Xiggy asked what I wanted, so here it is:

[conuly]

1. This one, but saying "support your local linguist" instead.

2. This one, but saying "SHOPLIFTER!" instead... though I don't know, I kinda like it plain, now...

3. This one, but saying "res agit". *giggles* VERY loosely translates as "shit happens". Very loosely. Res means "thing", but in context... res publica means "the republic" or "politics", res nova means "a revolution (the new thing)", and so on. Agit means to do, drive, bring, carry.... *sighs* Anyway.

4. One with a pic of the verrazano... I don't have a quote yet, nor a good pic. Will update as soon as I get either. *

5. I'm also browsing random icon places for
a. decent star trek icons, esp. pics of the various ships and captain picard/Q/Mr. Spock/Belanna (however you spell her name)
b. decent Matrix icons, esp. those featuring Trinity or Agent Smith (I want one of him in the last thunderstorm with some sort of rubber duckie/bubble bath quote....)
c. decent star wars icons, all characters

And whatever else strikes my little mind. I'm taking care to mostly take bases because you're a customizing person.

Happy? That enough to occupy you?


*Okay, found some pics:



Incidentally, I love this site.

Now I just need some bridgy quotes....

Hm. This one:

What is only walking Just a bridge away....
Emily Dickenson
For some reason, the words "Just a bridge away" are sticking in my mind. Bit meaningless, though....

Over the valley springs a shadowy bridge
That's from a poem by Richard Watson Gilder, but I'd need a different pic for that, one from a foggy day.... I suppose I could find a larger one and you could resize it?


Also possible:

Very little is needed to make a happy life. M. Antonius

Comments

[feathered.livejournal.com]

If you find pictures, I could customize bases for you. Or I could find pictures, I do image searches all the time when I'm bored. But, it would sorta suck to make a base of a picture you didn't like. I don't customise tho, that is beyond my meager skills. (I'm just offering because it can be sort of hard to find good uncustomized bases. Have you checked bases communities? I have a few in my links that I could give you if I weren't being lazy right now.)

[conuly]

Bases communities would be nice, and probably nicer for my purposes than icon communities. I mostly get Xiggs to make my icons because 1. she's good 2. she's said she likes to 3. I fully believe she could get into a school like FIT later....

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The three base communities that I know of are bases_to_icons, basicbases and simplybases. I've never been to the last one, but the first two sometimes have good stuff posted. You might go thru the old posts, that's what I always do.

[conuly]

I intend to. And I've asked a Gargoyles community (you remember that Disney cartoon? How I miss it) if they could make me an icon, anyone there. So far, no icon, but two people are considering it.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Aaaah! You have an Empire Records icon!

[conuly]

Yes. You can have it too. Apparently, the rule with icons of that sort is you take it, and you leave a note with the creator, and you put creator's name in your keywords for the icon. *shrugs*

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Some people don't even require credit for bases. Most don't, unless they took the picture themselves. I like that best. My icons are categorized with keywords, putting the username of whoever edited the photo would throw them off.

[conuly]

I actually don't mind crediting, unless it messes up the dropdown by being a really long username. Otherwise, if it makes them feel good, I don't care if all they did was take a stupid shot from a movie that any moron could do.

[conuly]

*laughs* Too long, but:

Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ATTRIBUTION:Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

[feathered.livejournal.com]

If you find pictures, I could customize bases for you. Or I could find pictures, I do image searches all the time when I'm bored. But, it would sorta suck to make a base of a picture you didn't like. I don't customise tho, that is beyond my meager skills. (I'm just offering because it can be sort of hard to find good uncustomized bases. Have you checked bases communities? I have a few in my links that I could give you if I weren't being lazy right now.)

[conuly]

Bases communities would be nice, and probably nicer for my purposes than icon communities. I mostly get Xiggs to make my icons because 1. she's good 2. she's said she likes to 3. I fully believe she could get into a school like FIT later....

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The three base communities that I know of are bases_to_icons, basicbases and simplybases. I've never been to the last one, but the first two sometimes have good stuff posted. You might go thru the old posts, that's what I always do.

[conuly]

I intend to. And I've asked a Gargoyles community (you remember that Disney cartoon? How I miss it) if they could make me an icon, anyone there. So far, no icon, but two people are considering it.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Aaaah! You have an Empire Records icon!

[conuly]

Yes. You can have it too. Apparently, the rule with icons of that sort is you take it, and you leave a note with the creator, and you put creator's name in your keywords for the icon. *shrugs*

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Some people don't even require credit for bases. Most don't, unless they took the picture themselves. I like that best. My icons are categorized with keywords, putting the username of whoever edited the photo would throw them off.

[conuly]

I actually don't mind crediting, unless it messes up the dropdown by being a really long username. Otherwise, if it makes them feel good, I don't care if all they did was take a stupid shot from a movie that any moron could do.

[conuly]

*laughs* Too long, but:

Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ATTRIBUTION:Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

[xreferenced.livejournal.com]

You could have it with a Hebrew quote:

The entire world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be afraid at all.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (attrib.)

(Loose transcription: Kol haolam kulo gesher tzar meod, vehaikar lo lfached klal.)

It's loong, but if one writes "kol haolam kulo" at top and "gesher tzar meod" below, it fits.

Good points:
you'll have an icon with real Hebrew text, which is a plus to any avid linguophile (or what was that word)

Bad points:
everybody will assume you're Jewish and/or speak Hebrew, which can lead to misunderstandings, as you aren't/don't.

[conuly]

Bad points:
everybody will assume you're Jewish and/or speak Hebrew, which can lead to misunderstandings, as you aren't/don't.

It'll make a nice change from school, where everyone assumes they have to explain Jewish/Hebrew things to me, all the time. After a number of such explanations, while I don't speak Hebrew (and probably never will, the beginning class is EIGHT IN THE MORNING, much better to learn Arabic, that starts at 6pm), I know quite a bit more about being Jewish than I did before. And the explanations all the time are getting repetitive.

Sorry, mild rant, it's been annoying always being (correctly, which makes it worse) assumed to be ignorant.


Still... Hebrew on my icon... Hm... if I could get that in Hebrew instead of transcribed....

[xreferenced.livejournal.com]

I could write it down for you if you liked, it's no problem for me. Let me know.

Dvora (almost asleep -- hit the post comment button -- just one more inch to go -- and THERE it is!! THUD ZzZzZzZ)

[conuly]

If you would, that'd be great. *huggles* Thanks!

Don't fall asleep at the computer. You wake up with a sore neck.

[xreferenced.livejournal.com]

You could have it with a Hebrew quote:

The entire world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be afraid at all.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (attrib.)

(Loose transcription: Kol haolam kulo gesher tzar meod, vehaikar lo lfached klal.)

It's loong, but if one writes "kol haolam kulo" at top and "gesher tzar meod" below, it fits.

Good points:
you'll have an icon with real Hebrew text, which is a plus to any avid linguophile (or what was that word)

Bad points:
everybody will assume you're Jewish and/or speak Hebrew, which can lead to misunderstandings, as you aren't/don't.

[conuly]

Bad points:
everybody will assume you're Jewish and/or speak Hebrew, which can lead to misunderstandings, as you aren't/don't.

It'll make a nice change from school, where everyone assumes they have to explain Jewish/Hebrew things to me, all the time. After a number of such explanations, while I don't speak Hebrew (and probably never will, the beginning class is EIGHT IN THE MORNING, much better to learn Arabic, that starts at 6pm), I know quite a bit more about being Jewish than I did before. And the explanations all the time are getting repetitive.

Sorry, mild rant, it's been annoying always being (correctly, which makes it worse) assumed to be ignorant.


Still... Hebrew on my icon... Hm... if I could get that in Hebrew instead of transcribed....

[xreferenced.livejournal.com]

I could write it down for you if you liked, it's no problem for me. Let me know.

Dvora (almost asleep -- hit the post comment button -- just one more inch to go -- and THERE it is!! THUD ZzZzZzZ)

[conuly]

If you would, that'd be great. *huggles* Thanks!

Don't fall asleep at the computer. You wake up with a sore neck.