Explain your avatar

[KenJackson]

This is my 100th post, so I expect to be promoted to a Linux Newbie. (I find this amusing, since in most people's minds you start out as a newbie and advance from there.)

I enjoy and appreciate Linux Forums. Linux antagonists can ask would-be Linux users, who are you going to turn to for help? And no-doubt, fear of that concern keeps a lot of people locked into an inferior product. But this site and the people that frequent it and other sites like it combine to form a good answer.

Like the other contributors here, I have wrestled with and solved a fair number of problems, and I am glad to have the opportunity to pass on the lessons learned. I believe I am making a meaningful contribution to those who are using free and open source software, especially GNU/Linux, and am therefore helping to advance it as a practical and acceptable alternative.

Let me take this occasion to ask people to explain your avatar images. Some of them puzzle me, and even if they are obvious, there might be interesting stories behind them.

Mine is an actual image of my great-great-grandfather James Jackson. He died 100 years before I was born. We know almost nothing about him, but of one thing I am certain--he lived his whole life without ever using or even hearing about a computer or the internet. That thought amazes me because these have become such significant parts of my life for both work and play.

[antidrugue]

Mine is picture from the TV show "The Green Hornet", starring Bruce Lee and Van Williams, that played in the 60's.

[techieMoe]

This is my 100th post, so I expect to be promoted to a Linux Newbie. (I find this amusing, since in most people's minds you start out as a newbie and advance from there.)

Actually, until you make a post somewhere other than the Coffee Lounge, you'll be stuck at 99.

Let me take this occasion to ask people to explain your avatar images. Some of them puzzle me, and even if they are obvious, there might be interesting stories behind them.

I know this has been asked before (cue the industrious mole-men who always seem to dig up old threads when I say that), but here's the story behind my avatar.

My avatar is a cropped photo of me in my second year of college (around 4 years ago) at a very dark, very smoky music venue called Sam's Burger Joint. When I say smoky, I mean the fellows who walked in with gas masks weren't getting laughed at, they were envied. I was there for a yearly music event that showcases local goth/industrial bands in the Austin/San Antonio area. It's usually not my scene but a couple of guys in my Computer Science club had a band that was playing that night and I also really wanted to see a performance by Lucid Dementia.

Alas, they had some crappy goth "fashion show" that went way too long and Lucid Dementia did not get to perform (since they had the bad luck of being last on the billing). I was treated to a show about a year later however and it was wonderful. There's something about a band whose lead singer is a six-foot-tall skeleton puppet with tapeworms that sing that just brings a smile to my face.

[Vergil83]

cue the industrious mole-men who always seem to dig up old threads when I say that

roger.... or whatever a mole says
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...ning-what.html

[oz]

It's simply Oz...

[bigtomrodney]

The last moments of life from Optimus Prime. From the film Transformers:The Movie. Seems kinda geeky because it is. But there are a lot of things that I like to remember because of my childhood. For instance I have a tattoo of a lego spaceman on the top of my arm. His name is Bill. And if anyone reading this has ever met someone with this tattoo then it most certainly was me, because I photoshopped a photo of the legoman to have it created.

Ah well. Seem a little bit more immature now don't I! The way I see it once you meet all of your responsibilities in life there's no problem with being a little immature.

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

me (in the middle) and my brother (on the far left) on hoilday. we met some girls and went drinking (and no, i didn't end up with any of them )

[Apollo]

Well, I'm a huge hockey fan. Ice hockey that is. My favorite team is the Montreal Canadiens, and when I was looking through TuxFactory images one day, I came accross this one of tux as an NHL hockey player.

[stubbe]

you're looking at my eyes... you're going sleeepy... sleeepyyy...

[Javasnob]

It's me in kung-fu mode. My friend/roomate who happens to be an artist thought it was a cool idea, since Chinese culture is another one of my interests.