heh yeah, my avatar is something I've never really changed, on any forum I've used. On other forums, partially because the name I used was so ridiculous that my gf recently told me that someone had referred to me as "The Scary Dragon Mod with a name I can't pronounce"
I just find it so interesting just how much we can change without realising it. I remember why physics teacher once saying that as a race, we don't perceive levels of sound, but rather changes in amplitude. At the time, I found it an interesting little piece of relatively useless information, but over time I think i've realised just how much it applies to everything. Mankind is an adaptive race; we adapt quickly to our surroundings without much difficulty, but there are side-effects to this that I don't think we notice. We forget, so quickly, what we were like before the adaptation. We forget how things were, which is why we repeat our mistakes over and over, we forget who we were, which is why we can chastise people for doing things that we did ourselves not too long ago, and I guess that's also why time heals all wounds.