Meandering Missive: Help me pick a userpic!

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Help me pick a userpic!

As at least half of my regular readers know, I maintain a "pseudo blog" at LiveJournal.com, which basically just consists of mini summaries that point people back here to my real Blogspot/Blogger blog.

Back in September 2005, when I first began blogging, I think I made a mistake by getting set up with Blogspot instead of Live Journal (a.k.a. "LJ"). LJ has a lot more cool, fun and/or useful attributes than Blogspot does, plus more of my friends use LJ. However, I worked long and hard on my customized Blogspot template, so I can't just give it up. *humble smile*

As a trade-off, I started posting "teasers" in my LJ blog each time I update at Blogspot. Each teaser consists of a mini summary. It may also include photos, such as the festive primroses, which I posted two days ago both here and at LJ. Each teaser also contains a direct link to the matching Blogspot entry. That way, not only do my LJ friends (new and old) know when I've updated my blog; they'll also know if the new entry is something they want to read. (Hopefully they will, and hopefully they'll comment as well *grin*)

The OTHER main reason I maintain a pseudo-blog at LJ is because without joining LJ and (I think?) compiling a user profile ( here's mine), you cannot properly leave comments in the blogs of other LJ users. I didn't mind making a profile over there; in fact, I enjoyed it, because there was a LOT more room to list my interests and hobbies than there is here at Blogspot.

And now the reason for this rant: the other day, I discovered an awesome website, Abi-Station.com , where you can make unlimited customized userpics/avatars/icons! :) It's a little frustrating but a lot of fun. There are so many attributes you can pick from (hair colours and styles, eye colours and shapes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, face line, accessories, animals, clothing, background theme, etc.) that I spent a lot of time messing around -- more than I care to admit!

However, I finally arrived at three avatars I think look the most like me. *blush* The hardest part was picking among the millions of EYES. I want to use an avatar as an alternate for the "real" photo of myself that I use when commenting in people's LJ blogs. I just can't decide which pic to pick! (There's one I seem to be leaning toward, but of course I won't say which).

Since I got a lot of responses to my prior blog entry, where I tempted people to tell me which primrose flower cluster was secretly "Photoshopped in", I'll ask you all another visual question. (For the answer to the primrose one, click here ). This time, the question is this: please tell me which of the three avatars below you think looks the most like me. "The eyes have it...."

1. 2. 3.

Today I am feeling indecisive in a silly sort of way!

posted by ScaryShari @ 8:23 PM

1 Comments:

At 10:06 AM, Anonymous said…

They're all a good likeness, I'm not sure which is the prettiest, tho. ;-) #1 = my least favorite. I was glad to find the Abi-station.com link, that site rocks!

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