Icon meme
From sillyzilly2k, a meme for your Sunday:
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
Her choices; my answers.
I have never given much thought to my icons. When I set up my account, I just chose 15 pics from a set that I happened to have scanned (as this was in my pre-digital era). But I guess most of them do have specific meanings to me. :-)
1.
Masks: I took this photo around 1998, in a costume store in Pleasanton. I think of it as an evil smiley face. It means that snark is coming your way!
2.
Carnival Beasts: From 2003. This is from a carnival I went to in Oakland with graymalkn and funranium. I've always been charmed by the beasts' dippy look. In post-land this pic denotes silliness.
3.
Kings X: I took this pic in 1997 at, yes, King's Cross Station in London. It's blurry but I've always been fond of it. Travel, flight, speed, wistfulness, or Harry Potter could all follow this icon.
4.
Angel: This is one of the angel statues at the Exploratorium, circa 2002. It probably means I'm conscious that my comment looks like me delivering Wisdom From On High. More than usual, I mean!
5.
Porter Path: I took this when I was in college, around 1995. It's at UCSC, on the path between Porter Bridge and Porter College. I loved the mysteriousness of the white fog and shadowy trees on this day. Alas, I'm not sure this path exists anymore. I drove around UCSC yesterday with captainoz, Elizabeth, and Sharon, and I think this may have been built over in the extension of Porter. But we didn't get out of the car at all, so I'm not sure. Anyway, this pic symbolizes darkness, mystery, secrets, wistfulness, etc.
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
Her choices; my answers.
I have never given much thought to my icons. When I set up my account, I just chose 15 pics from a set that I happened to have scanned (as this was in my pre-digital era). But I guess most of them do have specific meanings to me. :-)
1.
Masks: I took this photo around 1998, in a costume store in Pleasanton. I think of it as an evil smiley face. It means that snark is coming your way!
2.
Carnival Beasts: From 2003. This is from a carnival I went to in Oakland with graymalkn and funranium. I've always been charmed by the beasts' dippy look. In post-land this pic denotes silliness.
3.
Kings X: I took this pic in 1997 at, yes, King's Cross Station in London. It's blurry but I've always been fond of it. Travel, flight, speed, wistfulness, or Harry Potter could all follow this icon.
4.
Angel: This is one of the angel statues at the Exploratorium, circa 2002. It probably means I'm conscious that my comment looks like me delivering Wisdom From On High. More than usual, I mean!
5.
Porter Path: I took this when I was in college, around 1995. It's at UCSC, on the path between Porter Bridge and Porter College. I loved the mysteriousness of the white fog and shadowy trees on this day. Alas, I'm not sure this path exists anymore. I drove around UCSC yesterday with captainoz, Elizabeth, and Sharon, and I think this may have been built over in the extension of Porter. But we didn't get out of the car at all, so I'm not sure. Anyway, this pic symbolizes darkness, mystery, secrets, wistfulness, etc.