Did you know that being angry takes up at least twice as much energy and muscle work as being happy? I read that somewhere ages ago - I tend to read stuff and then just save them to use against people every now and then. Somehow you'd think that would stop people from being angry, but that's not really the case. When something annoys us by going against us, whether it's tasks or people, we respond by being annoyed. If the annoyance goes on long enough it usually ends in anger. Of course, there are also times when the annoyance is so strong in the beginning that it just starts with anger. A part of me wonders what would've happen if Hitler hadn't been refused by the painting school he wanted to attend. Maybe things would've turned out differently, maybe not. One can't help thinking that maybe that event triggered some anger that didn't come out the right way. Or maybe he was just a ball of pure evil. I'm loosing myself in my head now. Anyway...
I think it's really imortant to be angry. To be annoyed and then just keep it inside (I'm Swedish - it's what we do, remember?) won't help. It'll just build up and then you'll burst at the wrong people. I dwelled in anger yesterday. At 11am I was so pissed off that everything I said was through gritted teeth. Why? Some stupid little annoyance at 7:30am that just kept on building up. At 12:30 I started laughing really hard over a silly joke and once you've laughed like that it's hard to remember why you wanted to be angry.
In one of our Swedish newspapers there's usually a very strange article every day. We have it as our thing here at work to find the "article of today" and I thought I should share that with you - if nothing else it might bring you some joy for a minute or two.
Lifeless when it doesn't get attention, but hard and ready when you take it in your hand.
No, you're not at the wrong site. We're still talking stuff.
It's about the new Panasonic remote control in a gelmaterial that sort of gets "life" when touched.
Salvador Dali probably smiles in his heaven about this thing that pulses weakly where it's carelessly thrown over a book, shaped after the surface.
The idea to this concept remote is described as a try to "give life to every day items that are just dead when they're not used. We want to try and change the veiw of these lifeless items". And of course the thoughts wander to something completely different than a remote control when you take it in your hand. Then it's activated and the gelmaterial becomes hard.
The remote control has earlier been shown at the exhibition "Haptic" at The Lighthouse, the centre for architecture and design in Glasgow, Scotland, where it caught attention.
The question is only if it goes into production and in which stores it will be sold - at the tv-shops or where adult toys are sold.
I need one of these. Enough said.
No, you're not at the wrong site. We're still talking stuff.
It's about the new Panasonic remote control in a gelmaterial that sort of gets "life" when touched.
Salvador Dali probably smiles in his heaven about this thing that pulses weakly where it's carelessly thrown over a book, shaped after the surface.
The idea to this concept remote is described as a try to "give life to every day items that are just dead when they're not used. We want to try and change the veiw of these lifeless items". And of course the thoughts wander to something completely different than a remote control when you take it in your hand. Then it's activated and the gelmaterial becomes hard.
The remote control has earlier been shown at the exhibition "Haptic" at The Lighthouse, the centre for architecture and design in Glasgow, Scotland, where it caught attention.
The question is only if it goes into production and in which stores it will be sold - at the tv-shops or where adult toys are sold.
I need one of these. Enough said.
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