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I love the story behind both your username and your avatar! :)My name: Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline. And seeing as I don't really wear makeup, we'll go with the first one. As for my avatar, don't get used to it, it'll change - Most likely next year. This one, however, is an art piece I found via google. The link is in the comments in the thread for the picture in my profile. :) I try to keep all of my userpics book/reading related.
I'll have the most boring post in this thread.That's my name, that's my picture.
Christa wrote: "I'll have the most boring post in this thread.That's my name, that's my picture."
I wouldn't call that boring. I would call that efficient! :D
Well -- you see my mom was a big Tolkien geek and... Not! I'm pretty sure she's never even read the books - I made her watch the movies though.Actually - before I joined goodreads I did one of those online name translator games. You know - put your real name in and see what your elf name is - or dwarf. And I got Nienna. I thought it was pretty and it stuck.
I found out its a Tolkien character from The Silmarillion - which I still have not read by the way - afterwards I found this pic on pininterest of the character. Don't know the artist but I thought it was pretty.
So now you know my secret... Lol.
I'm boring too :-)Dawn is my name, and my user pic is a photo of my fiancé and I, our save the date.
My name is Nan and my user pic is one of my cartoon animals.
mother wanted to name me to be Marc Anthony, after the singer. Father wanted me Michael Anthony after bassist of Van Halen. Father won lol the only thing he's ever won against my mother. Picture is me, shall change as I get bored haha
Well, when I was getting married I used to hang out at this website called WeddingWire - and "Joseph" became my real last name. We all used our "soon to be" last names on WW (wedding wire) so when I left wedding wire and moved to MR, the name stuck since its really me.The avatar is a pic of a t-shirt. It says, "Pretty in Pink and Strong as FcensoredK." I love to workout - specifically weightlifting and dance. I do a little running (jogging) but my knees don't care for running. My goal is to get my deadlift up to about 230lbs and my squat to about 180-200. I hurt myself last year so I'm still in recovery mode. My deadlift PR is 140 and my squat PR is 135.
I changed to this avatar because the F**K has the "censored" in it - reflecting my annoyance with the changes GR made to the review and shelving systems.
My name is Chris, so that part is easy. The picture is of Jaime Lannister, from Game of Thrones. Just because...I tried Jon Snow but it didn't fit me.
My name is my nick name, which is short for my real name which is Allison. Literary Escapist best describes my reading style.The picture is of my amaaaaaaaaaaaazing pet rabbit, Neko. Using him as my picture means I get to see him pretty much all day and that makes me smile.
I guess I should have a go too :)My avatar I found on the internet, and I love dragons so there it is :)
My name is a little more complicated... I've used it for about 7 years now I think. It originates from my World of Warcraft days. I'm really, really bad at thinking of names to call characters in games. One day I wanted to make a new character and couldn't think of yet another name - randomly I picked cheezedoodle. Which I used for a while cause I thought it was funny... Decided I liked the word 'doodle' and somewhere along the way 'panda' got attached to it. Don't ask me where I got that from, I have no idea. Probably random firing of the synapses in my brain. It happens. Often.
Though I think I probably share a lot of qualities with the panda, so it's all good :)
Lol.That reminds me. Back when I played a lot of Xbox I needed to come up with an avatar name when I switched my profile to a Live account. I needed a unique name and my mind was blank.
I had just gotten 2 kittens. Brothers from the same litter. Before they came home we had been calling them Pudge (Lilo&Stitch) and Doodle Bug. So - I called myself Doodlepudge2.
Yeah... Btw - the boys got "real" names when they came home. Goku (Dragon Ball) and Angel. Though - sometimes I do like to tease my Goku that he could've been Pudge. Lol.
My name is Paolo, and my pic is me near the summit of Iztaccíhuatl which is a volcano near Mexico City where I live (and the 8th highest peak in North America). My friend took the pic after we had turned around from the summit and started hiking down. The volcano you can see in the background is called Popocatepetl (5th highest peak in NA); hiking near that one is prohibited since it´s an active volcano. You can see smoke coming out of the crater. On clear days (rare around here, today is not one of them) I can see both peaks from my office window, around 100 kms away.
Agreed. It's beautiful!
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colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!
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My name is Colleen. The current spelling is a homage to e.e. cummings as I've become obsessed with a quote I recently rediscovered, from which the words come in the paranthesis. Full quote:
The pic is me from Halloween.
DoodlePanda wrote: "My name is a little more complicated... I've used it for about 7 years now I think. It originates from my World of Warcraft days. I'm really, really bad at thinking of names to call characters in games. One day I wanted to make a new character and couldn't think of yet another name - randomly I picked cheezedoodle. "You were never in a guild with a guy called Aucald, were you?
That name sounds familiar...
c.o.lleen ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "My name is Colleen. The current spelling is a homage to e.e. cummings as I've become obsessed with a quote I recently rediscovered, from which the words come in the paranthesis. Full quote:
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I love it!
i'm really loving everyone's reasoning and everything :) ..wish mine was that inventive XD
^But you're an author, I'm not sure I'd want to read a book by someone I thought was a cartoon or a giant robot or a fluffy kitty. Okay, horror written by a fluffy kitty might peak my interest.
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Okay, horror written by a fluffy kitty might peak my interest."Yeah, me too. A fluffy robot would be even better.
true, but still haha I like to have my fun a bit :)as for fluffy kitty writing horror...shall take it into consideration haha
Can't wait to read that fluffy robot kitten horror! :)
Homeinmyshoes wrote: "^I love the picture."MrsJoseph wrote: "Agreed. It's beautiful!"
Thanks guys :) I didn't even know it was taken til much later that day.
And I loved the quote and how you workerd e.e.'s style into your name Colleen!
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colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!
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Thanks. :)I'm thinking of getting it tat'd. Have to decide where and how, though.
The photo is of me with my furry babies. It's 2 - 3 years old, so pretty close to what I look like. The pups have grown and we've added a third to the mix. Yes, we're done ;)
My avatar is lifted from the cover art of 'Welcome to the Jungle', a graphic novel version of an urban fantasy series written by my favorite author of the 21st century, Jim Butcher. I picked this one because Harry is not wearing a hat. My username is the name of a computer bulletin board system (BBS) that I ran quite a few years ago in the days of dial-up modems.
Michelle is who i actually am, and the avatar pic is the dog i had through vet school and beyond, sitting on my physiology text book looking all attentive like she was the one reading about it.
My username comes from Dougal Dixon's "The Future is Wild" TV series. My avatar is a frilled lizard, the present day model for cryptiles.
Paolo wrote: "My name is Paolo, and my pic is me near the summit of Iztaccíhuatl which is a volcano near Mexico City where I live (and the 8th highest peak in North America). My friend took the pic after we had ..."Thanks for your story. That is a great picture.
My name is Leita. My avatar and user name come from a previous work place. I worked for 'NASA' in shuttle payload operations software for a while and the picture is of the shuttle.
Spacechik wrote: "My name is Leita. My avatar and user name come from a previous work place. I worked for 'NASA' in shuttle payload operations software for a while and the picture is of the shuttle."I like it! Thanks for sharing, Leita.
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Spacechik wrote: "My name is Leita. My avatar and user name come from a previous work place. I worked for 'NASA' in shuttle payload operations software for a while and the picture is of the shuttle."Have you read The Martian yet?! Loved it! I heard a lot of astronauts and/or people associated with NASA are big fans of the book.
I haven't read THE MARTIAN yet. It's on my list to read. Thanks.
My name is AlbertaCowboy, mostly because I live in Alberta, Canada, and I ride horses and have done a fair bit of ranch work over the years. Plus I wear cowboy boots. (And it's my name over at Mobileread, which was the first forum I ever joined, and I kept the name)My avatar is a picture of my beautiful daughter who just recently turned 1!!!
Albertacowboy wrote: "My name is AlbertaCowboy, mostly because I live in Alberta, Canada, and I ride horses and have done a fair bit of ranch work over the years. Plus I wear cowboy boots. (And it's my name over at Mobi..."Tell her Happy Birthday!
If I told you you wouldn't have the satisfaction of figuring it out...or making up your own reason and attributing it to me...
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Home In My Shoes was a song written by a Canadian blues guitarist named Amos Garrett. Well, actually it was "I Make My Home in My Shoes". I adapted the last four words and removed the spaces as my Internet moniker about a decade ago.
I've moved around a lot and I am reasonably upbeat. Whie the song itself is about the homeless I find the lyrics also speak to me about making my home wherever I end up. So I make whereever I am my home.
My avatar is a giant robot. Specifically it is a giant robot from a piece of street graffiti on a mailbox in St. John's, Newfoundland. I liked it and we know that outside of Godzilla the thing that any city by the ocean fears is a giant robot.