What is the story / meaning behind your screen name and avatar?

[carlc]

What is the story / meaning behind your screen name and avatar?

[polo_step]

What is the story / meaning behind your screen name and avatar?
I could tell you, but then I'd have to...well, do a Google search.

[intangible]

Care to start us out there ol' chap? :D

Actually, for me it's pretty simple, been using "intangible" as my screen name everywhere for about 4 years now, it's simple, fairly unique, and is great for FPS's when I keep DESTROYING ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE ME!! seemingly out of nowhere :evil:.

As for my avatar, who here doesn't think Stewie is the best? My GF tells me I'm a bit like him :D, the little guy is my hero.

BTW, keep an eye out for me on UT2004 guys, 64.169.214.35:7777 "{WW} Onslaught" server... but I don't get to play as much anymore.

[skoal]

Well, I guess I'll change my avatar back to where it belongs before I post here. I've had a little bit of an identity crisis as of late. Anyways, my name is skoal, and I looooove dippin' worm dirt baby! Yes, sir indeedy! I do so looooooove the taste of tobacco as it slides down my throat giving it a nice shiny coat, kind of like waxing your car. One of my favorite things to do while I was in the Army was spitting Skoal on my combat boots to give 'em a nice mirror like shine. When I cut myself accidentally, I just spit on it to seal it right up! Yes, sir! What can't skoal do? Hell, down here in Texas we spit tobacco on our younguns foreheads to baptize 'em. That's how we roll...

I choose Barney from the Simpsons since: 1. I hang out bars and other 'houses of ill repute', 2. have the bedside manners of Barney, and 3. slip a bottle of Shiner Bock in my hand and you can beat me to a pulp as I guzzle it down for all I care...oh...and 4. I have been known to make a concrete curb into a "pillow" before...

\\//_

[polo_step]

What is the story / meaning behind your screen name and avatar?
Actually, I have avatars and taglines turned off. It makes everyone seem so much smarter and more mature. :smile:

[pietro_spina]

Actually, I have avatars and taglines turned off. It makes everyone seem so much smarter and more mature. :smile:

haha, I'll have to look into that...

[carlc]

Care to start us out there ol' chap? :D

Actually, for me it's pretty simple, been using "intangible" as my screen name everywhere for about 4 years now, it's simple, fairly unique, and is great for FPS's when I keep DESTROYING ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE ME!! seemingly out of nowhere :evil:.

As for my avatar, who here doesn't think Stewie is the best? My GF tells me I'm a bit like him :D, the little guy is my hero.

BTW, keep an eye out for me on UT2004 guys, 64.169.214.35:7777 "{WW} Onslaught" server... but I don't get to play as much anymore.

Yeah, Stewie is great. I used a quote from him in my sig line. My screen name is easy, first name plus last initial. My avatar is Err from ATHF. I love ATHF and think that the mooninites are hilarious.

[Ride Jib]

"Jib", not to be confused with the Jib-sail of a sailboat, in my context means a style of snowboarding, typically urban riding. Similar to skateboarding etc on the streets, Performing "rail slides" on objects such as tables, hand rails, bent over trees.

And "Ride", well... double meaning... obviously "go riding" [again in the context of snowboarding] but more specifically, the company who makes my board is called "Ride." In my opinion, they are the best damn boards on the market.

[carlc]

I could tell you, but then I'd have to...well, do a Google search.

Or you could do a Google search and then tell... ;-)

[skoal]

My avatar is Err from ATHF.
ATHF? Is that anime or something? I never heard of it.

Everytime I saw your avatar carl, I thought it was one of those space invader characters that skipped across the top of the screen, from the vintage coin-op console days.

\\//_

[carlc]

Actually, I have avatars and taglines turned off. It makes everyone seem so much smarter and more mature. :smile:

Do you have inline pics turned off also?

http://www.mcpeepants.com/pics/err1.gif

[benplaut]

as for the name...

well, my real name is Ben Plaut! \\:D/ i'm so boring...

i made this screenname a long time ago, and this was the only thing i could think of...

and now that i want to change it, i have about 5 forums with 3000+ posts on each!

darn...

as for the avatar, need i say more? :grin:

[carlc]

"Jib", not to be confused with the Jib-sail of a sailboat, in my context means a style of snowboarding, typically urban riding. Similar to skateboarding etc on the streets, Performing "rail slides" on objects such as tables, hand rails, bent over trees.

And "Ride", well... double meaning... obviously "go riding" [again in the context of snowboarding] but more specifically, the company who makes my board is called "Ride." In my opinion, they are the best damn boards on the market.

That's cool. I used to skate but have not had as much luck snowboarding. I ski occasionally.

[manicka]

Mine's part an old nickname my daughter gave me. I used to use it at suseforums.net then changed to my real name for a while, before arriving here and switching back

My avatar is a snap of a beautiful old tree called Gandalf's Staff, which was recently saved in Tasmania's wilderness (Australia) from loggers. I'm a Green and it seemed like a natural choice.

[Kapre]

Heellllooo!!

I'd like to share mine too.. Name "Kapre" is from Southeast Asia (you can google it too). Was called that name when I was a teenager (cause stories of old said my grannies area is where this is often seen).

My avatar is from my favorite anime Voltes V [five] (which some of you most probably dont recognize - meaning I'm already old).

That's all folks!

K

[polo_step]

Do you have inline pics turned off also?

http://www.mcpeepants.com/pics/err1.gif
Thanks for the reminder! :-P

[desdinova]

I'm a big Blue Oyster Cult fan hence my username is the main character from "Imaginos". My avatar is a guitar plectrum ;-)

[skoal]

HMy avatar is from my favorite anime Voltes V [five] (which some of you most probably dont recognize - meaning I'm already old).
I thought your avatar looked familiar. I used to watch Star Blazers myself. It seems like just yesterday, don't it?

\\//_

[Kapre]

I thought your avatar looked familiar. I used to watch Star Blazers myself. It seems like just yesterday, don't it?

\\//_

Yep...and to think that before after watching those episodes I will discuss it with my classmates the next morning. Now I'm just telling stories of this anime (together with Star Rangers, Star Blazers..etc) to my kids [because they only know Yugioh, Beyblade, Pokemon...]

:)

[jzke]

Well, mines fairly simple... because I don't like making up names that I will want to change later, I would try to just get my first name, "jake", except I made a typo one day, and found out that "jzke" isn't really taken anywhere...

[somuchfortheafter]

ok well it started on my first forum... needed a handle,, any everclear fans here?
well i was listening to the cd so much for the afterglow and well that wouldnt all fit so now you see what did.. as for the avatar. my best character on my gba when im playing final fantasy plus he looks cool, and yes stewie kicks ass

[primeirocrime]

start diatribe [humorous?]
my screen name means first crime [primeiro being first and crime...well being crime]

crime is dissent and I am for that. no constitution and no code of law that steps on other humans.

I'm an anarchist since I remember and my screen name is about the first crime:
birth in a land that is not free and that forces us to buy the space where we live.

enough of the anarchism and "isms"

my avatars are hand drawn by me [hands and head] and belong to my personal hell . soon I'll post my favorite that is called [i]Satan's hemroid and I think that clearly defines me as a troubled person although I'm wonderfull in a party and I purr like a cute kitten if and only if we do NOT discuss politics, religion or art. Sports trivia and the like and I'm the jolly punk you allways wanted.

end of diatribe. [vaguely]

$shutdown -h 05:00 [head]

[some gunshots outside in the streets...damn!]

[weekend warrior]

Three reasons for "weekend warrior" - none related to a wrestler or Iron Maiden song (sorry to disappoint anyone).

1. Weekends are when I simply have more free time to muck around and "battle" with linux.

2. I have a habit of picking up injuries in weekend sports. Come Monday, sometimes look like I've been through a war!

3. It's a play on words, which I like doing - "weakened warrior". My old avatar showed this more clearly.

http://img79.echo.cx/img79/2928/zuconq9yd.png

I may go back to a more obvious warrior avatar at some point, any suggestions?

[KiwiNZ]

Mine is a combination of a few words

Kiwi , A flightless bird that is my Nations national symbol
NZ , Short for where I am New Zealand
wiNZ , as in wins because I always win

[mailophobic]

The avatar is from two lumps a very funny webcomic. The name comes from my allergy to fwd mails, and mails in general hardly ever get one worth reading so the name comes from there.

[carlc]

The avatar is from two lumps a very funny webcomic. The name comes from my allergy to fwd mails, and mails in general hardly ever get one worth reading so the name comes from there.

So you don't like email? Now come on, you must get email from people you like.

[CoriolisSTORM]

Hmm, mine was just something I picked up from Dune about the fast and deadly "coriolis storms" on the planet. I was like "hey, that's kind of cool." My friends hate to see me coming in Halo and the like, so it fits quite well for me. I like to sneak a lot too on the games, so usually they never know what hit 'em, so that fits too. The avatar was just something I found on google one day. I'll put a decent one up there before too long.

[intangible]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Adult Swim, one of my favorite shows as well. :D

MAKE THE HOMIES SAY HO AND THE GIRLIES WANNA SCREAM!

[intangible]

NICE avatar :D

[Kyral]

My handle is the same as part of my name in SW Club I'm in (PM me if you wanna know more :D)

And my avatar, its TUX! Need I say more? :D

[CoriolisSTORM]

Oh wait, actually my avatar is Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. If you did not know that, you need to go pick up a PS1 and Final Fantasy VII and play it! I thought my avatar was something else. This is one of the few sites I've used this one on...

[Kyral]

Oh wait, actually my avatar is Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. If you did not know that, you need to go pick up a PS1 and Final Fantasy VII and play it! I thought my avatar was something else. This is one of the few sites I've used this one on...
If you don't know who Sephiroth is, you should be shot ;P

[sapo]

sapo means toad in portuguese and its my nickname since 5th grade (i m not green, nor fat and dont have big eyes either) :roll:

and my avatar is just funny :grin:

[TristanMike]

In case anyone is interested.....
Name: Tristan Mike was the name I gave the Prince of my city when I played Vampire, he was, of course, was a vampire mage. I always thought the name kinda fit together when you said it, I might use it as a stage name, I've been debating it..

Avatar: I've kinda always related to Ren. He has always been a little on the edgy side, and a little crazy too, which is probably why he has so many hobbies (like his collection of rare incureable deseases), even though he may seem mean on the surface, to Stimpy in general, deep inside, he's just a kind hearted asthma-hound chihuahua who loves his buddies. He of course is pondering this little thing called Ubuntu Linux and doesn't know quite what to make of it. ;-)
TristanMike

[poofyhairguy]

Oh wait, actually my avatar is Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII. If you did not know that, you need to go pick up a PS1 and Final Fantasy VII and play it! I thought my avatar was something else. This is one of the few sites I've used this one on...


Its better to play it emulated inside Ubuntu.

My avitar is Brian from family. I picked it because he is sassy....and I have a tendancy to offend people. I hoped that my avitar would excuse some of my antics.

[jsimmons]

Avatar is from a 1994 edition of WIRED Magazine. I scanned the image form the magazine and have been using it ever since.

[TuxDaddy]

I am new to the forums and realy enjoy using and learning about Ubuntu. My question is how do you make an avatar?

TD

[unkemptwolf]

My avatar is the Centaur General from Narnia. Because the only thing better than a guy going crazy and killing people while dual-wielding swords... is a CENTAUR going crazy and killing people while dual weilding swords. Awesome. I don't remember where my name came from, I've been using it since before I went to college *shrug*.

[pmj]

I needed a name for this place so I used my initials. I usually pick a new, stupid and meaningless name every time I sign up somewhere. I wish I had a unique name that I could use everywhere, but I lack the imagination to come up with one and sticking with it.

[earobinson]

I have no gimp skills, It used to be Got Root? Dident like that ne more not its just my name.

[John.Michael.Kane]

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[atoponce]

My name is Aaron Toponce, thus the nick. Boring, I know, but using handles just never suited me very well. Maybe it is because I couldn't come up with anything decent.

My avatar seems to change with the seasons. Right now, it is just an image of Jesus' birth with the Ubuntu Logo behind. I just did a Google Image search for Ubuntu Christmas. I don't have Gimp skills, and I'm not creative enough to come up with one on my own.

[prizrak]

The name means ghost in Russian. Reason behind it is that my friends always complain that I'm too stealthy when I move around so they never see/hear me comming so I'm like a ghost :)
Avatar is a picture of a turbocharger, I love turbocharged cars, that boost and the BOV sound are addictive.

[arpunk]

My nick is a mix between ARP (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc826.html) and punk meaning sorta like anarchy, which was the name of a complete ARP testing framework im coding with a friend (a bit delayed but we still are :P), and i liked the name so i choose it as my nick. And the avatar... well, the avatar...

[Gustav]

My name is Gustav (yes I'm not that funny)

And I'm a socialist (hence the red flag) who likes free software (hence Tux).

The avatar is actually from the chinese Red Flag Linux distro. It's a little complicated cause I don't like the way China is run, but it was such a nice looking logo.

My signature is from the movie "Hackers" and it's quite similar to the last line in the Communist Manifesto (just change hackers to workers)

[TeeAhr1]

TeeAhr1 = T R 1 = The Risen One.

And no, it's not a Jesus thing.

I've survived a lot of things that tend to kill people. Car wrecks. Homelessness. Drug addiction. A particularly vicious beating in high school in which I was bounced off a radiator (thirteen stitches, I have a small dent in my skull just above the hairline). I adopted Risen1 (and variations thereof) because that's how I've come to feel, like I have been spared by $DEITY, like I have literally risen from the dead.

You can look for me as Risen888 on Slashdot, TheRisen1 on Plastic, and TeeAhr1 just about everywhere else.

[tabinin]

Tabinin (旅人 means "traveler" or "traveling person" in Japanese. (tabi = travel, nin = person -- tabibito is the more common reading of the word, but it was taken when I signed up for gmail.) I love to travel and also think life is a journey.

My avatar is from a skater magazine from about 1995. It cracks me up every time I look at it. My wife won't let me put up the picture I cut out of the magazine (she is the wiser one), so I scanned it. What's funnier than a dude skating down the street reading a magazine on a toilet???

Hopefully it hasn't offended anyone....

[matthew]

I am new to the forums and realy enjoy using and learning about Ubuntu. My question is how do you make an avatar?

TDThe easiest way is to use GIMP to make an image that is 90 pixels x 90 pixels. Then upload it using the link in User CP.

[Dr. Nick]

Mine is from the Simpsons, I would use his whole name, Dr. Nick Riviera, but thats just to long lol so I cut it short. Dr. Nick is just one of my favorite characters, he his hilarious, and my avatar I just got from a google search, It was from a flashback to his days at med school he had when he was studying surgery using a tape he rented from the library just before he preformed a tripple-bypass on Homer.

When I drop into IRC I go by TodFlanders since someone beat me to Dr. Nick. Ill have to wait for it to expire and try again.

[Goddess_of_Linux]

Washu is the exact character I am. I am a person that would blow up a computer just to see how many pieces it make. I would break the OS or any program on it, just to see how stable and secure it is... So in some ways I am a little computer scientist.

"The best scientist in the galaxy..."

[5-HT]

Screen name (boring, I know):



Just a reminder for me not to invest too fully into current trends of explanatory nature.

5-HT is shorthand for Serotonin (5-hydroxytriptamine), a monoamine neurotransmitter currently inextricably linked to psychopathologies (particularly anxiety and depression).

[rant]

While it no doubt is a major participant in such affective disorders, I find (well then again, who am I to even suppose enough knowledge to even question this?) that currently, It's become too central to such theories; with the plethora of other (possible) ligands being relatively ignored.

Basically, I'm just a little scared with the hype that Serotonin's received in in terms of its "absolute" modulation of such phenomena.
It's a warning for me to never close my view on things.

[/ rant]

*note to self: come up with better screen names.

[LoclynGrey]

LoclynGrey:
I've got the habit of walking into a business and helping out by identifying problems in their systems and fixing them. I originally did this years ago for my wifes friends florist business where her friend was struggling due to lack of basic business systems of which i took over, rebuilt or put in place and then handed back over. She dubbed me LoclynGrey Associates, my fictitious entity. I then went on to help out other businesses etc.
The name sort of stuck.

Avatar:
Caffeine molecule. I used to drink too much coffee.

[bonzodog]

Well..Bonzodog comes from the UK band of the seventies (Showing my age), the 'Bonzodog Doo Dah Band'. I first used it on CB in the 80's and carried it over when I started on the Internet.

Edit: I changed my avatar; that is a toon from an art site I like. It's called 'Trendwhore'.

[xequence]

If my avatar is currently the flag, like at the time of this post, it is the canadian flag in the air at Live 8.

[The Mekon]

Back in the early 1950's (yes I really am that old) I worked in a drawing office and used a lamp to illuminate my board which, due to its green shade, cast a green glow all over me.

My workmates said that it made me look like a comic character "The Mekon" akna "The Little Green Man From Mars" This became my nickname for many years.

[stuporglue]

I needed a unique name for my website, and somehow came up with Stuporglue. It's a mix of stupor, as in "stupor of thought", and suporglue, which is an awesome tool. I've been trying to find some clever phrase about sticking my thoughts together, to use as a tagline on my webpages, but haven't come up with one yet. And it's been over a year.

The avitar is a glue bottle, because I couldn't draw a good superglue tube in Inkscape.

My sites are stuporglue.com and stuporglue.org. Stuporglue.org is the more interesting of the two, at the moment.

[Nequeo]

Well... Nequeo is Latin. I don't actually speak any Latin, so I'm not too clear on the meaning or pronounciation. But I have a vague idea that it means 'to be impossible'.

I picked it as a teenager, by doing random searches through an English to Latin dictionary, until I found something with a nice ring to it, that wasn't in common gamer lexicon (like 'Invictus'). I use it mostly because it's an actual, real, word that sounds like a name, and is never taken on any boards/forums/games/birth certificates.

My avatar is just a crop from a photo I took in Antartica. They're adelie penguins, and they are indeed very cute. But one thing that no Linux distro will teach you about penguins, is that they stink!

[Hygelac]

I'm fairly new on this board and only added an avatar today. I couldn't think of anything so I just added part of a really old picture. My real name was taken so I used the first name I could think of that wasn't (Yes, I had been reading Beowulf earlier).

[teddy69]

the name's based on a character from a short story I was writing back in High School (three to four years now, wow time goes by fast) for a contest but never finished, I use variations of the same name in different forums

oh and my current avatar is Marv from Sin City (I love the novels):cool:

[fuscia]

if i haven't already said something else in this thread...

'fuscia' comes from when i used to be known as 'iamfuscia' which was a napster shortened version of the sequal to the infamous 60's swedish movie 'i am curious yellow', known as 'i am curious fuchsia'. (apparently, i don't know how to spell 'fuchsia'.) my av is a pic of me. i am a professional zhang ziyi impersonator. i do a lot of gigs in vegas and kuala lumpur.

[bored2k]

Image from post before this one: gorgeus.

My avatar is the logo of the Laughing Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_%28Ghost_in_the_Shell%29) from GITS:SAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex). I just like how chic it looks. My nickname, well... http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=490017&highlight=bored2k#post490017.

[floppy]

My avatar is a floppy old hat. My name's because floppies are old and almost obsolete, just like me.

[jobezone]

I'm just showing the true nature of Roger Rabbit. Some find it scary, though... ;)

EDIT: This avatar actually started as a pun on what would be the name of the next release of Ubuntu. I anounced that it should be Roger Rabbit, and showed a bigger version of my avatar.
I liked it so much, that I cropped it, added the spotlights behind, and been using it ever since.

[JimmyJazz]

my name is from the classic Clash song 'Jimmy Jazz' because well I love the Clash.
My avatar is a little ghost doll because I thought it was cute, like me.

[M3ta7h3ad]

My name originally was made 8 years ago when I was 13 :)

Tried to call myself "metalhead" on the ol' napster p2p networks (near on my first major dabbling with the internet), however it was taken everywhere, so I simply thought it would be cool (being 13 at the time!) to change letters to numbers.

However I wasnt much into 1337speak back then so ended up misspelling my damn nickname.

It actually reads Metathead :D. but you only need to do a google search to see that I have used it so much and have a massive trail of history behind it that if I changed it now to something a bit more grown up then everyone I ever knew on the net wouldnt know who the hell I am :D

[Jordan Meeter]

My username is, well... My name. :) My avatar is Alex Varkatzas of the metalcore band Atreyu.

[JsPr]

Well, my name is Jesper so screen name is just a abbreviation. As for the Avatar, that's my bike! I love bikes.

[greenwom]

I switch avatars from time to time,

My userID: greenwom is a crappy login name from work, we had logins assigned and since I couldn't fight it I started to use it for web accounts on obscure that I never use. Then it started to stick. I though about a change but hey...... I'd forget my login

[niobe_logos]

My avatar and nick are based on Niobe, Captain of the ship Logos, who appears in Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. Sure, she'll follow orders from the menfolk--including her husband--but if she thinks something else is more important, she'll do that, and orders be damned. And if the something else includes kicking butts around or blowing stuff up or flying her ship along along a route no other captain will fly, well...that's what happens.

What I think the average Linux user's attitude is about using operating systems, generally. You can use Windows or Mac off the shelf, if you want, or you can find a LInux distro and do things your way.

And yes, I'm a woman of color with a funny-looking hairstyle (dreadlocks).

[PatrickMay16]

My avatar is the "NO U" guy, who is part of a popular joke on a website I visit, 4chan.org.

Though you should know, 4chan.org is not safe for work.

[DiscoKiller]

My name is DiscoKiller, that name has been with me for a few years now ever since i heard a song by an unsigned (now disbanded) group called monkey steals the drum. the tune caught my ear because of the bassline.....it rocks, and i`m a bassist so i appreciate it more than most. So anyway, the tune was called Disco Kill, i figured i`d be the DiscoKiller from then on in, disco_killer@hotmail etc, all my usernames have been disco_killer or a variant.

the avatar is a popular little flash cartoon that can be found on http://www.homestarrunner.com
His name is strong bad and he is awesome......peace out

Oh by the way, if u have two minutes of your life spare can u take it to register a vote in my online poll:

Please vote for your preferred band name @ http://discokiller.8k.com/BandPoll.html

and yeah i know freeservers is crap.

[Ampersand]

There's not much significance to my username, it's just a word I started using on IRC a few years ago and have used for most things since.

My avatar is of ME-tan (http://www.os-tan.com/) due to my tendancy for absent mindedness (putting a plastic beaker on a bunsen burner, draining pasta over a plate instead of the sink, liberating magic smoke from a variety of components &c).

[spdl]

The nick is the letters of my full name. S for the first name and PDL for the three words that make out my last name.

And the avatar... Well, I play CS: Source quite a bit with the headphone/mic and in the Spring/Summer that's what I look like while I play. And I like South Park. So...my wife decided to surprise me one day and make a version of a South Park character of me. So I decided to make it my avatar.

[FLeiXiuS]

Well mine has been FLeiXiuS for over 4 years now. I really love how it sounds. Very exotic ;-P

Fleexy-us. Yeah it's just that cool.

Anyways, my name is basically a random bunch of letters. Then I went ahead and capiltized the consonants. The character in my avatar is actually SPAWN, but I figured it looked more underground if I darkened him out. He looks neato like that. Plus it gives off my online personality quite well.

[Master Shake]

My name AND Avatar are Master Shake from the Cartoon Netwrok / Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Shake is a "superhero" who posesses aboslutely no work ethic. He's also an *******. He has no real enemies because he doesn't really care.

Although he's tangled it up with Err a few times...

[mfarquhar]

mfarquhar is just my name scrunched up

Micheal Farquhar
yes EA

my avatar is from Megatokyo's (http://www.megatokyo.com) Megagear (http://www.megagear.com) site

The N stand for NINJ4 (4=A)

[majikstreet]

(I just felt like bringing this thread up..)

my name: when I made it I was into street magic, and I wanted it to be different so I replaced the g with a j and the c with a k and made it "majikstreet" :)

my avatar: well the new one is just bush with an x thru it... yeah..

[zenwhen]

My avatar is currently a Christmas themed version of a cleaned up version of my first avatar.

This was the original:

http://troymcferron.com/images/zen.gif

It was chosen while I was posting on another set of forums. The image was chosen as it was a "cute" image that clashed with the posts and attitude that I contributed to their (very confused and often destructively wrong) technical forum. I learned a lot about what can be destructive in a technical community there and that learning experience has been very helpful to me in my current role as a staff member here.

When I came here I wanted something cleaner and nicer to go with my cleaner, nicer attitude.

A very talented friend came up with this:

http://troymcferron.com/images/minizen.png

That's the story of my avatar. :)

[matthew]

My avatar is...I've always thought your avatar is one of the better ones; it's well done, unique, and looks good.

Um...mine is a picture of my guitar, slightly modified. My screen name is my name out in the real world.

[homegrown]

Table Mountain - where I'm from - as Mark grew up not far from me, so I feel ubuntu has a strong link with SA, so homegrown seemed appropriate. --- nothing to do with the Hydroponics in my basement ofcourse!

[Bladerunner]

Picked Bladerunner for my screenname because I'm a knife collector and the movie by the same name is one of my favorites.
My avatar is one of the knives in my collection, a Reese Weiland Rastor with damascus blade and mammoth ivory scales.

[stoffe]

It's what I'm called in real life, and it's me on the pic. :)

[lauralee]

When I was about 14 I used "pokey" as a nick. Wishing to put this nick (far!) behind me, and not feeling particularly creative, I used "lauralee" - a similar nick to my name.

As for the avatar, its the picture on the last page of The Little Prince: "This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world."

[truthfatal]

I use truthfatal because it's the only screen name I've ever used.

It's simply a reference to the fact that people die for their 'truths' far more often than they should.

[RAV TUX]

Here's mine:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9457/platysunsl6.jpg

Title: Platypus Lays The Sun

Media : digital
Description : Platypus was dismayed to discover that instead of an egg, it had evidentally laid the Sun.


Artist Web Site:
http://www.metalandmagic.com/

the Artist:
Ursula Vernon

from here faqs page:


Q: Can I use your art on my webpage?
A: If you include a link/copyright notice thingy, then yes.

[ahaslam]

Not much bigger but I wanted it animated and spent an hour doing it last month, to find that I couldn't use it ](*,)


http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/data/4/ubuirisani.gif


Tony.

[Jucato]

@yozef: why do you keep on making these interesting topics, to which I couldn't but help reply? :D

Anyway, my avatar's name is CatPak a play on the words "Cat" and "Pack". Why he's named like that or what's his purpose is a long story. Suffice it to say that I like cats. :D

Media: Original sketch was drawn by hand, scanned, and made entirely in Inkscape. He is 100% vector graphics (SVG). Of course, I had to export into PNG. :D
Artist: (ahem) Me. :p

Here he is, together with two other poses.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/jucato/CatPak1.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/jucato/CatPak2.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/jucato/CatPak3.png

[RAV TUX]

Anyway, my avatar's name is CatPak a play on the words "Cat" and "Pack". Why he's named like that or what's his purpose is a long story.


I would love to hear the longer story, are you working on a comic for your character?

any more great pics?

Awesome art work btw!

[RAV TUX]

Not much bigger but I wanted it animated and spent an hour doing it last month, to find that I couldn't use it ](*,)


http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/data/4/ubuirisani.gif


Tony.

That is an awesome animated gif!

[Jucato]

Not really a long story. CatPak is a part of a "system" I'm developing for my computer. This system is heavily influenced by an anime (Japanese animation/cartoons) I've seen, and relies heavily on SuperKaramba and themes. I would gladly try to "port" it to GNOME, if only I could find a gDesklet tutorial that "just works".

The name of the project is C.A.T.S. (ok so I'm obsessed with cats), which stands for Customized Avatar Terminal System. It's still in Alpha now, so I can't release other info. If I did, then I'd have to kill you. :D

Thanks for the compliment.

Oh, btw, I thought your avatar was Dapper Drake.

[off-topic]
Jozef, something's wrong with your posts, and I think it has something to do with your sig or your profile. The width of your posts go beyond the normal width of the forums. I'm seeing this in both Konqueror and Firefox.
[/off-topic]

[RAV TUX]

[off-topic]
Jozef, something's wrong with your posts, and I think it has something to do with your sig or your profile. The width of your posts go beyond the normal width of the forums. I'm seeing this in both Konqueror and Firefox.
[/off-topic]

do you have a screen shot?

[hard_i]

Bigger version of my avatar > http://www.deviantart.com/view/17160106/
No story behind it .. i used to have dual monitors a while back
and used it as a wallpaper then.

[woedend]

im not sure making mine larger is a good thing!

but im interested to see a few here...that was one of them.

[RAV TUX]

Bigger version of my avatar > http://www.deviantart.com/view/17160106/
No story behind it .. i used to have dual monitors a while back
and used it as a wallpaper then.

Cool avatar, much more appreciable in a larger size.

[Brunellus]

"I yam what I yam an' that's all I yam" --Popeye

[IYY]

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~cs251010/me.jpg

Not much to explain: it's a photo of myself, on a canoe trip in Ontario.

[richbarna]

I live in Barcelona/ Catalonia/ Spain, and I wanted something TUX related.
There was another thread about the TUX avatars and someone left a link to a good page. I went and had a look, and lo and behold BARCELONA FC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona) TUX.

13280

I am a huge football fan (Soccer to the Americans here), and especially Barça. Ronaldinho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronaldinho) is the best player in the world by far. Shame about Brasil's performance in the world cup :sad:

[matthew]

Mine is a crop from a photo of Eric Clapton's guitar, "fool," from the Cream era. I would show a full picture, but it has a naked person on it and I don't want to be responsible for backyarding an innocent thread. :)

EDIT: a quick bit of Gimp alterations and here it is (mostly).

I have a thing for guitars.

[richbarna]

Mine is a crop from a photo of Eric Clapton's guitar, "fool," from the Cream era. I would show a full picture, but it has a naked person on it and I don't want to be responsible for backyarding an innocent thread. :)

Go on! I want to see a moderator get back-yarded Lol :)

EDIT: Hey every one !! Matthew is posting porn !! Backyard time! :eek:

[matthew]

Go on! I want to see a moderator get back-yarded Lol :)lol. Maybe next time.8-[

[kadymae]

I have a screaming case of con-crud, and really don't feel like digging about in the "master images" folder of the hard drive to pull up the master image of my icon.

The artist is my friend John Van Fleet (http://www.johnvanfleet.com/), and it's an image from Batman: The Ankh (http://www.johnvanfleet.com/staging/A_main.html).

[fuscia]

zhang ziyi.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/unknownentity/zhang_ziyi0020.jpg

i'm told the resemblance is striking.

[Jucato]

I never realized that was Zhang Ziyi. I've always wondered who that was on your avatar. :D

[RAV TUX]

Mine is a crop from a photo of Eric Clapton's guitar, "fool," from the Cream era. I would show a full picture, but it has a naked person on it and I don't want to be responsible for backyarding an innocent thread. :)

EDIT: a quick bit of Gimp alterations and here it is (mostly).

I have a thing for guitars.

Matthew that is one beautiful guitar!

[fuscia]

I never realized that was Zhang Ziyi. I've always wondered who that was on your avatar. :D

'tis she. i love her grumpy roles.

[DirtDawg]

Mine is a vector rendering of a PeaceKeeper. For awhile, many people in these forums were using customized Power-Puff Girl type characters, so I thought it would be fun to mimic the style with a character of my own.

I love my Peacekeepers. I was offered a full page spot (http://www.weeklyhilarity.com/images/comics/nightbeat.gif) last year where I decided to use them and it won me one o' them A-wards (http://www.orenews.com/Contests/2006/cnc/webhtml/cnc-1+2-19-1.html)(!). Before that they've appeared sporatically (http://www.weeklyhilarity.com/images/vanguard/robutts.jpg) over the years, on t-shirts, and in a larger, never published story.

I'm rambling. Here's the avatar:

http://www.weeklyhilarity.com/images/ubuntuavatar.gif

[Skia_42]

In the light of this topic I decided to change my avatar, I confess, I am a hippie at heart and I love linux. I thought the tie-dyed penguin was appropriate. http://www.worth1000.com/entries/209500/209997XEgD_w.jpg

[richbarna]

'tis she. i love her grumpy roles.

Don't EVER serve her with bad tasting soup !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkM6jpwX6D0

[Jucato]

Don't EVER serve her with bad tasting soup !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkM6jpwX6D0

Okay that was just hilarious! :D

[OffHand]

Mine is a bottle of Moskovskaya Vodka. My personal favorite and the best Vodka in the world :D

[matthew]

In the light of this topic I decided to change my avatar, I confess, I am a hippie at heart and I love linux. I thought the tie-dyed penguin was appropriate. http://www.worth1000.com/entries/209500/209997XEgD_w.jpgLol! Welcome to 1968!! Your penguin goes well with my guitar. :)

[busgeek]

I'd just like to say that this is not my 'real' hair!

[graabein]

Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum P.I.

I like to think of myself as a very poor mans edition of Tom Selleck. I have the moustache and maybe a total of thirty hairs on my chest.

:lol:

[OrganicPanda]

Well mine is the product of 2 days learning Blender. Modelled and rendered in Blender but for the actual avator I used Gimp to cut and resize it. It was originally purple, I have no idea why, anyway I decided on a more Ubuntu orange colour, yes it is orange it's just that I suck at lighting a scene so it looks more Ubuntu brown.

I really want to do some kool wallpapers or themes or something arty to do with ubuntu but I guess I need to improve a bit first lol... Well enough chat, the pic should hopefully be attached. Enjoi

[fuscia]

Don't EVER serve her with bad tasting soup !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkM6jpwX6D0

i hadn't seen that. thanks.

[RAV TUX]

Lol! Welcome to 1968!! Your penguin goes well with my guitar. :)

That would make a cool GIMP'ed image.

[xtacocorex]

Here's mine, but it's too large to post here, so I'm giving you all the link: http://robert.wolterman.googlepages.com/mewindtunnel_large.jpg

I didn't have it on my work computer so I had to ssh into my laptop (at home) and then sent an email from the python interpreter to my gmail account since it was faster than trying to open up Firefox through the X11 forwarding.

What it is:
It is me in a wind tunnel at Iowa State University. My friend was running some tests for his senior project and had to get video and I persuaded him to get a picture of me in the wind tunnel as that had been a goal of mine since we as students were able to use them for classes.
The test he was doing was trying to get that shape to produce vertical oscillations. If you look closely, it's not a circle, but has flat sides. Depending on how you have shape oriented, it will either create vertical motion or stay in one place. My friend has video of it moving, but I never got a copy.

[paul.maddox]

Mine is of me having fun on my motorbike (and also a friend's motorbike)...

http://w1.bikepics.com/pics/2005%5C01%5C20%5Cbikepics-276621-full.jpg

:D

[DirtDawg]

Well mine is the product of 2 days learning Blender. Modelled and rendered in Blender but for the actual avator I used Gimp to cut and resize it. It was originally purple, I have no idea why, anyway I decided on a more Ubuntu orange colour, yes it is orange it's just that I suck at lighting a scene so it looks more Ubuntu brown.

I really want to do some kool wallpapers or themes or something arty to do with ubuntu but I guess I need to improve a bit first lol... Well enough chat, the pic should hopefully be attached. Enjoi

Ha! I know the feeling of sucking at lighting scenes. As much as I'd like to be a 3D wizard, I need plenty more practice. It looks good though, especially for only a few days experience.

[fuscia]

Mine is of me having fun on my motorbike (and also a friend's motorbike)...


you = insane. i guess i'm more of a serenity junkie.

[bruce89]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Jordanhill_sign.jpg/800px-Jordanhill_sign.jpg
Jordanhill Railway Station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station) was the millionth english Wikipedia article, and I live quite near it, so I took pictures of it.

A wee bit of cropping and perspective editing in the GIMP yielded this.

[Kratos]

The only size my avatar comes in is the size that I made it in.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Diffindo/3199143741e099ca6c.gif

This is the nameless marine from the orignal Doom francise. Simply because I love old-school Doom.

I made this avatar back in my "dark ages" in Windows. I took a screen shot from ZDaemon, and touched it up in GIMP.

I also made two other, holiday-themed marines. But, I lost my easter one. ><

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Diffindo/doomxmas.gif

Sadly enough, this one was made in Paint. :(

[Yossarian]

Posted by paul.maddox
Mine is of me having fun on my motorbike (and also a friend's motorbike)...

Very nice machine you've got there.

My avatar is of Stephen Harper, leader of the Canadian Conservative party and Canada's current Prime Minister.

He has blue boxing gloves because blue is his party's colour, and red is the colour of the rival Liberal party. Here's another picture of him.

http://www.dropdeadhappy.com/dropdeadhappy/images/stephen_harper_village_peop_1.jpg

[-Phi-]

http://phispace.net/lj/coffee-kalquessa.jpg
I don't actually drink coffee, but it seems to be a theme on these boards, and I do do math (uni major), so it works.

Some others I considered and why didn't use:
http://phispace.net/lj/ubuntux.gif <- my profile already mentions that I use ubuntu. Ubuntux is from Ubuntux.org (http://www.ubuntux.org/)
http://phispace.net/lj/QED2.gif <- the coffee one was more relevant


- Phi

[MaximB]

ok... after searching uploading and downloading , I've managed to finally put a pictures at my avatar and my profile

could somone say how do I pose it here bigger (not by linking , I want to upload my avatar pic here) ?
and I will explain - what is it and how is it was done.

[RAV TUX]

ok... after searching uploading and downloading , I've managed to finally put a pictures at my avatar and my profile

could somone say how do I pose it here bigger (not by linking , I want to upload my avatar pic here) ?
and I will explain - what is it and how is it was done.

you could use ImageShack (http://imageshack.us/) to host the picture, then copy and paste the image script here. (remember to disable any links)

just one of many ways.

[MaximB]

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/812/skeletonqg3.th.jpg (http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skeletonqg3.jpg)

this beautifull work of art has been don'e with the help of open-source, free as freedom BLENDER3D.
it is a great free program for 3d modeling and animation
a little hard to learn - but limitless.
I don't know the name of the artist who has done this picture.
but if he pops up - I won't be mind telling you that. :)

[Anduu]

Simon Bisley is one of my all time favorite comic artists...thus my avatar...

http://members.shaw.ca/anduu/images/warmachinel.jpg

[RAV TUX]

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/812/skeletonqg3.th.jpg (http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skeletonqg3.jpg)

this beautifull work of art has been don'e with the help of open-source, free as freedom BLENDER3D.
it is a great free program for 3d modeling and animation
a little hard to learn - but limitless.
I don't know the name of the artist who has done this picture.
but if he pops up - I won't be mind telling you that. :)

Very interesting creation, I like it much better in it's full size.

[gruvsyco]

Here's mine. It was a bit of a self portrait and I thought aptly expressed the way I felt during my winter spent in Oklahoma.

http://www.whogivesfx.com/wp-gallery/3D%20Stills/slides/boring_winter.jpg (http://www.whogivesfx.com/wp-gallery/3D%20Stills/boring_winter.jpg)

Hope that works, trying to thumbnail to a larger image.

[RAV TUX]

I just changed my avatar:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/341/hismindracedbyursulavde3.jpg

artist: Ursela Vernon

Title: His Mind Raced


...unfortunately, it did not race particularly well, and failed to even place at the Cerebral Derby. Dreams of a Triple Crown dashed, and after disappointing showings on several tracks, it was put out to pasture on a ranch out west, where it became a favorite of the ranch hands for its good nature and willingness to gallop. In later years, small children fed it sugar, it had several other brains to loaf around the pasture with, and was probably about as happy as a mind gets. So that worked out.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/27304494/

http://www.metalandmagic.com/index.php

[Skia_42]

Man yozef, thats a sweet avatar... How did you get a picture to show up in your signature? Is it a forum staff perk?

[Jucato]

sweet.
Oh, and your posts returned to their normal width now, Jozef. :D

[Luggy]

My avatar is T-Rex from Qwantz ( greatest comic EVER ).

This isn't a much bigger picture, but it's a gooder.
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/2179/shoopvy9.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[RAV TUX]

Man yozef, thats a sweet avatar... How did you get a picture to show up in your signature? Is it a forum staff perk?

Thanks I really enjoy the art work by Ursula Vernon (http://www.metalandmagic.com/). I like that she doesn't mind you using her work as long as you give her credit and a link.


Q: Can I use your art on my webpage?
A: If you include a link/copyright notice thingy, then yes.

Which reminds me I need to re-post a link to her site in my signature.

About the sig pic, it appears so, I originally thought it was always there and had just missed it until I became a moderator.



sweet.
Oh, and your posts returned to their normal width now, Jozef. :D

Thank you. & thanks for the 411

[pchr]

There's some pretty cool sigs here.

Mine's a tracing of a photo of myself using Inkscape with my Wacom, then coloured in Gimp.

http://www.zen71080.zen.co.uk/avatar/beachhutpaul.jpg

[RAV TUX]

I have changed my avatar yet agian:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4193/multiply2dq7.jpg

Albert Einstein

by artist:
Quint Buchholz

1984

(the gold picture frame is a default frame from my blog site on Multiply)
http://jozefmazeltov.multiply.com/

[RAV TUX]

I have changed my avatar yet agian:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4193/multiply2dq7.jpg

Albert Einstein

by artist:
Quint Buchholz

1984

(the gold picture frame is a default frame from my blog site on Multiply)
http://jozefmazeltov.multiply.com/

I like the lighting on this image better, so I adjusted accordingly:

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/9941/multiply3xp8.jpg

[GStubbs43]

My avatar: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4089/penguinarabiasizedgf5.jpg

It is another Ursula Vernon Picture, which after seeing some of her work, I really like! It's called 'Penguin of Arabia" I just cropped it down and yeah... :D

[RAV TUX]

RAV TUX Avatar

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4282/avatar4498627vm8.png (http://%5B/B)

He is a combination of many TUX characters....beard from Gandalf Tux, Eyeglasses from Harry Potter Tux, Hat from Rabbi Tux, and body from Devil/Angel Tux, and his beak from a Random Tux...I call him RAV TUX.

[spockrock]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/redemma/personal/cattledecapitationkarmabloodyk.jpg

its the cover of a metal album, karma.bloody.karma by cattle decapitation. The hat is there because its Christmas time.

[PatrickMay16]

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7493/montu4.png

A year ago, some guy I used to talk to made this guy using "Poser". Eventually I took the picture and made a flash movie with it and some music I had made. (If you want to see the flash movie, PM me. I can't post the link here because it is not safe for work.)

[dbbolton]

http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/english/Pagano/Alice_images--Caterpillar.jpg

if you don't like my avatar or its origins, feel free to get out of america. thank you.

[RAV TUX]

http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/english/Pagano/Alice_images--Caterpillar.jpg

if you don't like my avatar or its origins, feel free to get out of america. thank you.
:pI actually have this image saved on my computer

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6113/aliceimagescaterpillarwk0.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6113/aliceimagescaterpillarwk0.jpg)

It is a classic!

[RAV TUX]

http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/english/Pagano/Alice_images--Caterpillar.jpg

if you don't like my avatar or its origins, feel free to get out of america. thank you.
Here is another image of the caterpillar I like:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6455/stonedpillarhz4.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6455/stonedpillarhz4.jpg)
http://www.metalandmagic.com/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=beastiary&id=stonedpillar&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php&PHPSESSID=08f0d5d050e4636bb7f8e17d8665d81e

[raul_]

When I grow up i wanna be like Stewie Griffin.

I wanted this one but it's way big...if you wanna see it click on the link. I'm not gonna post it so i don't consume your bandwidth :)
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7872/stewieps3.png

So i chose this one
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4971/stewie5ot7.jpg

He's just awesome. Whoever sees Family Guy knows what i'm talking about :mrgreen:

[RAV TUX]

When I grow up i wanna be like Stewie Griffin
Who is Stewie?

[RAV TUX]

just changed my Avatar...

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/7485/sudokuve5.jpg (http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/7485/sudokuve5.jpg)
http://xkcd.com/
Should be self explanatory;)

[raul_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5u80rpTuE

Check it if you have the time.

[RAV TUX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5u80rpTuE

Check it if you have the time.

Thats hilarious does he always talk in that voice?

[raul_]

Thats hilarious does he always talk in that voice?

Yeap :D

[yabbadabbadont]

Thats hilarious does he always talk in that voice?

I don't use flash, so I can't view the video, but his normal speaking voice is sort of an effeminant (sp?) British accent. The episodes that feature him and the dog (Brian), are the best in my opinion.

[dbbolton]

Here is another image of the caterpillar I like:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6455/stonedpillarhz4.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6455/stonedpillarhz4.jpg)
http://www.metalandmagic.com/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=beastiary&id=stonedpillar&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php&PHPSESSID=08f0d5d050e4636bb7f8e17d8665d81e
i love it

[dbbolton]

zhang ziyi.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/unknownentity/zhang_ziyi0020.jpg

i'm told the resemblance is striking.
oh, it is.

[Redlance]

http://www.elfquest.com/pubs/bios/Wolfriders/Redlance.html

read this comic when i was 16. I was hooked. Everyone wanted to be a skywise or cutter from the series. I liked all of them but my personality is more like redlance so i chose him as my computer persona since 1990's been my nickname eversince :)

[fuscia]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/ironfuscia/santaav150.jpg

'dead' is this year's brown, and it's christmas.

[JurB]

Just something i did a while back in Photoshop, composed of photos i made on a trip to Berlin.
Doesn't really represent anything... not that i'm aware of. I'm sure there must be some kind of Freudian explanation :rolleyes:

[RAV TUX]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/ironfuscia/santaav150.jpg

'dead' is this year's brown, and it's christmas.fuscia....I feel I have seen this picture before....who is it? and what is it from?....do you have a link with more information?

[fuscia]

fuscia....I feel I have seen this picture before....who is it? and what is it from?....do you have a link with more information?

i think it's from a japanese movie made in the 70s and it looks to be on a par with the woman prisoner genre. i found it by accident when looking for something else. i think it came from some wannabee B&D site. here's as close to the original as i still have. i don't have the original technicolor version...

[RAV TUX]

i think it's from a japanese movie made in the 70s and it looks to be on a par with the woman prisoner genre. i found it by accident when looking for something else. i think it came from some wannabee B&D site. here's as close to the original as i still have. i don't have the original technicolor version...
Thanks for the explanation fuscia..........do you know the name of the movie?

[mips]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/The_Scream.jpg/463px-The_Scream.jpg

I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature. -Edvard Munch


In 2003, astronomers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomers) claimed to have identified the time of the scene depicted in the painting. The volcanic eruption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano) of Krakatoa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa) in 1883 caused unusually intense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterglow) sunsets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset) throughout Europe in the winter of 1883-4, which Munch captured in his picture.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/

[RAV TUX]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/The_Scream.jpg/463px-The_Scream.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/I have always loved this painting...sad to hear the original was damaged beyond repair after it was stolen and recovered.

[RAV TUX]

here is my new Avatar:


http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2658/cryclu1tm0.jpg (http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2658/cryclu1tm0.jpg)

It's by Gideon

"Faces with Tears"

from the "Holocaust Collection"

As you look at the faces in Gideon's Holocaust paintings you may notice there is usually one of a child. Gideon relates that everywhere he went there were little children looking up at you with begging eyes. Of course they were hungry, but Gideon felt the hunger went deeper than a bodily need for food. He includes them not only as an unrelenting memory, but as a symbol of hope for the generations to come. http://members.aol.com/gideonet/holocaust.htm

I found some other work by Gideon on The Holocaust Chronicle (http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/) site, that lead me to research his work more. I found this painting especially moving.

[fuscia]

Thanks for the explanation fuscia..........do you know the name of the movie?

no idea. i'm pretty sure i never knew, or i'd own it.

[mips]

I have always loved this painting...sad to hear the original was damaged beyond repair after it was stolen and recovered.

Same here.

I only read the Dec 20 update now that you mentioned it as I thought they were ok.

Real shame.


On December 20 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20), 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006), it was revealed the Scream was permanently damaged beyond repair. After months of examining the painting, experts at the Munch Museum have come to the conclusion that moisture damage meant that the painting could not be restored to its former condition. The Scream has damaged corners and flaking. Moisture damage that caused some discoloration presented the restorers with the greatest challenge and has meant that the painting could not be restored to perfection. The Madonna also requires extensive restoration work. The painting has a tear measuring about 27.5 mm in diameter, another tiny tear in the upper left corner and damage related to a broken canvas stretcher frame.

[RAV TUX]

Same here.

I only read the Dec 20 update now that you mentioned it as I thought they were ok.

Real shame.

Very unfortunate....do you know if the Artist painted any other copies?

[23meg]

http://www.ironflame.de/tg2004/img/logo_kreis.jpg
http://www.mobilization.com/images/artists/tg/throbbing_gristle.gif

A variation on the symbol of Throbbing Gristle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle).

[Sef]

I have always loved this painting...sad to hear the original was damaged beyond repair after it was stolen and recovered.

My reaction to that is a scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH.

[RAV TUX]

My latest avatar (date: 01/09/2007):


About avatar: close-up of "BigSky" from "The Grimoire"; by writer Sebastien Caisse, artist Djief.A close-up(head shot) of the Picture below:


http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8473/bigsky01pk8.jpg (http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8473/bigsky01pk8.jpg)
Artist: Jean-François Bergeron alias Djief
Djief Portfolio » Bio (http://www.djief.com/?page_id=23)- [ Translate this page (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.djief.com/%3Fpage_id%3D23&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddjief%2Bbio%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26clien t%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DnCW) ]

[steven8]

i'm told the resemblance is striking.

It is. It looks just like zhang ziyi. :-)

[Mirrorball]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/mirrorball/Kill-Bill---Elle-Driver--C10285499.jpg
Elle Driver, played by Daryl Hannah, in Tarantino's movie Kill Bill. Larger image: http://zone.wallpaper.free.fr/picture.php?/441/category/71

[RAV TUX]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/mirrorball/Kill-Bill---Elle-Driver--C10285499.jpg
Elle Driver, played by Daryl Hannah, in Tarantino's movie Kill Bill. Larger image: http://zone.wallpaper.free.fr/picture.php?/441/category/71

I honestly have never seen the movie.

[viper]

I honestly have never seen the movie.

You have to watch this flick, its a must..........(if your into Tarantino) but then again watch it anyway:)

[RAV TUX]

You have to watch this flick, its a must..........(if your into Tarantino) but then again watch it anyway:)didn't he produce Pulp Fiction?

That was an awesome movie

[raul_]

didn't he produce Pulp Fiction?

That was an awesome movie

And Reservoir Dogs. He didn't produce btw. He directed

[scrooge_74]

Yes he did

[mips]

You have to watch this flick, its a must..........(if your into Tarantino) but then again watch it anyway:)

Just prepare yourself for lots of blood, don't think i have ever seen so much blood in my life ;)

You have to get both parts, Vol 1&2, as it is really one movie.

[PapaWiskas]

This guy just fits my alias....I think he is awesome.
I use another one too of the same style.

[M_the_C]

Fairly simple really, I was having trouble coming up with an idea for an avatar on another forum, I like the game Homeworld 2 so I just picked that.

[manmower]

Mine is the cover of an excellent album: Twoism (http://www.discogs.com/release/68390) by the Boards Of Canada.

It's just a grainy still from an old B-movie (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/23992), but I think the atmosphere really suits the title and mood of the record.

I don't know if it really says anything about me, I just think it's a great little album.

[RAV TUX]

changed my avatar once again:p

An excellent example of "Forced Perspective"

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3691/blxmovebgpv4.gif (http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3691/blxmovebgpv4.gif)

[RAV TUX]

changed my avatar once again:p

An excellent example of "Forced Perspective"

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3691/blxmovebgpv4.gif (http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3691/blxmovebgpv4.gif)

found here:
http://steverowlands.deviantart.com/gallery/

[Tux Aubrey]

RAV TUX, that is soooo cool!

Oh, and here's mine:

Tux as Captain Jack Aubrey RN, hero of the "Master and Commander" series of books (shown here with his particular friend Dr Stephen Maturin FRS, also played by Tux). This picture was taken soon after Jack's promotion to full Captain rank and given command of the "Sophie" - around 1809, I think.

[RAV TUX]

RAV TUX, that is soooo cool!

Oh, and here's mine:

Tux as Captain Jack Aubrey RN, hero of the "Master and Commander" series of books (shown here with his particular friend Dr Stephen Maturin FRS, also played by Tux). This picture was taken soon after Jack's promotion to full Captain rank and given command of the "Sophie" - around 1809, I think.

quite cool...I have never read the books....but sound interesting.

[Tux Aubrey]

"..I have never read the books..."

One famous reviewer of O'Brian's books said that he envied people who had never read them, knowing that such a treat was still ahead of them. However, it is an addiction.

[RAV TUX]

"..I have never read the books..."

One famous reviewer of O'Brian's books said that he envied people who had never read them, knowing that such a treat was still ahead of them. However, it is an addiction.
ahh I will have to look for them then.

[Tyche]

Use name: Tyche

Tyche was a cat, Siamese Sealpoint, that originally belonged to my daughter. The cat would jump on my lap to be petted, then bite me when I did so. I warned my daughter that either she would have to disciplin the cat or I would: and if I did, she would loose the cat. She didn't. I did (over the course of about 3 weeks, simply by not letting her up on my lap for a week after she bit me). At the end of 3 weeks, the cat would jump on my lap at any excuse, especially if I was at the computer.

When I first connected to the internet, the ISP asked me for a use name. As my wife and I had a tendency to use the names of our cats for one thing or another (at one time we had 13 cats), the name Tyche simply popped into my head. I've been Tyche ever since.

The graphic was originally a MS clipart, in black and white, that I heavily modified. So heavily that at one point passing your cursor over it on a web page caused the cat to bat at it (animated gif). I no longer have that version, and the graphic has since been re-modified.

[zerhacke]

I got my avatar from I think it was /usr/share/icons/Human/48x48/apps. It's just a terminal icon that comes with Ubuntu (and most other Linuxes too).

The username is a shortened German sentence. The original sentence is "Ich Bin Zerhacken."

[linuxuser28]

RAV TUX, that is soooo cool!

Oh, and here's mine:

Tux as Captain Jack Aubrey RN, hero of the "Master and Commander" series of books (shown here with his particular friend Dr Stephen Maturin FRS, also played by Tux). This picture was taken soon after Jack's promotion to full Captain rank and given command of the "Sophie" - around 1809, I think.
Tux Aubrey, Yours is my favorite avatar on here. Wish I had grabed it for myself.;)
The Aubrey/Maturin novels are my favorite series of books. (I'm about 3/4 though the series.)

My avatar is the Fantastic Four version of Tux with my Ubuntu user# added at the bottom.

[ice60]

not much to explain really. it's worth clicking on the thumbnail because it looks better bigger :-D

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/3554/avatarpickk7.th.jpg (http://img238.imageshack.us/my.php?image=avatarpickk7.jpg)

[ice60]

actually, here's the original picture -

NOTE: might not be suitable for work, than agin it might be, i'm not sure :confused:
http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picxt3.jpg

[mips]

actually, here's the original picture -


Someone is gonna complain about that one :rolleyes: Count my words.

Anyone remember the 'nekked people' thread ?

[Tux Aubrey]

Hey, linuxuser28:


Tux Aubrey, Yours is my favorite avatar on here. Wish I had grabed it for myself.

Feel free to use Killick, Bonden or Stephen - attached (although I think the Fantastic 4 Tux is great)

If we can get a decent crew together we might go get ourselves some prizes!

[public_void]

Taken from here (http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~jones/frink.gif)

Because it kinda looks like me, and I like The Simpsons.

[ice60]

Someone is gonna complain about that one :rolleyes: Count my words.

Anyone remember the 'nekked people' thread ?
there, i edited it just for 'those' people :mrgreen:

[MkfIbK7a]

I have this avatar simply because i like kittens....
and flowers....

i prievously had the orange one (also attached)

would like input on which one people like better...

[dca]

Can't remember where I put the original, can't imagining it being much bigger than what's already displayed. Alas it is a mug-shot. Now, I don't agree with the anti-semitic tirade nor condone, etc. However, he drinks about as much as I do and anyone willing to call a female deputy sugar-t*ts is just down-right hysterical!!!

[dca]

By the by, Glen Campbell's, Rip Torn's and Nick Nolte's celebrity DWI mugshot(s) just basically scared the hell out of me....

[mips]

there, i edited it just for 'those' people :mrgreen:

Hey, I wasn't complaining. I liked the pic :)

[happy-and-lost]

Can't say much about mine. It's my "ubuntu-tango-daemon", done in about 30 seconds in the Gimp, of course ;)

[RAV TUX]

I have this avatar simply because i like kittens....
and flowers....

i prievously had the orange one (also attached)

would like input on which one people like better...I like the little white kitten best.....;)

[RAV TUX]

My latest avatar:Reiki (http://www.reiki.org/) inspired.

What Is Reiki? (http://www.reiki.org/FAQ/WhatIsReiki.html)

http://www.reiki.org/HomePage/AudioMessage.gif (http://www.reiki.org/OpeningCommentPage/OpeningCommentPage.html)

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3552/reiki2tk6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/868/reiki3yq6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[NeoLithium]

Not much to explain. It's me :)

[saulgoode]

I GIMPed this up for a forum thread which asked "What's In Your Computer?"

http://www.postbrickfilms.com/saulgoode/Images/ForumPosts/Flyingpenguin.jpg

[Choad]

I GIMPed this up for a forum thread which asked "What's In Your Computer?"

http://www.postbrickfilms.com/saulgoode/Images/ForumPosts/Flyingpenguin.jpg
ROFL

i said it before, but that is hillarious. he looks so perplexed!

[RAV TUX]

I GIMPed this up for a forum thread which asked "What's In Your Computer?"

http://www.postbrickfilms.com/saulgoode/Images/ForumPosts/Flyingpenguin.jpg

Nice GIMP!;)

[Dokatz]

http://www.thegiantpeach.com/productimages/main/89/d_8198.jpg

Soul Position is a musical group featuring Blueprint as the MC, And RJD2 as the DJ. A deadly combination indeed.

[RAV TUX]

http://www.thegiantpeach.com/productimages/main/89/d_8198.jpg

Soul Position is a musical group featuring Blueprint as the MC, And RJD2 as the DJ. A deadly combination indeed.are they on purevolume.com?

[rudder]

Here's my first Avatar. What can I say, I like penguins and I like Crusaders... this seemed like the perfect compromise

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g56/badbox29/1984-14997.png

[MkfIbK7a]

well i changed mine, in the last 2 days it was an opera icon:D now its this the first one, maybe it will be the second soon

:D

[xhaan]

Mine is obviously Tux in a Warhammer 40k Space Marine power armor.
I don't remember where I got it or where the full size image is.

[Bezmotivnik]

well i changed mine
I don't think those cats look entirely well to me. :(

[xhaan]

I don't think those cats look entirely well to me. :(

Indeed, I discern a sort of negative aura about them...

[steven8]

Mine is obviously Tux in a Warhammer 40k Space Marine power armor.
I don't remember where I got it or where the full size image is.

Obviously. . .:-)

[RomeReactor]

"If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; you put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, and it can crash: be like water, my friend".

[MkfIbK7a]

Indeed, I discern a sort of negative aura about them...

yes they are evil hell cats that jump out of photo negatives...

[rudder]

Mine is obviously Tux in a Warhammer 40k Space Marine power armor.
I don't remember where I got it or where the full size image is.

I got it for you xhaan:) I downloaded that one yesterday 'cause I thought it rocked! Here it is bigger:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g56/badbox29/1982-71843.png

[Polygon]

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3562/weekendwkpage31097444qg2.th.jpg (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=weekendwkpage31097444qg2.jpg)

happy feet was such a cute (and good movie in my opinion) movie :D

[fuscia]

seeing as how i'm next to completely ****faced...my avatars are almost always of women that i find both fascinting and 'wish i were' (except for the brief keith richards av i had on that other site). i actually do picture the things i write coming from my view of them and not from me, as i actually am. LOL!!1

[mostwanted]

Mine is a pun on the European flag. If you have good eyes you'll be able to spot the Ubuntu logo :)

[derby007]

Linux on a night out ........ its the jeckel side of him/her !!!!
By day he/she is Tux....:D

[RAV TUX]

current avatar:

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2073/pancakebunny18uq2.jpg

It basically speaks for itself:)

[ekka]

My avatar is my Linux Counter entry!

[daynah]

The full frame is of when Jean Grey first meets the Hank (Beast), during when she was meeting the rest of the original X-Men. Even though she was really the first X-Men, but that's besides the point. Everyone was drooling over Jean and to welcome her to the team, pre-blue Hank gives very angry Jean a kiss on the cheek. I just love her face in that. It's like when you dress up a cat.

I also posted the next frame, where Jean totally pwns Hank. She's friggin' awesome.

[Spr0k3t]

I've used my smiley for years... probably back when the internet first started booming. I have designed my avatar for every site I've been on and changed the colors or the depth depending on the site. Originally it started out as a 24x24 black and white gif image. It's probably been remade a few hundred times. Whether it's new hardware, new graphics software, operating system, site colors, or just my mood in general. Anyway, here's the current large rendition along with a base image I start with.

Cheers

[Chilli Bob]

Every Halloween Odd Todd (http://www.oddtodd.com) has a pumpkin carving contest. This is my entry last year. The slightly squashed version in the avatar looks a lot like me.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/michaelkiller/goosecreature/jackOpineapple.JPG

[v8YKxgHe]

removed

[Chilli Bob]

Yeah, well, I'm in the southern hemisphere, and Halloween aint in pumpkin season down here, so we make do with what we have.

[jjbean]

Mine is a reference to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green) movie. The pic is actually the company logo for the Soylent Green Biscuit Co. So I hope they don't sue me. :lolflag:
I have a love of all things sci fi . Maybe next one will be Logan's Run our something to do with electric sheep and androids, our maybe Pipboy.

[koshatnik]

Mine is Johnny Alpha, Strontium Dog, the greatest cartoon ever written ever. Fullstop. No arguing. :)

I don't have a larger pic of that avatar, as its avatar size. Its followed me onto ever forum I've ever used. Nice to have something familiar.

[mykalreborn]

It basically speaks for itself
:lolflag: oh, you eat those? :D

[dbbolton]

http://ubuntuforums.org/images/rank_8.png

[RAV TUX]

http://ubuntuforums.org/images/rank_8.pnglol...you have a wonderful bunch of beans there:)

[Rutabega]

Mine is a photograph of myself. I used the software that was provided with my Konica camera for the effect etc.

[dbbolton]

lol...you have a wonderful bunch of beans there:)
why, thank you :D

[mykalreborn]

lol...you have a wonderful bunch of beans there

and cups of coffee. don't forget the cups of coffee. :D

[RAV TUX]

Being that I turned 40 this year, I am finally able by Jewish law to study Kabbalah, so in my studies I wanted to use an avatar that I felt had the most meaning for me. I found this image on a Kabbalah site, about Ein-Sof.


http://cafelinux.org/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=211.0;attach=1204; image


Ein-sof
Ein-Sof, the Infinite God, has no static, definable form. Instead, the Kabbalists conceive God, the world and humanity as evolving together through, and thus embodying, a number of distinct stages and aspects, with later stages opposing, but at the same time encompassing, earlier ones. The Kabbalist¹s God is both perfectly simple and infinitely complex, nothing and everything, hidden and revealed, reality and illusion, creator of man and created by man,. As Ein-Sof evolves it is progressively revealed as "nothing whatsoever" (Ayin), the totality of being, the Infinite Will (Ratzon) , Thought and Wisdom, the embodiment of all value and significance (the Sefirot (http://www.newkabbalah.com/sefirot.html)), the wedding of male and female, and ultimately the union of all contradictions. Ein-Sof is both the totality of this dialectic and each of the points along the way. Ein-Sof must be constantly redefined, as by its very nature, it is in a constant process of self-creation and redefinition. This self-creation is actually embodied and perfected in the creativity of humanity, who through practical, ethical, intellectual and spiritual activities, strives to redeem and perfect a chaotic, contradictory and imperfect world.
The Kabbalists used a variety of negative epistemological terms to make reference to the hidden God; "the concealment of secrecy", "the concealed light", "that which thought cannot contain" etc. (Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah, p. 88 ) each of which signifies that this God is somehow beyond human knowledge and comprehension. However, there are other terms, e.g., "Root of all roots", "Indifferent Unity", "Great Reality," (Scholem. Major Trends, p. 12) "Creator," "Cause of Causes" and "Prime Mover" (as well as the term, Ein-Sof, "without end") which signify that God is the origin of the world, the reality of the world, or the totality of all things. Yet in spite of the positive connotations, even those Kabbalists who utilized such terms held that they referred to a God who is completely unknowable and concealed. Of this God, the proto-Kabbalistic work,Sefer Yetzirah had earlier said "restrain your mouth from speaking and your heart from thinking, and if your heart runs let it return to its place" (Sefer Yetzirah. I. 8, as translated in Tishby, The Wisdom of the Zohar. Vol , 1 p 234).
As explained in Symbols of the Kabbalah, Chapter Two, Ein-sof provides a rational/spiritual answer to the questions "Why is there anything at all?" and "What is the meaning of human life?" Ein-sof begets a world so that He, as the source of all meaning and value, can come to know Himself, and in order for His values, which in Him exist only in the abstract, can become fully actualized in humanity. Ein-sof is both the fullness of being and absolute nothingness, but is not complete in its essence until He is made real through the spiritualizing and redemptive activity of mankind. Ein-sof is mirrored in the heart and soul of man, but, more importantly, He is actualized in man's deeds.
Ein-sof is discussed in detail throughout Symbols of the Kabbalah (http://www.newkabbalah.com/books.html), but in particular in Chapter 2, pp. 60-119). Ein-sof is discussed in relation to Brahman in Hinduism, the Pleroma in Gnosticism, the One and the Good in Plato and Plotinus, the Absolute in Hegel, and the unconscious in Freud and Jung, in Kabbalistic Metaphors (http://www.newkabbalah.com/books.html). Daniel Matt has written a scientifically oriented introduction to Ein-sof appears in Tikkun Magazine and is excerpted from his book God and the Big Bang (http://www.tikkun.org/9609/matt.html).
The Lurianic Kabbalah is treated in detail in Sanford Drob's Symbols of the Kabbalah (http://www.newkabbalah.com/books.html) and Kabbalistic Metaphors (http://www.newkabbalah.com/books.html).
http://www.newkabbalah.com/einsof.html
http://cafelinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,211.msg1111.html#new

[slayerboy]

Currently I have two tattoos. Take a guess as to which one my avatar is of:lolflag:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/583/spawninator7ss.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spawninator7ss.jpg)http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5200/tribaldragon.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tribaldragon.jpg)

Skull is on my right shoulder, dragon on my left. Soon, very very soon, I will have at least one more to add to my collection.

I'm going to do a tribute to the late Dimebag...

This is the original done by DEAN Guitars:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5466/crestmainxs1.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crestmainxs1.jpg)

and this is kinda my hacked version that I want without the shield and wings, it looks really bad now, but it'll look awesome on me when it's done.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2668/tat1st9.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tat1st9.jpg)

Eventually, when I get myself in shape and get the money, I want to do a gargoyle on my back. I need to get an artist to do it though because I want to try and keep tribal on one side of my body and "modern" on the other side and have the garoyle be where it all meets with it's wings open and the bottom in stone. It's kinda hard to explain, but it's another one of those "looks cool in my head" things LOL.

So yea, I'm into tattoos, which is why it's my avatar. But music is even bigger in my life besides tattoos, hence the name SLAYERboy :twisted:

[RAV TUX]

Currently I have two tattoos. Take a guess as to which one my avatar is of:lolflag:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/583/spawninator7ss.th.jpg (http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spawninator7ss.jpg)http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5200/tribaldragon.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tribaldragon.jpg)

Skull is on my right shoulder, dragon on my left. Soon, very very soon, I will have at least one more to add to my collection.

I'm going to do a tribute to the late Dimebag...

This is the original done by DEAN Guitars:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5466/crestmainxs1.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crestmainxs1.jpg)

and this is kinda my hacked version that I want without the shield and wings, it looks really bad now, but it'll look awesome on me when it's done.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2668/tat1st9.th.jpg (http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tat1st9.jpg)

Eventually, when I get myself in shape and get the money, I want to do a gargoyle on my back. I need to get an artist to do it though because I want to try and keep tribal on one side of my body and "modern" on the other side and have the garoyle be where it all meets with it's wings open and the bottom in stone. It's kinda hard to explain, but it's another one of those "looks cool in my head" things LOL.

So yea, I'm into tattoos, which is why it's my avatar. But music is even bigger in my life besides tattoos, hence the name SLAYERboy :twisted:nice tattoo

[slayerboy]

nice tattoo

ty :)

[rsambuca]

My newest avatar is a globe I made from scratch in the gimp. My first attempt.

[Boni2k]

http://www.picfront.org/picture/xPCs0QrA/img/netbook-xmas.png
It's from a Psion netBook:
http://www.jonasbark.de/index.php?page=psion

With Santa Claus as "screen". You can see my mistakes I did with GIMP but you won't see that in the avatar...

[afljafa]

Mine is one of my favourite AFL footy players - Ashley Sampi.

The knife is a play on one of his past indiscretions.

[floke]

Avatar discovered after I ate Windows with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

There is no larger image I'm afraid.

[RAV TUX]

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/1287/buffvd4.jpg

just found it, liked it,....using it :)

originally found:
http://www.colorado.edu/ErrorDoc/images/buff.jpg

[RAV TUX]

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/1287/buffvd4.jpg

just found it, liked it,....using it :)

originally found:
http://www.colorado.edu/ErrorDoc/images/buff.jpg

ok now a cropped image:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2222/buff2eh0.jpg

[RAV TUX]

ok now a cropped image:

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2222/buff2eh0.jpg
missed the old one, changed back

[ricardisimo]

I didn't think I needed to explain who this dumbass is, but here's the larger image:
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/George%20W%20Bush.jpg

[RAV TUX]

I didn't think I needed to explain who this dumbass is, but here's the larger image:
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/George%20W%20Bush.jpgI don't see how this is a bigger image of your avatar?

edit: reference your current avatar:
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Ummm...

You caught me... the forest spirits from "Princess Mononoke" are much more erudite and interesting than George W. Bush. Sorry for the misunderstanding.