What is your avatar and why did you choose it?

[_Trevor]

Mine is the last pagan emperor of the Roman Empire, Julian the Apostate. He was raised Christian and converted to "Hellenism." As emperor he tried to promote Hellenism and he stripped away Christianity's special imperial privileges and imperial monetary support. He died after reigning 3 short years, and all of his "reforms" came to nothing.

I chose him because I do Roman history, because Christianity sometimes irks me, and because I am a sucker for lost causes.

[_barrelomonkeys]

I guess this thread finally prompted me to get an avatar. Being the original sort of guy that I am, I decided to use the same avatar that I use on MAAD. I use photos of corny and cookie, simply because I love them, and aspire to be more like them.

cacheman

PS, I was going to use my own photo, but I'm not smart enough to figure out how.

Cacheman, what's the problem with your own photo? Does it need to be resized? Bond could help you out, I'm certain.

[_msnobody]

I just sort of seemed to fit. Well, except for the gender.

edit--- I guess it is really without gender now that I look at it.

[_cacheman]

Cacheman, what's the problem with your own photo? Does it need to be resized? Bond could help you out, I'm certain.

Yeah. I've got a photo, that I put on my webpage, but when I tried toupload it, it was too large. I'm working on an old computer at home, and I don't have any software that can change the size. (not even mspaint:0)

cacheman

[_Runtu]

You know, I was just thinking that charity's avatar is also the background on my computer at home, though sometimes it's this picture of the Cochabamba Bolivia Temple

[_Loquacious Lurker]

Easy. I picked it because it's sexy.

[_Infymus]

I call out my own name.

Woops, that's DCP... (I mean, comon, picture it, fat bald guy, calling out his own name.. Oh Daniel.. Oh Daniel...) of course, that is while he is writing his latest 10 thousand word response to why worms in South America were not mentioned in the Book of Mormon proper.

Mine is of course, myself, with absolutely no shame.

[_Mister Scratch]

I, too, am using my actual photo.

Okay, okay. I believe I've said this elsewhere, but I selected The Architect from the Matrix films as an homage to two of my all-time favorite posters: exegete and Rollo Tomasi. I also picked The Architect since the views he expresses in The Matrix Reloaded remind me a great deal of "the Mormon Condition." Ray A has said of me that I seem like a "dour prosecutor," so I guess I selected the proper avatar.

[_richardMdBorn]

Mine is my father receiving a medal from the President.

[_barrelomonkeys]

Mine is my father receiving a medal from the President.

I've always wondered what was going on in your avatar pic. What a wonderful avatar to have! :)