BT4W about WFH

 

That’s Breaking The 4th Wall about Work From Home, because this is usually merely a semi-public diary and not a conversation.

However, a dozen people (so far, including 2 I actually know and should know better) have asked about the desktop photo on BunnyBox (the ancient laptop which is my only Linux machine and is seen in the foreground — relative to BoboKatz, the more standard Win7 box behind it — of the NBT 11 post earlier in the day).  Glad to see everyone is as bored as I am and apologetic this isn’t more interesting.

The Papal Skins have been the desktop background on BunnyBox since it got converted to Linux in February 2010.  I don’t use it enough to bother updating things because it is slow and only there because I can control what it does — I’ve been that person most of my life so I have a fondness for it … something of a kinship.

Anticipating the next question, BoboKatz has a photo from a cemetery in Rome for its desktop (this changes about once a year despite the near constant use):

For the sake of completeness, Bobo-Office (on which J spends her workday when not on site at one of the hospitals) changes about every 3 or 4 days (daily in some stretches).  It’s our shared box and I usually put things up to entertain the woman … things I found on runs, memes from the webs, and obit photos.  Here’s a sampling (every fifth one from 2011-2018 and a few from this year, then further filtered to minimize overlapping themes):

 

 

My Computer Continues To Insult Me

This happens with stunning regularity (see this old posting from Oxford for a similar example).  I’m just trying to do my job — in this case, looking up product classifications for a purchase order — and my own spreadsheet starts calling me names.

Later on a break, I go to read the news and am insulted again…this time all the worse since I renounced my US citizenship so long ago: