Our world of social media has now created a new ailment called FOMO. That is fear of missing out! Really, I'm going to become jealous of my family and friend's activities they post on Facebook, 'cause I'm not there or it is something that I cant do or afford at this time? This is a whole new category of mental health. I can see it now, our companies will begin "social media adjustment" classes designed to help you understand yourself and not miss any work over it!
For me, I may just have to re-think my social media use. But in the meantime, you will just have to deal with my posting of the great life I'm enjoying! Get over it!
Through the power of mass media and the social internet; we all know the answer to this famous question. Clever and genius and most people even know the name of the advertised service. Well, enjoy and I hope this puts a smile on your face. Remember that the rest of the week is downhill from here!
Well I'm no golf pro. Hell, I'm not even a very good golfer! But I do love the game and want to do it better and keep up with those here in Sun City who play daily. I would settle if I could play "boggy golf" and even happier if I could consistently shoot par. The truth of the matter is that I get my golf score mixed up with my bowling score, if you know what I mean?
I went out the other day and hit a bucket of balls on the driving range. It felt good to just focus on the driving aspect of the game and to be aware of my alignment, stance, grip and follow through. The video was a good tool for me to do this. (next time I will align the video camera so my head is not cut off!)
Here is my completed project "Golf Practice - Driving"
Who knows I might be the next Rory Mcllroy?
If you still "lol" at jokes online then you might be in the minority. Anew report from Facebookinto how users express laughter shows that "haha" and its variants are by far the most common terms used on the social network. They accounted for 51.4 percent of mirth in the anonymized comments and posts looked at by Facebook's data team, with laughter emojiclaiming 33.7 percent, and "hehe" and its cognates 13.1 percent. The once-mighty "lol" only appeared in 1.9 percent of the text sampled by Facebook — a pretty staggering fall for an expression that was once synonymous with online txt speak.
EMOJI WERE MORE POPULAR AMONG FEMALE USERS
Although not surprising for such a venerable term, "lol" proved slightly more popular with older users. Differences between generations were not heavily pronounced, but it was emoji that were most popular with users with the youngest median age, while "haha," "hehe," and "lol" were favored by progressively older individuals. The data also showed that emoji were more popular among female users, with "haha" showing a small male bias, and "hehe" distributed nearly evenly among the genders. Not may people were regular chortlers though: in the week's worth of data Facebook looked at, 46 percent of those that laughed in the seven days did so only once, with the vast majority — 85 percent — laughing fewer than five times.
Two graphs showing laughter preference by age (left) and by gender (right). (Facebook)
Facebook's data team also examined how users deployed variants of these laughter terms, looking at whether they hehe'd more than they hehehehe'd, for example. An article inTheNew Yorkerthat inspired Facebook's analysis suggested that we use "ha"s and "he"s as building blocks, adding up these lexical units to convey everything from polite recognition ("ha") to no-really-I'm-going-a-bit-mad-with-laughter ("hahahahahahahaha"). Although interpretation of these different strings can be quite subjective, Facebook's data showed that even letter counts were more common than odd ones, suggesting that we do indeed stack up these two-letter phonemes like Lego bricks
"THE LOL ALMOST ALWAYS STANDS BY ITSELF, THOUGH SOME RARE SPECIMENS WERE FOUND."
As Facebook's researchers explain: "The most common are the four-letter hahas and hehes. The six-letter hahaha is also very common, and in general, the haha-ers use longer laughter. The haha-ers are also slightly more open than the hehe-ers to using odd number of letters, and we do see the occasional hahaas and hhhhaaahhhaas. The lol almost always stands by itself, though some rare specimens of lolz and loll were found. A single emoji is used 50 percent of the time, and it's quite rare to see people use more than five identical consecutive emoji." However, Facebook's data scientists should probably look at Instagram, where long strings of Face With Tears Of Joyemoji are more common. And judging by the demographicsof the two social networks, this is how laughter online is likely to look in the future.
We live on the west edge of Sun City Arizona and the sunsets are magnificent. Even with having to view them through the high tension power lines that run along the Agua Fria Riverbed! This time of year (August) the sun is still high to the north, although each day moving further south, which can be easily tracked daily by the various peaks of the White Tank Mountains.
The Riverview Golf Course in Sun City is under major reconstruction. With the re-alignment of the 18 hole course, making the back 9 the front and vice versa. Our "Sun Down" holes will now be the premier center piece greens on Riverview with the new #4, a par 3 to a grand and challenging new green, leading up to the new #5 tee box and fairway that runs parallel to the western edge of Sun City.
The course is currently closed but is expected to re-open on November 1, 2015. We can not wait to play the newly revised course and it will no doubt continue to be our most favorite in Sun City!
So earlier this year we had visitors form the east. (Well, Michigan that is!) Our oldest son, J his wife Dianna, along with the grand daughters Julia & Sam, all came out to Arizona for a visit. We all ended up viewing the south rim of the Grand Canyon for our first times. It is a breathtaking view and the day we were there it was a bit cool and windy, but it did not diminish our expectations of the canyon!
Here is a quick clip of the kids and a view of the Grand Canyon.
This has got to be the funniest tv commercial I have seen in a long time. Of course, the fact that it has nearly human Yellow Labs and Golden Retrievers in it, gets your attention. In the end, not sure if you can remember the product, but you will for sure remember the ad.
A LITTLE SOMETHING FUNNY~
How men and women access their drive up ATM.
MALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to the cash machine.
2. Put down your car window.
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
6. Put window up.
7. Drive off.
FEMALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.
6. Attempt to insert card into machine.
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card.
9. Re-insert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.
18. Re-check makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet.
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake.
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