TPF emoticons: your suggestions here

[jdaw1]

TPF needs some special emoticons. Not “pointlessly flashy epileptic-unfriendly emoticons with a target audience of illiterate teenagers†: I mean useful TPF-relevant emoticons.

Some examples:

• Niepoort 1977, tasting measure;
  Niepoort 1977, drinking measure;
  Taylor 1994, drinking measure;
  Dow 1977, drinking measure.

My thinking is that each colour would come in two versions: “tasting† and “drinking†. This also affords a splendid opportunity for bickering over colours, and their names. (I am unsatisfied with the colours of the examples made: more work needed. But you get the idea.)

[DRT]

I agree that this would be good provided the work on inadequate colours does not impact available resources on other ongoing projects.

Derek

PS: To those who have never worked in an IT development environment -- what you are seeing here is a classic case of a developer becoming bored with (or stuck on) the piece of work he has been commissioned to do and choosing to create something that looks pretty just to fill his time. I am surprised that Developer Jdaw has shown his work in this way as it normally surfaces during a conversation like this:

Project Manager: Have you finished building the influctulation code for the Flux Capacitor yet?

Developer: Erm, no, someone else asked me to do something really important

Project Manager: But I told you that the Flux Capacitor had to be ready by today otherwise our company will go bust and you and I will lose our jobs!! What was more important than that?

Developer: Have you seen these little port glasses I've made? They're really cool and they move around the screen when you hit Control-P

[Conky]

TPF needs some special emoticons. Not “pointlessly flashy epileptic-unfriendly emoticons with a target audience of illiterate teenagers†: I mean useful TPF-relevant emoticons.

Some examples:

• Niepoort 1977, tasting measure;
  Niepoort 1977, drinking measure;
  Taylor 1994, drinking measure;
  Dow 1977, drinking measure.

My thinking is that each colour would come in two versions: “tasting† and “drinking†. This also affords a splendid opportunity for bickering over colours, and their names. (I am unsatisfied with the colours of the examples made: more work needed. But you get the idea.)

Oh how dreadful! Boring. Anal. If I had Administrator rights I would just arbitarily delete them. Will chase ordinary people away in droves. Surely only relevant to overly-literate geeks!!!


See how easy it is Julian? Now when you've read this, and understood the insult, please delete this Post, and develop a more 'live and let live' balance.

Alan

[KillerB]

Alan,

Be fair. Julian is patently in a traumatic state and needs a release. He has managed this by creating a set of icons that please his currently angst-ridden mind. We should be looking after him not criticising him.

Julian,

They are lovely, could you do one for Warre 1980 please?

[jdaw1]

See how easy it is Julian? Now when you've read this, and understood the insult, please delete this Post, and develop a more 'live and let live' balance.

Sorry, Conky, I’ve failed to understand. All three posts made me laugh.

How red is Warre 1980? RGB?

[KillerB]

See how easy it is Julian? Now when you've read this, and understood the insult, please delete this Post, and develop a more 'live and let live' balance.

Sorry, Conky, I’ve failed to understand. All three posts made me laugh.

How red is Warre 1980? RGB?

Sort of Port coloured.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Actually, could we have one for each of the 1980s that we will be drinking on May 20? I could always print the tasting mats in colour and these would look luv-erly.

(Was that tender and supportive enough, Alex?)

[jdaw1]

Thank you for your enthusiastic comments. Upon reflection I agree: the tasting portions have too few pixels for the colours to be seen. So, below, find a proposed set of 39 new emoticons, needing only names. We could use the tedious colour codes, or appropriate refreshments. Suggest away!

• 330000 = Taylor 1994
• 660000
• 663300
• 660033
• 990000
• 663333
• 993300
• 990033
• CC0000
• 996600
• 993333
• 990066
• CC3300
• CC0033
• FF0000
• 996633
• CC6600
• CC3333
• FF3300
• FF0033
• CC9900
• CC6633
• FF6600
• FF3333
• CC6666
• FF9900
• FF6633
• CC9966
• CC6699
• FFCC00
• FF9933
• FF6666
• CC9999
• FFCC33
• FF9966
• FFCC66
• FF9999
• FFCC99
• FFCCCC

(Edited to convert IMGs to the new emoticons.)

[DRT]

I like all of them, apart from FF6666, which oblviously cannot be Port.

[Alex Bridgeman]

I like all of them, apart from FF6666, which oblviously cannot be Port.

B...b...but th...th...that's th...th...the F...f...fonseca s...s...sixty s...s...six

[jdaw1]

OK, I have a set of (now 40) glasses. As soon as I manage to make a .pak file, they will be sent to the creator’s assistant for uploading (I can’t do that myself).

There is an extra icon, which should not be uploaded without suitable permission, that I propose naming “QuotePedant†: . I shan’t be using it, but perhaps others would wish to!

And, of course, other TPFers with icons are more than welcome to suggest them (though supreme management has the final say).

[DRT]

Without wanting to criticise this great work, can I ask what emotion FF6633 is intended to convey?

Derek

[KillerB]

OK, I have a set of (now 40) glasses. As soon as I manage to make a .pak file, they will be sent to the creator’s assistant for uploading (I can’t do that myself).

Do we really need 40? That will totally dominate the Emoticons.

[DRT]

Thus my question...

Without wanting to criticise this great work, can I ask what emotion FF6633 is intended to convey?

Derek

There are only so many emotions a man can cope with. Normally about 3.

Derek

[jdaw1]

The plan is that a TN writer can say “it was <this> colour†. That requires several colours. And the FF6633 isn’t far off the Borges 1963 we had at the TCP on Wed 30 Jan (though the colour was actually nearer FF9900).

[DRT]

The plan is that a TN writer can say “it was <this> colour†. That requires several colours. And the FF6633 isn’t far off the Borges 1963 we had at the TCP on Wed 30 Jan (though the colour was actually nearer FF9900).

That is fine. Colours are not emotions. I can cope with lots of colours.

[jdaw1]

There is an extra icon, which should not be uploaded without suitable permission, that I propose naming “QuotePedant†: . I shan’t be using it, but perhaps others would wish to!

No comment on this? I am surprised.

[DRT]

There is an extra icon, which should not be uploaded without suitable permission, that I propose naming “QuotePedant†: . I shan’t be using it, but perhaps others would wish to!

No comment on this? I am surprised.

I was intrigued by the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence, which I thought should be a question mark.

Is it intended that this would be used by mere mortals to point out to any overly-pedantic members that they were displaying the worst aspects of their personality?

Derek

[jdaw1]

I was intrigued by the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence, which I thought should be a question mark.

Maybe I could do a question-mark version. Not sure if there’s space. Tomorrow perhaps.

[Conky]

Maybe you two could have a tattoo done?

[jdaw1]

I was intrigued by the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence, which I thought should be a question mark.

Maybe I could do a question-mark version. Not sure if there’s space. Tomorrow perhaps.

OK, so now has a pendant, . I don’t like the pendant: it’s too crowded.

[jdaw1]

New emoticons installed. Please do use the colours in your TNs.

[KillerB]

New emoticons installed. Please do use the colours in your TNs.

[jdaw1]

New emoticons installed. Please do use the colours in your TNs.

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Edit: useful link.

[KillerB]

New emoticons installed. Please do use the colours in your TNs.

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