Explain your avatars!

...it is an exercise in special effects using perspective photography. The guy featured looks like he has a large belly, and the beer looks a bit big as well. However, from the right angle, proportions are skewed. No, it is not meant to infer that I'm a drunk, or that I like beer, but it looks funny, and is quite the random choice, there are others and I plan to alternate them.

I've been told my resemblance to Ralph Drabble and his lifestyle are so remarkable that I ought to sue Kevin Fagan for appropriating my life without my permission.

Probably his most infamous picture, an ad he put up thanking mainstream country radio and the city of Nashville for their support after winning the Grammy for best country album for Unchained.

Slow days at work, I'll do chain mail.

That's one of my cats, wearing some armor. He absolutely hates it - damn cute!

If someone has a better idea I am open to suggestions.

{;-) Dan in Miami

PS: No porn actors please.

They're comin' RIGHT AT US!!!

taken from my living room window. I didn't do anything to this photo - those colours are real.

So I figured I'd use it here too.

Question is, what's the best way to shrink an image so it fits the avatar parameters? Photography's a hobby of mine, and I'm thinking of using some of the pictures I've taken as avatars (none of them have my face in them), but they're all way too big for these purposes.

...is a cartoon character (surprise, surprise) from the 60s; he was featured in the back-up cartoon to Space Ghost (Dinoboy in the Lost Valley).

Creatively, he was named "Ugh".

It is the unit patch for members of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (67-69). Put me on the ramparts of freedom, winning the hearts and minds of the people while screwing their daughters and smoking some of the best primo weed at the time.

Mitsurugi from the Soul Calibur series of video games. What better icon for a (Modern)Ronin?

The 85x85 pixel limitation makes it hard to see, but if you squint, in the upper-left corner of the icon there are two Japanese characters: "ro" ("wave") and below that, almost totally obscured, an upside-down Y looking character "nin" ("person"). For a better look, click here.

Mr. Walter Clement Pipp, First Baseman for the World Champion New York Yankees, ca. 1925.

Best regards, Wally

It's Super Chicken and Fred in the Super Coop!

"The money was returned to its rightful owners--the crooks!"

"When you hear that cry in the sky, you'll know it's Super Chicken... and his faithful polka-dot Easter egg!"

Used to be dirtyhippiefreak, but I'm not so dirty, hippyish or freaklike anymore. Hence, just a dude.

this is ME..just before I came here.

But it's a teenie-tiny version of Nessie based off the Advanced Generation "Pokemon" sprites.  Drawing that small is a bitch.

(But if anyone wants help making an avatar, me and my Bachelor's degree in Commercial Art [deep, heart-rending sigh] are here for you.)

It's Hikage Cat. =)

I think mine is rather self-explanitory, perhaps I'm wrong.  I use it here, for gaming, on other sites.  (except on [as] where I like the Grand Galactic Inquisitor)  So in keeping with that avatar, IGNORE ME!

Think family and geography.

{;-) Dan in Miami

One of my favorite anime films. Pic taken in the movie just when things got very bad, or very good, depending on your perspective.

I plan on changing my avatar soon. I want to have a pic of me wearing a gladiator mask (last years halloween costume also because I am a big fan of the rapper MF Doom), with an Ohio State Buckeye sticker on the right cheek. I will also use that avatar for ESPN.

Go Bucks!

...what...what were talking about again?

It's Gort.  He's waiting for this remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to come out to determine if he should just wipe the earth clean and start over, or not.

Klattu.  Barada....Necktie.

The cockpit.. what is it?