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Iconology: Baking
23 July 2009 09:02
I am getting the impression that a baking icon would be a Good Idea. Any idea what one ought to look like?
Arriving in today's mail was a set of Orvan icons from Jim Groat. That was good, as was discovering that in one update or another, PCLinuxOS is now capable of dealing with a flatbed scanner so I could scan the icons.
I had asked for three different moods or emotions and had specified two of them well. The puzzled or bewildered icon is obvious, with Orvan scratching his head. The anger/angry icon is obvious as well. But this one I'm not really sure about. It's certainly a good icon, I just don't know quite how to describe it.
So I ask you. What mood or emotion does that image convey? Or, how would you label that icon?
A new telephone icon was another of the set of five.
Jumping ahead from the era of such telephones to the era of answering machines, the answering machine which used to have an outgoing message about the phone number rather than a name now has no message at all. I haven't spent much time looking for the manual or trying to figure out how to record a new outgoing message. So when someone calls and gets the machine, they get... silence and, I assume, a beep. The result that few seem to leave messages, which is interesting.
By now everybody knows what a single beep means: you've reached a machine, start talking if it's important. I suspect most callers are telemarketers or some variant (alleged pollsters, for example) and thus it's not important. Or their auto-dialer system find silence and doesn't bring anyone to the line. I suspect that as when I pick up and say nothing, I get nothing. If I do speak, then I might get a person I don't want to talk to. I'm not sure just how badly I want to record a new outgoing message now.
