Supplemental: a more fun entry
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cosmolinguistThere is an icon-explaining meme going around and rmc28 asked me about three of my icons.
This is (apparently not there any more!) from an article about how people don't know what a typeset lowercase "g" in a serif-type font looks like.
I used to use this icon when I talked about language (even though this is about cognition and printing and neither of those are exactly to do with language); I don't use it enough. I should try to do that more.
This is probably the oldest icon I still have. It's from 2006, just after I moved to the UK. I was feeling homesick. I used to say I wanted this as a tattoo or something (possibly with a nearer city in Minnesota and it'd be cute to have my birthdate on it but probably not a good idea to have Personally Identifying information like that inked on your body). I have a lot of affection for this icon because using it in a friend's LJ (I don't even remember which mutual friend now; there were lots back in the day) got someone I didn't previously know to ask me if I was from Minneapolis too. I explained that I'm not, but I'm from Minnesota, and it got us talking, and it's been one of my most enduring and fun friendships.
I use this when I'm talking about Minnesota, of course.
This is one of my New Haircut Selfies, something I started doing back when I had the undercut. This is the one just after I cut it off, early summer last year. It looks like a lot of hair compared to now, but it was sufficiently drastic a change that the hair cut off was long enough to donate.
Two middle-aged ladies who are friends work at the place I get my hair cut, and the one who got to cut it off was absolutely delighted about it. She didn't even believe me at first, she thought I was joking (even though I've learned you have to prepare hairdressers for this and I'd tried to mention at the previous few haircuts that I felt like it'd be time soon!). The other one was on holiday so this one took a picture of me when she'd cut it, to text to her friend. "Ruth's not gonna believe this!" she said. It was the cutest damn thing.
The game is that I'm supposed to ask commenters about three of their icons, but honestly I don't know if I've got the spoons for it. If you'd like to join in, feel free to say that Ipicked whichever three you want to talk about!
rmc28 asked me about three of my icons.This is (apparently not there any more!) from an article about how people don't know what a typeset lowercase "g" in a serif-type font looks like.
Most people don't even know that two forms of the letter -- one usually handwritten, the other typeset -- exist. And if they do, they can't write the typeset one we usually see. They can't even pick the correct version of it out of a lineup.The four variants in the icon were the "lineup" they asked people to choose from. Put all together like that, they do weird things to my brain in a way that's kinda disconcerting and kinda fun at the same time. I imagine other people need drugs for this, but I'm a cheap date.
I used to use this icon when I talked about language (even though this is about cognition and printing and neither of those are exactly to do with language); I don't use it enough. I should try to do that more.
This is probably the oldest icon I still have. It's from 2006, just after I moved to the UK. I was feeling homesick. I used to say I wanted this as a tattoo or something (possibly with a nearer city in Minnesota and it'd be cute to have my birthdate on it but probably not a good idea to have Personally Identifying information like that inked on your body). I have a lot of affection for this icon because using it in a friend's LJ (I don't even remember which mutual friend now; there were lots back in the day) got someone I didn't previously know to ask me if I was from Minneapolis too. I explained that I'm not, but I'm from Minnesota, and it got us talking, and it's been one of my most enduring and fun friendships.
I use this when I'm talking about Minnesota, of course.
This is one of my New Haircut Selfies, something I started doing back when I had the undercut. This is the one just after I cut it off, early summer last year. It looks like a lot of hair compared to now, but it was sufficiently drastic a change that the hair cut off was long enough to donate.
Two middle-aged ladies who are friends work at the place I get my hair cut, and the one who got to cut it off was absolutely delighted about it. She didn't even believe me at first, she thought I was joking (even though I've learned you have to prepare hairdressers for this and I'd tried to mention at the previous few haircuts that I felt like it'd be time soon!). The other one was on holiday so this one took a picture of me when she'd cut it, to text to her friend. "Ruth's not gonna believe this!" she said. It was the cutest damn thing.
The game is that I'm supposed to ask commenters about three of their icons, but honestly I don't know if I've got the spoons for it. If you'd like to join in, feel free to say that Ipicked whichever three you want to talk about!