More than you wanted to know . . .
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
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