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My avatar is the car I always wanted to own (E46 M3 CSL in black), but I “only” made it to the E46 M3 instead. The CSL model variant was limited; the value of these cars in great condition have increased significantly.
Due to age/daily driving requirements of my current vehicle I’d have to replace it soon. Looking at a M4 right now.

I added some FW3A flashlights to my sig...

I’m a moth, and I’m attracted to lights.

I just updated my avatar. I tried to copy the style of my original one. But I used a new photo of myself as the base for it. So, my avatar has gotten “older” now. :stuck_out_tongue:

For a long time, my avatar has been a spinning umbrella.

Before then, it was a static umbrella.

"And now for something completely different."

Years ago I found this image:

It has nothing to do with BudgetLightForum, except for the letters BLF.

I don't remember which organization it was for, but I liked this image.

It's not perfect, for my taste, so I did some very simple image editing and came up with this:

And here's the shrunken version:

It's simple, and we'll see just how long it will be before I get sick of it.

Mine is from a 1994 Pink Floyd album cover, "The Division Bell". For me it's two talking heads speaking past each other. It was appropriate for a current events/politics forum I used to participate in. I'd change it, but I haven't found anything I like better.

Make it twirl around.

My avatar is George Greenough on a surf mat, on a wave. I chose it because surfing, that is surfing on a mat, is one of my favorite things to do. I just got back from surfing at Rincon, a bit of hurricane swell. I don’t plan on changing my favorite activity, or my avatar any time soon.

I lol’d. :smiley:

RC, you should make it beat instead! :partying_face:

1. I love (American) football and I was born and raised in New Orleans La.

2. It’s the Fleur De Lis from the New Orleans Saints.

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Mine was the last photo I took of a flashlight. In this case it was a Streamlight Double Clutch headlamp that was about to be attached to my hardhat.

Edit: I thought my choice of avatar and decided to change it to the front view of a budget light by Energizer I picked up at Lowes. It may change.
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Edit 2:
Just photographed a zipper bag pencil case for my new avatar. That’ll do for a while.
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Old sig:

New sig:

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The new sig takes up less real estate on your screen, despite being dozens of kilobytes larger.

I think it looks much better.

The old sig looks intense and somewhat angry.

The new one looks sexier to me.

New avatar...

and large version:

Nice!

Thanks!

I thought the old avatar with the heart wasn't masculine enough for me.

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On some forums, when you click on someone's avatar, you get a larger pic.

That would be nice for BLF, but maybe it's not possible with our Drupal forum software.

I didn’t bother with an avatar for years, but I’ve just realised that it’s easier to find my messages in a long thread of PMs if I have one.

So: if burning stuff makes the phlogiston go away, and the ash is heavier than the stuff you burnt, then phlogiston must have negative mass, hence the periodic table symbol :slight_smile:

Homemade avatars and signatures are cool.

I can only do simple image editing, so I usually just "borrow" images from the interweb.

Gosh Raccoon City, I feel really bad to be the one to break this to you but, "real men don't use umbrellas".

The artwork is very nice though.

Then I'm not a real man!

It doesn't rain here all that often, but I get out the red and white umbrella when the rain gets annoying.

I chose my Fully custom 1986 Isuzu Trooper II. I built it from the frame up including all the metal fabrication. It has a 5.7l Chevy engine with a 4L60E tranny and 3.73 gears. Full custom audio and video system, on board air with 4 3 cubic feet air tanks. Over 250 sq ft of sound deadner and coated with over 6 gallons of bed liner. I fully custom built my dash where the Olight X7 sites in the center using the foam it came with in the box and the Convoy L6 and Thorfire S70 are used as my inside door handles held in place with rubber mounts for easy removal. 151db duel airhorns, over 1500 watts of led lighting with the rear and side lights on remote and using the Hella E4 code driving lenses with Hella 90W/130W bulbs. Front winch and land anchor and on and on…. There is way to much to list! Its been a labor of love sense 1995. It started out with the 2.3l which was replaced with several 4.3l motors and now the 5.7l. The motor is getting tires so it might be time for an LT1 motor. I have had it in the air twice and collapsed the front end twice until I used bigger parts lol. Now I have a 1982 Jeep Wagoneer to play with which will have solar air water LP gas the hole works. No, I will most likely keep my avatar.