[AuroraDizon]

Adama said:

Looks pretty cool, Aurora. You created the letters for your desktop?

Well I made the images. The font I didn't make lol

[Adama]

This one reminds me of a Landing Pad, somewhere deep in Alpha Prime territory. ?:| LOL

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Sweet man, i see you in for the Crysis game.

[lilxkid24]

you have the link to that wallpaper adama?

[Adama]

Hi, Kid. Just sent you a PM.

[mcbarker]

Here's my February desktop. It's a photo of my homeland in winter.

!http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[AuroraDizon]

So pretty, where is your homeland?

[mcbarker]

Thanks Aurora. I was born, and grew up in Scotland. It's a very beautiful country, but so cold and damp in winter. :)

[Adama]

Hi, McB, that's a beautiful picture. Does it really get that cold in Scotland?

[AuroraDizon]

Yea, I didn't realize it got that cold in Scotland either. How was Scotland.. what you remember?

[AuroraDizon]

Current Desktop

[mcbarker]

Adama said:

Hi, McB, that's a beautiful picture. Does it really get that cold in Scotland?

Unfortunately yes. The desktop image is a view of a place on the coast of the North Sea, across from the Isle of Skye. Blizzard conditions are common throughout the mountain regions of the country in winter, sometimes dumping anything up to 30 feet of snow. Occasionally, tourists or city dwellers will decide to be adventurous and go hiking in the hills and get caught in winter storms, and often aren't found again until the snow thaws in the spring (obviously not alive).


When I was in my teens, I worked for a trucking company. We were sent to deliver a container full of antiques (furniture and silverware) to a home close to Paul McCartney's farm. When we left the city (of Glasgow), it was a dull damp winter day, but seemed fine otherwise. On the way, we had to drive up a road which wound around and climbed a mountain. About halfway up the mountain, we ran into a blizzard. The wind started to push our truck toward the edge of the road, which had a drop of several hundred feet at that point. The driver stopped the truck, and we all got out and huddled in a sheltered spot on a small cliff. About 5 minutes later, a gust of wind blew the truck of the edge of the cliff, and we watched the container smash open below us. The antiques were totally destroyed. We had to hike back down the road for a while before finding someone who could give us a ride to the nearest village.

The northern part of the country is as far north as Churchill, Canada (where the polar bears live), or Moscow, Russia. If it weren't for the country being so small, and surrounded by ocean, it would probably be a lot colder than it is.

[AuroraDizon]

That really sucks I'm glad your ok.

I live in Minnesota, so we get pretty cold weather a lot during the winter. A lot of snow hit us tonight while I was in town... it was pretty scary driving back some places I couldn't see were the lines were on either side then snow blinding flurrying up from semi's (not that you could see 5 feet in front of you to begin with) :(

So, do you have an accent?

[piyushsingh]

hi mcbarker!

your homeland is very beautiful.

[mcbarker]

AuroraManson wrote:Yea, I didn't realize it got that cold in Scotland either. How was Scotland.. what you remember?
I didn't leave Scotland until I was well into my 20's, so I remember quite a bit.



It's a very beautiful country if you're into scenery, history, and/or hiking. The one thing I always recall when flying into Scotland was how intensely green the grass is from the air. The summers are not quite as hot as here in the US (or New England where I live), and the humidity is lower. I lived in the city of Glasgow, a dirty spread out city full of old tenement buildings, and not much for culture, nightlife, or good restaurants. I'm a bit of a nature freak, so I used to pack up my camping equipment into my van, and take off into the mountains on weekends. My only complaint about those trips were always finding snotty English tourists everywhere.

Like New England, the Scottish Highlands has its own equivalent of a foliage season. For about a week each October, the heather on the side of the mountains blooms, and the entire Scottish Highlands turn bright purple and brown. It's one of those sights that you never forget. Winter is a different story. Outside of the cities, there's major snowfall. In the city, the weather is dull, damp, and gray and depressing, with frequent freezing rain, and some snow, which turns to slush almost instantly. As you can imagine, I don't miss the winters there.

Culturally, life there is tough. It's expensive, and there's a very distinct class system. If you're born into a working class family, chances are that you won't be able to rise out of that mold in your lifetime. The "upper class" often look down on the "lower class" as if they were still their serfs. Obviously the two don't mingle socially, and obviously they tend to harbor resentment toward each other. It's possible that things may have changed since I lived there, but I don't think so. It was one of the aspects of the UK that I didn't care for, and was the main driving force which caused me to emigrate... Well, that, and my American wife hated it there.

One of the sad things is that most of the fish and chip shops that the UK was famous for have disappeared, mainly because the growing scarcity of fish has driven the prices so high. They have been replaced by Indian Curry shops, which I also love, but there's nothing like a steaming hot bag of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper after a night in the pub. Now I'm beginning to drool thinking about it...

[mcbarker]

AuroraManson said:

Current Desktop

I like that... The way the girls body seems to follow the flow of the letter, with just the right amount of face and arm showing. The pose combined with the "L" is very artistic. Did you create that yourself? If so, you have a good photographer's eye.

[mcbarker]

AuroraManson said:

That really sucks I'm glad your ok.

I live in Minnesota, so we get pretty cold weather a lot during the winter. A lot of snow hit us tonight while I was in town... it was pretty scary driving back some places I couldn't see were the lines were on either side then snow blinding flurrying up from semi's (not that you could see 5 feet in front of you to begin with) :(

So, do you have an accent?

We got sleet and frozen rain all day yesterday. Yeah, driving during a snowstorm can be scary, the way it almost hypnotizes you after a while. Always best to avoid it if possible.

I still have a little bit of an accent, which I'll probably never lose entirely. I don't notice it, but when I first meet people, they always ask if I'm Scottish or Irish, so apparently it's more noticable that I think. :)

[Adama]

That's an awesome desktop, Aurora. I like the way the letter lights up.

[AuroraDizon]

Lol

no accident although I was very worried.

Scotland sounds cool. Ive been reading about London in the late 1700's because of Sweeney Todd about the distinct class system and how people rarely rise up only down if movement and how life was back during the industrial revolution... I was hoping things would be better by now :( That really sucks that it hasn't really changed, that and how people treat one another because of what country they are from.

L is from Deathnote <3 its an anime/manga/movie that picture if him from the Deathnote movie (suggested anime/manga then if you really like it watch the movie.) The series is about the death god's deathnote in which if you write someone's name in it they die in 40 seconds, its a very thinking orented series, Kira a son of the police cheif is in charge of the investigation. Yagami Light (Light, Yagami (also known as Ratio) gets the deathnote and becomes crazy with power wanting to clean the world of crime kills criminals who's names and faces were shown on tv/media. I take the first part as you know 2 sides of the death penalty. Anyway the leader of the investigation is the world famous L he very quickly narrows the world wide investigation to a section of Japan because of crime rate, where they criminals faces were broad casted and other movements of "Kira". He set up a fake news confrence where it says its being broadcasted world wide with Lind L. Taylor in it who is actually a deathrow criminal apprehended in secret. Of course being immature and emotional Kira (Light) kills Lind L Taylor to show no one should mess with "gods new world". It was only broadcasted in sections of Japan at first, L took a guess at the area which was correct (because he died of a heart attack).

Anyway, its a very interesting series, if not full of simplistically solved plot holes because of the complexity of it. No I did not make that one, I did draw a picture of L on the computer.. its not done or that good but I can show you.



A more clear picture of L to show he's a guy:

< he's getting his own movie

Anime to see what he "really" looks like:



Changed my background:


Sorry for all the pictures, LOL no one asks me about L very often.

[Adama]

I read Deathnote when it was first published in Shonen Jump a couple of years ago. It sounded interesting, but I did not follow it, as I like Yu-Gi-Oh and Naruto's theme a lot more.

Cool desktop, though.