‘You can’t always get what you want… but if you try sometimes, you find, you get what you need!’

Hello fellow SkippingStoners (oops, that doesn’t sound too good!), As you saw by my last post, I’m back! Yes, I know it’s been a while. I know I know, I vanished without a trace, no explanation or anything. I was kidnapped by evil bandits and held for ransom. It took my friends and family almost 2 [...]

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The Pretty Pictures + Quotes Post

I tend to collect tid-bits from the internet which sees my ’Pictures’ folder ever-expanding (and my hard drive space ever decreasing!). So it’s only fair that I share these with you. (I will be including more on this post next time). Just a side note: Thank you to every one who has commented so far!! It means a lot to me

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Technology as a fashion statement?

  Buying myself a chunky set of headphones, I pay for them at the counter and hooray for getting them at 1/3 of their original price - I asked that they be thrown in with my netbook purchase. On reflection though, it has occurred to me that I didn’t choose them for their sound quality, or so much their [...]

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Whip out that flip phone and give your hair a toss…

It is a well studied phenomenon (not the phone flipping), that our behaviour changes when we are being observed (social facilitation, mere presence theory etc.). We don’t really need studies to tell us about these nuanced alterations because they are evident in our own actions and in those of others.

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