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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Bearded Bard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2018 at 12:19
Motorpsycho, Møster! and Reflections in Cosmo guitarist Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan. The photo is slightly edited, and chosen for its colours matching the first photo in my sig.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Argo2112 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2018 at 08:45
Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

It's Ian Anderson from the Too Old To Rock 'n Roll music video... right after he stares up a woman's skirt with binoculars. Just too ridiculous to pass up.



 
  I thought that was Ian. Either that or a crazy pirate!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote paulindigo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:54
My avatar is an Excel pie chart Big smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Formentera Lady Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 15 2018 at 13:51
My original avatar is this one

 
which I chose because my avatar name is a song on an album with this cover.

My current avatar is a protest against the discrimination of robots on this site! Angry

It shows Robbie, an intelligent robot and main character of the popular German children's book 'Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt' by Boy Lornsen.  The picture is taken from the film adaption in 1972.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WeepingElf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2018 at 12:45
My avatar is the logo of my band.

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"What does Elvish rock music sound like?" - "Yes."

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2018 at 14:24
Discrimination against 'robots' on this site...?
WTF...?


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jayem Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2018 at 16:51
Originally posted by WeepingElf WeepingElf wrote:

My avatar is the logo of my band.

Fine but... Are you promoting your very dear music without providing a link to it !? !?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WeepingElf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2018 at 12:58
A band web site is currently under construction. I can't tell when it will go up, but I hope we can get to that within a few weeks.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Vompatti Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2018 at 13:01
My avatar is an archetypal representation of how I would ideally do my computing.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Matti Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2018 at 22:43
I've had a few avatars during my 12½-year stay in PA. Once it was the CAMEL cover A Nod and a Wink, and when I lost it (there was some technical updating, I guess) I chose a picture from the list in the Control Panel. The shape of a white, much stylished horse against the black background was probably my longest-running avatar.
 
I just decided to change it at last. This is the cover of my second prog book, dealing with all-time Finnish prog.
I designed it myself, using some album covers for the letters.
 
 
EDIT: I changed my avatar (in April or May 2018, don't remember exactly) from the Prog Finlandia cover to Pieter Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow, one of my favourite paintings.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Pigwheeler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2018 at 22:49
Progarchives won't let me add what I want to add (sizing problems) so I just chose one of their lame defaults 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2018 at 22:53
Originally posted by Pigwheeler Pigwheeler wrote:

Progarchives won't let me add what I want to add (sizing problems) so I just chose one of their lame defaults 

I understand your frustration, but just use something that fits their size, just don't use big size pics. I've never had problems adding avatars on PA. 
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Originally posted by Pigwheeler Pigwheeler wrote:

Progarchives won't let me add what I want to add (sizing problems) so I just chose one of their lame defaults 
Send me a pic you want to add, plz. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldJean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2018 at 01:46
Originally posted by Pigwheeler Pigwheeler wrote:

Progarchives won't let me add what I want to add (sizing problems) so I just chose one of their lame defaults 

you can easily downsize any picture with a photo editor or paint program; Friede and I use Ultimate Paint for this purpose. a free version of the program is available online


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote verslibre Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2018 at 10:43
^I'd like to know more about the pic that is not the avatar.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldJean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2018 at 11:06
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

^I'd like to know more about the pic that is not the avatar.


well, I have shown it to you. what more would you like to know?


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote verslibre Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2018 at 11:13
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote verslibre Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2018 at 11:16
To which fall festival do you refer? What do you do during the proceedings/ceremony/ritual? 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BaldJean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2018 at 12:43
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

To which fall festival do you refer? What do you do during the proceedings/ceremony/ritual? 


we are High Priestesses of Gaia, the ancient Greek Goddess of the Earth. the solstices and equinoxes, which mark the beginning of the four seasons, are our holy days. we paint ourselves head to toe in the color of the beginning season - green for the grass of spring, red for the flowers of summer, yellowish-brown for the leaves of fall and white for the snow of winter. we dance and sing hymns of praise to Gaia, bring offerings of flowers and fruits of the season (nuts for winter) and take fly agaric to have visions.

we also developed a calendar of our own. it has 13 months with 28 days each + a New Year's Day that does not belong to any month or week. in leap years New Year's Day is followed by leap day which also does not belong to any month or week. since the weekdays of this calendar are not identical with the weekdays of the Gregorian calendar we named the weekday after the 7 Pleiades. the months are named after Greek Goddesses.

this calendar has the advantage that the same date will fall on the same weekday every year. what's more, every month starts with the same weekday, so calculating which weekday a certain date falls on is totally easy


Edited by BaldJean - February 28 2018 at 15:26


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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