Avatars!

[Aggie]

No competitions, just explanations, comments, and samples of new avatars (BTW, LOVE that avvies auto-size here!).

Mine's a (pissed-off) Great Horned Owl I encountered on Wednesday... here's more pics.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Mine is a yeastie - Brettanomyces, to be precise.  I don't know for sure whether it's a Brettanomyces Lambicus, but I've decided that it's close enough.

Here's the original, larger image:

(BTW, LOVE that avvies auto-size here!)

Though the aspect ratio isn't maintained, which makes my little yeastie look fatter.

Or at least that's what he tells me.  I have noticed that he's not exercising much any more, though.  Hmm.

[Aggie]

Looks like a micro-manatee. 

Hmm... I wonder what aspect ratio is "normal"... we could precrop pics, then.  You should be able to take a little off the top and bottom to refocus it...

[Aphos]

My current avatar is a 15th century castle in Lubeck, Ger.  I took the picture several years ago when I visited Europe.

[The Meromorph]

Mine is from Avatarity.com
It's a distant cousin of mine.
Ah! Family pictures... 

[NeferKa the Bodhipasta]

My current avatar is a 15th century castle in Lubeck, Ger.  I took the picture several years ago when I visited Europe.

Aphos, your avatar reminds me of a painting at the Minneapolis Institute of Art:

The Promenades of Euclid, by René Magritte

(Mine's a bodhisattva in a plate of tasty pasta! I combined the image one night when I was a little bit bored at work!)

[Duke]

I got this avatar a while ago, and I think I'll stick with it. It sort of speaks for itself.


Duke

[Opsa]

Mine's a symbol for the monastery we were working on a while ago. A cross between a Jolly Roger and a toothy toadfish. We'll probably work on more symbols after we've gotten settled.

I'm fascinated by the owl, Aggie. What was he so pissed off about? And in the daylight, no less! Was he trying to protect something? Was he injured?

He is a handsome fellow.

[Sibling Chatty]

Mine's a photo of my children. They may look familiar.

[Aggie]

I'm fascinated by the owl, Aggie. What was he so pissed off about? And in the daylight, no less! Was he trying to protect something? Was he injured?

He is a handsome fellow.

The owl was in good physical shape and sitting on a backroad.  Sadly, we think it may have been poisoned (likely from eating poisoned mice etc), since it couldn't fly away.  It'd flap/run a few feet at a time.  I was trying to shoo it off the road so we could drive by... no luck. 

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I had originally had a pic of a humming toadfish, but once I move ALL my stuff into my cloister over here, I changed to my familiar meerkat.

The meerkat in the photo is a cropped head-and-sholders shot of the patriarch of the clan, and he was "sitting fat and sassy" at the time of the photo.

He was apparently watching the silly humans come and go through his window.  I sometimes imagined it to be "Meerkat TV".  And "Today, on Meerkat TV: Stupid Humans Coming and Going, dragging their Screeming Offspring Along".   

Anyhoo, I dressed him up with a hat & patch, so he'd better fit in.

[Griffin NoName]

Mine is some old priest carrying a London Underground sign - for continuity- taken from a station called NoName. Unfortunately I can't post it big enough to show the exquisite detail. The perfection of the grasp of the hand on the sign brings tears to my eyes.

[Sibling Chatty]

BtU, I have long believed that at the end of the world, the Meerkats will come onto the stage at Milliways and reveal that it was THEM, not the White Mice, that were directing things all along. I still have not figured out how they communicate with the Dolphins (sorta their Navy/Coast Guard Auxiliary) but i'm more than certain they can do it.

All in all, i'd suspect that they're twice as smart as my current Congresscritter (the challenger would give them a run for their money) and have at least quadruple the intelligence of Kay Bailey BreckGirl, one of our Senators.

BTW, our Congresscritter challenger is a former diplomat to Australia. He has a collection of comfortable hats to prove it, too! (Ted Ankrum)

[ivor]

The owl was in good physical shape and sitting on a backroad.  Sadly, we think it may have been poisoned (likely from eating poisoned mice etc), since it couldn't fly away.  It'd flap/run a few feet at a time.  I was trying to shoo it off the road so we could drive by... no luck. 

He looks too fat to fly.    I had an owl flight right over my head one time.  I was too close to her nest.  She didn't make a sound as she passed over.  I could have reached up and grabbed her.

MB

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

That owl is beautiful. Poor fellow.


Mine is a slightly photoshopped picture of a half-dead rosemary at a supermarket around here.
(I say slightl because there's only one filter on it)

[Afterglow]

My Avatar pretty much says joe e

[Sibling Chatty]

Yes!! Another person that's aged to perfection!!

Hooray for us old farts!!

(Hi Joe!!)

DD

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

My avatar is the male of the species Zonotrichia Capensis (my sibling name). Back home we call them Copetón.
Here is a bigger image:

and here is a picture:

[DaveL]

Mine evolved from several threads at the old Pirate Forum. Ushnor put the hat and hook on for me.

The Bunny comes from the Play-Bilge Magazine thread - a pirate sendup of Playboy.

The microphone and logo were part of a sendup we did on music and bands, called the 'The Arghh-stock Music Festival', The Black Spot and I were part of a Pirate Boyband called 'Take the Lot'

http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=piratebunnyavatarttlzk5.jpg

[Outis the Unready]

Mine is also an owl. A Drunk Temple Owl!


(You had to be drunk at that game. Temple and UB are the two worst football teams in the country...I am an alumn of BOTH.) That game 8/31 marked the last time Buffalo won a game (probably for the whole season) and the first time Temple lost a game this season....it being the first game of the season.

The week after, UB when on to get clobbered by someone and Temple lost to another college 62-0.

I grew up in Syracuse, NY.

SU, UB and Temple are ALL on the "Rocky V" list of worst football teams in the country....
I've always hated football. I like drinking, though.

[Sibling Chatty]

I've always hated football. I like drinking, though.

You'd fit right in here...the closest thing there is to a bar in this town is the 'lounge' at the American Legion Hall, right next to the football stadium. The "Ladies Auxiliary" meets at the lounge during the second half of the football game, right after they watch their kids march in the band at halftime. (One of them says she does her nails during the first half, but most of 'em read or 'visit' with the neightbors.)

Foo'baw...war wifout guns, and wifout teefs if you ain't careful...
(Favorite phrase of the coach at my little brother's high school.)

[Outis the Unready]

It's not even really football. How often do they use their bloody feet?

[Swatopluk]

I started with this old bronze head (actually another photograph of it, not this) over at the old place and i don't see, why I should change.
I may replace it from time to time with a different perspective of the same.
For those who don't know yet or have forgotten it:
It is the (damaged) head of an Akkadian king, probably Naram-Sin.
It is often mistaken for that of Sargon I (and occasionally even for the Sumerian king Gilgamesh).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Still using Patriarch Meerkat.  However, this was the only thread on which I did not have the last say ... so... <heh>

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

hmmm.... I need to get an avatar.... perhaps a picture from my B-day party tommmorow...

[The Meromorph]

Welcome home master.
You have several homes, good kind master.
I will sweep the floors of this one, to keep t clean and wholesome.

[johngalt]

Mine is Pillz-e, the overly medicated squirrel from Neurotically Yours. He makes me happy. 

"It is good that you are avoiding the death because death is a good thing to avoid!"

[Sibling Chatty]

My favorite Pillz-e is still Kervorkian scarf...

That one just...cracks me up every time, and i've seen it 20 times now.

Even the avatar makes me laugh.

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Pill-ze is a very good character. I'm quite partical to stigmata to the eye, althou kervorkian scarf is pretty amazing.


oh woooooooe is the woooooooorld when you haaave kavorkiaan scaaarf. 'round-my-NECK!

EDIT: or, MODIFY: whatever.

avatar... um, I didn't really mean to put it up, but, its there... its apparently 'U2' and its got the glasses, so I guess its supposed to be Bono, but I keep thinking its Kim Jong-Il... its the blast goggles, methinks.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

My current avitar is the head of a terripin, who currently lives at the Tulsa zoo.  He's about 8-10 inches across the shell, and lives in a large bird display room, about 30 feet across.  The Southwestern Desert display.

In case you're wondering, he's also a turle.  (A terripin is always a turtle. A turtle may or may not be a terripin.)

Larger pic:

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Very nice.

Mine is a succlent of some kind in the school green house. I always thought they were pretty after then had been watered and it looked like ice to me. I was playing with it, trying to do something else to it, actually, but this is what I got and I like it.

[Sibling Chatty]

Crassulaceae Echeveria elegans, AKA Hen and Chicks.

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

That photo is really spectacular.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

The yeastie needed a rest.  Now up: Beaker!

And since I'm overdue for a haircut, I'm looking more and more like him every day!

[goat starer]

mine is fairly self explanatory but it is a goat at Bradford Urban Farm that helps young people with various issues find gainful occupation.

[Vita Curator]

The yeastie needed a rest.  Now up: Beaker!

And since I'm overdue for a haircut, I'm looking more and more like him every day!

I love your avatar Lambi.  I love Beaker! And The Swedish Chef!  And Animal, ah you gotta love Animal!  My favorite Muppet Song is
Mahna Mahna :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=21wGYIoaBGk&mode=related&search=

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I love your avatar Lambi.  I love Beaker! And The Swedish Chef!  And Animal, ah you gotta love Animal!

"What do you do, Animal?"

"EAT DRUMS! EAT DRUMS!"

"No, no!  BEAT drums.  BEAT drums."




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