The "show off your Avatar" thread

[Peregrine]

I decided to use this, and it appears to have worked perfectly:
http://resizr.lord-lance.com/default.asp

argh, I tried using it, but it only adjusts the width, not the height.

[IanEye]

I decided to use this, and it appears to have worked perfectly:
http://resizr.lord-lance.com/default.asp

argh, I tried using it, but it only adjusts the width, not the height.

try rotating it, then the height becomes width and vice-versa....

[Peregrine]

I decided to use this, and it appears to have worked perfectly:
http://resizr.lord-lance.com/default.asp

argh, I tried using it, but it only adjusts the width, not the height.

try rotating it, then the height becomes width and vice-versa....

heh...

thanks...

[Percival]

I decided to use this, and it appears to have worked perfectly:
http://resizr.lord-lance.com/default.asp

argh, I tried using it, but it only adjusts the width, not the height.

try rotating it, then the height becomes width and vice-versa....

heh...

thanks...

[Peregrine]

heh. Feel a little silly, was so simple.

and I switched to Teresa, she looks like she is having a fabulous vision...

[Percival]

heh. Feel a little silly, was so simple.

and I switched to Teresa, she looks like she is having a fabulous vision...

Sid and Nancy.

[NaturalMystik]

I love the new avatar feature. I had always assumed avatars weren't allowed on the old forum because they had been abused or it was a moderation nightmare. Glad to have them now though, it gives a little more personality to the posters and helps identify who the poster is a little quicker. For some reason it's easier for me to associate posts to an image as opposed to a bit of text.

My avatar is a Death Cap that I snapped. It looks to me like some kinda priest or mage, the white gives a feeling of goodness, but it's a death bringer... What does it all mean?

[Cordelia]

My avatar is a Death Cap that I snapped. It looks to me like some kinda priest or mage, the white gives a feeling of goodness, but it's a death bringer... What does it all mean?

Wow, Naturalmystik, what a beautiful & evocative image. I see a sylph with a long green sash, wearing a large sombrero.

[OP ED]

OP ED is the tenth and final Maha Avatara of Vishnu.

[Nordic]

I just might have to change mine. Every time I write something remotely serious, I look over and see a morose-looking Charlie Brown standing there. It's as if he said what I wrote. It's a weird feeling. I like Charlie Brown, and did as a kid, but hell, the guy's a depressive. So am I, actually, but ...... how can you take seriously anything Charlie Brown says?

I think I'll find something new.

[smiths]

i didnt much care for that gloomy looking charlie staring at me

i have probably been changing mine too often but i am still so excited by the novelty of having avatars

i changed mine today in response to the craziness

[§ê¢rꆧ]

I like your avatar, smiths.

I do wish people would just decide on one. Some people seem to change them with the frequency of a slideshow.

As a general rule, I don't care for the animated ones, they are too distracting. Simulist has a good one, though, the hypercube.

That would have been my choice but s/he beat me to it.



I started with a kind of scarecrow painting, then quickly realized that was a Bad Choice for an RI avatar. Besides, why be scary? I happen to love scarecrows, though, and if you think of the crows as psychopomps, them maybe scaring them away is a good thing. Anyhow I was afraid the scarecrow image would make me look like a straw-man, or even worse, be potentially triggering.


So I settled on this lamp that was just cached in an image folder on my hard drive (after coloring it), labeled 'open source intelligence.gif' or something or other. I should make it clear that I am in no way affiliated with the creator of this image, and his or her site featuring 'open source intelligence,' but I do rather like the idea of wedding 'open source' as in software/GNU/Creative Commons Licensing with 'intelligence' (HUMINT, SIGINT, ININT), even though that is specifically what OSINT is said to be not:

Open source intelligence (OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence. In the intelligence community (IC), the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or classified sources); it is not related to open-source software or public intelligence.

I say why not? So, in that rather perverse and complicated, contradictory spirit I offer you my avatar, the lamp. I also think of it as 'lamps' being the fifth suit of the tarot, representing spirit, and how lamps shine in the darkness. Secrets don't have to be shadowy, they can be illuminated, shining mysteries, I'd say, although that may be a stretch...

If things keep up they way they've been, I may change my avatar to this:
(It looks cozy under there.)

As has been said before and by others, I liked *not* having avatars on the old forum, for various reasons. But having them now is just too much fun and adds a whole new layer to one's virtual identity. Yours (collectively) have been some of the more interesting ones I've seen, especially the ones with a personal touch.

And I'm loving c2w's now:


p.s. if anyone knows where that my lamp avatar comes from I'd love to find that site it came from, again... maybe I'll try tineye the image search engine...

[Stephen Morgan]

If it's alright to use a head exploding I should have gone for the old Office of Government Commerce logo, a stick man masturbating. But I'll stick with this obscure thing I found at Shavertron.

[smiths]

another change, still finding it exciting

[Project Willow]

Jeff is a muscled space vehicle driver, and I am no where near this cute.