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• el // Oct 5, 2003 at 10:59 am

  while doing the “26 things” project in july, i realized how i never see the sunset in nyc. i saw it once, when i was hanging out on the west side between dinner and a movie. maybe it’s because for the 6 years i’ve lived in nyc, i’ve always lived on the east side?

• Richard // Oct 5, 2003 at 11:01 am

  While I could get away with taking credit for this beautiful photo (Amanda never visits this site), I must admit that my wife took it.

• rachelle // Oct 5, 2003 at 12:47 pm

  OH, i thought you took it.. I updated the post to show Amanda took it, not you. poser!

• petrol // Oct 5, 2003 at 4:04 pm

  These are beautiful! Rachelle, may I request a 1280×960 version of the Milwaukee one so I can use it as wallpaper? Thanks in advance

• rachelle // Oct 5, 2003 at 6:03 pm

  yeh, if it’s ok with my brother i will make it..

• petrol // Oct 5, 2003 at 10:10 pm

  If it’s all right with him, I’d appreciate it muchly.

• Anthony // Oct 6, 2003 at 12:54 am

  As would I.

• petrol // Oct 6, 2003 at 2:35 am

  This just in. Trade you desert pics/wallpaper (more uploads tomorrow) for the fiery WI sunset?

• Sam // Oct 6, 2003 at 7:26 am

  That is an awesome picture. Sort of reminds me of the “purplish” sunsets that I use to see when I was a kid growing up in LA (in the Valley actually). But in LA the sky would turn that color because of the smog .

• NG // Oct 6, 2003 at 9:16 am

  very nice! dick – what night was this? i don’t remember seeing it so red around here.

• rachelle // Oct 6, 2003 at 12:20 pm

  ok, my brother & amanda said it was fine so I made some wallpapers -

  Instructions to download:
  1. Right-click a link.
  2. Choose ‘Download link to disk’ or ‘Save target as…’

  800 x 600
  1024 x 768
  1280 x 1024

  if you d/l these, it’d be fun to see some desktop screenshots.. post a link here..

• Richard // Oct 6, 2003 at 2:13 pm

  Date of photo:

  Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 5:48:36 PM

  This is currently my backgound both at home and at work. I’ve gotten several comments.

• petrol // Oct 6, 2003 at 2:15 pm

  As per your request:
  oakcreekfiery/petrolphoenix

  Thankyou for the wallpaper, Rachelle (:

• rachelle // Oct 6, 2003 at 3:25 pm

  here’s my desktop

  and

  here’s jeannette’s

• petrol // Oct 6, 2003 at 4:40 pm

  Rachelle – are you not using Safari?
  http://www.apple.com/safari/

  Jeannette – Kazaalite (aka KLKPP) has released ver.2.4.3. Updated Bad IP filtering. Check it out

  PS. AVG Grisoft trumps Norton AV 100%. (That is, it catches crap that NAV doesn’t even know about.) Download the free version here:
  http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

• rachelle // Oct 6, 2003 at 4:49 pm

  of course i’m using safari! the application icon is the fifth from the left, the open application is the icon fifth from the right.

• petrol // Oct 6, 2003 at 4:54 pm

  Whoops! Totally missed that. For some reason I fixated on MS Outlook. ….Which are two totally different things. My bad DX

• tien // Oct 6, 2003 at 5:14 pm

  i love to see other people’s desktops. i think you can tell a lot about a person that way. maybe i’m just crazy.

• rachelle // Oct 6, 2003 at 5:17 pm

  i think you’re right. so let’s see it!!!!!!!

• petrol // Oct 6, 2003 at 5:32 pm

  Few years ago, I heard/read about an app that switched your wallpaper with vidcaps of other people’s desktops. Can’t remember if it was ever released or was just vaporware. Rather nifty though.
  Tien, you’re not crazy. Wouldn’t it be great to see what everybody’s desktop looks like while featuring this Oak Creek wallpaper? (:

• tien // Oct 6, 2003 at 6:55 pm

  here is my home…recently upgraded so not messy yet. you can see my mess at work tomorrow.

• jeannette // Oct 6, 2003 at 7:11 pm

  i’m glad i didnt’ have any porn windows open, then!

  tien – you’re totally right. you CAN tell a lot about a person by the way their desktop is set up. i have a million windows open, meaning that i “multitask” (which really means that i have a limited attention span and just skip between 10 tasks).

  thanks for the tips, petrol! will definitely check them out…

• rachelle // Oct 6, 2003 at 7:52 pm

  dude, you’re killin me. can you convert that tif to a jpg?

• tien // Oct 6, 2003 at 10:29 pm

  sorry, sorry…i dont think i have anything to convert…oooh, iphoto can convert!! here is the jpeg version of my desktop. feel free to delete my other comment since i’m going to delete that tiff file.

• rachelle // Oct 6, 2003 at 10:59 pm

  oh.. sorry. i could have converted it in like 2 secs. . .

• petrol // Oct 6, 2003 at 11:11 pm

  Tien, yours has a weather indicator built-in? That’s spiffycool. Something tells me my next machine’s going to be a Mac. The Powermac G5 in fact. Oooh, have you seen this baby live? POWERFUL. It’s the most beautiful ever!

• tien // Oct 7, 2003 at 12:22 am

  no, i wish it was built in. just a program called weather pop. it’s nice, except it uses weather.com info, which is the worst source for weather ever.

• tien // Oct 7, 2003 at 9:24 am

  and here is my work desktop.

• rachelle // Oct 7, 2003 at 10:01 am

  here’s my brother’s desktop. I assume it’s his work one.

• joel // Oct 7, 2003 at 2:14 pm

  all this desktop talk/posting made me look at the mess that is my work “space” and I happened to come across this file that I completely forgot I watched a few weeks ago.

  right click, save as

  it’s funny, but it’s not funny.

• tien // Oct 7, 2003 at 3:22 pm

  no no, that really is funny.

• rachelle // Oct 7, 2003 at 3:26 pm

  what is asx? is this some pc only thing? i have a pc.. but no speakers. neh..

• rachelle // Oct 7, 2003 at 3:35 pm

  nevermind.. i watched it on dennis’s pc. that’s so wrong.. but so funny. he’s moving.. he must be alright. whew!

• Richard // Oct 5, 2004 at 1:13 pm

  Was that really a year ago? This photo has made it’s second go around as my desktop wallpaper.

• Andrea // May 2, 2005 at 6:49 pm

  I think these sunsets are beautiful to look at, I love them.