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I can't help but notice that some of my friends on twitter have decided to use their high school pictures as avatars.  There is even a group on Flickr for yearbook pictures.  I was invited to the group, which is nice, but I have decided not to play.

High school really sucked.  For some it did not, but the last time I was dragged kicking and screaming to a high school reunion I couldn't help but notice that people had changed.  Who they were in high school just doesn't seem relevant any more.

The cute boy I sat next to in my science class with the think curly hair, doesn't have any hair.  The girl who was so popular and so pretty has accumulated 40 pounds and 3 divorce decrees, and managed to drink more during my last reunion than I could handle in a month.

Life is a journey and high school is just one short stop along the way.  Most of the important things in life come after high school, like credit scores and being able to drink a glass of wine without being arrested.

**note:  Dad, ask mom how old I was when this was taken. Think I was 2 but I don't remember.

More than you wanted to know . . .

By Todd Carpenter

This post is so ridiculous, that if I published it anywhere on RE.net EXCEPT here on the Weenie, I would half expect Teresa to roast me for it.
It seems like recently, I spend most of my time chatting it up on twitter, or pimping my blog conference in Vegas (yes, you should go, Teresa will be speaking, along with lots of other top bloggers and... oh snap, there I go again). Occasionally I do actually blog about real estate. Well sort of. I'm a mortgage blogger.

Three and a half years ago, I set about to build the industry's first B2B mortgage blog. A normal person would have called it The Mortgage Reports, but I called it lenderama. Yep, that's how I roll.

Lenderama has had many looks, logos and color schemes. But what most people never notice, is all the half hidden, silly crap  I've always included with every new theme. Up until last week, one little Easter egg I had on my site, was an avatar of myself that was color matched to lenderama's logo. Every time I saw that avatar, it made me laugh.

Nobody else seemed to get it, and that made it even funnier to me. Lots of people told me it was scary looking. Almost everyone refers to it as "the mug shot". Teresa was no fan of my avatar, and even organized a contest to replace it. Well, it seems like half a million people entered the damn contest, but nobody actually voted.

Getting back to lenderama, I finally gave the site some new web digs. It's looking all grown up now, without any silliness. My old avatar was looking out of place. Time for a new one.

I decided that all those pictures from San Francisco would be a good place to start. I also considered my favorite from all the birthday greetings I received. If Jeff Corbett and I ever collaborate on a post, I have a perfect shot. Same goes for Ginger Wilcox. I considered some sombrero picks, but they just don't work at 38px X 55px

Teresa took some pretty some pretty good pics of me (I like this one). As did Kristal Kraft. But Jeff Turner took the winner. Thanks to everyone who took my picture. Now, let's do it to Teresa in Vegas.

Editors Note: Lets not do it to Teresa in Vegas

Another Splogger

I found another splogger scraping content from the Re-blogosphere.  Stop by, find your content and send out your cease and desist email.  These slime bags should be thrown off the internet.
http://blog.nodebtmortgage.com/