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Or nice pics. Laugh and live.

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jaynajaynajayna: Wanted to include this in my last post but the sizing made it look all wonky. This is the best “old” photo I’ve ever seen. What I love about all these, is that it’s a rare thing to identify with the stuffy, thin lipped demeanors of victorian photos. In all of these, they’re just fartin around! And it is a great thing to fart around, regardless of time period. It is indeed rare to see emotions and smiles in old photos. Everyone seemed to feel the need to be serious and austere. So this is a nice change. Anyone know of a paper/thesis/essay on the changing dynamic of photography and smiling?

jaynajaynajayna:

Wanted to include this in my last post but the sizing made it look all wonky.

This is the best “old” photo I’ve ever seen. What I love about all these, is that it’s a rare thing to identify with the stuffy, thin lipped demeanors of victorian photos. In all of these, they’re just fartin around! And it is a great thing to fart around, regardless of time period.

It is indeed rare to see emotions and smiles in old photos. Everyone seemed to feel the need to be serious and austere. So this is a nice change. Anyone know of a paper/thesis/essay on the changing dynamic of photography and smiling?

(via zombieslutfromhell)

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onlynineteen: lil-b: Introducing our new game called: “Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.” The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check. Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations. Rules: 1) The game starts after everyone has ordered. 2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down. 3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game. 4) Loser of the game pays for the bill. 5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal. Variations/house rules: -Starting the game after everyone is seated. -In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players. - Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems. Notes: - No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones. - You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes. - I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k. - I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =). - Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life. i’m doing this next time my friends and i go out. i feel like it’s the rudest thing to pick up the phone and talk to other people while out at dinner or something with others, unless in the rare occasion that we’re talking about something on the phone like a conversation which needs to be referred to or shown to other people. 

onlynineteen:

lil-b:

Introducing our new game called:

“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”

The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.

Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.

Rules:

1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.

2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.

3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.

4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.

5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.

Variations/house rules:

-Starting the game after everyone is seated.

-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.

- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.

Notes:

- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.

- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.

- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.

- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).

- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.

i’m doing this next time my friends and i go out. i feel like it’s the rudest thing to pick up the phone and talk to other people while out at dinner or something with others, unless in the rare occasion that we’re talking about something on the phone like a conversation which needs to be referred to or shown to other people. 

(via fiery-s0uls)

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Very interesting article

‎”Apple competitors are obsessed with copying Apple’s tastes without copying its central design habit, which is solving a problem and then refining the solution until the problem changes.

And that’s the difference between the Vaio ultraportables and the Air: Apple stuck with Sony’s solution and refined it, whereas Sony threw it the trashcan in 2005, 2008, 2010, and (spoiler!) 2012.”

Great article about Sony and Apple in regards to ultraportable laptop design.

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Qld police test their new emergency comm system with a zombie apocalypse

Further proof the Queensland police are staying with the times, testing their new system to coincide with World Zombie Day and using zombies.

A police spokesman said the new system - called QldAlert - would be a “one-stop avenue to find all the relevant online material and the latest information should disaster strike, or zombies attack.”

Click on the link or follow on twitter - #zombietest

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