Im in ur graph

Aten-shun!

More lolcats (and other lolfoos) should include links to Wikipedia.

... that took me a while.

It justifies the grammar AND capitalization, no less. But I still doubt it would make grammarians less inclined to hurt one :)

Does it justify the capitalisation? In my mind's eye, nearly all lolcats are in all-caps. Of course i had to be lower-case in mine, so I decided it would be better to lowercase the whole lot than to muck about with small caps or put up with the rest of the text being larger than the i; but I was definitely under the impression that I was going against the normal capitalisation convention rather than with it.

I admit I didn't really think it through. I associated LOLcats with an _absence_ of capitalization, but hadn't really thought about whether that was all-caps or no-caps. I would have guessed no-caps because it's possibly cuter, but also, many image captions are all-caps or no-caps for style reasons, without it being specifically a grammatical choice.

Well, this is clearly the sort of question that needs SCIENCE. Out of the top three screenfuls of Google Image hits for "lolcat" (which was all I managed before deciding I couldn't be bothered collecting any more data), discarding things that are Demotivators-style posters or otherwise not typical image macro work, I count 29 all-caps lolcats, 30 mixed-case and 22 all-lowercase. That seems pretty well balanced, actually. I take back my assertion :-)

Cool :) I did pretty much the same, except that I stopped after 0 pages. Unfortunately, I was quite happy to believe whatever you said, as long as I didn't have to look at any lolcats :)

This made me giggle, thanks (-:

:-)

I laughed. Alistair still has his head in his hands :-)

SLAP

ow. ow ow. :)

Have you got that in vector format so I can stick it to my filing cabinet?

Its source form is a (pretty grubby and hastily hacked) handwritten piece of PostScript, which depends on the "LMRoman12-Regular" and "LMRoman12-Italic" fonts from the lmodern Debian package. Munging that into a form that can be sent to a PS printer without confusing it is left as an exercise for the reader :-)

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~bjh21/lolmaths.pdf

(by just changing your -sDEVICE=pnggray to -sDEVICE=pdfwrite)

Oh good, that actually does work. The last time I tried to use GS in vector-to-vector filter mode, I found it had produced an output file in which the fonts superficially looked right but were in fact rasterisations of the originals, which annoyed me.

Mind you, I think that was using pswrite rather than pdfwrite. Perhaps I was hasty in concluding that it would apply to both.

I like it!

Mind if post the image and/or a link to this entry to math_jokes?

Feel free. Thank you :-)

Thanks (http://community.livejournal.com/math_jokes/57954.html)!