smiley crisis!

Kassen · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: smiley crisis!

We urgently need a smiley like this one, except substituting a bug (as in insect) for the chicken

I have no idea how we lived without one up to now but google image search is no help so far.

blue hell · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

Can't find one either.

ComposerTed · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

Still needed?

Here's one I made which you are welcome to use. I don't know if it's exactly what you are looking for, but I think it conveys a general impression of bug squashing.

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blue hell · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

Ted, can you make the background transparent?

Kassen · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

ComposerTed · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:33 am Post subject:

Thanks, glad you like it. Here's a transparent one.

Due to the anti-aliasing involved it looks best with light, neutral colors. The gray background you have here (RGB 239,239,239) seems fine. Hopefully it will be ok with your other background color (RGB 222, 237, 231) as well. I'll try a 2nd post to test the other color.

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ComposerTed · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:36 am Post subject:

OK, here goes - preview is always the light gray, it seems, so I'll know after I hit the post button.

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Second color does not seem to be a problem. I did notice we lost a little bit of darkness on the edges (from the original non-transparent version), but I don't think it makes too drastic a difference. It might even be better this way with slightly thinner-looking borders, as the first ones were maybe just a little too thick, but I could see it either way on that score.

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mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:44 am Post subject:

Thanks, Ted. I've added it to the list of emoticons.

Bug squash

Just type the word bug with a : at the beginning and end and it will show up.

wow!

The only improvement might be a little red at the squash point. I know bugs don't have red blood, but I sometimes enjoy gratuitous violence. Shocked

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:46 am Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:47 am Post subject:

There is no Bug squash

it works

- thanks Ted!

mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:55 am Post subject:

All this is interesting. A stoned anthropologist might see this as humans readopting hieroglyphics.

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http://www.ancientscripts.com/

cyclops

Inventor · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:

I love the new bug! Though the first computer bug was actually a moth, and as you may know it's in the Smithsonian Museum. Here's the link to it:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/objects/bug.htm

Perhaps with modern computer advancements they have evolved into angry bees! Cheers!

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:47 am Post subject:

Ants ....

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:48 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:25 am Post subject:

I'm very sorry they don't give credit to the woman who found that bug. In the 1980s I heard her give a lecture at Berkeley about the early days with that computer. She was a computer pioneer and is a pioneer in the field of computer science. She deserves to have her name mentioned. I wish I remembered it.

She was quite smart. In order to find the problem she had to write lots of programs to narrow down the faulty component. You can't find a bug in a relay just by looking; you have to know where to look.

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

Looks like it was Grace Hopper ...

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Amazing Grace

mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:59 am Post subject:

Yes, that's her. Thanks very much, Jan. I forgot she was an admiral. She was very nice and friendly and talked to distinguished professors and ordinary students equally after her presentation. She seemed to like being the center of attention. Very Happy

mosc · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

I just remembered, at the table sitting next to me during her talk was Professor Zadeh. At the time I hadn't heard of fuzzy logic. My friend, Jalil, who was sitting next to me said, "Howard, that guy sitting next to you is Professor Zadeh, he invented fuzzy logic." I asked Zadeh what fuzzy logic was and he spent the entire lunch explaining it to me. I told him I was into algorithmic music composition and he thought fuzzy logic would be useful in such a problem. To say he was a nice guy would be an understatement. He was a gentleman.

That was a luncheon to remember.

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject:

Did you ever apply fuzzy logic to making music?

mono-poly · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

Is this the bugbrand slap smiley?

Bug squash

ComposerTed · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject:

Thank you all. I appreciate the nice feedback, and it's an honor to be have one of my creations in your vast stable of emoticons. I think this site has the largest collection I've seen.

mosc wrote:

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

Ted, what tools did you use for this? I'm not going to do the Bug squash

thing any better, but still might want to toy a bit Wink

ComposerTed · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject:

Blue Hell wrote:

blue hell · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: