Nothing cures a case of the “Mondays” like doing something thoroughly unproductive for half an hour, right? Here’s an idea…
I love playing with avatar creators, because I’m no good at drawing, and I’m too cheap to hire someone to make me a custom caricature. Now that WordPress has built-in gravatar support, you might be looking for a new image to use when you’re out and about in the bloggy neighborhood.
Here’s one for you to try, from gamedition. It doesn’t build a whole body for you, but you can customize a cartoon head for yourself. There are even some cute and quirky accessories, like a pirate eye patch and 3-D glasses. [EDIT: I had initially linked this post directly to the flash file for the avatar creator, but GamEdition has redirected that to the main page, which contains thumbnails to games that are not G-rated. Just thought you should know before you click.]
Here’s what I came up with after about 30 minutes of messing around with it. I think I like it!
WELCOME! I can't teach you how to monetize your blog, but I can offer you some mostly intelligent conversation, moderately geeky tech talk, very funny mom stories, with the occasional rant thrown in for sanity. I'm so glad you're here!
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Jim - Just a Guy 03.31.08 at 4:12 am
My inner geek just spent 3 hours making one avatar head. The rest of pointed and laughed.
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Angelika 03.31.08 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for the link! I think I’ll be using one of those heads I made on my new Entrecard.
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Lisa365 03.31.08 at 6:24 pm
AAH! Thanks so much for sharing this! haha
I just created a series of “moods” for both Wordpress & my Livejournal accounts! This was fun!
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noelevz 03.31.08 at 9:02 pm
This is great! thanks for sharing this! Will try this out for sure.
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Chelle 03.31.08 at 10:41 pm
Somebody told me the other day that I was a geek mom because i made a chart for my 5 year old for chores on excel…i don’t feel so bad about this after dropping along your site though
Definately adding this to the favorites and I can definately NOT resist playing around to make my own avatar, lol. Too cute!
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Christy 04.01.08 at 2:48 pm
Super fun, these are going to be bookmarked!
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Alison 04.01.08 at 4:23 pm
That was fun!
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Lightening 04.02.08 at 1:47 am
That looks great. Thanks for the link. I think I might go play.
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Nicola 04.02.08 at 7:09 am
I look like a man with big red lips!
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Crystal Point 04.02.08 at 8:44 pm
I can’t hear “case of the Mondays” without thinking of the movie “office space”. It cracks me up every time.
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regina 04.03.08 at 3:15 pm
That’s one way to waste some time on Monday or Friday…or anyday!
You have a very interesting blog here!
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Bob O 04.04.08 at 12:04 am
That was fun..but for some reason the email button did not work for me…did anyone else have the same problem?
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Mike 04.04.08 at 10:43 am
Thanks! Great little site. I have been looking for something like this for my site.
Jena Isle 04.06.08 at 5:43 am
Cheerful face! Mondays are “drag” days. I drag my feet to work…he he he…Anyway, I love Mondays too as I get to meet my friends at work.
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Alison 04.07.08 at 5:04 am
Hello again, how did you manage to save yours, I couldn’t do it with mine?
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GeekMom 04.07.08 at 10:35 am
@Alison - I had to use a “grab” program to capture my avatar. I have submitted a report to the site about the email feature not working. We’ll see whether they fix it for us.