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Carl-E:
OK, this has officially become a hobby...

pwhodges (Paul) has a randomly served avatar, I think we all know that.  But there are times when the random image just lines up sooo  well with the post, that, even as a mathematician who understands machine-generated randomness, it makes me wonder...

I've shared a few of these gems in the past, but I had a couple more and thought I'd like tio put them in a localised spot.  Feel free to add to them...

Edit:  They're being trimmed, so they're hard to read.  I'll just link...


http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6098/6334951315_fbc0cef16f_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6227/6334948973_eee621ddbf_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6225/6286851402_a75135be5a_b.jpg

Barmymoo:
Haha that is great! I have noticed some good ones but never taken a screenshot, I'll start looking out for them.

idontunderstand:
I just thought he changed his avatar a lot.

valley_parade:
Oh man, I never thought about how many different post/av things Paul could have. Awesome.

pwhodges:
There are well over two dozen options, and the randomness is applied each time a browser requests it - so not only does it change each time, but that selection is also independent for each person; tell your browser to refresh, and it will change.  The implementation is only a couple of lines in the Apache configuration file, as there is a built-in function for the purpose!  When I fancy a new avi, I just add it to the list, which is now around three dozen (and there are a few others I have removed as well).  Because they all have to be the same type, and I happened to choose jpg not gif or png when I set it up, there can't be any dynamic ones - which is fine by me.  I do the same at PocketJury, but the list is smaller (for my own reasons).

Here, there are pictures of me at all ages, my pets at various times (five dogs and a horse), a house-sized graffito in Hackney (East London), some other photos I have taken, a couple of Jeph's doodles (cat, frog, and one from QC), Johann from Anders Loves Maria, Shinji from Evangelion, Kintaro Oe from Golden Boy, and (the largest number) Scott Pilgrim - not all from the books, some are from convention sketches.  It generally seems to be the Scott Pilgrim ones that are most directly expressive of a simple mood, which is why there are the largest number of them, and also why they seem to give most of the post/avi coincidences that are pleasing (Shinji works quite well, too).

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