Your avatar...

[TheCacheSeeker]

How and why did you choose your avatar?

[+Shuckymomo]

Just stumbling around the web. Why? Because it's funny if you know the rest...

[+Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat]

it's me and my dog, just like the name

[+mpilchfamily]

My first Interesting Geocoin not counting the U.S. Navy Geocoin, Lighthouses of North Carolina Geocoin and Write Brother's Memorial Geocoin.

[+Har_D]

I have Hardi in my last name so Hardy was one of my nicknames in high school. I chose Oliver Hardy as my avatar because I can relate to some of the mess he gets himself into.

[+EagleRiver_Baileys]

I have 4 five year olds who love to GC, they call it treasure hunting, so I put a pic of them up. Besides, they are much prettier than me!

[+Sharks-N-Beans]

'cause it's a shark-n-beans.

[+GrateBear]

I like the Grateful Dead and Bears. The Dead's bear works just fine!

[NeecesandNephews]

I live in Oklahoma, my wife is Cherokee, and the avatar is a silhouette of a sculpture named "End of the Trail" located in the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

The real sculpture is breathtaking as it stands nearly 17 feet tall!!. The title was apropos in the sense finding the cache is usually at the "end of the trail"

 

edit to add pic

Edited March 29, 2011 by NeecesandNephews

[+Dgwphotos]

It's from the photography webcomic What The Duck.

[+captnemo]

30 years ago I was on my way to camp on Pismo Beach, CA. It was night and the river was running very high. So, I hooked up my 74 dodge sedan to my friends 4X4 and he pulled me thru the river. The water was deeper then the hood of the car and since it was night, my headlights shined under water like in 20,000 leagues under the sea. Got the nickname Capt. Nemo which I just carried over to caching. :rolleyes :

Edited March 29, 2011 by captnemo

[+MikeAndHike]

30 years ago I was on my way to camp on Pismo Beach, CA. It was night and the river was running very high. So, I hooked up my 74 dodge sedan to my friends 4X4 and he pulled me thru the river. The water was deeper then the hood of the car and since it was night, my headlights shined under water like in 20,000 leagues under the sea. Got the nickname Capt. Nemo which I just carried over to caching. :rolleyes :

 

That's awesome!

 

Mine is my handle and the public domain logo and my national emblem. Really self explanatory but I like it. Might tinker with it as time goes by.

[Tahosa and Sons]

Mine is of a special rock outcropping that is way up and way in on the Signal Mtn. Trail. Which we call Tahosa Rock.

Edited March 29, 2011 by Tahosa and Sons

[+moose61]

A big bang, my second hobby...

[knowschad]

My dog, with a pair of my actual glasses (from about 10 years ago) photo-shopped on him.

[+StarBrand]

My Avatar is "the StarBrand" - late 80's short lived Marvel Comics series. The bearer of the the 'brand' had vast superman like powers and the brand could be transferred to others.

[+tarrclan]

My avatar is of me and my family at a reunion.

[+Redfist]

I chose my nickname when I was a kid playing games. I've reused that same nickname for online identities for the last 30 years. I found a graphic of a fist and colored it Red. It suits me.

[+briansnat]

I change fairly regularly, but my current one is of Revolutionary War soldiers. To me, the American Revolution is one of the most fascinating eras in world history and certainly a key one in US history.

[+G & C]

A PT that I had designed for a group that I'm a part of. Reflects something that I love and believe in.

[+snapshot7]

I have been using this same avatar for years (other forums etc) It's Gordon Freeman from Valve's Half-Life PC Game Of The Year in 1998!

[+The Blorenges]

Because Blorenge is the only word that rhymes with orange.

 

The avatar changes occasionally - with the seasons, or to reflect a special day - but it's always orange in some form.

 

MrsB

[+Manville Possum]

My avatar is our personal pathtags image.

[+MikeyG.]

Mine is a pic of Sarge, our loveable old Newfie who passed away several weeks ago. I miss that big ball of hair.

[+Harry Dolphin]

Because it looks just like me!

[+DanOCan]

Mine is a tribute to our old caching Jeep Liberty which met her end after colliding with a deer in December of 2009. She had around 230,000km on her and a lot of those were from caching trips. I'm still looking for a caching vehicle replacement since the Infiniti doesn't handle the backroads quite as well.

[+larryc43230]

Mine's just based on my favorite pair of lovable, crazy cartoon characters.

 

I just changed mine, to avoid possible confusion with that other Calvin-based life form I see on the forums.

 

--Larry

[GOF and Bacall]

Mine changes almost daily. There is a thread in the OT forum for folks to suggest different avatars for me. It's fun to see the zany ideas people come up with.

[Andronicus]

I designed mine. It started out as a camo square with the same colours as the official logo with the public domain logo.

Then when I discovered QR codes, I changed it to a Camo QR code with the same colours as the official logo.

Then as a proof of concept, I added the GPS in the middle to see if it would still work, and there you go. My avitar is a working QR code with cool colours, and a GPS in the middle.

Edited March 29, 2011 by Andronicus

[Mr.Yuck]

I designed mine. It started out as a camo square with the same colours as the official logo with the public domain logo.

Then when I discovered QR codes, I changed it to a Camo QR code with the same colours as the official logo.

Then as a proof of concept, I added the GPS in the middle to see if it would still work, and there you go. My avitar is a working QR code with cool colours, and a GPS in the middle.

 

Yeah, that still works. I don't remember what it says, and I don't have my phone handy, but I remember it working with the GPS in there.

 

Mine is actually animated, and I use it elsewhere on the interwebs. The little stick figure guy douses himself with the gasoline, and lights himself on fire, and runs around. I change it frequently though, not just here, all over the web.

[+Too Tall John]

Mine's my Letterboxing Stamp. This is the second version, the first one I found to be too big for some books. The current stamp is, not coincidentally, about the size of a pink rubber eraser. The original is about three times the "height."

 

Now that I think of it, my stamp being "Too Tall" would have been quite appropriate, don't you think?

Mine is a tribute to our old caching Jeep Liberty which met her end after colliding with a deer in December of 2009. She had around 230,000km on her and a lot of those were from caching trips. I'm still looking for a caching vehicle replacement since the Infiniti doesn't handle the backroads quite as well.

Wow, a deer did that?

Doesn't make me want a Liberty...

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... My avitar is a working QR code with cool colours, and a GPS in the middle.

...I don't remember what it says, and I don't have my phone handy, but I remember it working with the GPS in there. ...

"Brass Cap Junky"

 

Don't need a phone, just an online reader. Copy/paste the url of the image, submit and bingo-bango, there it is!

[Andronicus]

Wow, a deer did that?

Doesn't make me want a Liberty...

You haven't seen the deer around here have you?

[+GeoGeeBee]

Wow, a deer did that?

Doesn't make me want a Liberty...

You haven't seen the deer around here have you?

Here's a quote from 2010 on a local news website:

 

The North Carolina Department of Transportation says 19,300 animal-related crashes were reported each of the last three years, and 90 percent of those involved deer. Since 2007, the incidents have resulted in 3,353 injuries to people, of which 17 were fatal, and nearly $127 million in property damage.

[+Too Tall John]

Wow, a deer did that?

Doesn't make me want a Liberty...

You haven't seen the deer around here have you?

'Round here, we're more concerned with moose. If a deer does that much damage, I'd hate to see how it fares against Alces alces.

Hmm... maybe I'll suggest this pic for GOF & Bacall's avatar. . .

Edited March 29, 2011 by Too Tall John

[GOF and Bacall]

Wow, a deer did that?

Doesn't make me want a Liberty...

You haven't seen the deer around here have you?

'Round here, we're more concerned with moose. If a deer does that much damage, I'd hate to see how it fares against Alces alces.

Hmm... maybe I'll suggest this pic for GOF & Bacall's avatar. . .

 

I've seen worse damage from hitting a whitetail. Remember, most of what was busted there is plastic of composites and the front end is designed to collapse. The whitetail is the deadliest animal in North America.

 

And thanks for the avatar. I'm sure it will make it into the place of honor sooner or later.

[+phillies26]

Mine is really obvious when you look at the username.

[jd-mitchell]

got mine in an email, & i figured that it applied to so much, even caching!

Edited March 29, 2011 by jd-mitchell

[+MoonCatKDT & Peanut]

Well, Being a MoonCat and all, I figured the photo fit!

[+sidekeck]

Wow, a deer did that?

Doesn't make me want a Liberty...

You haven't seen the deer around here have you?

'Round here, we're more concerned with moose. If a deer does that much damage, I'd hate to see how it fares against Alces alces.

Hmm... maybe I'll suggest this pic for GOF & Bacall's avatar. . .

 

I've seen worse damage from hitting a whitetail. Remember, most of what was busted there is plastic of composites and the front end is designed to collapse. The whitetail is the deadliest animal in North America.

 

And thanks for the avatar. I'm sure it will make it into the place of honor sooner or later.

 

When I lived in AK, a friend & his wife were driving home one night, hit a moose and it bounced off the front of their car into the air and landed on the passenger's side roof. Killed his wife. You can't see them on the road, especially with the ice fog, until it's too late.

[+sidekeck]

My avatar is the sidekeck.

[GOF and Bacall]

60mph into a 900lb. moose analog.

 

[+the4dirtydogs]

My wifey found our avatar just searching for things. When I first saw our avatar I was like....................WTF is that? Then I just started laughing, so we left it. Who knows maybe we'll change it some day.

[+Chokecherry]

The pear was inspired by the forum.

[+Ecylram]

Mine is a picture the wife took of me while we were taking some friends to find this particular tunnel cache. (I had done it before.)

[+geekwalrus]

My name is Doug. So why not dig-dug

[knowschad]

The pear was inspired by the forum.

And vice-versa.

[+Michaelcycle]

My avatar is the sidekeck.

 

I or II ?

[+sidekeck]

My avatar is the sidekeck.

 

I or II ?

 

II

[+John in Valley Forge]

My dog, with a pair of my actual glasses (from about 10 years ago) photo-shopped on him.

 

Really? I assumed you really put your glasses on him.

 

 

Mine alternates between pictures of my kid's hamster. I made these after an evening whiled away reading the hamstercaching forums.

 

and a photoshopped image of the Stars and Flowers Forever virtual cache.. It sort of goes with my name.

[+cache_test_dummies]

Mine is a cow that I created myself. It is a reflection of years of classical training and expensive graphics tools. I pushed hard to get my avatar into a prominent location in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but they kept turning down my suggestions, and eventually took out a restraining order against me.

 

Apparently some people, and several courts, have no idea of what "fine art" really is.

 

Anyway, originally, I wanted to use a picture of myself with a mouthful of squid, but briansnat came up with that idea first and I didn't want to seem like a copycat.