Turtle, turtle, wherefore art thou...

Gingerbread said:
@quartz_ and @AzaleaArt what I was talking about was borders actually "in" the picture part. Not just where the white usually is. Polaroid had a few holiday and like B-day themes and it printed in the picture. I have 1 example I found to share. It's a silly pic of my little brother's B-day cake, he went through a phase in the late 90's where Hot Topic was just "the thing" everything he had came from that store so I made him a Hot Topic B-day cake and I think the only camera with film in it at the time must've been the Polaroid. This is how they looked :winkpony:

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I mean, I was pretty obsessed with Hot Topic back when it was hardcore too, but he gets serious dedication points for having it on a cake XD Though I think that kind of goes against the old branding philosophy ;) Very cool btw, I definitely don't remember these with the inner frame design. So spooky!!:blackcat:
Unusual Frequency said:
Speaking of old formats, in a weird digression, I have a 3.5" floppy disk to USB drive here, if anyone has files they desperately need to get off old disks, and no idea how to extract them.

One of my embroidery machines only reads floppies, so I have to keep a stack, and a way to write files to them.
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Yup, I think I'm like the fourth person in this conversation to have one of those drives too:lolpony::coolpony:
Tak said:
"If it's not broke, don't fix it."
Honestly, why upgrade needlessly and, personally, I love older photos. Cameras with real film required much more skill. Now, there are so many ways to edit, it's making photography as a career almost obsolete. My tv is older than my daughter, no blu-ray player, no printer, and many other things that people think of as "essential".
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Couldn't agree more. It's all consumerism bs and most of the things people think they need are just expensive toys with limited functionality and planned obsolesce. Also, there have been studies done that prove that people will play more for expensive items because they assume that more expense means higher quality. Mark-up rates are just plain criminal these days. People need to learn to think for themselves and stop letting big companies & their well-compensated mouthpieces dictate the definitions of inclusivity and success.
 
ActionHank said:
When I was a kid I had some expensive toys but it was more fun to beat an old tire with a stick or drag it up the hill and let it roll down then chase it and try to kick it over before it fell over on its own.
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I'm with you. On the playground at school we dared each other to make faces or eat bugs, my daughter doesn't see how we managed to have fun. My favorite place was the old rock quarry. We had a warren of tunnels.

Now, just last year she was in fifth grade and every kid in class had a cellphone, a fitbit style watch, and a morning coffee! I made my girl the uncool kid, because all she had was the newest ipod that her grandparents got for her. No cellular acess, so no youtube, just music.
 
@Gingerbread That camera is awesome!

@evilbunnyfoofoo Do you mean that she took pics of her dog? Or her dog's actual butt? (I'm sorry. I'm so tired.)
 
Tak said:
I'm with you. On the playground at school we dared each other to make faces or eat bugs, my daughter doesn't see how we managed to have fun. My favorite place was the old rock quarry. We had a warren of tunnels.
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Kids these days don't have imaginations.

I also had a place I liked to go, it was an old house that was near mine found all kinds of cool stuff in it.

Tak said:
Now, just last year she was in fifth grade and every kid in class had a cellphone, a fitbit style watch, and a morning coffee! I made my girl the uncool kid, because all she had was the newest ipod that her grandparents got for her. No cellular acess, so no youtube, just music.
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Everybody had a cellphone in high school except me, except no one cared that I didn't have one.

I've never gotten what made the things so great, I have one that has no service I got from a thrift store and even with service I don't call anyone so it'd still be a glorified MP3 player with a clock.
 
I'm a both-camps kind of girl. My best childhood memories are of my friends and I running wild in a park or the woods with nothing but our imaginations, or hiding under the covers with a book, and I tend to cling to old, durable tech as long as possible and shun the Next Big Shiny. I'm wary of free programs, because I know it means I'm the product, not the consumer, and either my attention or data is being sold. I don't think we're paying enough attention to how regulations are being avoided by the global reach of tech companies. Regs tend to be written in blood.

But I also love all the things technology and science are letting us do now that were just impossible before. I love living in the future!*** A few examples from a couple fields, and if you pick one, I'll give more like it.

A) A dear friend with autism has real trouble with language processing. They have a tablet configured with pictographs that they can process, and they can make sentences out of the pictures, and the tablet talks for them. It lets them have real conversations and interactions, even on bad brain days, and has made a huge change in their quality of life. The isolation can be a killer for people with disabilities, and accessibility through tech is game changing.

B) I make my living with table-top manufacturing. Embroidery, 3D printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, etc. Anything that's a CNC x-y plotter reading G-code attached to another tool. These things getting down into the price range where people and libraries can afford them means everyone can have customised everything, clothes and accessories and art and home furnishings. Everything that gets made is getting to a point where it can be made by an artisan, custom, for an attainable price. It's going to change the way we make and buy everything, just like mass-production did a hundred and fifty years ago. Trust me. My degree is literally in this field.

C) This is the first pandemic in history where the human race has understood how pandemics work. It's the only time ever we've stood a chance of winning against the massive death toll, because we know things. The main science fiction author I work with is a professor of history at U of Chicago, and has some stunning and hopeful pieces about this.


*** statement not valid past Feb. 2020
 
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@Tak You're doing good. No matter how much grief she gives you for being the odd duck out in the regard to 'essentials'. Also, am I the only one who's really weirded out with Starbucks catering to children now? Soda isn't healthy either but idk:blink:
I was uncool for a lot of reasons but one was that we didn't have access to any TV channels. 'Just' a VCR and a SNES/PS1. I was heartbroken, embarrassed and pretty ticked off about not having cable (I thought basic channels were cable until my 20's) like everyone else I knew.
I'm definitely not the most successful person I know, but most of the kids I grew up had parents that let them watch TV from the time they woke up to the time they went to sleep and were always plopped down in front of the TV--as was I whenever I went over to their houses--and now, most of them are very dependent on constant entertainment and have puny imaginations, attention spans & analytical abilities/are incapable of being alone:blink: :blink: so I'm glad I didn't grow up with what everyone else had, I think it made me a better me than I would have been.

Perhaps it's wrong of me to focus on the negatives and I'm certainly not implying that everyone who grew up with cable in the house are like the people I know. I just think that prime developmental years need to be safeguarded a little closer than what I've seen.

I can only imagine how kids these days are going to be when they're grown, with absolutely no lapse in stimulation. I mean, all the titans of the technology industry seem to extremely limit phone/tablet usage with their own children or outright forbid it. That's pretty telling, isn't it?
 
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quartz_ said:
@Tak You're doing good. No matter how much grief she gives you for being the odd duck out in the regard to 'essentials'. Also, am I the only one who's really weirded out with Starbucks catering to children now? Soda isn't healthy either but idk:blink:
I was uncool for a lot of reasons but one was that we didn't have access to any TV channels. 'Just' a VCR and a SNES/PS1. I was heartbroken, embarrassed and pretty ticked off about not having cable (I thought basic channels were cable until my 20's) like everyone else I knew.
I'm definitely not the most successful person I know, but most of the kids I grew up had parents that let them watch TV from the time they woke up to the time they went to sleep and were always plopped down in front of the TV--as was I whenever I went over to their houses--and now, most of them are very dependent on constant entertainment and have puny imaginations, attention spans & analytical abilities/are incapable of being alone:blink: :blink: so I'm glad I didn't grow up with what everyone else had, I think it made me a better me than I would have been.

Perhaps it's wrong of me to focus on the negatives and I'm certainly not implying that everyone who grew up with cable in the house are like the people I know. I just think that prime developmental years need to be safeguarded a little closer than what I've seen.

I can only imagine how kids these days are going to be when they're grown, with absolutely no lapse in stimulation. I mean, all the titans of the technology industry seem to extremely limit phone/tablet usage with their own children or outright forbid it. That's pretty telling, isn't it?
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My girl isn't upset. I have a bad reaction to caffeine, it feels like I dipped my feet in acid, the swell, and they itch. My girl doesn't even have soda often. Juice, water, Crystal light for me, and Gatorade for her. She's not upset. She's actually taken a liking to being the oddball.

For me as a kid. We had atari, then nes, then n64. We had a gamboy to share for long car trips. We all read constantly. Plus, I got a living, pregnant, pony for my ninth birthday. Between livestock and ballet, I never cared that we only got 12 channels. I've always lived with one foot in my fantasy world.
 
Tak said:
So... any turtle update?
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Sadly Bowser has not made an appearance. The grass is almost knee high which is hindering us, but we don't dare mow. I think he might have made his way into the goat yard, which means he may well be gone for good, as there's ways he could leave that pen. I blame the cats if he did get in there, they keep shoving the gate. I'm sure he's having a great time!
 
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Unusual Frequency said:
Can you rake the lawn before mowing? Or are we talking large field sized patch of grass?
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That's my plan, rake and mow, rake and mow. If we're lucky we might still find him, but I worry he's made it out by now. Crafty little monster!
 
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I asked about size because I've had "lawns" that were too small to get a pushmower onto, like under a square meter total, but also my ex-wife grew up with back yard was also referred to as "the back 40" because it was 40 acres! So size, uh, matters. I know you've got some land, so I was afraid it trended towards the larger end of the scale, to where hand-raking would be impossible.

Good luck! I once had an escaped reptile turn back up after 3 months, so I'll send a little of that energy your way!
 
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