timprov ([info]timprov) wrote,
2007-05-25 12:10:00
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loleditors: the trigrammaton edition

I can kind of see why these macro things are so addictive. [info]ksumnersmith took a picture that just cried out to be loled, and I was unable to resist. Here's the second, cleaner version:



And then, well, I just had to have this icon. And then it just started spiraling. Here's one of [info]tnh:


Source photo by [info]dd_b.

I don't know, right now, whether there will be more. Probably.
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[info]aliothsan

May 25 2007, 17:23:04 UTC 5 years ago

Heehee. I love the esoteric/subcultury macros.

[info]dd_b

May 25 2007, 17:27:33 UTC 5 years ago

The tnh one is particularly brilliant; disemvoweling the last half works so nicely.

I think this is the first time I've seen "macro" used to refer to this sort of thing. Here I thought it had to do with compile-time manipulation of data in programs? Or maybe it was something in close-up photography; I get so confused.

[info]markgritter

May 25 2007, 17:31:24 UTC 5 years ago

I believe the derivation is actually pretty close to the compiler/preprocessor usage. 'macros' were tags in a message board that would cause an image to be inserted. Then the named slipped to refer to the images themselves, then a particular sort of image...



[info]timprov

May 25 2007, 17:32:11 UTC 5 years ago

Wikipedia on image macros. That's about my level of understanding of why they're called that.

[info]pameladean

May 25 2007, 17:52:03 UTC 5 years ago

The second one is utterly inspired.

P.

[info]avocadovpx

May 25 2007, 18:36:48 UTC 5 years ago

Love the TNH macro!

Now linked in my LJ.

[info]ksumnersmith

May 25 2007, 18:48:06 UTC 5 years ago

I don't know, right now, whether there will be more. Probably.

Oh, I hope so! I laugh every time I refresh my Friends list.

[info]wshaffer

May 25 2007, 19:58:28 UTC 5 years ago

Bravo! Yay, loleditors!

[info]ronsrants

May 25 2007, 20:04:17 UTC 5 years ago

Crap. I don't understand what you are talking about. Does that mean that you are going to defriend me?

-R

[info]timprov

May 25 2007, 20:06:32 UTC 5 years ago

Nah. Just SF publishing injokery.

[info]ronsrants

May 25 2007, 20:07:00 UTC 5 years ago

Phew.

-R

[info]mcpye

May 25 2007, 23:45:03 UTC 5 years ago

see Wikipedia on Disemvowelling Teresa Nielsen Hayden, aka tnh on LJ, and also TNH, was instrumental in popularising the technique (she may have independently invented it during her online moderation), and is shown in the picture.

[info]buymeaclue

May 25 2007, 20:33:15 UTC 5 years ago

I like 'em both, but the "Alas" on the first one really makes it for me.

[info]mkille

May 26 2007, 01:44:12 UTC 5 years ago

You may or may not find the [Unknown LJ tag] community to be entertaining.

[info]mkille

May 26 2007, 01:44:52 UTC 5 years ago

Second try:

You may or may not find the [info]lolbrarians community to be entertaining.

[info]mavarin

May 28 2007, 07:36:12 UTC 4 years ago

heh heh heh, alas

Much as I love the TNH one, the Van Gelder one is also clever and fun. The last word is what really does it for me.

[info]elisem

May 30 2007, 00:12:13 UTC 4 years ago

hee!
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