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elf. Again, same rules as before: If you'd like me to look at your icons and pick ~5 that I'd like you to talk about, please include the word 'sigilism' in your comment.

Keywords: thesis thesis drunk, drunk
Comment: colortoy by

sithjawa. Also http://www.livejournal.com/users/chavvah/119984.html?thread=22929
Description: Abstract blobby colors, captioned "thesis thesis DRUNK"

So there I was, minding my own business, drinking more then than I do now (still not much then, really not much now) and there was a hilarious parody of the llama song, and at the same time

sithjawa had a thesis project, a little lava-lamp color-toy that one could click on and make fun colors, and at that time we were talking to each other on IM very regularly and often none too sober. It made sense at about 3am.

Keywords: #dw
Description: "#dw (yes, we can)" and a clenched fist

Once upon a time in an IRC channel not too far away, a dude named Abe started making all sorts of fisting jokes. Given my history, I think that fisting is amazingly funny (there's a story that goes with that, but that's a little too R-rated for an audience who just came in here to hear about my icons). Eventually that IRC channel branched off and the #dw channel was formed, and the fisting jokes continued there too. There were politics going down, so combining the fist of triumph from Obama's campaign with the fisting jokes from #dw (this was before the Freenode move when it became #dreamwidth) made perfect sense.

Keywords: weak magic
Comment: From Zuma Blitz.
Description: Cloaked figure with glowing eyes appears out of the darkness, haloed in red, holding a heart.

One of the little clickygames I play on the facebook is Zuma Blitz, an arcade-style game where matching three or more balls blows them all up; if the balls run down the track to hit the target, the game's over. Gameplay is limited by time-controlled lives, represented by hearts; when you run out of lives you meet this sinister figure holding a heart. I am fairly sure that this is a representation of the Lone Power.

Keywords: pie, tentacles, wtf
Comment: http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/09/cephalopod-surprise/ Icon constructed by [livejournal.com profile] hcolleen
Description: "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"

Okay, who here is familiar with Skippy's List? The List. The Cephalapod Surprise story may be hinted at with the "any references to squid", but is told in full at the above link. (Short version: the high-ranking military guy got pied, with a squid pie.) This is just the sort of surreal thing that my kind of people will do. This was one of the best snappy little quotes from the incident. Another catchphrase that has emerged from that incident into my cluster of people is "squid in bathtub [moment/incident]", which is where things that are totally normal in your particular social cluster would be ... rather not normal ... in a more typical social cluster.

Keywords: Jolly Burner
Description: Jolly Roger superimposed on CD

Intellectual property law is still struggling with new technology. Combining these things amused me.