Post your Avitar and does it have a story

[Omnios]

This might prove interesting.

How to post your avatar: simple make a post explaining your avatar and it should already be there or you can post other avatars you use.

Does you avatar have a storey behind it?

[Omnios]

Started seeing these all over the place so I thought id make my own version of it

http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/files/1/4/1/2/6/Anibug4.gif

[mstlyevil]

My avitar is Layne Staley of Alice in Chains. Kurt Cobains death seems to get all the attention, but Layne Staley was a much more influential musican for me.

[claydoh]

Mine is a cropped shot of Jake (http://emacdogsports.com/modules/xoopsgallery/view_photo.php?xoops_imageid=4&set_albumName=album03&id=res56574), my now 16 year old terrier. A few years ago I had managed to get a set of OK "before" and "after" shots of him, with the idea of creating a mouse-over using both images.
The "Before" is before shoving the cat near his face, the "after" became my avatar :)

[prizrak]

There is another thread like that but I'm too lazy to link it. My avatar should be obvious to those who like cars. For those of you who are not motor heads it is a picture of a turbocharger :) Nuff said.

[Iandefor]

Gir from Invader Zim.

[fuscia]

i'm a professional zhang ziyi impersonator. i play mostly weddings and funerals (it's a lot of waving and smiling, or looking sympathetic). i look just like her, don't you agree?

[futz]

Truckee Test:
9 June 1962:
10 Miles south of Christmas Island
B-52 Airdrop; 6970 Feet
Yield: 210 kilotons

This was a parachute retarded LRL test of the XW-58 missile warhead in a Mk 36 drop case. This was a development and verification test for the Polaris A2 missile (which would carry three of these warheads). Satisfactory performance.
5050
I love these things. Just don't drop em on me.

[Pablo_Escobar]

My avatar feels very close to me, because it's my face !! :P

On a serious note, I like it because I like to monkey around :)

[poofyhairguy]

Mine was made by Kass because the staff is trying to have unified aviatars.

Mine is of "The Tick", as to this day it is still my favorite Fox cartoon show.

[bored2k]

Mine was made by Kass because the staff is trying to have unified aviatars.Apparently I am a gangster...

[gerbman]

Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He is the man, as evidenced by the following quote:


Yeah, well, I noticed this long cord comin' from my house, then I noticed your house, glowin' like the freakin' sun. So I put two and two together and decided you're pissin' me off.

[D-503]

My current avatar is very interesting... it's basically a rat - in a nightcap and his pyjamas - it hasn't scared anyone yet.

[kassetra]

Apparently I am a gangster...
No way... you're SHAFT! (but I did get a little carried away with the gold...)

CAN YA DIG IT?!

*laughing hysterically*

I've had a version of this powerpuff avatar for... oooh my... many years... and I'm an designer with an artistic flair (HA!) - so I've been creating all kinds of little powerpuff-inspired people as avatars for staff that want one. :)

I've tried to make them fun, unique, and full of personality. :D

[darkmatter]

I'm a... werewolf...

Done by kass to match my wolfish personality... as for the raspberry cake... it's a secret. ;)

[Tiede]

My avatar is the picture of a particule and it's anti-particule at the very first fraction of a second. It represents the duality that lies within me, a kinda nice reminder of Good and Evil...
But mostly, I chose it because I am a sucker for Astrophysics :D

[Teroedni]

Mine is err...

Amd64 because i like Amd and their bang for buck:)
Also their innovating :) 64 bit And Dual core:)

[GeneralZod]

Kneel before Zod! www.generalzod.net

[dosed150]

mines a kull warrior from stargate sg-1

[matthew]

Mine is of "The Tick", as to this day it is still my favorite Fox cartoon show.I love The Tick!

Mine is the PowerPuff version of me playing my guitar.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...

[xequence]

i'm a professional zhang ziyi impersonator. i play mostly weddings and funerals (it's a lot of waving and smiling, or looking sympathetic). i look just like her, don't you agree?

Who is Zhang Ziyi?


Mine was made by Kass because the staff is trying to have unified aviatars.

Mine is of "The Tick", as to this day it is still my favorite Fox cartoon show.

But everyone considers me to be staff, dont they? I should join the party of similar avatars =O With a pink floyd avatar.

Anyway my avatar always shows what my mood is. What is my mood now? I hate sony.

[mstlyevil]

I want a power puff Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat.:rolleyes:

I just changed my signiture and avitar, but my picture does not want to post yet. maybe editing this post will reset it.

[Omnios]

Now mine is Breezy trick lol

[xequence]

I want a power puff Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat.:rolleyes:

You know what? If they dont give in and admit everyone considers me staff, I think I should make something similar to their avatar similarities and give it to all use cool people that have normal coloured names ;O

[PatrickMay16]

My avatar is a picture of an angry looking guy.
I've had this avatar since I signed up here. I think the angry looking guy is very attractive.

[xequence]

My avatar is a picture of an angry looking guy.
I've had this avatar since I signed up here. I think the angry looking guy is very attractive.

Didnt you post some link to a place where there was a bigger picture of the angry looking guy? Or have it in your signature or something?

[mstlyevil]

I think my new avitar speaks for itself.

[23meg]

The logo of Throbbing Gristle (http://www.throbbing-gristle.com/).

[PatrickMay16]

Didnt you post some link to a place where there was a bigger picture of the angry looking guy? Or have it in your signature or something?
Yeah, I had a link to it in my signature for a while. Also, in the recent "post a pic of your computer desk" thread, I posted a picture of my computer with a picture of the angry looking guy stretched to fill the entire screen.

[Lord Illidan]

My avatar is Lord Illidan from the Warcraft series.
I like him cos he is the coolest character in Warcraft 3 and the Frozen Throne, and he will return to kick Arthas' butt off!!

[SteelValor]

My avatar is just a vanity plate I saw in NYC while almost knocking over Ms. Evangelista on 5th Ave (She's so tiny!!) I recreated it for my NYgamers.net site :D

[chimera]

http://www.carantha.net/a99a9ff0.jpg
The Black Panther of Caranthania - the oldest known Slovenian flag (approximately 1500 years old)

[Brynster]

Mine is from http://www.banksy.co.uk

Its a rioter throwing flowers (instead of a petrol bomb or stone). I like the juxtaposition involved in an angry youth throwing flowers.

Banksy is quite famous these days having displayed (sometimes legally) his work in art galleries. More recently famous for the graffiti pictures of a hole and a man climbing a ladder to escape the from entrapment on the new wall in Palestine

[fuscia]

Who is Zhang Ziyi?

:eek: :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek:

memoirs of a geisha; crouching tiger, hidden dragon; rush hour 2; house of flying daggers, etc.

[lgmdaniel]

Mines just me on my bike, out one day trying to get my knee down and failing. Though I have been told, I make a small bike look huge as I look rather tiny on the bike.

[Brynster]

Originally Posted by xequence
Who is Zhang Ziyi?



I believe the term hubba hubba applies.......

she's purdy

[bonzodog]

My avatar is called 'Trendwhore', off an artwork site. http://www.deaddreamers.com
I just thought he looked cool. :)

[Omnios]

Did some editing to my avatar and added a spawn cape I'm thinking of making a spawn version of it but have to but a say aside to work on it.

[majikstreet]

my avatar is bush with a line through him and my name.

[WildTangent]

Well, mine I've been using since I joined, and if you're to believe sapo, I stole it off him. *rolls eyes* Ya..right. HE STOLE IT FROM ME! That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I changed my avatar once, and got a few pleas from other regulars around here to change it back, so I did. :D

-Wild

[xequence]

I have a new one now. Its uTorrent and one of my share ratios is 1.337 :P

[Mr_J_]

My avatar is me.
I took it with the purpose to be an avatar with my cell phones camera.

I know it had auto light balance so i pointed against the sun to darken my face to total dark. I like my anonimity!

I liked the outcome. Makes me look like a shadow standing in the sun.

[carlosqueso]

Mine's a vendor selling liquor out of a giant bottle. I saw this while I was visiting Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad in English) in the Czech Republic. It's my dream job ;)

[ctt1wbw]

Go Tar Heels!!!!!!

[hillbilly]

I love the tough as nails look on a mummufied daffy :D ! I couldnt find something more "hillybill"ier than that, i.e as long as I dont look in the mirror :D !!

[Omnios]

Well I made a few new avatar's and didn't realy care for my last one as it looks like farmer joe and actualy took a lot more time than my Ubuntu Wiz one. Its kind of funny playing around with Kess's artwork realy got me into making small pics. Learn't a lot from this anyways.

http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/files/1/4/1/2/6/Anibug4.gifhttp://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/files/1/4/1/2/6/Webpic.pnghttp://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/files/1/4/1/2/6/test7-forum-wiz.png

[ComplexNumber]

my avatar is of my username - its a complex number. i studied them at uni...and hated them with a passion, but i always considered complex analysis to be like the holy grail in understanding at that time. (a-bi) ≡ a complex number. the 'i' bit equals the square root of -1. there is no such thing as the square root of -1 in real numbers, but it has some unusual proporties with lots of applications in maths and engineering. if you take i = √-1, then
(i * i) = -1
(i * i * i) - √i
(i * i * i * i) = 1
(i * i * i * i * i) =back to i again
they're usually represented as quadrants on a circle when it comes to cycles.

anyway, thats where it comes from.

[Stewart]

Livestrong. 8)

Stewart

[briancurtin]

go bears

[unbuntu]

Well...I didn't make mine. It was cut from a wallpaper in kde-look.org. I just find it's very cute and funny. Apparently some other members on this forum are using this avatar too.

[benplaut]

it's the april fools logo from the forum header...

i think kassetra made it

[djsroknrol]

I thought Lee Harvey Oswald looked good belting out a tune...that was wrong...Lord I opologize...;)

[isotonic]

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[Gustav]

I have the logo of red flag linux, a chinese linux dist. I don't support chinese politics in any way but it's a nice looking logo and I am a socialist :)

[mostwanted]

It's the logo on my blog (appropriately titled "The Monkey Blog"). If you can't see what it is: it's a silhuet of a little monkey eating a banana while it's using its notebook.

[Christmas]

I use a couple of avatars but the one I use most often is the one I use on this forum too, it's an albatross. Of course I may rotate pictures (I had more than 100 once) but the main idea is that the avatar should represent an albatross.

The idea came to me when listening to one of the Pink Floyd's songs, "Echoes". There are this verses I like a lot "Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air...". Of course I don't really know the *official" meaning of the albatross in this context, as Pink Floyd are very very complex and let you imagine anything on their melodies, but for me albatross means love, geniality, freedom and a lot more. It's something in the air I think :) That melody is so great... I love it you should listen to it.

[Subbu.exe]

Mine's Gordon Freeman :mrgreen:

[Christmas]

My current avatar is very interesting... it's basically a rat - in a nightcap and his pyjamas - it hasn't scared anyone yet.
Are you sure it's not a cat? :P

[Christmas]

But everyone considers me to be staff, dont they? I should join the party of similar avatars =O With a pink floyd avatar.
A little offtopic here: Is this the picture you took your avatar? http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/earlyy/html/ey10.html
I suppose that would be Gilmour in his early days, nice picture. I once collected everything related to Pink Floyd but formatted the disk once I installed Linux and dumped Windows hehehe.

[Carrots171]

Mine's Gordon Freeman :mrgreen:

Mine's the DOOM marine. :mrgreen:

[matthew]

I posted early in this thread, but my avatar changes regularly. Here are some I've used while I've been a part of these forums.

[Sheinar]

My avatar is Commander Keen, which I stole from one of the mods at the 3D Realms forum.

[Zdravko]

My avatar represents a paladin - a holy warrior, who fights evil for freedom and justuce. I adore paladins - they remind me of archangelic powers.

[Gustav]

I posted early in this thread, but my avatar changes regularly. Here are some I've used while I've been a part of these forums.
I might be wrong but have you upgraded from a Telecaster to a Mustang?

(I have a Jaguar :))

[matthew]

I might be wrong but have you upgraded from a Telecaster to a Mustang?

(I have a Jaguar :))I actually own 6 guitars, a bass and a mandolin. My main electric is still a Tele, but I just had a nice photo of a Strat that I have used occasionally as well as others in avatars. I'm not sure what the one in this avatar is...it is more of an artist's conception of a guitar rather than an actual model. It's rare to find someone like yourself who notices the details rather than just "it's a guitar." :)

You might enjoy this...
http://www.geocities.com/ubuntumatthew/MattPlaying2.jpg

And this is a few years old, but you might get a kick out of it as well.
http://www.geocities.com/ubuntumatthew/allen2005.html

[RAV TUX]

My avatar is a picture I took myself of a unique and different perspective of the Statue of Liberty in New York. I have hundreds but this is by far my favorite.
:rolleyes:

EDIT: changed my avatar, a shot from the Matrix,...you can't read it but it says: " Hey Microsoft...Dodge This"

[Super King]

My avatar is from the 'Less Than Heroes' episode of Futurama, which also happens to feature the character my handle is named after.

[xtacocorex]

Mine is me in a wind tunnel at Iowa State University. I was helping my friend with his Senior Project dealing with low speed flutter. He was trying to get a shape that would oscillate up and down with low speed airflow moving over it. This is generally hard to do since flutter is normally a high speed thing. Because the shape he was testing was unusual, we needed to orientate it properly so I decided to do it for him and made him take a picture because I've always wanted a picture of me in a wind tunnel. Too bad it wasn't in the bigger wind tunnel.

Before this my avatar was either the penguin from Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers or Bob the Dinosaur from Dilbert.

[matthew]

My avatar is a picture I took myself of a unique and different perspective of the Statue of Liberty in New York. I have hundreds but this is by far my favorite.
:rolleyes:I really like this one!

[n3tfury]

mine is an undisclosed human with a burning paper sack on his cranial turret. i stole it from the intardnet.

[hotani]

here's a pic in case I change my avatar later:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/image.php?u=82730&dateline=1146942790

it's Bender from the Futurama episode, 'Birdbot of Ice Catraz' where after a reboot he came up in Penguin mode. :D

[Omnios]

here's a pic in case I change my avatar later:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/image.php?u=82730&dateline=1146942790

it's Bender from the Futurama episode, 'Birdbot of Ice Catraz' where after a reboot he came up in Penguin mode. :D

Sweet.

[henriquemaia]

Avatars are fun. I like them because it adds some pictorial clue about the poster. This can be true or not, but it links you in a different way to an otherwise unknown person in a forum.

[Master Shake]

Mine is Master Shake from the Cartoon Network show 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force'

Specifically the episode 'Super Hero' where Shake creates a new superhero persona 'The Drizzle' who can make it rain, as long as there's precipitation in the forecast.

[Kapre]

There was a post like this about 8 months ago now....Anyways I like to join in again..


My avatars have always been robot animes of the 70's. 1st one was Voltes V, the 2nd one was Mazinger Z and present one is Daimos.

Kewl!

K

[zubrug]

Recently discovered hornet/wasp from Asia.
Locals call it the yak killer and describe its stinger as feeling like a hot two inch nail.
Now those mosquito's don't seem so bad.

Thought its colors were sort of ubuntuish. Sure to change it some time.

[mips]

Painting, The Scream (Skrik) by Edvard Munch.

I have a thing for art and somehow ths image has stuck with me. Unfortunately some egits stole it and other works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/The_Scream.jpg/300px-The_Scream.jpg

[Biltong (Dee)]

King Protea
Common Names: King Sugar Bush
Genus: Protea
Species: cynaroides

The King protea was originally from the Cape Town area of South Africa. It is actually the national flower of South Africa. Now King proteas can be found all over the world where the atmosphere is dry and the soil has good drainage. It can even be found on Maui.
The flower of the king protea can get to be 12 inches across. On the outside it has many stiff, pointed, narrow bracts, or petals, that give it the appearance of a cup. The bottom half of the petals starts out cream colored or yellow, which turns into bright pink or velvet red on the top half. Inside the cup is a mass of white stamen about 1-2 inches long which all bend towards the center.
Nuff said :-)

[therunnyman]

Mine's Richard Nixon waving to the press from the White House lawn for the very last time. For our brethren and sisthren who may not know much about American presidents, Richard Nixon was implicated in a series of crimes that came to be known as "The Watergate Scandal," named for a hotel where the oppositional (democratic) party kept their headquarters. Democrat HQ got broke into, and Nixon allegedly (and evidently, now) orchestrated the whole thing. Nixon resigned in shame, and there's the photo. That happened on my very first birthday.

According to Hunter S. Thompson, his worst press enemy (and for whatever reason, present at the parting ceremony), Nixon was absolutley wasted, peepee drunk on nice taxpayer scotch and whacked out on heavy sedatives. If Hunter Thompson's saying that, I can only imagine just how blotto Nixon was...

In America, when the head of state may have done something naughty, the congress (peepee poor imitation of various parliaments) initiates "impeachment" hearings, which are pretty much the same thing as criminal proceedings. If they find you've done something naughty, they kick you out of office. Nixon resigned before they could initiate proceedings.

I've got a premonition: if the Democrats capture congress in November, we may see something eerily similar occur....

therunnyman

PS My handle is from that awful Schwarzenegger movie "The Running Man". The movie is so bad, in fact, it caused me lower gastro-intestinal distress.

[mips]

Who is Zhang Ziyi?

Memoirs Of A Geisha. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Hero

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Ziyi

[mostwanted]

Been a slight change here. Just painted a picture of a gorilla (for my blog) and decided to use it as an avatar here as well.

[The Mekon]

This link (http://www.dandare.org/dan/aliens/mekon/mekon.htm) shows a better picture of my avitar.

You will see that he first appeared on 2 Nov 1950 in the Eagle Comic which features Dan Dare.

My birthdate was the 2 Nov 1936 so I was an avid reader of Dan Dare at the time.

In 1953 I was a trainee at EMI Electronics in the UK and spent four months in the trainee drawing office sitting at a drawing board with a green lamp. My fellow trainees used to say that because of my small size I looked like the little green man form Venus and called me The Mekon. This nickname lasted until I moved to Australia in 1960.

As I get older and my forehead gets bigger I think it right that I should re-adopt this for my avitar.

Brian

[BoyOfDestiny]

My avatar is the "Two Guys from Andromeda"

Here is their story:

http://wiw.org/~jess/twoguys.html

[Stew2]

My avatar is the "Two Guys from Andromeda"

Here is their story:

http://wiw.org/~jess/twoguys.html

I thought those guys were from Space Quest but I couldnt remember for sure. I had lots of fun with that game in the 486 days! Original humour! :D

[Stew2]

9461

Posted a pic of my avatar in case I change it. This is G-nome from Shrek 2 Superslam (one of my sons current favourite games :D ) I like his fighting style and hey... anything with a gnome in it is cool. :cool:

[catlett]

Does anyone realise how strange this post is because when someone changes their avatar the avatar in all their old threads change as well and it appears 80% or so of the first posters have changed their avatars but haven't edited their posts. Reading the first few pages of this post had me thinking I was loosing my mind.
P.S. Before I was a member in any forum I use to see all the Tux avatar variations. When I signed up for the forum I googled "tux" in images and picked the one I hadn't seen before.

[BoyOfDestiny]

I thought those guys were from Space Quest but I couldnt remember for sure. I had lots of fun with that game in the 486 days! Original humour! :D

Yup, it is indeed a classic. :)

I've revisted some of them now thanks to DOSBox. They seem like new when you haven't touched them for 9-12 years or so. :)

Mostly timing issues (and no adlib soundcard) kept me from playing them under modern hardware. Luckily DOSBox emulates that, and you can adjust cpu cycles on the fly.

[jdusablon]

Cerebus the Aardvark. If you don't know 'im, you don't wanna. Peash.

[mips]

Cerebus the Aardvark. If you don't know 'im, you don't wanna. Peash.

Looks a bit like Alf, character out of one of my favorite tv shows, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090390/

[Stew2]

Yup, it is indeed a classic. :)

I've revisted some of them now thanks to DOSBox. They seem like new when you haven't touched them for 9-12 years or so. :)

Mostly timing issues (and no adlib soundcard) kept me from playing them under modern hardware. Luckily DOSBox emulates that, and you can adjust cpu cycles on the fly.

Thanks for the tip! Works great! Now where did I put all those old games?...:D

P.S. Sorry for sidetracking the thread. My bad. :rolleyes:

[ChrisNTR]

My avatar is my wrist with a biffy clyro (www.biffyclyro.com) transfer tattoo on it.

[intel17]

My avatar is Qui-gon Jinn with a Matrix Background two very good things mixed together had it for about 2 and a half years now every board I go on :P
Also Its the very first thing I made with Corel Draw and then the first thing I tweaked with Photoshop and finished of with GIMP :D

-Pete

[gustojr]

My avatar shows that a camera with 10X zoom makes AA rechargeables huge, and that Royal makes a cool electronic dictionary.

[OrangeCrate]

My avatar is "Sunset" by Peter Max. No story, I just like the picture.

[gus sett]

Andre Agassi and Roger Federer on a helipad.

[Nythain]

I love avatars... they say a picture is worth a thousand words, you can tell so much about a person from thier avatar alone.

Mine boils down to this:
A long long time ago in a galaxy called kansas city i got a 2400 baud modem and compuserver/aol/prodigy and discoverd the internet. Mor importantly IRC. I needed a nick... but couldnt think of anything... then it came to me in a dream... many scenes of epic heroes battle a recurring evil called Dark Falz/Force. One man stood recurring over the centuries amongst new party members in the fight to save the Algol Solar System... His name was Noah... no wait, Lutz... actually Rune... So i over the years have borrowed his timeless name and adopted it to my online persona... going by Rune, Rune^, Rune N. Lutz, Rune D'Shyznit...

to make a long story short, thats basically a pic of the recurring character noah, lutz, rune from the phantasy star series... the character i have derived my online persona from for most of my internet days