Every once in a while I’ll do something really geeky to my desktop. My old laptop was once turned into a space scene with all of my icons being planets, asteroids, galaxies, and supernovas. Another time, it was an aquarium. In that case, the recycle bin was a puffer fish. When it was full, he would puff up, and when empty, it was just the calm puffer fish.
Now I’ve done a silly one.
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When I was young, we had an Atari 2600 PC. This is from the game Ghostbusters. It’s the very beginning of the game, where you are choosing your car and all of the gadgets you want on it. The little guy in the forklift picks the things up and moves them over to the car. On the left, the white thing at the top is the containment unit for all the ghosts you catch. The green one is a ghost trap. You have to buy a bunch of those. I have no clue what the blue thing is. The weird brown slash-like thing is a ghost vacuum. You put it on the hood of the car and as you’re driving to go get slimer, you can catch ghosts from the road. All the while, it plays the ghostbusters song in monotone atari blips. It was awesome.
The recycle bin shows the famous no-ghost sign when it’s empty, but it turns into a ghost when there’s stuff in there. It took some hunting to find all the images to make them icons, but it was worth it. I’ll keep this one for a while.