Why Did You Choose Your Avatar for Wikipedia?

[hbk4894]

say what it is and why you picked it

 

[davenn]

<------ no explanation needed Dave

 

[phinds]

ARF !

 

[Silver_rose]

Da Vinci's Leda and the swan, but hand drawn and only Leda's head.
I have it because one day when I was a teenager, I was looking up Da Vinci art on google, and I stumbled upon this picture, I thought it would make a nice Avatar.

 

[Enigman]

Paget's Holmes colorized in photoshop.

 

[phyzguy]

I bicycle a lot, so there it is!

 

[Evo]

It's me.

 

[Evo]

Da Vinci's Leda and the swan, but hand drawn and only Leda's head.
I have it because one day when I was a teenager, I was looking up Da Vinci art on google, and I stumbled upon this picture, I thought it would make a nice Avatar.

I love your avatar, it evokes such emotion.

 

[jz92wjaz]

It's a Mandelbrot fractal. I really like math, patterns, and symmetry.

 

[dx]

 

[DrClaude]

Me in the parallel universe where we all have four fingers.

 

[Drakkith]

I bicycle a lot, so there it is!

I totally didn't know that was a bicycle until I saw this. I guess I never really looked too hard at it.

My avatar is the doom guy. I chose him because it caught my eye when I was first choosing an avatar picture. No other reason than that.

 

[Borg]

ARF !

Woof!

 

[epenguin]

I thought mine could represent what we try to do here,

 

[micromass]

I like nothingness

 

[Jimmy]

I like altering the default avatars on forums.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

It's me about four years ago at Notting Hill Carnival. I always thought it was a cool picture and the green went with the Mentor theme.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It's been a long winter

 

[Bandersnatch]

And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark.
But while he was seeking with thimbles and care,
A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh
And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair,
For he knew it was useless to fly.
He offered large discount—he offered a check
(Drawn "to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten:
But the Bandersnatch merely extended its neck
And grabbed at the Banker again.
Without rest or pause—while those frumious jaws
Went savagely snapping around—
He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped,
Till fainting he fell to the ground.
The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the Bellman remarked "It is just as I feared!"
And solemnly tolled on his bell

A family photo with the desperate Jubjub Bird:

Spoiler

 

[Bandersnatch]

It's me.

What's that you've written round about the prow? Lady of shallots? Selling organic food, are you?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I love odd things animals can do.

 

[Enigman]

And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark.
But while he was seeking with thimbles and care,
A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh
[...]

Frumious though you may be, but still -
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

 

[Psinter]

It's me.

Ah, that's a lie. You are not casting any shadows.

say what it is and why you picked it

I wanted something fancy and feminine that was gentle to the eyes, but in the end I couldn't get it to be fancy, neither feminine . Not to mention the halo isn't symmetric. I made the original halo pink, but it was too strawberry (too girly, I wanted more balance) and I changed it for purple. This was the original one I made:

As you can see the halo isn't either symmetric (gosh, it's so hard for me, I'm not good at art). And it's too girly. I want feminine, but not too much.​

 

[wolram]

Mine is quite a cleaver one given to me by Evo, it is the Wol Ram from mythology, it is also my name backwards.

 

[Drakkith]

it is also my name backwards.

Let's see, emanym... nope, not seeing it.

 

[Enigman]

Let's see, emanym... nope, not seeing it.

?
*Expects wolram to burst into raps while giving a death stare*http://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/eminem-shavyiv-thatgrapejuice.jpg

 

[Bandersnatch]

Let's see, emanym... nope, not seeing it.

That's obviously emanymosla, duh.

By the way, I always though your avatar was the Halo guy. That I never played Doom nor Halo might have contributed to the confusion.

 

[robphy]

It's a light-clock of an observer moving past us. (Sometimes it's animated... like when you view my profile.)

 

[jtbell]

I like trains, especially electric ones. This is a closeup of part of the logo on the side of this car (not from this picture, though):

 

[Quantum Defect]

This is the cover of a book my parents gave me when I was about six. There was a whole series: dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, moths and butterflies, and this one on "Beginning Science."

As a grownup person, I really like the picture on the front--showing boys and girls having fun with science. I do volunteer work with fifth graders in the US, and the kids I work with still think science is a fun thing to do. Sometime after this, they have a rotten experience with the subject and are taught to dislike it!

 

[DennisN]

I'm a big fan of Futurama, and Bender and Dr Zoidberg are my favorite characters. A clip from the series:

 

[Ibix]

The head with horns is an alchemical symbol for bismuth. I'll let you figure the rest out. :D

 

[nuuskur]

That me in another life.

 

[Pythagorean]

The star of chaos.

 

[mheslep]

House Mountain, which looked down upon me for four years and which I ran up once with my classmates.

 

[Cruz Martinez]

I like trains, especially electric ones. This is a closeup of part of the logo on the side of this car (not from this picture, though):

What about electric trains makes you like them more than other types?

 

[Cruz Martinez]

This is my beloved soccer team's logo. Monterrey F.C.

 

[jtbell]

What about electric trains makes you like them more than other types?

Train buffs develop preferences for different kinds of trains in various ways, like people develop preferences for different kinds of music. I probably got hooked on electric trains because when I was a kid, my parents and I often visited Cleveland, Ohio, where we parked our car in a suburb and rode the "Rapid" into town:

Cleveland also had these, which I rode a few times:

The routes still exist, but the trains use newer cars now.

 

[Astronuc]

This is the cover of a book my parents gave me when I was about six. There was a whole series: dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, moths and butterflies, and this one on "Beginning Science."

As a grownup person, I really like the picture on the front--showing boys and girls having fun with science. I do volunteer work with fifth graders in the US, and the kids I work with still think science is a fun thing to do. Sometime after this, they have a rotten experience with the subject and are taught to dislike it!

May parents also bought me How and Why Wonderbooks, starting about when I was 6 or 7. I got the books on dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, stars, planets and interplanetary travel, airplanes, flight, weather, our earth, . . . . I was destined for science and engineering.

How and Why Wonderbooks

My avatar is me.

 

[Blackberg]

Coffee makes me happy.

 

[jtbell]

Coffee makes me happy.

I'll drink (you know what) to that! In fact, I'm doing it right now...

 

[pvk21]

Well mine is Einstein stucking out his tounge.I like it how Einstein gave this pose.

 

[TurtleMeister]

I'm a little slow sometimes, so my fiancée drew this turtle for me to use as my avatar on PF. My previous avatar was also a turtle drawn by fiancée. I'm a little undecided about which one to use. I like the current one because it has the atom symbol in it. But I like the previous one because it seems more aesthetically pleasing. Which one do you like best?

 

[Bandersnatch]

The one you have now. The other one bears a somewhat striking resemblance to a surprised lizard baked into a white chocolate chip cookie.
Not that it's a bad thing or anything.

 

[TurtleMeister]

The one you have now. The other one bears a somewhat striking resemblance to a surprised lizard baked into a white chocolate chip cookie.
Not that it's a bad thing or anything.

lol, I see the resemblance. One vote for current avatar.

 

[Evo]

lol, I see the resemblance. One vote for current avatar.

Yeah, current avatar is a winner, although I do love the old one. Kudos to your fiancee

 

[lisab]

My avatar is a forest nymph. I grew up in a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and I spent many hours in the woods. As an adult I love hiking and backpacking. I love being in the woods!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

My avatar is a forest nymph. I grew up in a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and I spent many hours in the woods. As an adult I love hiking and backpacking. I love being in the woods!

Lisab, you know you're so cool. : ))

 

[jim hardy]

Mine was a happy day in the power plant, figuring out how to test a piece of equipment that does not readily submit itself to testing.
We built our own testing machine and learned how to use it.

It takes so little to make a nerd happy !

 

[Overt]

It's a vesicle and I like biophysics. Also it's not ugly.