Avatar holdouts: going to stick to your guns or eventually get one?

[panache45]

@CardboardBoxx

panache45: some kind of abstract art piece

Nope. Its part of an actual photograph I took in Vienna, on June 8, 2004.

[Heffalump_and_Roo]

@BippityBoppityBoo

Your Heffalump and Roo avatar works very well on my screens. I find it appealing. Thanks for trying it out. Hope you keep it.

Thanks! I appreciate it.

@mordecaiB

Hope one works out for you. I don’t want you to feel you need to use one just because I worked for hours and hours over a hot Paint app to make them. Avatars should be personal so go for whatever you like best.

lol, hope you didn’t hurt yourself.

@squeegee

Try this one. It’s a higher resolution version of the same image and it has an alpha channel.

Thanks! Done.

@GreenWyvern

I liked the previous Heffalump avatar, and I like this one even more. The pink flower avatar not so much.

Nice! Thanks!

Thanks all, you’ve all made me feel happier about my avatar.

[Dinsdale]

@puzzlegal

I pretty much see all the avatars.

Okay - so what the hell is YOURS? All I see is a circle of differently colored circles. (Of course, I think it was until a puzzle thread that I realized your name was not puzz legal!)

@GreenWyvern

I wonder if they haven’t enlarged the text on their computers somehow, without enlarging images.

That really gets to one of the things I dislike most about tech. If I DID change some setting, it was unwittingly. At first, I was very frustrated with this new system. Eventually, thru the kindness of strangers, I was able to open some setup that allowed me to participate at my minimal desired level. I made NO conscious attempt to standardize anything.

With pretty much all tech, all I want is some minimally functional ability to perform the most basic functions. My preference is to close/hide anything that allows customization or more sophisticated options. Astounds me how frequently I am still able to inadvertently fuck things up.

[puzzlegal]

@Dinsdale

Okay - so what the hell is YOURS? All I see is a circle of differently colored circles. (Of course, I think it was until a puzzle thread that I realized your name was not puzz legal!)

Mine is a photograph of a mechanical puzzle. In my humble opinion, it may be the very best mechanical puzzle in the world, at least to my tastes. The six simple pieces can be assembled in a number of ways. Two of the prettiest are the benzene ring (pictured) and a 3-over-3 close packing of spheres.

It was originally designed by Stewart Coffin, and made of wood. He has allowed several other craftsmen to make it, too.

https://johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/puz/peanut.htm

This version was modified to be spheres, made of 3D printed nylon, and due to both the new shape and the slight flexibility of nylon, it’s possible to construct a 3x3 triangle using all six pieces, in addition to all the previously-possible shapes.

I believe George Bell came up with the modification. At any rate, I bought the pieces from his shapeways shop and dyed them myself

Peanut Deluxe 3cm by gibell on Shapeways

Thanks for asking.

[Northern_Piper]

@Dinsdale

Of course, I think it was until a puzzle thread that I realized your name was not puzz legal!)

All the lawyers in the Board seem to have read it that way. I still pronounce it that way in my head.

[mordecaiB]

@Northern_Piper

All the lawyers in the Board seem to have read it that way.

I’ve noticed that, but it would seem to me that puzz would have to have a meaning to lawyers that it doesn’t to anyone else. Maybe it just speaks to the caliber of lawyers on the board.

[squeegee]

I’ll admit I was also a “puzz legal” parser of @puzzlegal 's name (and had no idea how puzz’s could be legal), but it became clear when she added her mechanical ball puzzle avatar. Another win for avatars!

[Terminus_Est]

@panache45

June 8, 2004

I had an idea of what it was, but the date narrowed it down for me: Transit of Venus.