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Apologies for starting a new thread for this, but I want to change my avatar, and need to stash it somewhere.

If you're interested, it's a picture of me, relaxing after a day on the slopes at Sauze d'Oulx in the Italian Alps, taken in March 2002. Unfortunately, the shots from Courchevel (French Alps) this year don't look so good -- it was too cloudy. The snow was great, though.

(My previous avatar was from Ibiza, 2001, but my hair has grown back since then, and the Sauze one is more representative).

I humbly suggest that people who wish to stash their avatar somewhere could do worse than to follow up to this post. A paragraph or two about the photo might be cool, too.

Apologies for starting a new thread for this, but I want to change my avatar, and need to stash it somewhere.

Translation: I have my own web server, but I'd rather place my tiny avatar image on someone else's web server, so mine doesn't get "empegged."

Tom and I condone attaching avatars to BBS posts...

This is me at the 2001 Ba'ath National Convention. Man was that wild.

ROTFLMAO....that was... unexpected.

Ba'ath party, Arab political party, in Syria and in Iraq. Its main ideological objectives are secularism, socialism, and pan-Arab unionism. Founded in Damascus in 1941 and reformed, with the name Ba'ath, in the early 1950s, it rapidly achieved political power in Syria.

Sadaam Hussein is a member of the Ba'ath party.

....Just posting my avatar....

Me being lowered after finishing a lead climb called Pee On Dee at Table Mountain in Golden, CO.

So is the stuff in the bottle supposed to be ricin(the chemical weapon)? Next thing we know you will disappear as the government decides to interrogate you!

Yeah, it was attached to an interview with an expert in Chemical / Bio Hazard Response.

Interrogated, OH, OH, can I?

Ironicially mine isn't hosted off empeg.comms.net, but instead empeg.miniinfo.net (the actual logo site). Since the servers were combined, I never bothered changing it.

And the nickname Drakino came from twisting Draco after seeing Dragonheart. The avatar is from some dragon picture I found around the same time.

I so wish I could still climb. Had to give it up after I tore my rotator cuff (completely unrelated). It just never healed fully enough, I have a hard time even climbing a rock wall now. I refused surgery, and therapy took about a year to get ~90% of the strength back. It's my right shoulder, and can still come out though, if at the wrong angle with my weight on it. I tried indoor climbing a few months back, and 45 minutes it, crossing the ceiling, it popped out. Yeowch. Glad I had a belay.

I too would like to put my icon up here. I can't imagine what it looks like to the admins of my school's servers to have all these requests coming from here

One of my 5 piranhas. They are about 7 to 8 inches long now. They live in a 125 gallon tank with a jack dempsey. They eat other fish and various raw meats.

Bleach = Nirvana Bleach. Nirvana was one of my favorite bands. It pained me that 98% of the losers in my high school thought "Nevermind" was Nirvana's first album. I did lots of BBSing back in the day, so this was my handle.

In college, I became involved in Quake/TF clans, and had to modify my handle accordingly, and simply appended the clan initials to my nickname. Back then, it was CYA, for Clan You_Asshole. The clan was named after the 2nd Novell Personal Netware network my friends had for lan parties back in the 90s (we used netware to share files). When you booted and the drivers loaded, it would ask: "Would you like to log in [Network Name]" We simply named our network You_Asshole, to complete the sentence.

Our clan died because most of the people in it failed/dropped out of college because they played too much Quake/TF. Some other friends and myself formed a lan party group aptly named LPB - for Lan Party of Baltimore. For those familiar with online gaming - you all should know what an LPB is. We have lan parties in the Baltimore area about every month or two. And guess what cool little device provides the tunes at such events??

So, the fish and my nickname have absolutely nothing to do with eachother. Someday I'll set up a webcam so anyone can watch my fish eat things.

After nearly 4 years on the BBS, I, too, have an avatar. I feel like I'm born again...

And here I thought LPB meant low ping bastard, for people with better net connections and therefore an advantage in quake.

After having an avatar for about a month I've decided to switch, heres one that matches my name... Big trouble in little china rocked!

<ME!

This is a picture of me that I took tonight after I got home from work. It is currently one of about 5 pictures of me that exist that are more recent than 5 years ago. I look like [censored], like I do in every picture.

I look like [censored], like I do in every picture.

This is why I studiously avoid having my picture taken.

If you find the Cincinnati meet pictures you might see the top of my head, in the back...

Well shoot, then. I don't browse with avatars turned on, but since everyone else seems to be posting one, and, hey, it adds another to the post count...



It's not really me -- I'm not black, I'm not old, and I can't fit my finger through my nose horizontally. Vertically may be another matter.

This is why I studiously avoid having my picture taken.

You have no idea how many memory cards and rolls of film I've paid to replace after someone tried to take my picture.

hey, it adds another to the post count..

Hmm, I'm a veteran and have been for a while now.

You have no idea how many memory cards and rolls of film I've paid to replace after someone tried to take my picture.

Wait until you're paying to replace cameras...

Just me getting the image size right... *sigh*

I'm not... yet...

I've gone through two in the year or so I've been a member, but I went back to my original one for some reason.
First one is me sailing off of Cape Anne.
Second one is me on top of Mauna Kea (14,000 ft) on the big island of Hawaii. Sailed there from CA this past winter. (Hawaii not the top of the mountain.)
The stylin' glasses are for looking at the sun. Notice the cool observatories in the background.


Z~

Duh...
The whole point of this was to attach my avatar.
Silly me...

as long as everyone else is changing...

nope...I don't like that one...let's try again (feelin' mildly schizo).

EDIT: oops...forgot my paragraph about the photo: That photo was taken from the photo below. From left to right: brother-in-law, sister, me, my girlfriend, brother (also an empeg owner), sister-in-law. We went to Kings Dominion in Virginia on the weekend before Halloween. If you want to avoid lines, I recommend going in late fall. I've done it two years in a row and walked on rides all day long.

That's better but where is your cape?

For the record, no you don't, and the only thing I hate worse than my picture is the sound of my voice on a recorder. I wish I sounded like I think I sound, rather than how I really sound. Does that sound right?

Sounds kind-a funny.

This is a somewhat boring pic of me taken by my web cam one day while explaining to a lady friend what kind of music dominates my collection (currently) Yawn

Here is a little pic I got before I went off to attack the invid

Ha! I never noticed what you were holding

Wait until you're paying to replace cameras...

Been there, done that. Still a few smashed bits of it on the rocks along the water from this summer.

By the way, Heather (and the rest of you who are camera shy) you're on CRACK! I don't know what you're talking about.

We went to Kings Dominion in Virginia


Wow....I haven't been there since '87 when my family spent a year in Richmond. They've added a few rides since then, I'll have to find an excuse to check them out sometime soon.

Hey! That Kings Dominion is right near me. I pass it every time I go from school<->home. I didn't know you lived in VA, too. Whereabouts?

Personally, I prefer Busch Gardens, especially since it is about 10 miles away from where I live

damn... now i might as well change...



i love my photo booth. =]

Well, everyone else is doing it, so I guess I should.

I don't what to say about this picture, other than the fact that I found it in Mac OS X as one of the pictures you can select for user accounts. For some reason, it's not included in later versions.

As far as the user name goes, it's short for A. David Wright, which was my name until several years ago, when I gave up on getting people to call me by my middle name, and went back to my first name.

I love that photo, is it a shoe?

In reply to:

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I don't what to say about this picture, other than the fact that I found it in Mac OS X as one of the pictures you can select for user accounts. For some reason, it's not included in later versions.

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Maybe the orangutan wanted royalties for the use of his picture.

Now you've got me doing it too....

Okay. Time for an update. Getting rid of my old "ID Badge" photo, and putting up something mellower. This was drawn by Chris Rywalt, one of the folks I knew at college. I was in one of his Campuside comics. *

* I mention this to give him credit for the drawing that I shamelessly "borrowed" for this purpose...

C'mon pca, time to upgrade that startled rabbit/passport photo!

He doesn't. He, I, and Russmeister all live in SC. His brother lives in Richmond though.

This is a picture of me in my fedora. My wife and I were running around in Charleston and wandered into a garden courtyard. She only let's me wear the fedora when we're out of town.

Dignan17,

The Reverend beat me to it...I live down in Hartsville, SC. My brother (also an empeg owner) lives in Mechanicsville. It's a good meeting place as my sis and her husband live near Baltimore. I've been to KD probably 10 times since I moved out from Cali in '90. It has gotten significantly better as far as rides go. You should check it out again.

I went to Busch Gardens this year as well (March). I enjoyed it quite a bit. The themed areas are much cooler and the shops and food are better. The coasters that they have are good too. Kings Dominion is up to like 10 coasters now, including 3 of those high-speed launch rides . It's definitely worth another trip when you get the time.

yeah, that's my shoe. I've got a stack a mile high with more where that came from. I could change daily!

dammit, changed my mind again.

Me swimming in 7000 feet of water about 650 NM from the coast of Hawaii.
Yes the water really is that blue.

Heres the full size.

Sod it - I'll join in.

This was taken outside our hotel in Les Menuires a couple of weeks ago, before yet another day of cold, blind, skiing.

Bryan.

I feel left out, too. (Must -- reply -- to -- all -- threads!!)

On the other hand, neither you nor I want to see my fat ass every time you look at this BBS, so I'll refrain from changing.

Five points to whoever can identify my avatar. (Void where prohibited. Some restrictions may apply.)

Me swimming in 7000 feet of water about 650 NM from the coast of Hawaii.

<cue Jaws theme music>

Five points to whoever can identify my avatar. (Void where prohibited. Some restrictions may apply.)

I already know Bitt's avatar from a prior thread, so I guess I'm excluded from playing?

This was taken outside our hotel in Les Menuires a couple of weeks ago,...


Bastard.
J'adore les trois vallees.

Hmmm. I don't remember mentioning it before, and a quick search doesn't reveal anything, so I'm not sure what you're thinking of.

I could have sworn I saw that too. But since I can't remember what it is, I could be wrong.

An additional 2 points to anyone who knows what my avatar is!

Jim Hogan knows:
http://empeg.comms.net/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=offtopic&Number=92694

maaaah. The spaceship Defender. Greatest craft to ever grace the skies. Although she was known to drop a humanoid or two every once in a while.

Ha! I'd forgotten about that one

Greetings!

I like that idea!!! Changing my avatar again - Wizard needs food, badly!

Since I do know what it is, and a search on it doesn't show anything, either you and Tony are wrong or the search is broken.

Incidentally, I believe that yours is Lucifer falling from heaven and I believe that that particular image is from some Led Zeppelin something-or-other -- cover art or liner notes art or something; I can't quite put my finger on it.

It is Led Zeppelin. The image refers to the flight of Iccarus. This was used as the symbol for their Swan Song label.

It's a picture by William Rimmer entitled:
Evening or The Fall of the Day

Zeppelin reference:

The famous Swan Song symbol that Zeppelin adopted as the logo for their record label was borrowed from an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by William Rimmer entitled "Evening Fall Of Day." The figure in the painting is the Greek sun god Apollo. The painting is not, as some people would have you believe, of Icarus or Daedalus. These two are also figures from Greek mythology. Daedalus is, according to legend, supposed to have crafted a set of wings from feathers and wax for himself and Icarus which they could use to escape from their prison on Crete to freedom in Greece. Unfortunately, Icarus being the younger of the two thought it might be a lark to fly a little higher, and flew too close to the sun which melted his wings and he plunged to his death in a sea, which is still known as the Icarian sea. Icarus' first flight was also his swan song. Daedalus also designed the labyrinth on Crete for King Mino's minotaur, which was the reason for his imprisonment, because he alone knew the secrets of the labyrinth.

Another reference Here

Grendel:Cycle

Dark Horse Comics, Matt Wagner.

Published in October 1995, 64 pages.

Very well done, you're on a roll, there

I think that's the same image I made mine from. I don't think it's the same page, though. I was on SUCH a Zeppelin kick back then. I don't think I listened to anything else...

Perhaps this time

So, did you know that or did you just base a search on the filename? Regardless, 5 points! When you get up to 10000, I'll give you a nickel!

Oh, all right. Here you go.



Guess

pca

Please. I wish I could say I knew... but.... Anyway, who needs brains if you've got batteries?

did i told you that i´m a photographer?!

I got bored...


-Greg

Private Paula in da house

I like this one better... I think i'll use it. Yes, indeed.



-Greg

Oui, moi aussi!

It was a great week, just a shame we couldn't see anything, anywhere, for most of the week. Ah, the fun of schussing when you can't see where you're going - our policy was to send the best skiier off first, and if we didn't hear a scream, follow! Lots of powder, though.

Not the dreaded 3D simulator thing you and rob built

Nope.

pca

Okay don't know why this popped into my head, View from a remote controlled plane with a camera on it ?

Cyber Sex???
15240 RPM for an vibrator is not bad

That's unlucky - it's a beautiful area when you can see it, something that I miss in the Eastern US ski areas. (Predominantly below the tree-line).

But that's mountain weather for you...

That reminds me of a story from my stay with a couple of friends in Val Thorens. (For those who don't know, VT is the highest resort in Europe, and is about 500m (vertically) up the valley from Les Menuires.)

We'd spent the morning skiing down to and in Les Menuires, and had eaten lunch there. In the early afternoon, an unpredicted storm suddenly moved in, and lifts started to shut down. We obviously started to panic about getting back up the valley, and hotfooted it to any lift that was going vaguely in the right direction for us to be able to traverse back to VT. We did very well for an hour or so, until we got to the last lift that we needed to take, whereapon it shut down whilst we were in line.
At this point, we (and a few hundred other people in the same boat) realise that we're 'only' at the wrong end of a red run (US - single black diamond) from being able to ski a blue run down into VT. Like sheep, we start following the herd, walking up this bloody steep red run with skis and poles slung over our shoulders. At some point the snow started to fall and get blown about by the increasing winds. It's probably difficult to visualise, but there were literally hundreds of people laboring up a mountain during a snow storm.

After about 30 minutes of this I was knackered. My back was killing me and every step was painful. And I could work out that we were only about 1/3 of the way up the run. My doubts started to grow as to the sanity of our adventure, and more I thought about it, the more nagging they became. So I shouted at my 2 friends to stop. At this point, I should mention that we were all Scout Leaders at the time.

I observed that we were making slow progress up a steep mountain during a snowstorm with dusk approaching. And that we were at about 8000 feet altitude, with no torches, no emergency sacks, no e-rations, no compass, no decent map (only a piste map), no water etc. And that if any of our Scouts even *thought* about attempting such an endeavour under such circumstances that *we'd* kill them.

It really was an epiphany. We took a couple of minutes to get our breath back, during which time we watched hordes of people continuing their crazy ascent, including some people whom we'd befriended in our hotel. We suggested that they were going the wrong way, but they continued on up the mountain. Then we put on our skis and went the other way, back down to Les Menuires.

We had about 30 minutes of the best skiing all week. Although visibility was reduced and goggles were necessary, the piste was covered with a couple of inches of virgin powder, and we had it all to ourselves. Even the notorious 'kamikaze' bowl entering the resort was empty.

So we get back to LM, and discover that the local bus company is contracted to give free rides up the valley when the lifts get shut early. There was obviously going to be a long wait, so we went and warmed up in a bar for a while, and eventually got on the bus about an hour later. 45 minutes after that, just after we've finished storing our ski gear in the locker room, our friends stumbled in, looking like Death. They had just got back, nearly two and a half hours after we'd last seen them. It turned out that when they'd got to the top of the red run, the wind had been against them, and they'd had to push themselves all the way down the blue run too.

When I think back, I still can't believe just how crazy a horde of people can be. I'm amazed that more people don't die in such circumstances.

Ok, I've found a suitably embarrassing image.

Hmm...it appears as though I can't force a new avatar to show on an old post..

Close. A view from a radio-controlled plane with two cameras on it. how else would you get stereo imaging?

Actually, it's a picture of me with the VR headset on, with the instrumentation display overlaid with photoshop. Normally, the image would be of the outside, it's easier to fly the plane like that

pca

Do i win a free tuner ?

I agree, it's a beautiful place, and 650km of runs (the largest skiing area in the world, apparently) can't be bad! I have very fond memories of that area - my first year of skiing was in Val Thorens, when we had beautiful weather all week. After that week, I was hooked.

However, I don't think Les Menuires is that great for beginners (one of whom we had with us this year), since the only blue runs seem to be the, as you put it, "kamikaze" bowl and the Vallons run at the other side of the resort. It struck me as being even worse than Val D'Isere, which when I was there seemed to have only had one blue back into the resort, and that was closed! Since it was only my second year of skiing, I generaly took a lift back down, oddly enough.

Still, we managed some stupid distances this year - all the way to the far end of Courcheval and back by early afternoon, despite the weather. I may even forgive Ian for his map-reading balls-up, when we found that after an hour of hard skiing from our morning break we had ended up back at the same restaurant, instead of being in a totally different valley for lunch!

Sorry, just wanted to try my new one out.

This is my first time showing my face on the net, I feel so special ;-)

Cris.

I recognize that and can almost hear the voice "Elf needs food, badly"
Isn't it from the Hero Quest PC version?

Actually, this image was taken from the MAME version of Gauntlet 2. I know that other versions were produced, but that was the source of mine - I wanted to get a Blue Wizard, not Yellow... Picky.

Gauntlet

did i tell you i'm no photographer?

Nope!

Heh.

Welcome, malicia. I believe you bring our female sum up to a nice round three. Four?

isn´t she beautiful!!!

...our female sum up to a nice round three. Four?

Depends if you are counting just active posters, or all that we ever had.

1) Laura
2) Bxgurl
are currently active

3) crewe
haven't heard from Sally in about seven months now

4) aouali
haven't heard from in nearly two years.

tanstaafl.

3) crewe
haven't heard from Sally in about seven months now

Sally is active on the TVR Tuscan owner's list, as she has just bought herself a second hand Tuscan to replace the MG.

she has just bought herself a second hand Tuscan to replace the MG.

Incredible! I never imagined she would sell that rare V-8 MGB, especially after all the beautiful work she did to it.

tanstaafl.

Here's mine.

It's my dog Max caught with his tongue stuck out. He enjoys peanut butter.

Ok, I can't believe that in 11 days, not *one* person has commented on how silly I look in that wig.

Oh well, anyone care to guess which day that photo was taken? Clue - it was taken at 6.30am on a Saturday morning at Heathrow where 3 of my best friends (also wearing wigs) had just collected me. Sometime in the past 3 years.

I can't believe that in 11 days, not *one* person has commented on how silly I look in that wig.

What wig?

I going to go out on a limb and say, Man City? (just 'cos it's blue and they're the first blue coloured footie team I can think of! )

I thought it was a hat.

No, although we did have a Man City fan (also wearing a wig) with us the following day helping us cheer on the Underdogs.

That's a wig?

Ok, enough already with the "What wig?" type comments. I'm still under 70, male, and haven't resorted to Blue Rinses.

Ok, I can't believe that in 11 days, not *one* person has commented on how silly I look in that wig

You brought it upon yourself.

Are you perhaps a Titans fan?

Yeah, I suppose I did

No, not Titans.

In typically tardy fashion, I'll try a new one out, too.

Oh, and, Genixia, I believe we all officially give up on the wig.

Initial image test.

That's just..... creepy.

I don't know if I can accept you and Tony with different avatars. I won't be able to glance so quickly to see who's writing.

So who now has the oldest avatars? I'm pretty sure I'm behind Drakino on his.

*edit*
at least you're consistent, Bitt. I have no idea what that pic is either.

Hmm. Big hints;

That photo was taken at about 7.30am one saturday morning in the car park at Heathrow airport. I had just arrived on the red-eye, and walked out of customs to find 3 of my friends looking ridiculous.

The following morning we all went to Villa Park in Birmingham to watch an underdog showdown with Liverpool in the semi finals of the FA Cup. My team, a lowly second division side, effectively ranking 60 places below Liverpool, held them goal-less for 73 minutes but eventually went down 2-1. (Hey we got a goal!). Not a bad result considering that Michael Owen's salary alone at the time exceeded the entire annual turnover of my team. And he was consistently thwarted by an ex-dustbin-man who had started when the team were non-league part-timers.
Obviously we were gutted at the end of a dream, but immensely pleased to have had it to start with. Having been a Liverpool fan in my early teens, it was great to finally see them play, and a live rendition of "You'll never walk alone" by 18000 'scousers' is very moving.
On a personal note it did mean that I didn't have to fork over more cash to fly back for the Cup Final. That weekend was expensive enough after the flights, game tickets, train fare and obligatory beers and kebabs had all been paid for.

So the starter question for 10 points is "Which date was that photo taken?", and for a further 10 points, "Which team do I support?"

Um...I'm guessing this is football?

(and yes, I do mean the sport called soccer in America)

The photo was taken on Saturday 7th April 2001 (the match being the next day), and you support Wycombe Wanderers?

20 points, Sir.

I'll pass them on to my football-fanatic colleague who came up with the answer...

Not sure why I like frogs (I mean I don't really in a psycho kind of way, although I have various toy frogs in a box in the attic and a tree frog tattooed on my calf - that's part of my anatomy, not a farmyard animal, just in case anyone thinks that would be wierd) and I guess the 51 just kind of came from Area 51.

Anyhoo - this frog is just a bit more colourful than my last one, which is nice

although in looking closely, they may have both come from the same animal biology coursework...

i need a new one...

there, that's better.

I've been holding off for weeks, but the joke in my pub is that I'm the guy they push out of the bunker, when Saddam needs a double!

I dunno, but mine is still the same since when I got around to creating it. The photo is from 199.. er, 5? 6? Yeah, must be 6. Four girlfriends ago, in the days when I didn't have a beard. This is what I look like now, for the terminally curious amongst you.

Have fun,

Paul

mine is still the same

Umm...I can't see yours

That's because geoshitties doesn't allow images to be linked indirectly. To see the avatar, I have to browse directly to it so it's in my browser cache. Then it works.

Thanks Tony. Finally that avatar is no longer empty.

That's because geoshitties doesn't allow images to be linked indirectly. To see the avatar, I have to browse directly to it so it's in my browser cache. Then it works

Sheesh! Why is he doing that then? Just upload it to the board so our browsers don't have to work so hard!

Meatballman's avatar has not changed, It is an illusion!

Yeah, right. Next minute you'll be telling us that there aren't any US tanks in Baghdad.

Ah, is that what's doing it! Right. I'll link it to this thread.

[later] Let's see if this gets the new avatar.

Is it just me, or does Paul look like Howard Jones?

Is it just me, or does Paul look like Howard Jones?

Not sure...

Let me rephrase...

... like Howard Jones during the eighties?

Paul's Avatar:

Howard:

Just posting my Avatar here

Is it just me, or does Paul look like Howard Jones?

LOL. Yep

For my next trivia question; Which current England International rugby player attended the same high school as Howard Jones? (Albeit a few years later). And yes, there is a connection to my previous trivia post.

I'm not sure whether to be offended or complimented

The photo was taken in one of the rare occasions where I had long hair. If I still had the original photo (now seriously crunched into the attached GIF file) I could show you that I'd just been driving for about six hours and my hair was just going everywhere.

Oh well. I'll shut up now.

Paul

I'm not sure whether to be offended or complimented

Complimented, of course. Howard's "da man" for sure. I still listen to "Human's Lib" regularly.

OK, a bit late to this thread but this is actually a pic taken in 1995 (just a few years old anyway) in Carnforth (Lake District) while vacationing with the wife and visiting some family across the pond.

Jumping on the bandwagon.

I'm just tired of seeing the impact of avatar downloads on my web logs...

Bruno

Just a small suggestion that you resize that image before linking it as your avatar. At the moment it's over 100KB

Oops, Looks like my ISP lost my DOG pic. New avatar - Me Climbing Mt Marcy, NY

Here's me going back to my slightly more crazy one from last year....

I have had that avatar for far too long.

Testing it. Can anyone get this image smaller without losing too much of the quality?

Testing it. Can anyone get this image smaller without losing too much of the quality?

Not by much. The attached file is 22k, your original was 34k. You be the quality judge.

Thats a great avatar!
Coo coo ca choo! Im skiing!

Thanks! It was a ***** to make because the original video was in rm. I was forced to download Real Player! Ugh. Then I had to convert it, and it was pretty poor quality to begin with. Anyway, that's an awesome episode

"That's not funny! That's just saying what happens when you go skiing!!"

That's a great episode.

"I love Jello Pudding! Ghost Dad is the best movie I've seen since Leonard Part 6!"

I'm half way through the first DVD of the set... God i love that show. No other show that i can recall makes me gut laugh at least twice during each episode.

Time to put mine here I suppose, since my server status has changed.

You might not want to use a Microsoft-specific image format.

Not all browsers will display BMP format files. You might want to convert it to GIF or JPG.

I swear I can't do anything right.

Me too. (not that I post so much it drives a lot of traffic....)

Did it work?

It so worked!

Kick the Baby!
-Zeke

Okay -- that's just creepy.

I knew a guy who went skiing with a life sized baby doll in a back-pack type baby carrier. He was ripping down the fall line in a mogul field, the baby's head lolling like mad; people were yelling at him furiously from the lift. I found that rather amusing. Perhaps I'm not quite right.

-Zeke

Got a larger version of your avitar picture. I think it's great.

I saw a recent episode of jackass where a guy was doing the same thing with a baby on the back of his bike in a kid's seat....he was crashing into curbs and falling all over the place right in front of crowds...you can imagine their reactions...

It's my M3, cause i don't like photos of myself...

cheers, Thomas

new avatar time

yay

I'm going to miss the old Loren ;-(

New avatar. After watching the Family Guy episodes on the Cartoon Network, I had to get the Evil Monkey...

It was a lot easier than the pain that Dignan went through...

Sweet!! That was totally my second choice.

The pain was mostly due to the fact that I thought I had the episode in avi or mpg but instead only had it in rm. This required some rare program that can convert rm files.

So how did you go about it? My method was to import the converted video into Premiere, cut to around the clip that I wanted, and export a GIF but with the video cropped to 65x75. Then it was just a matter of fine tuning it in Jasc's Animation Shop.

Heh heh. Basically, I just stole it from the Planet Family Guy site. I was prepared to go to the great lengths that you did. Honest. It was easier to right click and "Save As", though....

LOL! Nice. I was going to say that I was also a fan of www.stewiesminions.com, but it appears that the two sites are the same

I've attached a resize of the GIF. It might look a little better. The one from the website is merely being resized by the board to fit the 65x75 dimensions of all avatars.

Finally time for me to put up something.

So this is me mountain biking a couple of weeks ago at the very top of the Wasatch Front of the Rocky Mountains. I could look down one side, and follow the canyon into Salt Lake City, turn around and look down into Park City. Epic ride.

Might as well...

so let's take a look...

OK, the white background would be better anyway with the dark color schemas...

Another try...

Hmmm, wonder why it distorts it...

And another...

and yet another...

That seems to have done it...

Grrr. It's because people keep posting images that are not the correct dimensions. Everyone should resize their avatars to the correct 65x75, regardless of whether the board does it for you. You figured it out, but there's several who haven't

Yeah, initially I thought that it would be OK to have it smaller than 65x75, but it up-sizes it in that case...

/Michael

Just me stashing my avatar.

It's about time I got one of these, but I've just been to lazy to find one.



Tony Fabris made really easy by taking my picture and putting it one the web for me!

(It's from outside the Drie Ringen brewery in Amersfoort.)

John

actually, maybe like this?

last try...



bleh.

Cool! Sorry I forgot your name when I first posted the picture. There were a lot of folks there!

I never found out if you'd gotten to do anything else while you were in Europe?

I never found out if you'd gotten to do anything else while you were in Europe?

I wish I could have, but I had a project due at work the next week.

Seeing Patrick's toys and the new empeg products alone would have made the trip more than worth it, and that's not even counting the wonderful hospitality of Rob S. and all the interesting people I met!

Maybe with some better planning next year I can get over to Germany next year, or something like that. I remember a museum of technology in Munich (called the Deutsches Museum?) from a high school trip that had the most amazing displays of cool stuff, from the first mechanical attempts at computers, to cross sections of jet engines, etc. I'd like to go back there and have some more time.

John

Yeah, that museum was specifically suggested to me. But when planning our itinerary, we decided not to go out of our way to try to see museums since we can see plenty of good museums here at home if we want to.

Although we did kill some time in the science museum in London because it was close to our hotel and convenient. But it wasn't like we planned it into the trip or anything.

Myself and SWMBO on top of Seneca Rocks.

Be

Well, a friend of mine was testing his new camera, so I said 'What the heck, let them see my ugly self!' (I couldn't think of some clever avatar, anyway)...

Finally got around to getting me an avatar.

A new avatar for JG

testing new avatar picture thing

Thought I'd may as well stash mine
This is my Mazda with an empeg sticker on it...sent by Rob.
It's quite a cool sticker, silver with empeg written in white outline, you have to stand at a slight angle to read/see it. Not really a sticker it's a cling on plastic thingy which clings to glass quite well, infinitely moveable.

cheers,
Jai

testing 123

Time for a change.

...

I was going to say we'd miss the blue hair, but that replacement photo is hilarious, too.

From a pool session in the UK last winter;

My wife reckons I should switch my avatar to this:



I'm not convinced...

Change for me too.

Shouldn't you be holding up an ale and smiling ear to ear with that hat on?

Definately Andy, it's brilliant!

Testing.

Aaah...eeeh...achoo!

-Zeke

At 112k that avatar might be a bit much for the bandwidth challenged around here. It is twice the size of your last one and 20 times the size of most people's avatars...

also, im not sure how others deal with animated avatars but i tend to press escape or hit the stop button to stop them from playing. very annoying to me.

Avatars can be turned off in the viewing options for those with bandwith dysfunction and those so inclined...

I think it looks pretty cool.

That should help. :-P

-Zeke

Thanks Michael. I'll fiddle with it some the week after next to squeeze it down some more, I don't want to be a PITA.

-Zeke

Zeke, I'm always entertained by your avatars. I only have POTS @ best 46.6Kand frankly 'don't mind waiting for them to load.

Keep up the good work,

Thanks man! The penguins will return (just a little smaller).

-Zeke

Avatars can be turned off in the viewing options for those with bandwith dysfunction and those so inclined...

oh, its not that i dont want to view avatars, just that im eager to stop moving ones.

I think it's funny too, but that's a little big. Of course, I'm not one to talk.

Here's one that I made:


It helps to at least make your animation the standard avatar size (in pixels, that is). That's something I wish everyone would do.

Muchas Gracias!

I was flat out yesterday and didn't have time to goof w/it and I don't have the tools at home to edit multi image .gif's. I hope you don't mind if I cop your .gif until I can fix one up myself? Thanks.

-Zeke

ps: re- avatar size, I thought I'd done that. 65 wide, 75 tall right?

test

again

test again

re- avatar size, I thought I'd done that. 65 wide, 75 tall right?

That's right. My guess is that you had it keep the aspect ratio when you resized it, because it was 65x42. That's fine, actually, since that's smaller than the board's avatar size. But it doesn't look as good when the board resizes it.

what the hell.

time for something different I guess. Everything else in my life is changing so this might as well also

I like to reply to myself

one more time

better?




can I make my avatar into a link?

bah

testing

New one.

Testing.

This is from when Hugo and Claire and Jen and I went to Ibiza earlier this year.

I figured it was time to change mine, I think Macgyver is a good avatar for mrfixit.

Argh, the file is larger than the avatar size.

Folks, everyone, please. Resize your avatars to match. Please.

Sorry about that Tony, I am not very good with pics I did resize it this time, but how are the other people ataching a file and then viewing it in the same post? The only way I can figure to do it is to attach it then see what the file number ends up being and then editing the post. I had to resize it anyway because it squished his head.

There, much better my head is not squished now.

Of course, the amazing thing is, he resized the avatar with two pieces of bailing wire, some candle wax, and an old two-cycle engine he found in a shed.






(Sorry, the setup was just TOO EASY.)

The only way I can figure to do it is to attach it then see what the file number ends up being and then editing the post.

Which is exactly what they do.

he resized the avatar with two pieces of bailing wire, some candle wax, and an old two-cycle engine he found in a shed

How did you know? did you see the same episode?

Which is exactly what they do.

Cool now I don't feel so dumb.

Just trying to find something that looks good...

Smaller

Guess that will do...

And a test...

trying

did it work

bugger it meant to dance

can some please squish this

Not that the site where I currently have this avatar is likely to get too much of a hammering, since I'm not what you call a prolific poster by any stretch of the imagination, but I might as well store it on the bbs for safe keeping.

Not a lot to say about the picture, it's just your standard mid-70's primary school photo. Probably only noteworthy for the hideous shirt and tie (although I have a shirt that's not a million miles away from that colour even today! But I'm certainly not wearing a tie like that again!)

Here it is the right size.

Woo Hoo i got a shrunken bowtie wearing, dancing terminator

i should really learn all this graphics type stuff

ok, I'm already sick of that silly sticker.

so, a new one that is actually ME ! but a drawing of course.

not quite...

ok

Aw hell.

Time for a change as well....

Never been that happy with my current one:

ninti, good choice! :

Sorry,
Wanted to jump on the boat, now let me see if this works.

Ok...let's try again.

ta da!

time for a new one.

yup

Lol, nice Loren.

The mental projection of my digital self......

test...

Are my eyes really brown?

Play it again...

resized for you

Thanks... much better.

The Cheat stole my old pic. so here's a new one.

Here's a free one for anyone that wants it ..

ditto

Me wanna play too.

Background: This is the logo used by Blue Oyster Cult. They have been my fave band since 1980 and long may they continue to be so.

Now me wanna see.

Cowbell.... I gotta have more cowbell

Ain't never heard of cowbell and there ain't none on Kazaa neither for me to get a sample.

I gotta have more cowbell!:

http://65.164.129.41/media/cowbell.wmv

I would be screaming BLASPHEMY! if it weren't for the fact that it made me laugh. Damn you! Damn you all!

Oh, that is so twisted!!! Thanks!!!

And BOC responded!!! Scroll to near the bottom.

"I'm just like everyone else, I put my pants on one leg at a time. But after that, I go make gold records." LOL, sorry if this is off a bit, it's from memory.

I LOVE that sketch. My drum-playing friend was so excited when he got his really fancy cowbell. He hooked it up to a foot pedal and we played "Don't Fear the Reaper." Heaven.

What the heck, I'll try this one out for a little bit.

Let's see how this turned out...

*edit*
excellent. and I'm sure everyone will be happy about the smaller file size than my old one (less than half, since it's only 11 frames).

That think is already starting to creep me out...

text to not error

test2
(with a 2 because by itself it errored)

Pie!

Aaah. Pie!

Eh...pie taste like donkey poop!
How rare.

You know you want that avatar animated, rocking slowly

LOL, Ezekiel. All Thanksgiving day and weekend I was muttering "me like pie..." until we ran out of pie leftovers. No one else knew what the heck I was talking about.

You too huh? I just showed my friend the hentai episode. "Sushi! Sushi! Sushi!"

I might have to mix things up with Hentai Weelb and Badger sometime soon.

You know you want that avatar animated, rocking slowly

How bout one of the Anchor Spreadable Weeblcows?

http://www.sumo-dojo.com/

LOL
That gave me the idea for the shadow I didn't include.
Thought it would be complicated. Turns out it's flippin easy.
I guess I didn't take the time to think it through.

How bout one of the Anchor Spreadable Weeblcows?

I'm sorry, was that a request?

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm pie!

Thanks!

-Zeke

Donkey! goood shadow...

-Zeke

Adjusted timing

Better.

I'm sorry, was that a request?

Nonononono, I would have said please if that were the case it was just in case people hadn't seen them yet. I've just seen technocow on TV for the first time tonight. I hope it's not too "out there" for the general public! Then again the Switch/Maestro penguins by Joel Veitch (rathergood.com) seem to have been well received.

I just wanted to try this avatar thing...

I was asked once online what I looked like in a suit. I made this image by combining a photo of Uncle Fester and one of Gomez Adams to illustrate. It's fairly accurate...

...and a simple test to see if it works.

new 2004 avatar - managed to go for a more appropriate theme

and testing -

Thanks to Ezekiel (I think) for a slight modification to my avatar. I might change back, but in honor of the recent Mars explorations, here's Zeke's modifications:

I always thought your avatar looked like it was from Mars, now it is.

...and test...


*edit*
[C Montgomery Burns] ...excellent... [/C Montgomery Burns]

That is just cool!

Finally, here's mine

And testing...

Really testing...

taken with my new phone/camera, with which im still enjoying the 'oh cool' novelty phase

Time for an avatar.

v2.

Yep, that's better.

Sig test

Guess I should have an avatar too...

sig test!

and again!

It works!

Guess the previous pic didn't really fit...

Wrong size...

Take the Blue Pill.

Since I've admitted to being a video geek...

Testing...Testing
Argh...wrong aspect.

Letterboxed....

Testing....again.
I guess replying to my own posts is one way to get my count up.

no face grey

Color Check

Boo Hoo, still blue. <sigh>

-Zeke

New avatar - the pic is from a theatre arts course I had in University. It was called Make-up and Special effects. This was my final project - it's taken from Ron Perlman's character Vincent from the TV series "Beauty and the Beast" with makeup effects by Rick Baker. Both of whom are back for Hellboy later this year.

The course was, without a doubt, the best course I had during my 5 years at PSU. Unfortunately, it had nothing to do with my engineering degree .

Flashback!!! 1987 I think...

just updating my avatar. No more Frank Lloyd Wright.

IP keeps changing. So I'm storing it here!

Heh Heh!

yug

wrong size

Nice! Spongmonkeys!!

Jesse Ventura, is that you?!

relevant until April - see my other thread

testing

<-------- Old and busted...


New Hotness...

Obligatory test post

New Hotness...

I feel great!

best....ad....ever.

Pah... keep your fancy software. MS Paint rules!

Test with my all new improved goldfish!

This one is better. No more!

We HAAAATEESSSS IT!

-brendan

I guess I'll jump on the avatar bandwagon.

and the test...

hmm...that borders not supposed to be there, hang on...

Woo WOO!

ok, maybe this one is better...

In honor of the playoffs...

GO FLAMES!

testing...

gbeer ssr avatar

UL'ing new avatar

test

stretched a little but it'll do...

A new one. This is from snowboarding in Tignes earlier this month:

here we go again

but did it work

Brum?

Brum?

Brum.

I seem to be the last person on the planet who knows what the hell this thing is all about:


I figured that when it showed up in my favorite video game magazine, it was time to ask what the hell all the woo woo was about...

Watch http://www.whistlesgowoo.com/vids/woowooORIGINAL.wmv

Lol! That's some of the best driving I've seen, too

It's hilarious, though I can't believe that the whole situation is legal. That's some awful stuff, IMO.

Nah. They weren't legal. I wondered how they were at first but googling comes up with this article.

My car has been called brum by some due to the stricking similarity

Nah. They weren't legal.

I figured as much! I'm suprised they didn't do just a little more research before the segment aired. It would seem like a pretty crucial part of the controversy.

Watch http://www.whistlesgowoo.com/vids/woowooORIGINAL.wmv

I said it once and I'll say it again, the man is a cock...

DiGNAN17,
Did you get to see this thread?

Now that you've see the video,
click on the link for may last post.

Lots of fun.
We should have a contest as to who can come up with the better mix.

Time for a change

Just stashing my avatar here - much more reliable than my webserver!

BTW, it's not obvious, but I'm carrying my empeg on my back in this photo - taken at Royal Holloway University.

Ross

I was thinking that the arch looked familiar. Did you go to Royal Holloway?

no face new

Upgrade pulser

test

Smaller

And again

It's really strange when Memes collide:



('Bananaphone avatar', linked from Blue's News today.)

Lol! It's going to look pretty bizarre when we post to the same threads.

Oh, I'm not going to use that one. I was just linking it because I thought it was funny.

Along the same lines as the Whistles-Go-WOOOO!!! Guy:

http://www.musicsaves.org/goldkart_1.wmv

bling bling,
ajay

I think it is time for a new avatar. My old MAME Gauntlet II one was getting a bit old...

Of course, with the new functionality of this board, this thread is not required for Avatar changing. The upload function makes life very easy.

Quote:
Of course, with the new functionality of this board, this thread is not required for Avatar changing. The upload function makes life very easy.

I'll remember that when I finally get round to putting an av up.