You and your (150x150 pixels or less) avatar (Part 2)

Roseanne…?


Close?

Apparently I am far too much of a geek.

It’s YOU, isn’t it? :slight_smile:

I would be much richer if it were :laughing:

OK, since it’s not Jackie Chan, it has to be this guy.

Reasons:

  • has a big nose
  • smile looks similar
  • eyes look similar
  • eyebrows don’t look similar at all, but I blame the duotone effect
  • probably richer than you
  • IT-related
  • icon of a revolution

Considering the time it took me to find a picture of a similing Linus without glasses, I seriously hope the cookie is delicious! Please send by TNT Global Express. In case it’s a virtual cookie, I expect it to contain a valuable unexpired session ID.

I just wanted to know before I do it - Well, actually I’ve already done it - Am I allowed to have a banner sig?

Yes, but not that one. This is the cut and paste I give to the offenders with whom you’ve now joined ranks: :wink:

[quote]Sorry, but your signature image is too large. As per the rules, please keep it to under 500x60 pixels in size. Thanks.

Maoman
Forumosa Admin[/quote]

Daaang. I’ll switch it.
60 is a mighty short sig. There are alot of longer text sigs than this one. But I won’t whine on about it. :blush:

OK, since it’s not Jackie Chan, it has to be this guy.

Reasons:

  • has a big nose
  • smile looks similar
  • eyes look similar
  • eyebrows don’t look similar at all, but I blame the duotone effect
  • probably richer than you
  • IT-related
  • icon of a revolution

Considering the time it took me to find a picture of a similing Linus without glasses, I seriously hope the cookie is delicious! Please send by TNT Global Express. In case it’s a virtual cookie, I expect it to contain a valuable unexpired session ID.[/quote]
Interesting idea, but off by a fair margin. Dammit, I have far too narrow a field of geekery. It’s this guy.

Well it’s about damn time! :laughing:

And Tetsuo, please do something about your monster sig image, please, before my PM box starts filling up with complaints about my double-standardness. Thanks.

How about we change it to*ahem" 500 x 100? Would that be grossly too large?

That’s so friggin weird. I just PM’d him asking if anyone had spanked him for the size of his sig. Within the minute Maoman posted that. Now he probably thinks than I’m one of the whiney bitches that complained!

Was just photoshopping it down to size. Unfortunately a simple resize mangled it hideously, so it was a drawn out process of redrawing pieces, cutting and pasting, and cropping like a demon.

I made a comment about how much Johnny Depp looks a lot like our favorite plastic surgery poster child in the promo pictures of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, right down to the gloved hand and damned if I didn’t find that someone else not only had the same thought, but even, through the magic of photoshop, had created a poster of the parallel.

I’ve noticed some pretty interesting avatars recently and have no idea what or who they are/represent.

So, for the obsessively curious, the avatar thread…

<<<—This is Walt Whitman. Poet, early American radical and a personal hero of mine.

“Oh Captain, my captain…”

Mine’s Fox in Sox. I like the way he points so majestically to all the drivel I write. And he know a hell of a lot about tweetle beetles.

If anyone plans on changing their avatar in the future, you might want to post a copy of the current pic IN your post here, so that when your avatar changes later, it won’t render this post irrelevant. Like this:


This is a well known late Shāng Dynasty oracle bone in the collection of the Academia Sinica, and on loan to the National Palace Museum for many years. If you have ever been to the latter’s oracle bones exhibit, you may remember a large illuminated display of one of the bones – this is it.

It’s carved on a turtle plastron (chest “shell”), with the inscription being vertical, in columns outward from the center, i.e., DCAB, and records a divination as to whether a certain general should attack a particular enemy.

The significance of the oracle bones was discovered by Chinese scholars at the end of the 19th century. Until that time, the bits and pieces of inscribed shell had been dug up by farmers and sold to the traditional Chinese medicine market, where they were ground up into powder to be consumed. At that time, they were called “dragon bones”.

Trying to learn to read these is one of my hobbies, which is why I have this avatar and handle.

<-- Mine is me.