Why Did You Choose Your Avatar for Wikipedia?

[Demystifier]

In real life I don't look so deeply wise and smart, so my avatar is supposed to compensate for it.

Seriously, it's Bertrand Russell from Logicomix
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1596914521/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Garth]

Mine is taken from a stained glass window in a village church near where I used to live.

He's an old church member by the name of William, the village is Ockham (Occam in Latin) and he had a rather famous razor...

Garth

 

[Lisa!]

Mine is a pic of a handicraft!
Vitreous enamel

 

[strangerep]

Seriously, it's Bertrand Russell from Logicomix

Heh, and all this time I thought it was the professor from (the modern version of) the "Astroboy" cartoon series.

 

[Demystifier]

Heh, and all this time I thought it was the professor from (the modern version of) the "Astroboy" cartoon series.

Googling for "astroboy professor" images gives
https://www.google.hr/search?q=astr...CFYO_FAodkTMF3Q#tbm=isch&q=astroboy+professor
This professor looks quite different.

 

[strangerep]

[...] This professor looks quite different.

Yes, that's Professor Packidermus J. Elefun, from the original version. The name pokes fun at that professor's elephant-like appearance.

There was a newer, more politically correct, remake which had a very different professor. But I only remember it vaguely.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Just me in the Paris subway maybe 3 years ago :)

 

[UncertaintyAjay]

Mine's just an awesome comic.

 

[nsaspook]

When I served we still used sparks and long wires but today the rate is gone and combined into something called 'IT' but we will always be sparks. The new chest insignia is pretty cool. It looks a little like the Evil Spock badge with a blade into the earth.

 

[Plotus]

A long series of disjointed feats of attention, followed by turbo cooldown.

 

[KSG4592]

Greatest guitarist of all time.

Eddie and Jimmy are the kings

 

[FeDeX_LaTeX]

Needs no explanation. :)

 

[tfr000]

Elmer Fudd, What's Opera, Doc?
A bit of satire on the typical "cool" avatar.

 

[mfb]

1SWASP J140747.93-394542.6b

Seriously, star and planet need a better name.
The (probable) planet has a gigantic ring system, about 200 times the radius (40 000 times the area!) of Saturn's system. Artist's impression, of course, but probably not so far away from reality. The central dot is too large, the actual planet should be smaller than 1 pixel.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1SWASP_J1407_b.png

 

[George Jones]

My avatar is a picture of me in front of a whiteboard, with some of my favourite books, and with an oscilloscope that has a sine wave running up the vertical axis instead running across the horizontal axis (difficult to see, though),

 

[Buzz Bloom]

My avatar is a visualization of my nickname, Buzz, which was Buzzy from early childhood until teenage. I was dubbed Buzzy, prior to my earliest memory at age 4, by an uncle, a math teacher at a public high school. When I was older, he explained to me that the name was a descriptive adjecive.

 

[Demystifier]

I like nothingness

What has nothingness to do with it?

 

[mfb]

micromass had a different avatar back then.

 

[Kevin McHugh]

Sunset in my back yard. The sky was on fire that day.

 

[cnh1995]

Dr. Sheldon Cooper..B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D, Sc.D...
O.M.G right?..
My favourite character from The Big Bang Theory!

 

[Hercuflea]

Stanislaw Ulam, my favorite mathematician/physicist.

 

[jackwhirl]

As of this posting, the pirates who don't do anything. It seemed appropriate?

 

[i-like-maths]

Nerdy, and that's what I am (no comments please)

 

[Svein]

A Julia set (or part of it). Using mathematics to generate a pretty picture!

 

[Dr Transport]

a picture I took on my cell phone a few years ago at a concert in St Louis...

 

[jack action]

I like W.A.S.P. and I like their song Jack Action. When I was a teenager, I always thought the story in the song could've of made a cool movie (Now that I think of it, it's pretty similar to The Fugitive). When looking for an avatar, I wanted a «real» character's name and Jack Action came to mind: The song is not well known, so less chances of encountering an homonym.

The avatar is a representation of the lead singer of the band, Blackie Lawless (which should be the guy looking for Jack Action as opposed to Jack Action himself).

This is the full image from the back cover of their album Last Command where the avatar comes from:

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And here's the song:

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I've been uptown, all around
I've looked here, there, everywhere
He killed my babe today with a gun
I'll get him now; he can't run
Well, I'm looking for, looking for...

Looking for Jack Action
To get my satisfaction
Looking for Jack Action
I'm looking, looking...

Watch out!

Now, I can't believe she's gone away
He better run, you know I don't play
Took my babe, my life; he's on the run
Look out, Jack, now; here's my gun, yeah
Well, I'm looking for, looking for...

Looking for Jack Action
To get my satisfaction
Looking for Jack Action
I'm looking, looking...

Oh no, a man with a war to wage
I'm a suicide brigade
He's mine, he's all mine
My bullets are bearing his name
And his life is mine to claim
It's time, now it's time

Jack Action, where are you?
It's been too long since I've known
Won't give up on you till I'm done
You'll be dead soon; you can't run, no
'Cause I'm looking for, looking for...

I'm looking for Jack Action
To get my satisfaction
Looking for Jack Action
I'm looking, looking...

But I never killed anyone and nobody's looking for me (I think ). I just love Heavy Metal.

 

[Bystander]

I reaalllyyyy thought that was "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark." Apologies.

 

[jack action]

I reaalllyyyy thought that was "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark." Apologies.

No need to apologize as I don't know how to read thoughts, so I was not offended.

But now that I know, I am.
[kidding!]

 

[Charlie Cheap]

Jack, when I tell friends my electronics, engineer-types and hi-tech buddies like Heavy Metal music, they say WHAT!? They seem to believe THINKERS listen only to Bach, Chopin, or Beethoven. My son-in-law played Heavy Metal lead guitar in a band, and loves Metallica (sp). Now he plays guitar in the band at his church... and he is fun to watch. While others play...standing like robots, he is getting into the music and Jammin'-for-Jesus! And NO, he is not a doper, but a fine jeweler, father of 3, and really nice guy. He loves my 1970's Hi-Tech turntable and vinyl of Santana, Fleetwood Mac, and Dickey Betts playing lead on Southbound. Sorry guys, I drifted into a strange zone there for a minute. NOW, back to tech stuff.

 

[OCR]

Sorry guys, I drifted into a strange zone there for a minute.

If you're really, really sure you made it back... ?

Well, then... !
Lol...
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[mfb]

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<-- from the Falcon Heavy demo launch. Tesla Roadster and mannequin in space.

 

[nuuskur]

I am feline reincarnated.

 

[Klystron]

My "usual" avatar is a pic of a diptych (two consecutive frames) painted impasto triptych of the Sefirot holding Ein Sof, the Infinite. But as PF has left Binah, I use a pic I took with my phone at the California Institute of Science firmly in Yesod.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

After LIGO successfully detected gravitational waves the first time, they published computer-simulated images and videos of the two black holes merging. My avatar is a cropped version from one such video.

 

[Ankit Singh]

It's nothing