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Look for Allyn Gibson around the ‘net, and chances are there’s a little South Park<\/i> Allyn attached to the posting. Which is fine, but I’ve been using some variant on that venerable icon for a number of years. I needed a new look.<\/p>\nLook for Allyn Gibson around the ‘net, and chances are there’s a little South Park<\/i> Allyn attached to the posting. Which is fine, but I’ve been using some variant on that venerable icon for a number of years. I needed a new look.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided to use a variant of that on TrekBBS<\/a>. I can’t post the actual image here, however — it’s a transparent .gif, and you wouldn’t actually see<\/i> anything. Suffice it to say, it looks nice on the blue background TrekBBS uses, and I’m happy with it. I think it may confuse people, but it’s me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n And there’s an oddball one I sometimes use on LiveJournal as well. It’s my name. As if through a fisheye lens. I think of it, though, as more of the Eye of Allyn, staring out from my fortress in the heart of Mordor. The One Ring not included, of course.<\/p>\n That’s the round-up of my current icon usage around the ‘Net-iverse.<\/p>\n Completely pointless information, right? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Look for Allyn Gibson around the ‘net, and chances are there’s a little South Park Allyn attached to the posting. Which is fine, but I’ve been using some variant on that venerable icon for a number of years. I needed a new look. I’d branched out maybe a year ago; I started using my name,Continue reading “On New Avatars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[61,478,220,4099,477,217],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-charles-schulz","tag-doctor-pooh","tag-fourth-doctor","tag-peanuts","tag-south-park","tag-winnie-the-pooh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/graphics\/tengwar.gif\")
I’d branched out maybe a year ago; I started using my name, written using Tolkien’s Tengwar writing system, as my personal icon on the Psi Phi bulletin board<\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/draftsauronpac.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/4thdoctor.jpg\")
On the SimonSays bulletin board<\/a> I’ve changed over to a nifty image of the fourth Doctor, as Charles Schulz might have rendered him. That image comes from here<\/a> — I really quite like it.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/draftsauronpac.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/drpooh.jpg\")
And on LiveJournal, I’ve been using Doctor Pooh for comments. I discovered an unfinished fanfic story of Doctor Pooh — unrelated to Peter David’s “The TARDIS at Pooh Corner” — online a few years ago, and it featured an image of the E.H. Sheppard Pooh dressed in a jacket reminiscent of that worn by the first Doctor. I snagged the image because I liked it, and I’ve never seen the story again, and I can’t really credit the art to anyone.<\/p>\n