What does your name/avatar mean?

[dpseadvr]

deep sea diver avatar is me on a stage on the Monitor project.

[Nighthawk]

My name? It goes back to the trip that my friend David and I took to Taos, New Mexico after we graduated high school. Dave’s mother had a rare bird aviary, and Dave spent the entire year collecting the feather. We took 10 pounds (!!!) of feather to trade with the Pueblo natives. We got a wonderful handmade piece pipe and some wonderful tobacco to smoke out of it, a deer bone choker, and numerous other things. One of the Pueblos that I was hanging out with started calling me Flies With The Night Hawks, so I kept the name as my Pagan name and shortened it to be internet friendly. My avatar- it's the Wolfe family tartan. My grandmother was a Wolfe.

[Ian.MacAllan]

The name: Ian and my legal given name are different forms of the same name; MacAllan because my father's given name was Allen and I sometimes take liberties with spelling, especially when there's an historical precedent for it. The avatar is a symbol of SimplyMEPIS, my favorite distribution of Linux.

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[davecolorado72]

My id is obvious, avatar is one of my heroes.

[Makeitstop]

My name should be pretty self explanatory:

[Sciuropterus]

Sciuropterus is an older taxonomy classification for some species of Flying Squirrels, it is not generally used anymore. I raise and exhibit flying squirrels, they are neat little animals.

I designed the clan crest several years ago.

This is Elvis, one of our Flying Squirrels, in full attack mode:



I also have some experience with gray squirrels, they are great to work with

[IndianaGentry]

My name is the product of one nickname being morphed into another. Since I grew up at the racetrack, I have many friends who only see me a couple of times a year when the races are in town. As a result, I am often called "Indy." While talking with some friends about the trips I've taken and things I've done (hiked the arctic circle, flown aerobatics, participated in the Baja 1000, etc.), one of my friends commented that "he's like a modern Indiana Jones!" Another friend corrected him- "No, he's Indiana GENTRY!" (My last name is Gentry.) It stuck.

Now I'm in the very slow process of setting up a website (www.IndianaGentry.com) where I can post about travel, and hopefully get feedback from other travellers. It is a slow process, though.

My avatar is a picture of me in the pits at the Indy 500.

[PaulX608]

PaulX608 is a screen name I've used for everything everywhere on the web. Paul is my first name, X is my middle initial (for Xenophon), and 608 was my great grandfather's (Paul X. Renne, after whom I was named) favorite number. My avatar is me and my '93 400E on my first day kilted, smiling like an excited kid.

[rdjmchris]

rd is for the Red Devils: the nickname of the Airborne unit I was in at the time I started on the internet
jm is for Jump Master: my favorite duty in said Airborne unit and one of my proudest accomplishments
chris is my first name

My avatar is the tartan for the 7th Cavalry Regiment, Custer's regiment and the only regiment in the US Army to have its own tartan. It was made up of a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrants. I went to Iraq and commanded a company with this regiment.

[Gryphon noir]

The avitar I've been using was a coat of arms possibly associated with my family. The usual crest is a black griffon [not a pegasus], hence I used the name 'Gryphon Sable' but soon found it would be horribly misspelled and distorted. So--I modified it to Gryphon noir.

I recently tried to scan in an image of a black gryphon, but it didn't appear in the file I thought I put it in. Looks like I got the corresponding number in another file.....Technomoron strikes again! ......oh well, I'll leave it for now.

What is it? It's a picture of restored BC Electric interurban #1231, built in 1912 by the St. Louis Car Co. I'm one of the crew on summer weekends.