After toying around with numerous projects trying to bring in a little extra cash, and not being very successful, I've stumbled upon something called oDesk which is actually working!  oDesk was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis. The two friends created an online workplace to allow distributed teams to work together and help instill trust in work happening via the Internet.

The company launched in 2005 and as of 2012, oDesk is the largest online marketplace in which independent professionals and their clients can establish and fulfill work arrangements.  The company’s business strategy, including new pricing, is credited with helping it surpass competition to establish market dominance.

Fifteen years ago, there was no such thing as an online staffing market.  Today it generates about $1 billion in global revenues, consists of over 50 firms, and is growing at high double-digit growth rates. Today, oDesk is the largest of the six major players that account for about half of the total industry segment revenues in 2012.  In March 2013, Staffing Industry Analysts, projected that the "online staffing" segment would grow to $5 billion by 2018.

I was digging around in my old photos the other day and
stumbled upon one that I thought would look a lot better
than Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes), so I started using it on
most of the sites I have that ask for your image.

There's a little bit of a smirk there - maybe the "Mona Lisa" idea? - so I thought it looked just great.

However not being one to leave things alone, I was playing around with it and discovered something in Irfanview that I thought was amazing - it can take an image and split it into any number of smaller images in the same canvas.  Irfanview can do something else that I can't get most other image programs to do, take any image, even ones in black and white, and colorize them any color you like.  I combined these two ideas and came up with this image that I'm now using as my profile picture on oDesk.

I'll probably change it again, but this is what it looks like now.  OK, enough chatter, back to work.  My oDesk webpage is at https://www.odesk.com/users/~017e9d1fdd7bdc24a3.