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Bob63 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:50 am **(#22)**

Shakespeare!

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16169

At GimpChat we have lots of fun learning, rhyming and occasional puns.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:06 pm **(#24)**

There are a few on the first page I haven't decoded yet. My phone chokes on them. I'll get them yet!

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:23 pm **(#25)**

Is there life before Gimp??

I think NOT!!

I think you're right, Greg. Hey, it's snowing in here.

scgimp · **Joined:** Nov 22, 2010 **Posts:** 42

mike's is
"All the GIMP's a stage, and we are merely players."

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:30 pm **(#27)**

Here's a cute one.

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Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 7:32 pm **(#28)**

Awww, how cute.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Dec 23, 2010 8:35 pm **(#29)**

Three great art quotes!

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and

Oregonian · **Posted:** Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:53 am **(#30)**

1. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

2. Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
--Amy Lowell

3. Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
--George Jean Nathan

and ...

2-ton · **Posted:** Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:33 am **(#31)**

what's this? how does this code thing work?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16169

make a code bar here
http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/qr/
dl the image..add it too your post

any codes can be decoded here
http://www.onlinebarcodereader.com/

Bob63 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 24, 2010 9:53 am **(#33)**

Rod ninja'd me! :lol

2-ton wrote:

what's this? how does this code thing work?

They are QR codes. From Wikipedia:

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A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

Common in Japan, where it was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. QR is the abbreviation for Quick Response, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed

Some companies use them to embed product information or the url of their website , so that if you (as a consumer) scan the code with a smartphone and have the decoding software, you get the company's web address. Similar codes are used by the US post office and shipping companies for tracking, addressing and postage. Here we've been encoding messages about Gimp and GimpChat. It's an interesting article in Wikipedia, including the links to other code types.

Scroll back through this thread for websites to encode and decode, if you don't have another option like a smartphone.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 12:13 am **(#34)**

One more interesting one.