Fun Thread... Explain your Avatar!

My avatar is simply me posing with my '59 Strat.
On my index finger is my new patent. Read about it here:
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Mine is an old postcard showing my paternal grandparents.

 

Poster from Anheuser-Busch archives, same 1800's vintage of the US coins I most admire - picture a patron slapping his 1875 Seated Liberty Quarter on a bar top and buying a Budweiser.

 

Did a mug of Bud cost that much back then?

 

Wasn't any more monolithic than it is today; there were "good" bars and....less than good bars. At the latter, two bits would buy two beers but only one at the higher-class establishments.

 

I'm a retired meteorologist who specialized in weather radar development so my avatar is a radar image from a tornadic Oklahoma thunderstorm.

 

I really hate seeing that "hook" when I'm watching the local news...

 

I've seen too many in my career living in Oklahoma; I don't miss leaving that behind. Witnessing some of these storms evolve was an adrenaline rush but the aftermath was never easy to deal with.

 

Just for grins, do you know which storm that was?

BTW, I have spent 40+ years here and never seen a tornado. I have seen their aftermaths - mostly on TV, thank God!

 

I think it was the Washington Oklahoma tornado from May 2011. I was operating the NSSL experimental phased array radar from which the image was captured.

 

I'm a huge fan of thunderstorms. So I got a stormy looking avatar. It's simply my favorite type of weather.

Hehe, I like the hook echo you got wxcoin
I remember tracking the April 27 2011 outbreak as it was happening. I know I am only in Oregon but that one just looked really messy on radar. I wonder what it was like for the warning coordinators that day... Almost a dozen individual storms turning tornadic, two of which hit large cities.

 

I'm sure the warning coordinators were pretty stressed out. I was very fortunate to work in the same building with the Storm Prediction Center and Norman NWS Forecast Office. Some very dedicated and talented people.

 

Mine is meant to represent the eternal struggle between varmintarians and the swallow ladeners. It is a deeply ephemeral philosophical conundrum pitting the indulging power to seek total achievement, against the unstoppable resistance of the physical world.

 

Not to hijack this thread but my son has been a weather-nut since he was two years old.

He graduated Penn State's Meteorological College and founded the third largest weather company in the nation.

 

A good friend of mine moved from Norman a couple years ago to head the Meteorology department at Penn State. What's the name of your son's company?

 

Commodity Weather Group.

 

It's a confused (post-2000 BC) rendition of the means that was actually used to build the great pyramids of Egypt (et al). It's called a "henu boat" (or 3nw-boat in transliteration) and it held the water that that was used to lift the stones. They apparently used a type of linear funicular and this is it.

 

A very early example of a wonderful design and it allows me to "put my 1/2 cents in"

 

I collect boots! Girlfriend thinks I am a "border hoarder !"

These are vintage Justin saltwater crocodile boots. Beautiful and politically incorrect. The burnt orange is a big bonus--for me, anyway. Hook 'em Horns !!

When I really want to irritate a hyper-sensitive liberal, e.g., opposing counsel--I wear these bad boys.

Vintage Nocona Sea Turtle boots. These are pre-ban and thus grandfathered.

 

I guess I won't get into an argument with you in my liberal ASIC Gels