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Woo Hoo!! ( reletively off topic )
Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:58 AM

      As you may know, I am technology challenged.  As such, I have tried for a couple of years to try to figure out how to put an avatar picture next to my posts, but to no avail.

     Yesterday, I figured out how to do it!Big Smile [:D]  I simply asked someone else to do it for me!Tongue [:P]  Chris/ CopCar SS was nice enough to do it for me.  I had him pick out the photo, as his taste is also better than mine.  Thanks Chris

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Posted by J. Edgar on Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:02 AM
welcome to the world of "do-it-yourself" computing.....congratsSmile [:)]
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Posted by CopCarSS on Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:11 AM

No problem, Murph! It looks good!

-Chris
West Chicago, IL
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Posted by sfcouple on Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:14 AM

Nice Avatar...as a youngster I've ridden the Super Chief many times.  Sure wish I had a camera at the time. Smile [:)]

Slightly off topic also:  Your Avatar references SE South Dakota, my daughter lives in Sioux Falls and we have good friends in Tea.  Beautiful country back there.  

Wayne 

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Posted by Soo 6604 on Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:15 AM
Wanna do my taxes? Laugh [(-D]
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Posted by Convicted One on Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:17 AM
Your new avatar looks absolutely super, chief.
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Posted by eolafan on Saturday, February 16, 2008 10:21 AM
Very nice indeed, and it adds a bit more color to our forums. Thanks
Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:59 PM
 sfcouple wrote:

Slightly off topic also:  Your Avatar references SE South Dakota, my daughter lives in Sioux Falls and we have good friends in Tea.  Beautiful country back there.  

Wayne 

I live in Sioux Falls as well.Smile [:)]

 (  I guess it's OK to go off topic, on an off topic thread-right?Tongue [:P])

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Posted by doghouse on Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:21 PM

 Soo 6604 wrote:
Wanna do my taxes? Laugh [(-D]

 

Turbo-Tax.    Easy.

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Posted by KCSfan on Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:42 PM

 

While I've seen the train years ago I don't remember its drumhead. Does your avitar accurately depict the actual drumhead that the Super Chief carried?

Mark

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Posted by da Milwaukee beerNut on Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:17 PM

Keep yur relatives outta it!

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Posted by morseman on Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:37 PM

Don't feel bad about being technically challenged

I'm 72 yrs old and don't know anyhing about avatar.

I'm going to the public library next week to take several hours

free computer courses, one-on-one

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:14 PM
 KCSfan wrote:

 

While I've seen the train years ago I don't remember its drumhead. Does your avitar accurately depict the actual drumhead that the Super Chief carried?

Mark

    Actually, Chris provided the photo. It's part of this shot of the Super Chief drum out at the Colorado Railroad Museum.  I asked him to give me something from a railroad west of the Mississippi, and he did good.Thumbs Up [tup]

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Posted by Poppa_Zit on Monday, February 18, 2008 9:26 AM

Norris, you're quite computer-savvy and it took you almost three years before you figured out how to post an avatar. It took me a few months, too. Yet there's the guys who join and already have an avatar in place for their first post. Which has always made me suspicious that they are "reincarnations" and not who they purport to be.

Here's another version:

 

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, February 18, 2008 12:10 PM
 Poppa_Zit wrote:

Norris, you're quite computer-savvy and it took you almost three years before you figured out how to post an avatar. It took me a few months, too. Yet there's the guys who join and already have an avatar in place for their first post. Which has always made me suspicious that they are "reincarnations" and not who they purport to be.

Here's another version:

 

Um.....no.  I'm not computer savvy.Blush [:I]  That's why, after 3 years, I finally asked someone else to do it for me.

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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