Real-life Avatars

[Stella_Omega]

Raging head cold. Get them every five years or so--this one from too much mingling at a book festival, I think. Dragged to the computer in the middle of a sleepless night to cancel all my Sunday activities and looked in here--and saw some obviously real-life avatars of folks who I pictured much (much) differently. I would have preferred not being enlightened. Not all, of course, and some have had real-life/closely representative avatars long enough that I do picture them that way.

I'm not much into avatars anyway. (And wouldn't know how to post one if I knew where to get a good one--that wasn't covered by someone else's copyright).

Send me your pic, and I'll photoshop a Zorro mask on it for you.

There are plenty of copyright-free images sources as well. I use those as a base for all kinds of manipulations

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SR71PLT is a cross between Wally Cox and Shirley Temple. Strangest goddamn combination youve ever seen.

 

[tickledkitty]

Hmmm...

*Wonders if we could look back to see who else was posting at 4:50 a.m. and figure out who our darling pilot was referring to.*

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Bear, at least you use safari, don't you? IE has become... better. But all the better it's become has been by lifting elements from firefox. And that microsoft link means IE will never get rid of the corporate slave stuff. And it's some of that corporate slave stuff that makes it and your PC so insanely vulnerable to viruses etc.

I'm using Safari when I've got the Mac on but at the PC, still use IE. I know this sounds really, really dim . . . but . . . can you use Safari on a PC?

 

[sr71plt]

You can always take a picture yourself and learn how to put it up, but if you're not interested, then... *shrug*

I'm not sure what your point is in this context. I'm sure my picture wouldn't match my posting image here, either. My picture is all over the Internet--just not in this context, heaven forbid.

You sound a little defensive. What's wrong in noting that people's actual-picture avatars destroy the image I have of them? It's fine if they don't care, but is there is reason why they shouldn't be told this to consider? (As I've noted before, however, JBJ's actual-picture image matches my impression perfectly--which is yet another reason I wonder why he posts it. )

 

[Guest]

I'm not sure what your point is in this context. I'm sure my picture wouldn't match my posting image here, either. My picture is all over the Internet--just not in this context, heaven forbid.

You sound a little defensive. What's wrong in noting that people's actual-picture avatars destroy the image I have of them? It's fine if they don't care, but is there is reason why they shouldn't be told this to consider? (As I've noted before, however, JBJ's actual-picture image matches my impression perfectly--which is yet another reason I wonder why he posts it. )

Okay, I took him off ignore long enough to peek.

I figured it would be the naked Oatmeal guy, but it's something even more hideous.

Back on ignore. Life's too short.

 

[sr71plt]

Send me your pic, and I'll photoshop a Zorro mask on it for you.

There are plenty of copyright-free images sources as well. I use those as a base for all kinds of manipulations

Someone did make an avatar for me once that suited me perfectly. Unfortunately, it's around on so many boards attached to my true name that I couldn't use it here. So I do without. That suits me too.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

What? You don't think I look like this? Ask anyone at Chicago, its a perfect match!

 

[freshface]

Raging head cold. Get them every five years or so--this one from too much mingling at a book festival, I think.

If you only get them every five years, I don't have a lot of sympathy. A year without bronchitis is unusual. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[tickledkitty]

What? You don't think I look like this? Ask anyone at Chicago, its a perfect match!

*nods*

Yes. Perfect.

 

[sr71plt]

Okay, I took him off ignore long enough to peek.

I figured it would be the naked Oatmeal guy, but it's something even more hideous.

Back on ignore. Life's too short.

No, he had his true picture up about two iterations ago (he uses it occasionally). No shirt, but shot from shoulders up (thank god), gray hair and mustache, that pasty-faced, gimpy-eyed "I'm in my Laz-Y-Boy, get me a Bud and a rifle, Mildred, there's revenooers on the front porch" look.

 

[LadyKiki]

I'm not sure what your point is in this context. I'm sure my picture wouldn't match my posting image here, either. My picture is all over the Internet--just not in this context, heaven forbid.

You sound a little defensive. What's wrong in noting that people's actual-picture avatars destroy the image I have of them? It's fine if they don't care, but is there is reason why they shouldn't be told this to consider? (As I've noted before, however, JBJ's actual-picture image matches my impression perfectly--which is yet another reason I wonder why he posts it. )

There's nothing wrong with noting it. Just as there's nothing wrong with the other people knowing it full well and putting themselves up anyway because they prefer that you not create an image of them.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm using Safari when I've got the Mac on but at the PC, still use IE. I know this sounds really, really dim . . . but . . . can you use Safari on a PC?

Yes

And you can use firefox crossplatform as well

 

[tickledkitty]

No, he had his true picture up about two iterations ago (he uses it occasionally). No shirt, but shot from shoulders up (thank god), gray hair and mustache, that pasty-faced, gimpy-eyed "I'm in my Laz-Y-Boy, get me a Bud and a rifle, Mildred, there's revenooers on the front porch" look.

That made me snort. No, really.


(Oh, no...here it comes. He'll probably make a comment about me looking like Shrek or something. )

 

[sr71plt]

If you only get them every five years, I don't have a lot of sympathy. A year without bronchitis is unusual. Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks. Me too. Had to leave church high and dry without a soloist this morning, cancel a publishing workshop, beg out on a memorial service for a former professor, and back out of a three-hour Oratorio Society rehearsal of Verdi's Requiem. About the only thing saved is watching Celebrity Apprentice, which is a dubious save.

 

[sr71plt]

There's nothing wrong with noting it. Just as there's nothing wrong with the other people knowing it full well and putting themselves up anyway because they prefer that you not create an image of them.

Well, as long as you don't object to me noting it . . . which is all I did.

 

[sr71plt]

Hmmm...

*Wonders if we could look back to see who else was posting at 4:50 a.m. and figure out who our darling pilot was referring to.*

That research would probably actually work.

 

[freshface]

Hmmm...

*Wonders if we could look back to see who else was posting at 4:50 a.m. and figure out who our darling pilot was referring to.*

The AH is a tomb at 4:50 his time. It dies at about about 1 AM Eastern Time and starts picking up again around 7 AM Eastern. For me that translates into little activity from 6 AM until after lunch. It is conducive to working though.

 

[Guest]

No, he had his true picture up about two iterations ago (he uses it occasionally). No shirt, but shot from shoulders up (thank god), gray hair and mustache, that pasty-faced, gimpy-eyed "I'm in my Laz-Y-Boy, get me a Bud and a rifle, Mildred, there's revenooers on the front porch" look.

Tea spew, damn it.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I read somewhere that all the misery of a cold is the result of an over-blown allergy reaction. The cold virus that triggers this creates one sore somewhere in your air tract-- sinus, throat, bronchial tube, and is self-limiting, and all that misery can be completely alleviated with antihistamines-- unfortunately, only the kind that makes you go to sleep standing up. Like, claritin won't work.

So the rest of the symptoms can be treated individually with palliatives ,and you want to prevent secondary infections. My routine is; zinc coughdrops for the sore throat-- as much zinc as you can stand-- till your throat's too galvanised to support alian life forms.
Plus vitamins C, D, calcium-magnesium-potassium and B if you really need a shot in the arm
Pseudofed, or pseudo-pseudofed, to keep the mucous running out of your nose instead of down your throat.
Total cough suppressant at night, and a really long hot shower in the morning to get that mucous buildup the hell out of your lungs.
And I keep a athsma inhalor around for really rough bronchitis days, to be used with care.
Plenty of the NSAID of your choice for the rest of the symptoms

Seems to work, anyway...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I read somewhere that all the misery of a cold is the result of an over-blown allergy reaction. The cold virus that triggers this creates one sore somewhere in your air tract-- sinus, throat, bronchial tube, and is self-limiting, and all that misery can be completely alleviated with antihistamines-- unfortunately, only the kind that makes you go to sleep standing up. Like, claritin won't work.

So the rest of the symptoms can be treated individually with palliatives ,and you want to prevent secondary infections. My routine is; zinc coughdrops for the sore throat-- as much zinc as you can stand-- till your throat's too galvanised to support alian life forms.
Plus vitamins C, D, calcium-magnesium-potassium and B if you really need a shot in the arm
Pseudofed, or pseudo-pseudofed, to keep the mucous running out of your nose instead of down your throat.
Total cough suppressant at night, and a really long hot shower in the morning to get that mucous buildup the hell out of your lungs.
And I keep a athsma inhalor around for really rough bronchitis days, to be used with care.
Plenty of the NSAID of your choice for the rest of the symptoms

Seems to work, anyway...

Simple-minded sort that I am, I just drink a half-gallon of hot grapefruit juice and sleep it off. Of course, that does use up sick days I'd rather spend playing . . .

 

[sr71plt]

I read somewhere that all the misery of a cold is the result of an over-blown allergy reaction. The cold virus that triggers this creates one sore somewhere in your air tract-- sinus, throat, bronchial tube, and is self-limiting, and all that misery can be completely alleviated with antihistamines-- unfortunately, only the kind that makes you go to sleep standing up. Like, claritin won't work.

So the rest of the symptoms can be treated individually with palliatives ,and you want to prevent secondary infections. My routine is; zinc coughdrops for the sore throat-- as much zinc as you can stand-- till your throat's too galvanised to support alian life forms.
Plus vitamins C, D, calcium-magnesium-potassium and B if you really need a shot in the arm
Pseudofed, or pseudo-pseudofed, to keep the mucous running out of your nose instead of down your throat.
Total cough suppressant at night, and a really long hot shower in the morning to get that mucous buildup the hell out of your lungs.
And I keep a athsma inhalor around for really rough bronchitis days, to be used with care.
Plenty of the NSAID of your choice for the rest of the symptoms

Seems to work, anyway...

I'm fighting this with Tylenol night/day capsules, Halls Cough Drops, and orange juice (which is doing havoc with my carbs count). Trying like hell to keep it from going to the chest, as I have too much vocal work coming up to let it have its way. I have these so rarely that I don't know what to do about them too well--the last time I had it this bad, I was at a family reunion in a hidden valley in Colorado, a five-hour drive from the nearest drugstore. Wheezed and sneezed and coughed all the way to Yellowstone Park. (Although I found a drug store in Green River, Wyoming, which was minor miracle in itself if you've ever been there--despite this being where J.C. Penny got his start).

 

[michchick98]

Firefox is worth switching to, PERIOD.

I can't believe anyone actually uses IE anymore.

I agree, but with my computer being a dinosaur, there are times I have to use IE for certain things because Firefox goes all wonky on me, even with the most updated version.

But Adblock is a wonderful thing. I can block some AVs and not others with a couple clicks.

 

[damppanties]

I'm not sure what your point is in this context. I'm sure my picture wouldn't match my posting image here, either. My picture is all over the Internet--just not in this context, heaven forbid.

You sound a little defensive. What's wrong in noting that people's actual-picture avatars destroy the image I have of them? It's fine if they don't care, but is there is reason why they shouldn't be told this to consider? (As I've noted before, however, JBJ's actual-picture image matches my impression perfectly--which is yet another reason I wonder why he posts it. )

My point was that I like AVs and not knowing how to put it up and not having anything that isn't copyrighted by someone else is not reason enough not to have one. A good reason not to have one is not caring enough to put one up. I'd like to see you with an AV. Actually, didn't you have one at some point?

Nah. I'm not defensive. I'm just suffering from a case of the blahs today. Can't be bothered to be bothered about anything. You can totally tell me I don't match your mind-image of me, but I'd be more interested in how your mind-image is, rather than just being told it doesn't match.

 

[sr71plt]

My point was that I like AVs and not knowing how to put it up and not having anything that isn't copyrighted by someone else is not reason enough not to have one. A good reason not to have one is not caring enough to put one up. I'd like to see you with an AV. Actually, didn't you have one at some point?

No, I've never had an avatar here. wouldn't know how to put one up. Can't even figure out how to put any of my book covers up. Was a major accomplishment figuring out how to put in a signature line. A technological dope.