The videos and content in Week 2 of the Science of Well-being course mostly focused on dispelling misconceptions we have about happiness. Professor Laurie Santos talked a lot about, and referenced studies to back her point, how a lot of things we perceive will make us happy, or sad should we not get it, don’t have nearly the impact we think they have. That’s because our intuition for predicting happiness is terrible! Professor Santos didn’t frame it in the following way, but it seemed to me our intuition for what would make us happy is very much based in the amygdala that’s the emotional centre, and reptilian part, of our brain that’s old, more animal-like and limited. Emotional intelligence, as a concept, is the ability to control this amygdata with the rest, and more rational part, of the brain, the part that knows waiting 20 minutes for 2 marshmallows instead of taking 1 now will bring you greater benefits when you are as young as 4 years old. That was the key to the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment that showed having delayed gratification as a trait in a 4 year old who first starts to think, is a better predictor of success in life compared to any other tests like SAT scores, education attainment, BMI, etc. That animal instinct suggesting what might make us happy is a very simple and basic form of processing that gets predicting happiness, and especially lasting happiness, all wrong.
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Over 250 Cartoon Pictures for Facebook Profile Pics Campaign Against Child Abuse
Until December 6th, there is a global campaign on Facebook where people replace their profile pictures with their favourite cartoon character/s, then encourage their friends to do the same. Now this campaign I like! Too bad it’s way too short but it’s gone viral globally after just a day’s notice!
I’ve got over 250 cartoon pictures made for Facebook profile pics at the bottom, arranged in alphabetical order with names, which include some modern and some old cartoons.
GI Joe, the Rise of Cobra Printable Trading Cards (6″ x 4″ photo size)
I created these trading cards, or just plain photos for decorative purposes, from the 1920×1200 pixel GI Joe wallpapers I had created from smaller ones I found online and touched up, or created. Then I added some logos, character names and such to make them more like cards rather than wallpaper.
These cards are regular photo size so you could just take the files to wherever you print pictures and print them! I designed them for convenience that way. Of course, they could also be printed on other things like stickers and such, including at smaller sizes like 2″ x 3″. However, I would not recommend printing these on paper above 9″ x 6″, if you still want quality in the image.
These are “fan art”, NOT official products so please do not interpret them as such, try to convince others as such or try to profit from them!
Files are from 0.2 to 1.1 MB to keep the high quality print details. They are 1800 x 1200 pixels if you want to print them on something other than a normal printer, and your printing shop asks you for a file size to see if it’s big enough to do what you want.
For more printable cards and posters on this blog, please click here.
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Beach Head
- Breaker
- Breaker
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Cover Girl
- Destro
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- General Hawk
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Movie Cast
- GI Joe Movie Cast
- Heavy Duty
- Katana
- Katana
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
132 GI Joe, the Rise of Cobra Wallpapers for the iPhone, iTouch, iPod Touch, Palm Pre, Blackberry Bold 9000 (320 x 480 pixels)
These GI Joe and Cobra wallpapers are meant for all models of the iPhone, iTouch, iPod Touch, Palm Pre and just the Blackberry Bold 9000. However, you can also use these as profile pictures in Facebook or other applications that do not require a square picture.
The wallpaper size is 480 x 320 pixels, or similar in ratio to a 6″ x 4″ photo. Apple and Palm went the size ratio of typical photos that people take, whereas Blackberry went with monitor ratios for length and width, for the most part, interestingly enough.
My contribution to these wallpapers was the choice of cropping to get a nice picture, resizing to properly fit the iPhone, iTouch, iPod Touch, Palm Pre and Blackberry Bold screen, with some touch up to remove certain background, adjust punch of colour, etc. The small size of these wallpapers allowed for some beautiful close-up cropping of the monitor wallpapers I only wish I had resolution for to make printable pictures from to share! There are going to be some seriously stunning iPhones, iTouch, iPod Touch, Palm Pre and Blackberries out there with some of these and other wallpapers I plan to be making for them!
Enjoy!
To get the backgrounds, please:
- Click on an image to see it full size.
- Right click and choose Download or download in whatever ways your browser does.
- Click Back to go back to this page or click a thumbnail below the large picture to move on to the next one.
You’re on your own to put it on your iPhone, iTouch, iPod Touch, Palm Pre or Blackberry, I’m afraid, cause I can’t justify the need for me to spend money on one so I haven’t got a clue how to do it!
While you’re decorating your iPhone or other cell phones, redo your voice mail with a singing message if you don’t have to worry about getting professionals calling you.
GI Joe wallpapers for desktop monitors can be found via this link.
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Destro
- Destro
- Destro
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- General Hawk
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- Heavy Duty
- Heavy Duty
- MARS
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett / Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes / Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
GI Joe, the Rise of Cobra Wallpapers Gallery 5 (1920 x 1200 pixels)
NEW! Get close-ups of these wallpapers for your iPhone or Blackberry Bold 9000s!
These are wallpapers from the G. I. Joe, the Rise of Cobra movie, the video game and the cartoon series. These wallpapers are different from others you will find online because I have touched them up to remove legalese and website advertising text, resize for various sizes, added some colour punch, etc.
The wallpapers in this gallery are 1920 x 1200 pixels. However, they are also good for other sizes listed immediately below. The operating system on your computer should know how to scale them properly. There will be no distortion or warping of the images as the other sizes listed just below here are of the same proportion:
- 1680 x 1050 pixels
- 1440 x 900 pixels
- 1280 x 800 pixels
- 960 x 600 pixels
These wallpapers are also available in other sizes:
- 1024 x 768 pixels (also good for 800 x 600 and 640 x 480 monitors) — 87 wallpapers
- 1280 x 960 pixels (also good for 1152 x 864 monitors) — 84 wallpapers
- 1280 x 1024 pixels — 61 wallpapers
- 1600 x 1200 pixels — 66 wallpapers
To get any of these wallpapers for your computer:
- Click on the picture below.
- Right click on the larger picture and save to your computer.
The technical part to convert that picture to be your wallpaper I’m afraid is too varied among computers for me to provide instructions. The best advice I can give is to ask someone who seems technically knowledgeable to help you.
Enjoy!
Get GI Joe, the Rise of Cobra wallpapers in other sizes, and wallpapers of other themes.
Make your own customized screen saver from these GI Joe, the Rise of Cobra wallpapers.
Get these GI Joe, the Rise of Cobra Wallpapers as Printable Trading Cards (6″ x 4″ photo size)
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Baroness
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Commander
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Cobra Logo
- Destro
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- Duke
- GI Joe Cast
- GI Joe Cast
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- GI Joe Logo
- Heavy Duty
- Katana
- Katana
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Neoviper
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Ripcord
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Scarlett
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Snake Eyes
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow
- Storm Shadow