rivka: (WTF?!)
rivka ([personal profile] rivka) wrote2007-01-08 09:43 pm
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Not sure what came over me...

...I guess I've been reading the wrong kinds of communities. Suddenly I was overtaken with the urge to learn how to make an animated GIF icon. Some kind of perverse LJ-transmissible sickness, I guess.

What do you think? Too subtle?

[identity profile] ricevermicelli.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
It took me a moment, but now that I've got it, I love it.

It is too subtle. People are going to miss that you're snarking them. That may be the essence of its appeal.

[identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I can't make out the text (not your fault; my aging eyes can't make out most usericon text. I miss all the good jokes.)

[identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't need to be able to make out the text - you should just need to be able to identify the comic strip.

[identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
*chortle* OK, I get it. Brilliant.
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[personal profile] kate_nepveu 2007-01-09 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I am distracted by wondering if the original strip really had a character _saying_ a font-tag.

But, you know, if you hover your mouse over the icon, you can see the keyword, which helps. =>

[identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I am distracted by wondering if the original strip really had a character _saying_ a font-tag.

I pulled the panel off someone else's site, so I can't say for absolute certain. But I'm pretty sure that it did - Foxtrot has always been full of geeky humor.

[identity profile] sistercoyote.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that strip has Jason saying a font tag; also paragraph tag and I think bold tags.

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Once I realized that it wasn't "scotch, flamenco, Jason," I got it.

[identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
*blink* It can be read as something other than "Scotch, flamenco, Jason?"

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
My actual entire thought process was, "Scotch, flamenco, Jason? WTF?


. . . oh."

[identity profile] marith.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still on the "WTF" stage... *scratches head*

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
The "WTF" stage is actually a big clue. Big, big clue. A clue of bigness. If you, like, know the Phonetic Alphabet used by the US Military and others.

[identity profile] marith.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
*thud*

As my grandma used to say, "Dawn breaks on Marblehead".

Thanks, I think. :)

[identity profile] thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Not in the least...

[identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. I suppose that it shouldn't surprise me...

[identity profile] edschweppe.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Clever!

Of course, now I want to go make one ...
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[personal profile] ailbhe 2007-01-09 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
Once someone explained it to me it made sense... but then, I've never heard of the comic strip.

[identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
It is kind of U.S.-centric, I know. But it's too hard to find icon-able dance photos that adequately distinguish the tango from the foxtrot.

[identity profile] rysmiel.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Neat. And there's nothing wrong with a very occasional animated userpic, really.

[identity profile] nolly.livejournal.com 2007-01-09 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It took a while, mainly because I couldn't figure out what the first picture was at first.