(7:31 PM) | Adam Kotsko:

No more work stories
or, "The Wallpaper"

I'm bored at work, and even though I can't use the Internet for frivolous things, I can use Paint to make wallpapers. I take it as a challenge to make patterns in such a way that they will look "decentered" compared to the original single square. Here is one of my early triumphs:

Then I branched out into using circles. I watch very closely for what pixel I'm on and always make sure that have a perfect square, usually 200x200:

That's my favorite so far, although I do like the shrunken down version with the black lines removed:

I don't want to put up these wallpapers at home, just like I don't want to steal the "shareware" aquarium screen saver for home, because I don't want to feel like I'm at work. My home wallpaper right now is a diagram of the differences between what is objective (how the world looks when you're not around), subjective (how the world looks to you), subjectively objective (how you think the world looks when you're not around), and objectively subjective (how the world looks to you no matter what you think on the matter). Objectively subjective is the tricky one. Here's the diagram, in any case:

A couple notes: First, if my associate bloggers ever want to include an image in one of their posts, they should alert me by e-mailing me the file and putting a placeholder in the post. Since I am the god of this blog, I will edit your post accordingly, also adding inflammatory pro-Nazi remarks as I deem appropriate. Second, yes, I realize that a "real" web page author probably would have put the wallpaper images into .jpg format instead of the overly huge .bmp, but who cares? I doubt I'm going to be hitting my bandwidth ceiling any time soon.

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