s/LaSH
First Post
Take my initials. Cram them into one space, so they look like some crazy runic tangle. Simplify that tangle into an easily drawn symbol. That's what I put at the end of my signature.
Fast forward a few years. I've used it so often I write the symbol as fast as any other letter, and because of its shape it always feels like I'm cutting the symbol into something, like Zorro's Z. I start referring to it as a chop (is that Chinese dialect for signature?) or slash.
And from there, I just elaborated a little. 'Slash' can refer to a... biological term, so I quickly changed it to s/LaSH, because the / symbol was both another meaning of 'slash' and resembled one of the lines from the original symbol. The capitalisation sequence, which is very important, was balanced out in my head one day. If the 'a' is a pivot, then the rest of the word weighs correctly and won't fall over.
I haven't enhanced it since then. Now that I think about it, it's quite crazy (I calculated a capitalisation sequence?!?), but hey, if someone walked up to me and said, "I compliment you on your rational, totally sane outlook on the world", I'd check them for drug use. Or maybe brain damage. If anyone's seen Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, they'll know what level of damage I'm talking about.
Fast forward a few years. I've used it so often I write the symbol as fast as any other letter, and because of its shape it always feels like I'm cutting the symbol into something, like Zorro's Z. I start referring to it as a chop (is that Chinese dialect for signature?) or slash.
And from there, I just elaborated a little. 'Slash' can refer to a... biological term, so I quickly changed it to s/LaSH, because the / symbol was both another meaning of 'slash' and resembled one of the lines from the original symbol. The capitalisation sequence, which is very important, was balanced out in my head one day. If the 'a' is a pivot, then the rest of the word weighs correctly and won't fall over.
I haven't enhanced it since then. Now that I think about it, it's quite crazy (I calculated a capitalisation sequence?!?), but hey, if someone walked up to me and said, "I compliment you on your rational, totally sane outlook on the world", I'd check them for drug use. Or maybe brain damage. If anyone's seen Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, they'll know what level of damage I'm talking about.