What does your Avatar and Id mean?

[devils casper]

I am sure that most of us do not choose Member Id and Avatar just randomly. So, what does your Id and Avatar means?

A few members are not using any Avatar. Could they please explain why?

* My Id : I chose this id because my first animation project was from movie casper and main character was a bit negative, like a devil.

* My Avatar : I have changed my Avatar several times. fingal posted an image in a thread few months back and I used that image as my Avatar, with his permission, ofcourse. It suites my id. Isn't it?

[oz]

I'm really more of a text only kind of guy, so don't usually upload an avatar, although I do have one that is used at times. It's simply an uppercase letter O with a lowercase letter z in the middle of it for Oz. Some of you have probaby seen it in the past.

My username came from the first part of Ozarka, which is a popular bottled drinking water in this area. Nothing special about it, really. I like it because it is short and easy to remember.

[hazel]

I must admit I use my own name because I couldn't be bothered to think up another one. I was never an Internet user so this whole culture of "screen names" and "handles" was completely foreign to me.

My avatar is taken from Whistler's portrait of his mother - a little old lady like me.

[MikeTbob]

My ID, was actually a mistake, I had an old friend that used to call me Mikey-bob, well one day when I first signed up for hotmail or yahoo that is the name I tried to use. Mikeybob. But I screwed up and typed Miketbob and pressed enter....been using the mistake since then......man that was a long time ago. Usually I have no competition for user names anywhere I go.
My avatar usually doesn't mean anything except maybe,,,LOOK AT ME, I'm silly!

[questio verum]

DC,
There's been more than one post that's made me stop and say "Wonder what the story behind that is?" Yours was one of them. Thanks for explaining the story behind your ID.

Ozar,
I never would have thought yours so simple. I thought for sure there was some deep symbolism behind your ID. I used to have an Ozarka water dispenser at my house in Austin.

My ID is a latin phrase. It's pronounced Kes-tee-oh Wheh-r-r-r-room. In keeping with the rules of latin grammar, the emphasis is on the second syllable of the first word, and the first syllable of the second word. There is no direct english translation, but the closest approximation would be 'searching for truth'.

I change avatars periodically, but I kinda like this one, so I may keep it for a while. It's an image from the Hubble Deep Space Telescope, of the M64 galaxy, aka the "Black Eye Galaxy". I like it because there's so much going on in that little frame... a spiral seyfert galaxy created by the collision of two separate galaxies, rotation in two directions simultaneously, a super-massive black hole in the center (though you can't see it), interstellar gas, the organic cast-off of dead stars, and a huge amount of stars in the middle of their life cycle. Plus it's absolutely beautiful to look at. Especially in a larger format. And on top of all that, you can see it from earth with a standard telescope. Tres cool!

qv

[bigtomrodney]

My name is Tom, and there was a gag amongst my friends about 15 years ago about trying to make our names sound like some of the corny Country & Western wannabe singers you get in Ireland, especially in the rural areas. It's generally terrible and gives a bad name to country music. Anyway, for a laugh we all came up with cheeseball sounding names and mine was Big Tom Rodney. It stuck as a gag for a while because it kind of sounded dirty too.

My avatar at the moment is supposed to look like a penguin. I was playing around with Inkscape a good bit so that I could understand vector art a bit better and I made that. I left it because it looks a bit 3D but I think I might go back to the old tracing of my face I used a year or so ago.

MikeTbob, I always thought your name was related to this character.

[MikeTbob]

HAHA, funny. From the link above.

T-Bob is a short, egg-shaped bipedal robot, capable of speech and with fully-developed artificial intelligence, including a sense of humour and a subconscious

It does sound familiar, well except the egg shaped part.

[D-cat]

You mean this guy?:


As for me, Many years ago, I ran my own dial-in BBS, I was known as Dancer. My style of dancing was referred to as "James Brown on Acid" by a local DJ. Anyway, going through college (1996), I found that my user name was all too popular, but one of my friends was getting me into an anthropomorphic MUD called FurryMuck, and my character was the animal I like and kind of identify with, the common house cat. Ever since, I've been D-cat.

The avatar is simply an icon featuring my actual photo.

[MikeTbob]

"James Brown on Acid"

What a Visual, man I'd give a lot to see that!

[rokytnji]

Wow, this is a interesting thread.

rokytnji comes from my great grandfather. This was not his original name. I don't know his original name. He was a Cossack running from the Czar for some unknown reason to me. Hence the name change. I got all this from my mom, whose maiden last name was rokytnji.

My Avatar comes from David Mann Dave Mann Art Gallery who was a great biker artist when Easyriders Magazine first came out. I'm a die hard Harley riding fool from the 70's so my avatar shows this.