The ambiance of your office or studio plays a very important role in setting a mood for creative work flow. One’s desktop environment can also be a means of stimulating inspiration and creative performance. It can be very satisfying to spend 1/2 hour to 45 minutes organizing your desktop and picking a wallpaper once a week. Today we’ve hand picked a very pleasing mix of desktop wallpapers to help save you a little bit of time. Enjoy!
After writing my last post about fostering your child’s inner geek, I developed a brainstorm to fix up an old laptop of mine and give it to my son’s friend Elijah. The hinges on it were cracked, and I had dreams for it to become a xubuntu steampunk laptop. Well, after some serious thought, I realized that I didn’t have the wherewithal to make a steampunk laptop, so off I went to Ebay to find an old Dell 5000e shell, which arrived in the mail two days ago. I eagerly unpacked the laptop carcass and went to work with my teensy little screw driver. The screen housing was carefully taken apart and replaced along with a new keyboard to boot. This model of Dell is very prone to cracked hinges. Even the replacement has hairline cracks on each side. It has an operational battery that holds a charge though — bonus!
Most of the times that I have discussed anything “techie” related with friends and family they get a sort of glazed over look on their face as if I am speaking another language. Not too long ago, I got a little surprise from a friend’s kid who was visiting with my son for a few days. During his stay with us, I couldn’t help but notice his curiosity for computers. Instead of getting that glazed over look, his eyes were wide with excitement. I showed him a how a few of the programs operated and gave him a little tour of my desktop, until my son finally ended up diverting his attention with a “Mommmm”. My son Jasper was quite annoyed that I was consuming his friend Elijah’s attention with such things.
