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In which I finally explain some of my damn icons
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aurora_novarum. :P
Meme instructions:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
This one is actually a bit of a visual pun that only people who know fluid mechanics would get. :) The title of the pic is "controlling the flow of ideas". The math that Sam is doing is part of the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the flow of fluids based on momentum and viscosity. This piece is specifically detailing the stress the fluid exerts, on, say, pipes. So, it's very literally the math to "control the flow".
Yeah, talk about obscure engineering jokes. :P
I'm also pretty happy with how the overall look is, even if I wish I could change the angle of the "hologram screen" just a little bit.
Oh, the duckcat. There's a story behind this one. A few years ago, a friend and I were on a team writing a 10-day-long LARP. It was roughly three weeks until it was supposed to run, and the two of us were in one of the computer clusters on campus at about midnight going absolutely nuts. I was dealing with editing sheets and dealing with text formatting, he was coding our huge information nexus for players. At some point, we were so punch-drunk that he pulls up this image of a cat head on duck feet and we giggled like five-year-olds for about half an hour. From that point on, whenever we got too stressed in the next three weeks, we'd pull up the duckcat picture and have a little glee moment.
It's one thing that never fails to put a smile on my face.
The character is Lt. Maya Ibuki from Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was one of my favorite series for a long time. I spend enough time on the computer that I had to use the image. The "rocks fall, everyone dies" is an old gaming joke about a TPK (total party kill), in which the GM just...kills all the player characters. When I'm writing, sometimes, it really would be easier to just give up and end the story with "rocks fall, everybody dies!"
The art is from the game Portal. It's one of the "helpful" warnings that can appear at the beginning of the level to let you know what obstacles exist in the room that can kill you. :) In this case, a weighted metal cube bashing into someone's head. I generally use it when I or someone else does something wince-worthy. Sadly, I feel like it gets a lot more use than it should. :)
This is one of the first icons I made for Stargate. For some reason, I just loved the image of Daniel falling asleep on a nuclear weapon that had the yield big enough to smash an asteroid hurtling towards Earth.
On the other hand "world destroying power or comfy pillow" could describe Daniel as well.
aurora_novarum. :PMeme instructions:
1. Reply to this post and I will pick five of your icons
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose if you damn well feel like it.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
This one is actually a bit of a visual pun that only people who know fluid mechanics would get. :) The title of the pic is "controlling the flow of ideas". The math that Sam is doing is part of the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the flow of fluids based on momentum and viscosity. This piece is specifically detailing the stress the fluid exerts, on, say, pipes. So, it's very literally the math to "control the flow".
Yeah, talk about obscure engineering jokes. :P
I'm also pretty happy with how the overall look is, even if I wish I could change the angle of the "hologram screen" just a little bit.
Oh, the duckcat. There's a story behind this one. A few years ago, a friend and I were on a team writing a 10-day-long LARP. It was roughly three weeks until it was supposed to run, and the two of us were in one of the computer clusters on campus at about midnight going absolutely nuts. I was dealing with editing sheets and dealing with text formatting, he was coding our huge information nexus for players. At some point, we were so punch-drunk that he pulls up this image of a cat head on duck feet and we giggled like five-year-olds for about half an hour. From that point on, whenever we got too stressed in the next three weeks, we'd pull up the duckcat picture and have a little glee moment.
It's one thing that never fails to put a smile on my face.
The character is Lt. Maya Ibuki from Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was one of my favorite series for a long time. I spend enough time on the computer that I had to use the image. The "rocks fall, everyone dies" is an old gaming joke about a TPK (total party kill), in which the GM just...kills all the player characters. When I'm writing, sometimes, it really would be easier to just give up and end the story with "rocks fall, everybody dies!"
The art is from the game Portal. It's one of the "helpful" warnings that can appear at the beginning of the level to let you know what obstacles exist in the room that can kill you. :) In this case, a weighted metal cube bashing into someone's head. I generally use it when I or someone else does something wince-worthy. Sadly, I feel like it gets a lot more use than it should. :)
This is one of the first icons I made for Stargate. For some reason, I just loved the image of Daniel falling asleep on a nuclear weapon that had the yield big enough to smash an asteroid hurtling towards Earth.
On the other hand "world destroying power or comfy pillow" could describe Daniel as well.
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They really do say something about my sense of humor, don't they?
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Rocks fall everybody dies is common trope, but the icon you have is just so perfect for it.
And thanks for explaining the little man getting bonked on the head.
Yay! I learnded stuff!
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I really do like the little man getting bonked on the head.
Yay, learning stuff!
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Oh, so true. Oh, Daniel (he WOULD be a comfy pillow. When he wasn't using his world destroying powers)
I, um, really love your Sam Navier-Stokes icon. I always did, but now that I've derived Navier-Stokes, I love it more. Oh, science puns, so much awesome.
[also, I was talking to someone last night about my replific and now I REALLY want to be finished with it. AUGH, why is writing so hard????]
(since I'm commenting, you may throw icons at me if you wish)
(HI)
(I WILL BE IN THE SAME CITY AS YOU BRIEFLY ON THURSDAY)
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Oh, I love the Sam Navier-Stokes icon SO MUCH. Because, um, it's totally My Icon. Fluids kicks my ass so much, but I honestly love it, and after this term, I think it's just going to mean a lot to me. And then, well, with Sam, it's just perfect.
[RepliFic! Dude. I should be around more often to be your sounding board. Bad me.]
(Okay:
(HI. *waves*)
(EEEEE)
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[eh, I haven't been around much recently, it was an in-person fangirl evening that was re-sparking my brain. I'll get there. I'm just...so close and yet so far]
Hee! RepliIcon. I'm actually really proud with how that came out but you already know the story behind that one. And you picked *my* Sam and math one!
(HI)
(EEEEE)
(I'm considering giving you a call when we get back to your city that evening just in case)
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[Point. It's so very, very close.]
Of course I picked your Sam and math one. :P
(OKAY.)
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Wow, I'm feeling obnoxious tonight.
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(I kid. Please don't hurt me.)
ICONS.
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*jumps up and down like a 2 year old* :P
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*also gives cookie*
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And the Daniel one never fails to make me grin.