OK I added DogPipeGuy as my avi again. Didn't realize he was that big a thing.
Ingredients of DogPipeGuy:
Dog: Bernese mountain dog from a 1980s Xerox ad
Pipe: the pipe from Magritte's The Treachery of Images
Guy: random professor from a 1960 Luther College yearbook, forehead, neck and suit photshopped for extra geekiness
Dog: Bernese mountain dog from a 1980s Xerox ad
Pipe: the pipe from Magritte's The Treachery of Images
Guy: random professor from a 1960 Luther College yearbook, forehead, neck and suit photshopped for extra geekiness
IRL I much more resemble this guy 
stop asking me questions about this, at this point I am already oversharing
if you see any person of public note among my followers, you can be assured I have a vast treasure trove of blackmail on them
https://twitter.com/MaSp1engineer/status/1318184688025014272
For a while I use an altered version of the International Harvester "IH" logo along with DogPipeGuy, but I got a takedown notice from Navistar (parent co of IH). The "Iowahawk" banner on my blog is a tribute to the IH "Farmall" tractor tank logo.
https://twitter.com/SpaceMonkey_/status/1318198134560985089
The Navistar IP person was pretty nice about and even turned out she was a blog reader. I apologized and took it down, and explained it was really a tribute, as I had grown up on an exclusively International Harvester farm.
the "iowahawk" thing has nothing to do with warmongering, just denoting my lifelong fandom of University of Iowa Hawkeye athletics. I've been using it as a screen name going back as early as 1989, on the pre-worldwide web Bitnet.
not that I don't want to cash in on some of that sweet t shirt, mug, keychain, etc. merch money, it's just that my branding would probably also run me afoul of the U of Iowa trademark office. Oh well.
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