I go away for a few days, and Swerdna has changed his avatar from the glowy-eyebally-skull thingie to the gecko on the surf board. This is disconcerting. I *liked *the glowy-eyeball-skull thingie.
And now malcomlewis has changed his avatar, and he had the coolest one on the board!!! This is distressing.
Of course, I note that Chrysantine’s avatar changes quite frequently. I’m used to that. But I wonder if this is becoming the wave of the future? Should I change my Buster Keaton sipping his cuppa tea?
I’ll have to ponder this one over the long Christmas holiday. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Trying to make an avatar of yourself tends to be pretty tricky when you don’t want to make it too much just a photo of yourself too, maybe I should replace it with a devil girl again >:)
Seasonal Greetings (to be politically correct). Have fun.
I am pro “seasonal avatar”. It is just I did not find any way to put Tsun Tse’s art of war into a “seasonal outfit”. So here we go with…a man wearing red clothes and having an accident on ice. lol!
He’ll turn around in his grave for you butchering his name
His actual name is 孫武 (孙武 in simplified Chinese), read “Sūn Wǔ” in Chinese and “Son Bu” in Japanese (last name first).
He is, however, often referred to as 孫子 (孙子), read “Sūn Zǐ” and meaning “Master Sūn”. Sometimes you’ll also find the older spelling “Sun Tzu”.
Putting him into some droll 南蛮 (nanban, “southern barbarian”) winter outfit would’ve been very odd indeed.
(if you use nntp he is still there 
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That thing is huge!