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...