Avatars/User Names Explained

My avatar reflects my ambivalence on whether avatars are a good thing or not.

My username is based on my real name, S. N. Faulkner. I don’t have an avatar, because I don’t believe in them–just like I don’t believe in Santa Claus.

Tripler
I do believe I can exaggerate some stories for comic effect.

As I said in the linked thread, my username is based on my actual name. I chose this because back in my college days the computer lab assigned logins based on first initial plus last name, and I got used to it.

The 2 comes from the fact I’m known commonly as Bill#2. Not ‘the second’, not ‘junior’: ‘Bill number two’. (Or just ‘Bill two’ for short). My dad is Bill#1. We probably ended up literally numbered because he’s into computers too and has that kind of mind. When his dad moved in with us after his wife died we called him ‘Bill#3’, since 1 and 2 were already taken.
ETA: Oh, and regarding avatars - I hide them, since I prefer an uncluttered grey look, so I didn’t bother putting one in either.

My avatar is me, about two years ago.

My username is based on the final word in my favorite play, Cyrano de Bergerac (not actually the best translation). And I was born in 1945. My avatar is part of a composite photo I took of the Transit of Venus, from Vienna, in 2004. I had to stand out in the direct sun for 6.5 hours to get that photo. Without sunscreen. But it was worth it, just to get that composite photo.

Mine is self explanatory. I think.
My avatar is me in profile Andy Warhol’d.
My username is what my Daddy called me when he was being silly.

My avatar is a picture of a stuffed toy my son gave me for Easter a few years ago. My name is because in part I try not to take myself too seriously, some people both on here and in real life think I’m a dork, and I like (most of)pre-disney star wars and Darth Vader has ALWAYS been The. Coolest. Ever. No debate allowed. Also my son thinks I’m a dork (cause he’s my son of course) and I’m a Dad before all else, so, Dork Vader
And yes, the Easter Bunny is most definately a Sith Lord. Any parent or dentist could tell you that

So you’re not named after Danny Tanner’s car?

I posted on the earlier thread, but since this is asking about avatars I might as well repeat it.

The Stainless Steel Rat is the leading character of several Science Fiction novels by Harry Harrison. He’s a crook in the far future who is co-opted by the “Special Corps” for various adventures. it’s light reading, but very enjoyable.

Annnd…I don’t have an avator anymore. Need to fix that…

You’ll always be Chazzie-boi to me and the lil’wrekker. (:))

I’m named after the male protagonist of the novel Tigana, by Canadian fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay. I like the book, and back in 2000 it was my go-to alias whenever I signed up for anything online. I’ve considered changing it a few times over the years, but I’ve never gotten around to it.

My avatar is Srulik. As one of this board’s few Israelis, I thought I ought to have something that represents that.

Thorny locust is a tree. It’s an invasive species in many areas (so are humans). It’s very stubborn, and once it’s got its roots in somewhere it’s very hard to get rid of; cut it down and it just grows up again, with more trunks than the first time. Some people don’t like it because it’s stubbornly growing where they don’t want it, and because it’s thorny. Other people love it because it’s also stubborn as a fence post and as firewood: makes great long lasting posts that’ll hold up whatever needs holding up for years and years, burns hot and long and keeps you warm as firewood. Also it’s arguably a nitrogen fixer, thereby feeding the soil.

My avatar is my old strawberry from the snopes boards. I chose it there, originally, out of what was then a selection on offer for the purpose, because most years I grow strawberries (among a lot of other things.) I’m using it over here partly for that reason, partly as a remembrance of the old snopes board community, and partly, to be honest, because doing so saved me the trouble of deciding on and finding something else.

Most places around the web I used my old “biker name” from way before Al Gore invented the internet; Lurker. But the day I decided to register someone had called me a “bad Russian penny” and --------- it sounded like a good idea at the moment.

As for the “born to be shunned” ---- check the pictures in the portrait gallery. I have the look if not the background to pull it off. :smiley:

I had an avatar over the old Yuku boards but I haven’t figured out how to move it here; a nice Howard the Duck. I always liked it but tech just ain’t my bag and I haven’t asked for help yet.

I don’t have an avatar, but my user name is easily explained: My father in law almost never referred to me by name. As far as he was concerned, I was “That longhaired Son of a bitch my daughter married.” I married the Incomparable Sunflower in 1975. In the old, bold and smoky days of dial up AOL, I needed a user name. I have been longhair75 online ever since.

“Two” is a pun on the word “Too”, of course. I happen to believe that two cats are the optimum number of cats to have, but somehow I always wind up with more. I have three at the moment. Two many cats.

Ummmm, that’s Three Many Cats, right? :slight_smile:

Hey, I hadn’t heard of him before. Had to look it up. But apparently he spells his car Bullet.

Beck, glaaaaahhhh :smack: y’all tell that girl she is…just wrong… the descriptor “boi” is not me any more than I think “tri-baddism” is descriptive of you (I don’t think it applies to you, does it? I guess I don’t actually know) If you have to look those up, erm, be fore warned it’s all about mature content and activities.

Ewwwww!
I’ve learned my lesson.
(:))

Back in the days when unix machines ruled the internet, and web pages didn’t really exist yet, my unix .sig was “Electrical engineer, computer geek (er, programmer), and no talent bum musician” (if you don’t know what a .sig is, don’t worry about it - it’s an old unix thing that people used to use to identify themselves). A year or two later, I got my first exposure to these new things called web pages. It was a single computer set up with this newfangled thing they were calling a web browser, and on it was a single page directory of every web page on the entire internet. That should give you an idea of how long ago this was.

A long time later, Yahoo started offering free e-mail accounts. I wanted Engineer_Computer_Geek since that was reasonably close to my .sig, but that was too long, so Engineer_Comp_Geek it became. Just for simplicity I have used that name in most places on the internet since then.

My .sig lives on as my SDMB signature, though I haven’t enabled it in many years.

My avatar is of course Wall-E, which is my favorite movie.