mega thread What are you thinking?

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8 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

On the left is a self-portrait of Alexander Rosin in the process of painting Gustav III, and on the right is the finished painting of Gustav III. With the way my thought process has gone, this struck me as being very humourous, and I will attempt to explain why.

Presumably, Rosin was in the process of painting Gustav III. While that portrait was still not yet completed, he decided to paint a portrait of himself painting the portrait of Gustav III. In order for him to make the self-portrait as shown on the left, he had to have had invested many hours in accurately re-painting the incomplete portrait of the portrait in his self-portrait. I imagined a situation where Gustav III was interested to know about the progress being made on his portrait. If this situation happened in the modern era, one thing Rosin could have done is to photograph himself painting the portrait. But this situation takes place before photography was invented. So as a way to show him the progress of the portrait, Rosin painted himself painting the accurately replicated state of the incomplete portrait based on the real incomplete portrait to both convey to Gustav III that he is working on it and how the portrait looks at that moment. But this situation is absurd because instead of investing many hours making the self-portrait with the incomplete portrait based on the actual incomplete portrait, he could have simply shown him the actual incomplete portrait itself, and used the time making the self-portrait to work on the actual portrait.

Oh my, that’s great! 

[Tropical Melody 6,292]

OMG I'm still laughing ...

 

 

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10 hours ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

Unthinkable pain  

Hope you make it through a tough journey  

Thanks buddy 

[Guest]

Do I really want to go to work today? No, but I may call out Friday to clear my head.

Edited February 22, 2023 by StarlightNyars

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,570]

Well work is important after all.  

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

What mess have I gotten myself into, but...gotta do what I can do with what I have.

[Splashee 28,564]

Thinking about the next internet auction on Sunday, and how much not to think about it.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

Thinking about this piece of music I am listening to; the Requiem by Antonin Dvorak. So beautiful; quite the masterpiece.

[TheRockARooster 51,553]

I’m thinking of what might happen today, I’m interested to find out.

[Guest]

I'm hoping no clients call me as I work from home today. I just want to roll up in a toasty hot cinnamon roll as the cold weather passes through SoCal.

[Sturmponiere 122]

*The symphony of cannons on Red Square in the background* 
*meditative relaxation*

"...Mighty power, fury in the eyes
Change time is in our hands
The steel spirit of freedom in the endless fields 
Beats like a hammer in our hearts..."

[Splashee 28,564]

Thinking about not stressing out about upcoming things: Don't think about it.

[Woohoo 34,255]

I think I ate too much today... 

[Clawdeen 14,477]

Not here for coworker drama

[Woohoo 34,255]

Should I start watching Teen Titans right away?

[Savy 5,079]

I'm so ready for my birthday coming up soon. (March 5th)

[Guest]

I think I'm going to stay home and work from home tomorrow too. It looks to be another cold rainy day.

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,570]

Do you have loads of organizers, binders and papers set in front of your computer?  

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2 minutes ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

Do you have loads of organizers, binders and papers set in front of your computer?  

Perhaps lol Actually no- I have my home pc and work laptop and just connect to it. I got the whole cloud and VPN set up for work, most things that I need are online thankfully. I still use notepads and papers for other things. Thankfully things have been kind of slow these past few days and HOPEFULLY tomorrow.

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,985]

I can never seem to be satisfied with my backlog of books. Whenever I think that I have surely accumulated enough books to last me for some time (my current backlog provides years' worth of reading material), I then find myself buying yet more books that interest me. Am buying books faster than I can read them. But sometimes, when a deal is found--particularly for a rarer book--I often do not hesitate to purchase it immediately because I can never be sure if said book can be found again especially at a relatively reasonable price.

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15 minutes ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

I can never seem to be satisfied with my backlog of books. Whenever I think that I have surely accumulated enough books to last me for some time (my current backlog provides years' worth of reading material), I then find myself buying yet more books that interest me. Am buying books faster than I can read them. But sometimes, when a deal is found--particularly for a rarer book--I often do not hesitate to purchase it immediately because I can never be sure if said book can be found again especially at a relatively reasonable price.

Ah this is understandable for rarer books. However, I would rather have a backlog of many books that I would like to read rather than not have any books to read and be upset that there were not any that interested me.

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

27 minutes ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

I can never seem to be satisfied with my backlog of books. 

Me with dvds, video games, board games, and books to a lesser extent. I have long given up on believing I will play all my video games. I still think I can watch my dvds.

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,985]

13 minutes ago, StarlightNyars said:

Ah this is understandable for rarer books. However, I would rather have a backlog of many books that I would like to read rather than not have any books to read and be upset that there were not any that interested me.

1 minute ago, Brony Number 42 said:

Me with dvds, video games, board games, and books to a lesser extent. I have long given up on believing I will play all my video games. I still think I can watch my dvds.

I do like having a collection of materials I can readily access. The subject in which I am interested in reading changes; there have been multiple instances when books I have acquired years ago become more relevant to me than the time I purchased them.

Someone made the point that if one has read all the book one owns, then one is not buying books fast enough. It is that if one has read one's private library in its entirety, then there is the temptation to think that one knows everything; the unread books serve as a reminder that one is still ignorant of something.

One other point, I rather like being in the presence of a large set of books: seeing the various designs of the books; feeling the spines of the book as I glide my hand across them; to, in a sense, make a connection with the people from the past by engaging with the texts they have written long ago (only a few books I have are by contemporary figures); etc.

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11 minutes ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

I do like having a collection of materials I can readily access. The subject in which I am interested in reading changes; there have been multiple instances when books I have acquired years ago become more relevant to me than the time I purchased them.

Someone made the point that if one has read all the book one owns, then one is not buying books fast enough. It is that if one has read one's private library in its entirety, then there is the temptation to think that one knows everything; the unread books serve as a reminder that one is still ignorant of something.

One other point, I rather like being in the presence of a large set of books: seeing the various designs of the books; feeling the spines of the book as I glide my hand across them; to, in a sense, make a connection with the people from the past by engaging with the texts they have written long ago (only a few books I have are by contemporary figures); etc.

Luna, I think I understand how you feel in regards to knowledge and connecting with the past. Years ago when I was in music school as a saxophonist- I used to collect old sheet music from decades ago for jazz. I had the same mindset as I went through old music and kept buying more and more as I learned about old  techniques and ideas. Hearing the history of how some old jazz songs were conceived were just fascinating to me. In this heaving vastness of unbroken blue, it felt like completely different worlds and ideas unfolded before me and that for a moment, I was a part of it too. I would get excited going through crinkled up sheet music in dusty boxes and what I would uncover. 
 

I used to enjoy reading and collect books outside of music as well as a child,  but then I had a family member that would harass me and make me feel bad about reading concepts outside of school. It got so bad that I stopped acquiring books and lost my love for reading for a long time. I still ended up going to university, but I only read on things for my field as what happened to me when I was younger really did have an effect on me. I went to music school for about 2 years and I felt my passion for reading came back, but then. I ended up switching majors as music school was rather expensive and would take too long to complete.  I hope to one day reignite that passion for reading and seeing your posts are reminding me about it, so I thank you for that. 

[Splashee 28,564]

I really need to clean my living room from all my new stuff. Just have to wait for my even newer stuff to be delivered first