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Curiously enough, 'vel' in Danish means just that, 'well'. The words 'Lev vel' mean '(do) live well'.
What I'm trying to say is that I hope you get vel soon, Vel.
What I'm trying to say is that I hope you get vel soon, Vel.
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Isn't the Avatar we hold right now our best online representation?
Anyway, i'm back from work and nobody has stepped up to the plate yet. So I've collected every avatar i could find on this thread and gave it a try. So here goes my first version.
Don't forget the image will have to be printed. So it's better to judge on paper instead of the screen.Attached FilesSkeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Elie A. Shneour Skeptical InquirerComment
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I can think of one you missed as well
*and you missed rah's also*Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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I've been away for a while, and wasn't really planning on coming back, but how could I stay away from a thread like this? (thanks alva, for emailing me about it)
I'm not ashamed to say I shed a few tears reading that first post. It seems weird to have those emotions about a guy I've never met, but that's the kind of guy Chris is.
I've never really prayed before, but I think I will tonight.
Get well soon, buddy.If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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Weird, they are indeed there but for some reason they don't show up when i browse through the graphics. Must be some sort of PSP bug.
Guess I'll have to bring Irfanview.
Next try coming up...Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Elie A. Shneour Skeptical InquirerComment
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Hey, where's mine?!?
Other than that, nice work. 
Solomwi is very wise. - Imran SiddiquiComment
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Bingo, Irfanview found the problem right away. While I was saving everyone's avatar I was saving them with the .gif extension while many where .jpg's.
5 more mins
Last edited by CapTVK; October 22, 2004, 17:18.Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
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Here's take 2....I have made it a little bigger. It's actually starting to resemble a collage now. (b&w because colour is just a tad to big, 700k)
Be merciful oh mighty Ming
Attached FilesSkeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
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Originally posted by Solomwi
Hey, where's mine?!?
Other than that, nice work.
I think it's in there, somewhere...i was in a bit of a hurry
Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.
Elie A. Shneour Skeptical InquirerComment
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That's nice to see. If the Hypnotoad can't make Vel better, then nobody can.
If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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This is great.
*Those avatars belong to selfish people hoping sincerely that Vel be back soon on Apolyton.*Statistical anomaly.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Comment
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Any chance you could update this to my regular avatar, back now? I feel it's more personal that way, I actually get recognized by that avatar...Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
Contact: solver-at-weplayciv-dot-com
I can kill you whenever I please... but not today. - The Cigarette Smoking ManComment
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Vel's CIV3 strategy threads made me stick to Apolyton when I found out the hard way CIV3 was not CIV2 and had to Google "civilization 3 strategy", back in late 2001. After a month or two, I stopped lurking and started to post myself. After a year in the CIV3 forums, I moved on to the off-topic forum to protest the Iraq war in early 2003, and I never looked back. Seems I'm stuck forever. And it's all Vel's fault!
I think Vel is about my age and it's a real pain to see someone that young (well, middle-age, whatever) vanish.
14 years ago, I saw my own dad go away in cancer. I saw him suffer for 2 years, loose weight and hair, get weaker and finally die in pain and bitterness. At least the whole family gathered to stay with him the last weekend before he died on a Tuesday. It was not planned to be that way, just a co-incident. If I only knew, I would had stayed for a few more days, but I had to get back to university to not miss too much of the education.
On the other hand, I have colleagues at work who recovered from cancer and is still going strong, years after. Let's hope for the best! We want to see "The Cure for Cancer" wonder movie every time we log into Apolyton. The reason that wonder gives you one happy citizen in every city is not because one more citizen gets well, but because one friend of a citizen in each city gets well. Vel has friends in every city on the Apolyton planet, and if he gets well, it's like the Cure for Cancer wonder is built.So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!Comment
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And my current avatar, and most of my former, is too ugly to fit into that page
So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!Comment
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