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Are we still on a cat theme? If so, do you like my new cat?

It's not the way I remember you.

Where do I find good Avatars on the net?

have a look here

http://avatars.jurko.net

No. Use Paint or like software to make your own avatar. Something that speaks distinctively of you or yours, rather than a child’s rendering of an explosion in a flag factory.

jdaw1 wrote: Something that speaks distinctively of you or yours

You got me with that comment - and you can now see the result. This was painted by my son, Ross, when he was 9 years old. It hangs framed in my house and will stay there as long as I do. I won't go into why, but this is my Avatar from now on, apart from periods where we have a collective theme like the cats or on International Peanut Butter Day.

Derek

Errrmmmm... that's really very good.

Yes, I know

I'm presuming it IS a tree?

If you see it as a tree then that's fine. Art is a very personal thing. I'd be intrigued to know which aspects of this work you think look like a tree?

Derek

Trunk and branches, I'd say. Are you telling us this is a four-armed hammer-head shark, then?

I still like it, but I thought that it was a tree as well.

KillerB wrote:Are you telling us this is a four-armed hammer-head shark, then?

No, can't you see? It's a 2 headed hammer head shark with very large feet and no arms

Derek

It is an excellent avatar.
• It speaks of you and yours;
• It is stylish; and
• It is not so loud or moving as to distract a reader from the text.
Well done.

I would rather it were slightly narrower, but that would lose resolution so I’m not doing any of my usual grumbles.

jdaw1,

Thanks, your post inspired me to use this.

I have struggled to think of an online identity. Some find it easy. Alan, for instance, looks like a Bulldog smoking a Cabana. KillerB is, well, I'm sure you can guess ....and, then, you have your tasting mats. Each of us should have a different slant on our personality.

On the size of the image, the original is around 600cm wide - this is about as small as I would want to make it as it retains most of the detail of the original.

Derek

....and, then, you have your tasting mats.

Aahhhh that's what it is. I have been wondering and failed to ask. Wouldn't mind but I've used two.

Derek,

Cohiba!!!

Cabana is the Copa where according to Barry Manilow, Lola was a showgirl!

Alan

Oi, we'll have no talk of Satan on this site.

Oops - sorry, Alan

KillerB, kindly explain what your new avatar says about you and yours

One of those damned dogs chased my birman and had to be restrained by an elderly but very determined tabby, called Sebastian.

Gone off that one.

Derek T. wrote:the original is around 600cm wide

I mis-read this first time. That’s huge!

Good point, that's about twenty feet - he's painted the side of your house, hasn't he?

Oops, I meant 600mm or 60cm or 2 feet in real money

Derek

I'm now disappointed, I would have loved to have seen that 20ft wide with the appropriate shaking of heads from neighbours.

I can ask him to paint one on your house if you want?

Derek