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Feb. 16th, 2006 04:42 pmThe guy sitting in front of me at O'Naturals got up to use the toilet and revealed his (I am assuming) girlfriend's GIANT FACE on his laptop screen, leering directly at me. Due to my perspective, the face is about where her face would be were she sitting across from the dude, but in that case the image is ever so slightly larger than it ought to be, and (being shot on a beach somewhere) the lighting's all wrong. And of course she's not moving or blinking, just leaning forward and grinning. The total effect is just dreadful, doubtless made worse by my not wearing my glasses.
Also creepy, just in principle. For some reason having a picture of someone on your desktop strikes me as inappropriate, while having, say, a picture of someone on the top of your real-life desk seems perfectly normal to me. I'm not sure why this is. I want to begin by suggesting that one bespeaks a level of obsessedness that I'm not comfortable with, but again I dunno why it'd be so in one and not the other.
I think my favorite example of this involved a former orker whose desktop was a photoshopped montage of their child against a cloudy blue sky. The baby was cut-and-pasted in such a way that it appeared that four of them, all perfectly identical down to pose and expression, were soaring through the air, holding hands. This was actually so preposterous that it was hilarious, but I don't think this person intended it that way.
Now I have to go home because I need to type my company's tax ID into a website and I have it written down on a piece of paper at home and not in my memory. Argh I need a Palm-type device.
Also creepy, just in principle. For some reason having a picture of someone on your desktop strikes me as inappropriate, while having, say, a picture of someone on the top of your real-life desk seems perfectly normal to me. I'm not sure why this is. I want to begin by suggesting that one bespeaks a level of obsessedness that I'm not comfortable with, but again I dunno why it'd be so in one and not the other.
I think my favorite example of this involved a former orker whose desktop was a photoshopped montage of their child against a cloudy blue sky. The baby was cut-and-pasted in such a way that it appeared that four of them, all perfectly identical down to pose and expression, were soaring through the air, holding hands. This was actually so preposterous that it was hilarious, but I don't think this person intended it that way.
Now I have to go home because I need to type my company's tax ID into a website and I have it written down on a piece of paper at home and not in my memory. Argh I need a Palm-type device.
