today these two kids in my math class were hitting each other with pencils and my teacher glared at them and said “could you try to be a little more mature?”
one of them screamed “TAXES” and punched the other kid in the face
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
For fun this Canada Day, my brother and I set out to make the most Canadian music video ever. How’d we do?
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#our home and cherished land #music #good old Chris Hadfield #my family doesn’t own any Canadian Tire money #though we do have a Tim Hortons donut hole #(…we’ve had that donut hole since our Yay Citizenship party two months ago) #(we really should get rid of it) #(but *not* on a day of the week where it would fall to me to wash the container we put it in) #(if Mom really wants to keep that disposable container she can wash it herself)
Happy Canada Day
Canadians scare me a little more every day.
This isn’t even my final form you pitiful mass of flesh
I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT AT ALL, WHAT
I THOUGHT CANADIANS WERE NICE IVE BEEN LIED TO
Da hell
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#our home and cherished land #that’s a nice costume #though how nice depends on if it has armholes hiding somewhere or not #my first Canada Day as a citizen! #:D #after breakfast I will go put on the maple leaf pin they gave me at the citizenship ceremony
I bought myself a Flir thermal imaging camera.
Now I’ll finally be able to know who’s hot and who’s not!
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#asexuality #puns #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
The Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie
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#Doctor Who #at first I saw this and I was like ‘hi Nenya!’ #and then I realised it was the Doctor Who Tumblr #and then I realised that now that I think about it #my dash has been really lacking in Eight while Nenya’s been honeymooning and whatnot #and you know #that’s fine and I’m happy for her and everything #but here is some much-needed Eight for my dash #and for the dashes of any shared followers who are feeling the same way
Which one of you was it that came up with the idea of a face recognition app on google glasses?
I don’t think I got the idea from anyone else, but it’s such an obvious idea that I expect plenty of other prosos have come up with it independently.
I was just talking about this earlier today. (That post in turn links to the post before that, which links to the post before that, which I think was the first one.) I’m not sure if this is news to you: for all I know, you wandered by my Tumblr and that’s what prompted you to post this in the first place.
(I was discussing this with my family recently, and my parents think I should start a letter-writing campaign to pressure Google to allow facial recognition. It’s an interesting idea in theory, but I don’t think I’m the one to do it. Even assuming I figure out how to go about such a campaign, it’s a lose-lose situation: either it fails, in which case…you know, it fails, or it succeeds, in which case as its founder I’m the one who gets stuck dealing with the media and whatnot, and I don’t think I could cope with that.)
(I also learned recently of Lambda Labs, which was working on a black-market facial recognition Glass app. (They started working on it pre-ban, but said they would continue with it post-ban.) However, all of the news articles I found about it (such as this one) were slightly over a year old, and it seems that nobody has heard from the developer(s) in an official capacity for six months. I don’t have high hopes for it.)
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#prosopagnosia #tales from the prosopagnosia tag #reply via reblog #overenthusiastic parenthesis use #(although really that last one could apply to nearly every post I make) #(you see what I mean)
This just gets funnier the longer I stare at it.
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#Doctor Who #…it does
Are you aware of the black neon tetra?
if not then allow me to educate you
…it is a fish with the colours of the ace flag on it’s body – that’s right! there are living,breathing ace flags swimming out there!
nature supports you!!
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#asexuality #fish #neat
GLASSHOLE.SH
Code script put together by Julian Oliver which detects Google Glass devices on a WiFi network and blocks them:
This script is a response to a comment by Omer Shapira that the presence of Google Glass worn by audience at an ITP graduate exhibition left him feeling understandably uneasy; it was not possible to know whether they were recording, or even streaming what they were recording to a remote service over WiFi.
The … script will find and detect Google Glass on the local network and kick them off.
Still bitter about how the obsession with privacy concerns of Google Glass has completely ruined the device’s potential.
There is always the possibility that someone is secretly recording you. That MP3 player I appear to be absent-mindedly holding in my lap? Totally has an audio-recording function, and you have no way of knowing whether I’m using it. Just because people tend to forget the recording possibilities of smartphones unless they come in Glass form, doesn’t mean those possibilities aren’t there. They’re always there.
Using a facial recognition app that scans the faces of everyone you pass by and compares them to a database (a mixture of owner-taken photos and photos copied from Facebook) of people you know to check for matches is perfectly legal and polite and all those other ways of saying “permitted”, but only if you’re running it on a carbon-based computer. People whose carbon-based computers can’t run the app (or can technically run it, but can’t do anything with it due to problems with their on-board cameras) can go fuck themselves.
(It does kind of fascinate me how thoroughly the ban on facial recognition has been spun as “yay privacy” rather than “Google spitting in the faces (so to speak) of disabled people”.)
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#Google Glass #prosopagnosia #my usual tag for high-tech stuff is #proud citizen of The Future #but in this case it’s more like #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #currently in the stage of citizenship application where #they bog you down in red tape forever
If I follow you, yes, I care about your garden, what your cat did today, the jewelry you made, that one friend who said the thing, i like your sense of humor, and also your selfies.
Also, heart.
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#I love you all
