Friday Timewaster: Getting Mad(Men) with myself
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What do you do when it’s almost quitting time on a Friday afternoon, and your editor’s on vacation? I dream of stepping into the cool environs of Don Draper’s office at Sterling & Cooper and mixing myself a martini. This afternoon it was a little more vivid than most, thanks to the MadMen Yourself avatar generator my sister-in-law recently e-mailed me about.
Though you can’t upload a photo (the way you can if you want to be, say, Simpsonized), you can achieve a pretty good approximation of your cartoon self by choosing from the menu of body types, hair, nose and other distinguishing characteristics (I particularly appreciated the wardrobe choices -- which for guys included tennis whites, a tuxedo, a suit and casual wear).
You can save the results as a Twitter-appropriate head shot, a slightly larger size for Facebook or a full-size (complete with Joan or Peggy in the background) suitable for your desktop wallpaper.
The above portrait is my four minutes of procrastinating -- compared to the bio photo over on the right rail, I think you could probably pick me out of a police line up.
And I’ll spare you the full body shot, let’s just day I’m more of a Freddy Rumsen than a Don Draper.
-- Adam Tschorn
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