I am greatly amused by how fitting the avatars generated for my commentators tend to be.  The girls get “prettier” ones and the guys get more bold ones (not to gender stereotype, but personality-wise these people tend to fit those profiles).  If you want to see what yours is, just comment on my blog and the little square picture that shows up is your avatar.  If you see a picture, that means you created a Gravatar, so you’d either have to comment using an email different from your Gravatar, or go deactivate your picture for a bit to see what would have been generated for you.

I don’t know what type of algorithm is used to translate an email address into an avatar and it’s probably completely random, but I do feel that you’ll like get an image that you like and/or seems fitting for you.  Perhaps it’s all my imagination, but I can’t help but think that!  If you don’t believe me, try it for yourself and see what you think!  The style I chose is called “Identicon” and all images are single-colored geometric patterns.  There’s also a set called “Wavatar” and another called “MonsterID” – the former I’m not very familiar with and seems to be little geometric creatures, while the latter is a bunch of fun little monster cartoons.

Go ahead, give it a try and let me know if you like what you get!  🙂