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Avatars
Posted: 23:50 Fri 22 Jun 2007
by DRT
Are we still on a cat theme? If so, do you like my new cat?
Posted: 23:51 Fri 22 Jun 2007
by KillerB
It's not the way I remember you.
Posted: 18:06 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by DRT
Where do I find good Avatars on the net?
Posted: 18:26 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by KillerB
a child’s rendering of an explosion in a flag factory
Posted: 20:38 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by jdaw1
No. Use Paint or like software to make your own avatar. Something that speaks distinctively of you or yours, rather than a child’s rendering of an explosion in a flag factory.
Re: a child’s rendering of an explosion in a flag factory
Posted: 21:18 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by DRT
jdaw1 wrote: Something that speaks distinctively of you or yours
You got me with that comment - and you can now see the result. This was painted by my son, Ross, when he was 9 years old. It hangs framed in my house and will stay there as long as I do. I won't go into why, but this is my Avatar from now on, apart from periods where we have a collective theme like the cats or on International Peanut Butter Day.
Derek
Posted: 21:24 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by KillerB
Errrmmmm... that's really very good.
Posted: 21:30 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by DRT
Yes, I know

Posted: 21:59 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by Conky
I'm presuming it IS a tree?

Posted: 22:40 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by DRT
If you see it as a tree then that's fine. Art is a very personal thing. I'd be intrigued to know which aspects of this work you think look like a tree?
Derek
Posted: 23:05 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by KillerB
Trunk and branches, I'd say. Are you telling us this is a four-armed hammer-head shark, then?
I still like it, but I thought that it was a tree as well.
Posted: 23:26 Sun 24 Jun 2007
by DRT
KillerB wrote:Are you telling us this is a four-armed hammer-head shark, then?
No, can't you see? It's a 2 headed hammer head shark with very large feet and no arms
Derek
It is an excellent avatar. Well done.
Posted: 00:40 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by jdaw1
It is an excellent avatar.
• It speaks of you and yours;
• It is stylish; and
• It is not so loud or moving as to distract a reader from the text.
Well done.
I would rather it were slightly narrower, but that would lose resolution so I’m not doing any of my usual grumbles.
Posted: 00:54 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by DRT
jdaw1,
Thanks, your post inspired me to use this.
I have struggled to think of an online identity. Some find it easy. Alan, for instance, looks like a Bulldog smoking a Cabana. KillerB is, well, I'm sure you can guess

....and, then, you have your tasting mats. Each of us should have a different slant on our personality.
On the size of the image, the original is around 600cm wide - this is about as small as I would want to make it as it retains most of the detail of the original.
Derek
Posted: 09:22 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by KillerB
....and, then, you have your tasting mats.
Aahhhh that's what it is. I have been wondering and failed to ask. Wouldn't mind but I've used two.
Posted: 12:00 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by Conky
Derek,
Cohiba!!!
Cabana is the Copa where according to Barry Manilow, Lola was a showgirl!
Alan
Posted: 12:03 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by KillerB
Oi, we'll have no talk of Satan on this site.
Posted: 12:05 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by DRT
Oops

- sorry, Alan
KillerB, kindly explain what your new avatar says about you and yours

Posted: 12:13 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by KillerB
One of those damned dogs chased my birman and had to be restrained by an elderly but very determined tabby, called Sebastian.
Posted: 12:24 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by KillerB
Gone off that one.
“the original is around 600cm wide†
Posted: 21:02 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by jdaw1
Derek T. wrote:the original is around 600cm wide
I mis-read this first time. That’s
huge!
Posted: 21:09 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by KillerB
Good point, that's about twenty feet - he's painted the side of your house, hasn't he?
Posted: 21:30 Mon 25 Jun 2007
by DRT
Oops, I meant 600mm or 60cm or 2 feet in real money
Derek
Posted: 08:59 Tue 26 Jun 2007
by KillerB
I'm now disappointed, I would have loved to have seen that 20ft wide with the appropriate shaking of heads from neighbours.
Posted: 09:56 Tue 26 Jun 2007
by DRT
I can ask him to paint one on your house if you want?
Derek
Posted: 09:57 Tue 26 Jun 2007
by KillerB
There's only one wall big enough and only the next door neighbour can see that, so go ahead and send him down.
Posted: 22:11 Sun 05 Aug 2007
by KillerB
Like the new one Conky.
Posted: 22:13 Sun 05 Aug 2007
by Conky
Its doing my head in. Its supposed to move. But its a BMP file, and when I change it to a Gif file it wont move!
I need a Computer geek to sort me out!
Posted: 22:22 Sun 05 Aug 2007
by KillerB
Send me the link where you got it from and I'll see what I can do.
Posted: 22:28 Sun 05 Aug 2007
by Conky
Thanks for trying.
I've sent it to you as an Email. Thats how I got it and saved it into my pictures folder.
I was going to use it for a few days and go back to Bully. Maybe you'd like it for Admin, after that? It would more suit your dealing with the Half-Wits.
Alan
Posted: 22:31 Sun 05 Aug 2007
by KillerB
Is this how it's meant to be?
Posted: 22:34 Sun 05 Aug 2007
by Conky
Ha,ha,ha!!!
To use a bad Pun...Julian will have Kittens!
I'm happy for you to have it. If your not fussed, I'll keep it for a day or so.
It does sum up a certain mood.

I am having kittens.
Posted: 13:15 Mon 06 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
I am having kittens.
Posted: 14:22 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by Conky
Michael,
Sorry for being nosey, but whats that Avatar of yours all about?
Alan
Posted: 20:37 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by DRT
It's a tasting mat

Posted: 21:39 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by Conky
Derek,
I think your on about Jdaw1's. I started that post with Michael. That was the clue!
Alan