Avatars

Thanks  :)  And I enjoy Calvin and Hobbes too! 

I'm majoring in Computer Engineering, so I thought I'd fein computer competence by having a circuit board as my pic

It's really a medicore attempt at hiding my ignorance...

My avatar was planned to be as simple as possible and to help me to distinguish my opponents' side in the list of my recent games (and of course another reason - I don't like to see the same impersonal gray template image from other players - thus I had to start from myself ;). So I decided that it should be clear enough - laconic curve with some chess connotation on white background. I draw it by pencil, shot by webcam and cleaned in vector software. Disadvantage - it is not suitable for simplified resampling (resizing) of most web-browsers (except Opera).

Nickname is from my student times (the prototype is a movie character that was mistakenly associated by initiator of this nick with a cryptographer but in fact was a safe-burglar;). Now I use it for presence in virtual (inet) societies or for game accounts.

I think you are right. But there is the possibility to post your photo in album with normal size while leaving the avatar for fun.

Colin Pesyna => Cpesyna

 The fact that the P isn't capitalized has been bugging me since my first day here.

 As far as the avatar goes, I'm a biology major. Although I don't really study evolutionary biology, it makes a good picture. I considered a double helix, but with all the anti-evolution sentiment out there I thought it best to have my evolve-fish on display.