Icon + Interest meme

[pne]

via kamara

Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list, and 3 icons, for you to explain.

I was given: natural born speeseburger, toki pona, and ελληνικά; and , , and .

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Natural Born Speeseburger

This is a band some of my friends formed. I'm not entirely sure what the history of their name is.

Part of the joke of the last word, though, hinges on a German pun between "Cheeseburger" (cheeseburger) and "Spießbürger" (a square, someone who is very conventional -- I think).

toki pona

Toki Pona is a language created by sonjaaa (Sonja Elen Kisa).

It's got a very small vocabulary (118 words, I think), so you either have to string lots of words together or remain more ambiguous—I think the latter is part of the philosophy behind the language, namely to simplify your life. It's surely not a coincidence that "pona" means both "good" and "simple" (among other things).

ελληνικά

This says "Greek" (as in the language), in Greek.

I learned Greek, mostly during two years I spent in Greece and on Cyprus. I think this makes me one of comparatively few people with no Greek ancestry to have learned the language.

Ah :)

Back in 2002, there was this girl I sometimes saw on the bus on my way home from work, who I thought was kind of cute.

I didn't dare speak to her for quite a while, so I just called her "the bus girl" to myself.

I posted entries about my encounters with her to a special custom friends group (and, later, a dedicated shared journal: bus_girl), and used this icon when I did so.

Eventually, I talked to her. I'd still meet her occasionally for a while.

However, once I had got to know her a little, she wasn't as mysterious, so I didn't post so much about her any more. And I haven't seen her again since our office moved and I stopped taking that bus. (The last entry in bus_girl is from August 2004.)

The icon is still left over from then.

This userpic says "pne" in Braille.

I believe this is supposed to say "All your base are belong to us".

I don't remember where I got it, but I thought it funny—not least because quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur "anything said in Latin appears profound". So the combination of Engrish grammar and the gravitas of Latin tickles my funny bone.

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Comments

[lnbw.livejournal.com]

I'll bite. :) I only HAVE three icons, though, so I guess it's just for interests...

[pne.livejournal.com]

1. bad fanfic


2. temeraire


3. being a geek

[lnbw.livejournal.com]

I had a premonition that "being a geek" would be one of your choices! Maybe because it's the most inexplicable of my interests. A friend of mine told me I wasn't a real geek unless [something I've forgotten], and I protested; thereafter when I did something geeky I told him I was collecting geek points. For a while the interest was "collecting geek points" but I thought this was more general.

Temeraire is a book (and series) by Naomi Novik that I like. It's about the Napoleonic Wars in Britain, but with dragons.

I like to read bad fanfiction, especially Harry Potter fanfiction, for no good reason. I think it's like train wreck syndrome -- it's so bad you can't look away!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Oh, and all three of your icons.

What made you pick those three, for starters.

[lnbw.livejournal.com]

Mmm, okay. None are very interesting, though. :) I made all three. For a while I had an Eowyn theme to my icons, with several different scenes/illustrations; I kept this one because I liked it a lot and hadn't used it much.

My default icon is a character from the TV show Battlestar Galactica, and I made it after a conversation with a friend about how much I like that character combined with finding this picture online. (Well -- not exactly that pic; I edited it. I can't find the original, though.)

The last one is from the TV show Veronica Mars, and also resulted from a conversation with a friend, in which we "squee!"ed about the kiss portrayed therein. :) I decided it was a good icon for things I was excited about.

Of course, I hardly ever use icons other than my default...

[arthur-sc-king.livejournal.com]

Me please.

[pne.livejournal.com]

• singing from the diaphragm


• footwork impecc-able


• amputation

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[arthur-sc-king.livejournal.com]

Well, I used to be on LJ under a different handle, but some hassles with my ex led to me nuking that account and creating a more "anonymous" one. In this account, my alter ego is King Arthur, so-called king of the Britons, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/).

When they get to Camelot in the movie, the knights at Camelot sing an odd song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_6vYDCG0P8) that talks about things like "footwork impecc-able" (pronounced "im-peck-ay-ble") and "we sing from the diaphragm-a-lot" (to rhyme with "Camelot"). The "amputation" bit refers to King Arthur's epic battle against the Black Knight (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno), in which Arthur removes said knight's limbs one by one.

As for the icons:

I started playing trombone in junior high school at age 10. When I got to high school, my band director suggested to my parents that I move up from the Yamaha student trombone I'd been playing to a professional model. The store in Vancouver that he talked to recommended the King 4B (http://www.kingwinds.com/content/detail.php?item=2104F), which I've now owned for 30 years. It's my primary instrument. I play a lot of different instruments — tuba, baritone/euphonium, a bit of trumpet, French horn, recorder, tin whistle, bass guitar, keyboards — but trombone is the main one. I also now have a King 2B (http://www.kingwinds.com/content/detail.php?item=2102), vintage about 1939, that I bought on eBay a few years back, but the 4B is my baby. It travelled with me all over the Arctic on one band trip or another. It was actually stolen from our house in a break-and-enter a few years ago, but fortunately I found it in a pawn shop three months later.

I lived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowknife%2C_Northwest_Territories) from 1971 to 2001. There is a huge herd of caribou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren-ground_Caribou) that passes by town twice a year, often hanging around the roads as in the picture above, snaffled from the local newspaper a while ago.

This is Mr. Creosote from the film Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/). In the film, Mr. Creosote enters a restaurant, orders everything on the menu, and makes room for it all by vomiting copiously (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk). I won't describe the climax of the sketch; if you haven't seen it, just click on the link and let Youtube show you. It's amazing. Anyhow, I identify with Mr. Creosote because I'm a glutton, and hence weigh about 20-25 kg more than I should. I do not, however, indulge in bulimia (but I do like a nice after-dinner mint...).

Hope that all makes sense.

[spongebobjess.livejournal.com]

I'm game. :)

SBj

[pne.livejournal.com]

Norwegian shouting choruses, deaf culture, l.a.m.b.

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[tamar.livejournal.com]

Okay, let's do this.

btw.. I don't think I know the word 'Spießbürger', though I'm familiar with the word Spießer, which has the same meaning, I believe.

I don't have that many userpics. Not sure why exactly. I guess creating new ones has never been on top of my to-do list. I can upload another 114 if I wanted to, because someone bought me extra userpics. I have no idea why. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

no logo, Fairport Convention, holding hands

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[tamar.livejournal.com]

Some people seem to think this is from a painting. It's not. It's a photograph, though a lot has been done to it in Photoshop. And yes, it is me.

This has always been my Support icon. I think it's the most 'neutral' one of the few icons that I currently have. Maybe it's a little vain to have icons with yourself on it, but at least it doesn't indicate that I'm a fan of a particular band or that I'm against a certain politician. Not that there would be anything wrong with that, of course. Besides, I may create a new Support icon soon. I'm a little bored with this one.

The text on this one is from a bbc comedy. I believe it was called 'Lead Balloon'.

no logo
Falls into the category of activism. Just like human rights and (recently added) noreena hertz.

fairport convention
Fairport Convention, as you might know, is an English folk(rock) band. I love Sandy Denny's voice and Richard Thompson's guitar playing. I still play their music sometimes. This interest has been on the list for years. The hippie in me must have put it there.. :)

holding hands
I'm usually a rather touchy-feely kind of girl, but not in an annoying sort of way. :D A few interests on my list may reflect this, most prominently hugging and holding hands.

[squigglz.livejournal.com]

Yay meme :D

[pne.livejournal.com]

tastycakes, mmmm betty, master

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[squigglz.livejournal.com]

Tastycakes are a delicious snack food originating from my area.

http://www.tastykake.com/HomepageTemplate.aspx?PostingID=21&ChannelID=2

Mmmm Betty is from Kung Pow! the movie. A friend of mine used to say it all the time.

Master as in master/slave.

The first icon is just a random "blahblahblah" one I ran across. The second is Mamimi from FLCL with her long-suffering friend Naota, who had grown cat-ears in the series. The third is from Garden State (both the pic and the line), and I found it to be very applicable on these fine internets.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

Squeak!

[pne.livejournal.com]

kumihimo, owner trained service dogs, blind knitting

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[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll play. :)

[pne.livejournal.com]

pocket pairs, sbcsdfwnpdvcpliotfg, avalanches.

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[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

Pocket pairs: as you've no doubt guessed from the general tone of the majority of the entries over the last six months or so, I've become an avid player of Texas Hold'em. In that game, each player is dealt two individual cards, which no other player is allowed to see (often called the "hole" or the "pocket"), and then five cards are dealt in the middle, which all players can use. "Pocket pair" refers to being dealt a pair of identical cards (say, Ace-Ace) as one's two individual cards. Pocket pairs are generally considered good starting hands in Hold'em, especially the high pairs like Kings or Aces, with which one would expect to win the hand in about two-thirds of cases.

Sbcsdfwnpdvcpliotfg: the acronym for a kind of club my father and his friends formed when they were in the final years of high school and afterward: the "Snoozin' Boozin' Cruisin' Shaggin' Draggin' Faggin' Wagon, North Pine Dam Van Club Pty. Ltd. Inc. of the First Generation". They assigned ridiculous ministries (for instance, the Minister for Mathematics and Debate, the Minister for Cheezels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheezels), and so forth), and generally spent their time in a non-fruitful and yet fun way. The surreality of the whole thing quite appealed to me, and my father's quite happy for me to carry this on to the Second Generation.

Avalanches: The Avalanches are simply an electronic music group based in Melbourne whose music I quite enjoy.


This icon is of Sam and Max, who are characters in a series of comics by Steve Purcell. The image is from their LucasArts adventure game Sam and Max Hit the Road, which is a lot of fun; it's a similar sort of humour to that found in Monkey Island.


This one is of Pilz-E, a character in the Flash animation series Neurotically Yours, available at http://www.illwillpress.com (http://www.illwillpress.com). He's an over-medicated squirrel who has a habit of taking things far too literally. The cartoon is highly NSFW, and has begun to degenerate into nothing more than a series of rants, but some of the older episodes - particularly Amityville Toaster - are quite funny. Enter at your own risk, though.


And this one is simply another addition to the neverending O RLY? owl series (obviously). The hat he's wearing is a traditional Georgian hat, and the phrase /o mrtla/ is a shortening of Georgian /o martla/ which means "oh, really?". (Soon after I first used this icon, nazarboncuk saw it, and told me that she once knew a Tushian Georgian-speaker who mumbled all the time, and pronounced martla just as I'd written it, so I felt rather vindicated by that.)