years ago me and a buddy decided to make a video game code site using expage (YEAH, THAAAT LONG AGO) and somehow came up with the name bigtimecow. he tried to appropriate it continually for awhile until i officially stole it. i now use it for my e-mail, online username, etc. so fuck him it's mine
as for the avatar, i made it i think two years ago when everyone had emoticon avatars. it's not a real emoticon