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Well, the pic is taken from Mars' own site and snipped to fit into the avatar spot. It's not really blurry - that's it as it is on their site (snipped from a pack).

but you know - you're right. I'll have to figure out a better one...

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

Mine is a British Railways Standard 'Britannia' class main line express engine, number 70000, the first of the class, taken from the cover of an Ian Allen 1950's trainspotter book 'British Railways Locomotives'.

The illustration I believe is by R.N. Wolstenholme, and although probably cheap and functional at the time, is a style of illustration the I really love.

There is a fantastic source of such illustrations from Ian Allen books, which also covers other modes of transport, cars, lorries, bikes, aircraft and even rockets. http://thefamousabcbooks.pikfu.net/

I change between different icons on Facebook quite a bit, but this one has stayed here for a while.

I rediscovered a childhood love of model railways when found my old Hornby when I cleaned out my dad's loft, also I had to make a model building for a TV show I was working on, and 'Top Gear' also had their 1948 race between the newly built 'Tornado' Thomson A1 steam locomotive, a Jaguar car and a Vincent Black Shadow motorbike. The combination of the above launched me back into model railways and preserved steam and diesel lines.

Or to put it succinctly, I am a geek and proud of it.

Last 2 post are great Maltesers and steam trains , heaven. 

Just me on mine and sometimes my son as well, but ALWAYS in a Tigers jersey........

Perhaps I should put a photo of my Naim gear as my avatar on RailwayModeller (rmweb).

Mine is just Keith from the Rolling Stones.

He didnt need much time in the make up dept.

Stu

Mine is enjoying the lovely green Naim logo while doing a headstand. Or it could be my upside down view of audio! And, NaimUnT was chosen since the Uniti was my first foray to Naim world. I truly enjoyed my time with the Uniti - the simplicity and the innocence. Then came another black box - the 200. And, before long, the Uniti was swapped for a 200 and 202 and NPSC and HiCap2 and NDX and Stageline and now I have 6 boxes!!! How I wished for the simple, uncluttered life!!

I had a picture of HAL9000 but someone else started using it (same picture too!) so I swapped it for something to reflect my origins.....

Were you grown on a woody vine too?

Mine is Frank Zappa - the guy was a genius.

It's our cat, Domino. In a box.

steve

Just a picture of a monkey with headphones. I just kinda liked it!

It's the great man Leonard Cohen looking especially lugubrious

Being Canadian I imagine he must have tried his hand as a lumberjack at some point

Normally, without a puck secured in place, there is only silence (or in my case, hissing speakers ).  The piano rarely, if ever, hisses when left alone and more importantly is not plugged in.  I took this picture shortly after I proved my hypothesis that pucks are not really multipurpose devices.  I simply could not get it to produce music in this fashion. 

Actually, my avatar is a reminder to me about my connection to music, namely, through two primary sources.  First and foremost, it shows an acoustic instrument that is my lifelong passion and one that allows me to create music and enter a world that can not be accessed in any other way.  When I am too tired and need a break, I snap this same puck onto the other black box that gets plugged in so I can enjoy someone else doing the work and experience their point of view in the most realistic terms possible.  Listening feeds my hunger to play but it serves a dual purpose in that I listen for pleasure and also as a means to study a score and analyze music.  For this, it is best to have a system that can provide the clarity of an acoustic instrument. 

Or is it that a silver disc below a puck is that interface point at which the music starts.  Between this and our ears there is a lot of complicated things happening that I don't really need to know about.  What I hear is what's important.  In the same way, the keyboard of a piano is that interface point that your fingers send the signal, through another complicated device so that your ears can interpret the sound waves.  

OK, OK, the non-metaphysical answer is, "it's the puck in C minor."

Finally found a good pic of the other British gear, currently residing in the garage waiting for better, warmer, times. This was taken in 2003, but the Elise has lost nothing in the looks department.

EJ

Mine is the lounge with my lovely pair of Sl2s in front of a church wall , that reminds me of my roots in Denmark . Lived the first 35 years of my life there .

I have been working with or around engineering 3D representations for the last 15 years and I loved it. 

I was trying to find something that would represent a sound wave in a 3 dimensions representation.  Not really what I was looking for, but that's the best I have found in the 2 min. I had allowed me for that task. 

My original was of the original Mr Guido Fawkes, son of Edward. He was an English hero that everybody celebrates on 5th November. He is famous for being the only person to enter the houses of Parliament and trying to carry out what he always told the people he wanted to do. He was unjustly treated afterwards; isn't it always the way 

In attempt to join the digital ages, I modernised it and became 

the character V from V for Vendetta, a comic book series by Alan Moore set in a dystopian UK of the future (written in the 80s, the future was the 90s). V was a revolutionary who fought against a  totalitarian government. Unlike the earlier Mr Fawkes, V succeeded, but that was only fantasy. John Hurt plays the Major Blair style character in the film who V dislikes.  

My current avatar is from 90 Bisodol (Crimond) and is a key element of Tommy Walsh's Eco House. Crimond is the Jessie Seymour Irvine tune featured in brackets after the title "The Lord Is My Shepherd" in almost every wedding order of service. Just to let people know what tune it was going to be sung to on this occasion, as if anyone thought there was another tune. It's also a village in the north east of Scotland, near Peterhead, that I have never been to. 

Bisodol is a relief for heartache and a mixture of Sodium Carbonate and Magnesium Carbonate that sadly is no longer sold in England. This is the type of travesty that Guy Fawkes battled against. The freedom to escape the torture of heartache is surely every Englishman's right, but no: the  totalitarian regime banned it. So now those who suffer with this debilitating ailment are forced to take Gaviscon, which I believe was also a song by Glen Campbell. What ever happened to Bobby Gentry?

Unlike the pictures of the dashing Fawkes, the Bisodol character looks far more like me. In fact some might say he's a dead ringer. 

No longer sold in England ? Have a look at bisodol dot com.   http://www.bisodol.com/buy_online.html