A blog created for the sake of appeasing a certain housemate. Has since become centralised to whatever I find amusing or interesting. Expect amusing pictures, steampunk girls and cosplay, also otters.
Also I have a secondary tumblr http://thearmouredbadger.tumblr.com/ and an Etsy store where I'm selling chainmaille jewellery.
TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).
Bonus:
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon
is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a
5¼
floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
skeumorphism my beloved
It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.
And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)
the problem with not voting in order to send the message that you hate all the candidates and the entire system and therefore refuse to participate is that it’s completely indistinguishable, as a signal, from not bothering to vote because you think the system is great and all the candidates are great and you’d be fine with any of them. so you might want to rethink the strategy there
This, by the way, also implies the converse problem: that it’s very easy to attribute to active and reflexive dissent what’s only apathy and indifference.
i want to give this a shoutout for being one of a very few comments in over seven thousand notes to say something really interesting that’s responding to the actual content of the post instead of what people imagine i’m saying here
The time to protest at the ballot box is during the primary.
The general election is time to vote against the bigger asshole.
odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
Oðinn spake:
Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count'nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.
already this has tags in the notes like “#anti ai” but… this is just real life with almost everything. this is like grifter 101 please don’t exceptionalize needing to be critical of chatgpt.
This is literally how job interviews work, by the way, and then everyone is surprised the super-duper confident guy is also an incompetent moron.
This worked on Trump voters, with the added selling point that he’s a piece of shit that gave them permission to be pieces of shit.
Talking to experts when I was young used to drive me nuts because I would say something self-evidently straightforward, and they would say, “Well, it’s not actually as simple as that…”
And then I got older and learned things on the way, and found people asking me questions that were straightforward, but the equivalent of “Why isn’t it obvious to everyone that there is only one right way of doing the thing…?” and I would reply, “Well, it’s not as simple as that…” and watch them decide that I probably didn’t know what I was talking about.
A blog created for the sake of appeasing a certain housemate. Has since become centralised to whatever I find amusing or interesting. Expect amusing pictures, steampunk girls and cosplay, also otters.
Also I have a secondary tumblr http://thearmouredbadger.tumblr.com/ and an Etsy store where I'm selling chainmaille jewellery.
