My Software Winked At Me
February 17th, 2006[ Geek ]
So I’ve never really gone for this whole emoticon business. I don’t write “LOL” in emails, my message client Gaim doesn’t render emoticons so I get a lot of 
, $;/ and whatever else that I really have no idea which emotion the person’s trying to pass along.
Why am I such an emoticon bitch? It just doesn’t work so I don’t bother. It’s hard enough to convey emotional context over the phone, but through a text based software application it’s just pointless so why try.
Years back I used to play some chess online in an attempt to learn how to play the game. I had no clue what “LOL” meant in the game chats. My first assumption, which lasted months, was Lot’s Of Love. I was getting loads of love until I figured out they were laughing at me.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
[...] Years ago, during the first dot com boom, I worked at a little web company in Toronto. That company made the decision to bring in some old school boys to run things. Some guys who know how to efficiently operate a growing organization. Is there a ‘tongue in cheek’ emoticon? That particular experience didn’t exactly inspire my confidence in the old guard. I butted heads more than the opposite. [...]