Intervention for Pangloss62

Flint · 10-06-2006, 01:13 PM

Your smilies are frickin' depressing me, man!

xoxoxoBruce · 10-07-2006, 03:10 PM

Cheer up, you're just collateral damage, not the target.

Griff · 10-07-2006, 08:01 PM

Turn that frown upside down.

Pangloss62 · 10-14-2006, 10:29 AM

But my neutral emoticon is perfect for me.

The whole point is that it is NOT a smile.

Anyhow, I can't smile much lately because the DOI has blocked most of my favorite sites. I don't spend that much time surfing at work, and I have NEVER gone to a porn site with my government computer, but it was nice to check in on my Cellarite community once and a while.

http://www.betanews.com/article/1040...ept/1160085248

Basically, they threw the baby out with the bath water.

Oh well. Hope all you guys are doing ok.

Flint · 10-20-2006, 10:30 AM

Dude that sucks. Although, I almost strangely wish that I couldn't goof off on the internet literally all day.

I guess the deal with the smilies is that they often don't look like what they are called: "neutral" looks like "discouraged" etc.
(so, as they are intended to communicate additional non-verbal content, they can often communicate the wrong content...)

10-06-2006, 01:13 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Intervention for Pangloss62 Your smilies are frickin' depressing me, man! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

10-07-2006, 03:10 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Cheer up, you're just collateral damage, not the target. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-07-2006, 08:01 PM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Turn that frown upside down. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-14-2006, 10:29 AM	#4
Pangloss62 Lecturer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 768	WTF! But my neutral emoticon is perfect for me. The whole point is that it is NOT a smile. Anyhow, I can't smile much lately because the DOI has blocked most of my favorite sites. I don't spend that much time surfing at work, and I have NEVER gone to a porn site with my government computer, but it was nice to check in on my Cellarite community once and a while. http://www.betanews.com/article/1040...ept/1160085248 Basically, they threw the baby out with the bath water. Oh well. Hope all you guys are doing ok. __________________ Things are never as good, or bad, as they seem.

10-20-2006, 10:30 AM	#5
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Dude that sucks. Although, I almost strangely wish that I couldn't goof off on the internet literally all day. I guess the deal with the smilies is that they often don't look like what they are called: "neutral" looks like "discouraged" etc. (so, as they are intended to communicate additional non-verbal content, they can often communicate the wrong content...) __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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