Well, since jase left his beloved
FC Middlesbrough, and Aviationwiz has ditched his old politicians, it's time to think about a new avatar too. One possibility is to use a flag or coat of arms with personal connotations, as jase has done, and like
Aviationwiz has gone back to. This could be
![Image](http://www.recreationsaskatchewan.com/images/skflag.jpg)
. . or . .
![Image](http://www.ludwig-erhard-schule-ffm.de/images/frankfum.gif)
.
At the height of the avatar wars, I prepared this one (mainly to see how CDRecorder would react
![:wink:](http://www.cdrlabs.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
):
![Image](http://people.freenet.de/gfhgpage/cdrpics/3cds.png)
with possible escalation to ...
![Image](http://people.freenet.de/gfhgpage/cdrpics/3cdsx.png)
... or ...
but after
cfitz' classic post, things cooled off a bit and there was no reason to use them. Other possibilities are related to my moniker, like this one
![Image](http://people.freenet.de/gfhgpage/cdrpics/mr_roast.jpeg)
(I have a few of these stached to use later.
![:wink:](http://www.cdrlabs.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
)
Because of a recent astronomical highlight, I'll use a shot of the solar corona I took during the total eclipse of 11 Aug. 1999. I was lucky to get it, because clouds obscured things shortly before totality (and partly during the total phase too):
Neighbouring towns were even worse off because it rained!
![:evil:](http://www.cdrlabs.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)
Getting a picture through this partially opaque
medium was a
rare piece of luck.
So, bye bye
![Image](http://people.freenet.de/gfhgpage/cdrpics/gypsy-w-crystal-ball.jpg)
(gypsy medium), hello corona.
G