[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', ' ')the whole sham of it all

[joewp]

There's some interesting avatars on po.com and I'm wondering what they mean to the posters. Like art, where the viewer might mis-interpret what the artist meant, avatars might get confused interpretations too.

So why did you pick that avatars (or series of avatars), everybody?



My earliest memory of a gas station was a Sinclair station "down at the corner", ironically in easy walking distance from my house. Being a 4 or 5 year old in the very early 1960s, dinosaurs were very important to me and that sign stuck in my brain all these years. Those were some heady times, with Kennedy vowing to put a man on the moon, and creating the Peace Corps, we thought it could only get better and better and the "developing" world only needed to follow our example and all humanity could live like us. It was a simpler time, that's for sure. It just seemed possible back then.

Call it nostalgia for when we were stupid, and limits meant nothing. Ignorance was bliss.

[Tyler_JC]

American Express rejected my credit card application and then something funny that I can't remember happened.

It's kind of an inside joke that no longer makes sense.

I should probably change it...

[steam_cannon]

I switch around with different avatar now and then. They are pictures of projects I have worked on and posted articles on my website. Usually creative hacks I've worked out that other people so far missed. Climbing gear, lenses, photography, rockets, floating sails, robots, pottery... Amusing things.

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', ' ')Also, partially a tribute to "Possum Living", putatively by Dolly Freed.

[pea-jay]

I modified the california flag to bring it up to date


It's ironic though. The very animal picture depicted in the flag, the Grizzly Bear is actually extinct in the state.

[pea-jay]

I modified the california flag to bring it up to date


It's ironic though. The very animal picture depicted in the flag, the Grizzly Bear is actually extinct in the state.

THere seems to be two threads for this subject, BTW

[Omnitir]

Space avatars, because:

1. I'm a fan of all things space
2. Similar to Gazzatrone and the Enterprise avatar; a representation of where we should be by now
3. Where we need to get if our species is to survive for more than a geological blink of an eye
4. Where my head is a lot of the time
5. Annoy the Luddites.

[davep]

My original one was the cover of "Edible Forest Gardens".

My current one is an attempt to highlight the phony wisdom of our current leaders. Either that, or I think a dog dressed up as Yoda is funny.

[Tuike]

Tuike is twinkling or twinkle in English. My avatar is like a twinkling candle.

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'D')ino, dinopello, dino, dinosaur, dinosaur - extinction, oil. Plus he's cute, loyal and happy with a sense of humor, wagging his tail.

[Daculling]

I like to masturbate.

[JoeW]

Meaning behind my avatar:

I am financially independent, and spend a great deal of time driving my smart fortwo all over the United States with the Peak Oil logo on the side to draw attention to the issue.

Not really. One of the guys at work was giving me grief when I told him I was looking forward to seeing all the small cars that were coming to the US. I sent him the doctored picture of the smart fortwo with me behind the wheel and the Peak Oil logo on the side.

[Fredrik]

A narrow river connecting two lakes near my summer cottage.

An illustration of the rural environment that I fear (and hope) many will be relocated into.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PeakOiler', 'T')he oil soot pic is explained via the link in my signature.

I felt the image was an appropriate symbol of our possible future: it sort of looks like a dead, lifeless planet with holes blown into it. The black and white picture is also appropriate, but that's really just because the image was created by electrons and not photons.

[cynicalheretic]

The two cows represent the numbers 1 & 2
which are the cosmological equivelent of the relationships between the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet ... Now by blah blah, we can see that these ...

lol


Mine just represents how the world is fucking themselves to oblivion.

[PeakOiler]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PeakOiler', 'T')he oil soot pic is explained via the link in my signature.

I felt the image was an appropriate symbol of our possible future: it sort of looks like a dead, lifeless planet with holes blown into it. The black and white picture is also appropriate, but that's really just because the image was created by electrons and not photons.

[WisJim]

It is part of our electrical production system--12 PV panels, with the wind generator at the top of the hill, visible through the orchard.

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WisJim', 'I')t is part of our electrical production system--12 PV panels, with the wind generator at the top of the hill, visible through the orchard.

[Narz]

Because love & the comforting of our loved ones is one of the most important things in life.

People will be forced into appreciating this in the future.

However you die, huddled in a alleyway, on a battlefield, in a hospital bed in some McNursingHome somewhere if you have comfort and love it's not so bad.

I think many doomers are too obsessed with "I must survive" at the expense of why. Not to say the how isn't important, that's why I'm learning to plant trees, catch water and build things now but you should always remember why you're doing it too, and who for.

That's my hand & my cat BTW (if you hadn't guessed), I might have had my hand on my girlfriend instead but I couldn't choose which part of her body to fit in the pic.