supposed to be there. The disk image is for a game I need to actually properly install and register. The PDFs are downloads (gaming, miscellaneous, BU application) except for one that's apparently a screenshot image. One of the folders is an OS9 legacy, one an on-disk backup of my Eudora files from a while back, and one the remnant of one of my attempts to find Rogue by Epyx. Every so often I decide my desktop is too cluttered and go on a mad cleaning binge; I don't use it much.
jenett and brooksmoses.Why that background?
Well, a while back I was talking with the gang and had this really great idea for an image of Ht-Hrw. And realised that, well, I had nowhere near the artistic skill to do it. And then I thought, "But I know someone who does, and I think it's right up her alley."
So I contacted
ursulav for a commission, and that was the result. She sent me a print of it, and a .jpg copy. And I said, "Hmm, what do I do with a .jpg?" and set it as my desktop. :) Every so often I hit F11 to clear my screen so I can see Her expression of delighted, "All this for me?"Why is your toolbar where it is?
Because anywhere else I put it it was in my way. I keep MacSOUP aligned with the left edge of my screen, as well as several Eudora windows; I use all the vertical territory. Off to the right it's not interfering.
What's on the toolbar and why?
Top to bottom: The finder window opener thing, MacSOUP, Eudora, Terminal, Mozilla, iJournal, Mega Minesweeper, ZWrite, BBEdit, Civilization III, two games I haven't loaded since I changed computers (Tropico, dominions), the System Prefs opener, Appleworks, GraphicConverter, iTunes, Safari, nitfol.
The top four default to being open all the time that I'm using the computer. I open it up and go click click click click right down the line. Newsreader, mail, tinyfugue, web. (Mozilla's homepage is my front journal page, which I've modified to have links to the things I read routinely, including window-opening links to the forums I read.)
iJournal is my LJ client. Minesweeper is my default timewaster. ZWrite is my default writing program; I never close it. It contains not only the WIP, the Fairly Standard Man notes, and a couple of other writing projects, but the character stats and information for several roleplaying characters. At the moment only the WIP is open of that. BBEdit I use for short stories, though not often. The three games are things I've played regularly in the past and may do again. System Prefs is because I got irritated at fishing for it and put it there so when I wanted it it was easy to get to. Appleworks and GraphicConverter are for other projects; I use GC much more often. iTunes is on whenever I'm not in the living room, almost always on random-all. Safari I use for a few specific rare web things that get grumpy at Mozilla. nitfol is a player for Infocom flatfiles, and at the bottom so I don't click on it by accident.
What the desktop icons are:
Mostly stuff that I haven't gotten around to filing somewhere more intelligent. The disk icon and the quotes file icon are supposed to be there. The disk image is for a game I need to actually properly install and register. The PDFs are downloads (gaming, miscellaneous, BU application) except for one that's apparently a screenshot image. One of the folders is an OS9 legacy, one an on-disk backup of my Eudora files from a while back, and one the remnant of one of my attempts to find Rogue by Epyx. Every so often I decide my desktop is too cluttered and go on a mad cleaning binge; I don't use it much.
