All of you gmail users have probably tried out the integrated gtalk thingie by now. I’m still ambivalent towards it, except for one particular aspect which I find wicked cool. When you type in an emoticon, it gradually transforms the text into a stylized picture. It’s hard to explain, so get a gmail account and try it for yourself.
Not too long ago I was lamenting the lack of emoticons that have these nifty transformations. :S is one, for example. However, last night I discovered something that more than makes up for all of the negative feelings I might have towards the integrated GTalk:
It has support for that pinnacle of all emoticons, the \m/ METAL HORNS \m/
My discovery of this was completely accidental: I was talking about Ozzfest or something, and one thing led to another. After I typed it in, the friend that I was chatting to and I just sort of sat there in stunned, awed silence. It was a beautiful moment.
So much for restricting this blog to discussions of the artistic and the intellectual…
4:03 pm, April 14, 2006Nick Presta /
Sometimes friends and I go into GT within Gmail and just type those faces to each other. There are about 6, IIRC.