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[jrittenhouse]

How often do you change the backgrounds on your computers, and what sort of stuff do you usally have there?

As for me:

WORK:  picture of Meredith roller skating from last May

LAPTOP: Picture of the twins from last year, looking very much like themselves…

HOME UBUNTU:  Comet McNaught over a sunset, with lots of dark, layered clouds.  (I tend to

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[peteralway]

I don't know if you've seen the full-sized version:



http://members.aol.com/petealway/Hale-Bopp-dish-small.jpg

Larger version (so you can see the individual film grains):
http://members.aol.com/petealway/Hale-Bopp-dish-big.jpg

That's Comet Hale-Bopp at the upper right, the Pleiades at the upper left, and the moon center left (it's actually a thin waxing cresecent setting in the west, but it's horribly overexposed--I left the shutter open for something like 15-30 seconds). The big dish is the University of Michigan's 85-foot radio telescope at Peach Mountain, near Dexter, Michigan, northwest of Ann Arbor. Working back from charts I found online, I believe the photo was taken on April 9, 1997.

[jrittenhouse]

For some reason, my virus-protection stuff is having a fit over the big version.