I always find it interesting that people try to hide their likenesses from their blog and then spend the rest of their blog careers trying to recreate an icon or avatar that looks just like them.
Anyway, here's my avatar (it's not a very good likeness), thanks to a fellow SciBling.
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the rubber ducky is most becoming.
A little off-topic, but there is no need for the possessive apostrophe in Simpsons.
Yep, more cute overload.
What do you mean it doesn't look like you?
Bob
Bob, She may mean that she has four fingers and a thumb plus the avatar doesn't have a laptop :o)
The ducky is most charming.
Chris (or is that Chris'?), how do you know she didn't lose two digits in a bizarre pipetting accident?
I agree about the duck.
Bob
the ducky on my shirt is in honor of my plastic ducky story, "Britain's Most Wanted". it was either that or the three-eyed fish.
Chris' is a contraction; the ' is replacing the missing letters.
Well, OK she may have lost both little fingers. But is she ever out and about without her laptop?
That's a relief. I was worrying that it was a possessive.
I see what you mean about the laptop, but I am professionally obliged to point out that if we only observe Hedwig through her blog, there may be some sampling bias. Either that or she's about to murder someone for stealing it: you can see the hands about to clench, and the mad look to appear in her avatar's eyes...
Bob
P.S. I looked for plastic ducks when I was in Gijon (N. coast of Spain) last week, but didn't see any. I'm sure they were there, though. Just hiding behind all the plastic beavers.
Well, speaking just for myself, if someone stole my laptop then causing them serious physical damage would be one of my desires. If I lost it or the data on it I would be a titchy tiny bit depressed.
True, the opinion is based only on her blog persona
What did you worry that it was a possessive of? :o)
if anything happened to my laptop, i would die a thousand deaths. my laptop is my everything; my connection with the outside world, my repository for my writings, my entertainment center, in fact, it is a huge part of my identity, since i am no longer a postdoc (which was my entire identity).
oh, i misused an apostrophe in my original title, and someone corrected me. i almost never misuse punctuation marks, so i guess i am entitled to a mistake now and then.