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Brilliant ! And I thought I was weird !

malickfan wrote:Can I just say Az, I love your new forum avatar pic

yep me too

Yeah me three; who is the artist?

Thank you ! I had to have a quick look on Google ( where I found it ) Its.......

Blue Valentine Canvas Wall Art by Tanya Shatseva

Neat, a Russian acrylics artist.

She does some trippy stuff:

First thing I thought of when I saw that was, Blondie

I remember hearing about how humanity creates more "content" in the form of writing, pictures, etc. every day than all of the known "creative content" of humanity up until such-and-such a date. I thought of this originally in the context of the internet, is that what that statistic is concerned with? I'm not sure.

Regardless, this got me thinking about how much information humanity destroys every day: old schoolwork, journals, manuscripts, all tossed in the recycle; digital photographs clicked out of existence; computer hard-drives corroding away in landfills; websites shutting down and wiping their servers (the Myspace forums disappearing was a pretty big loss, personally speaking, there were a TON of my 14-17 year old thoughts on there).

The amount of recorded human experience that is being thrown away these days must also be greater than ever before. How many Libraries of Alexandria's worth get tossed every day I wonder?

Stuff gets made, stuff gets thrown away, c'est la vie.

One wonders if what remains from this process is higher quality than before. I tend to think it is - we're taught to revere things like The Iliad, but it's nearly unreadable by modern standards. Sure, it's constrained by the poetic form needed for memorization, but I'd take any of a bucket full of books over reading the Iliad for pleasure. We read these things mainly out of cultural curiosity, a whole different sort of pleasure.

I hope that us humans are realising the power of recycling & putting all that junk & crap to good use a 2nd time round. We are being informed of the need to recycle & people are becoming aware of the sustainability & longevity of resources etc. As science is progressing we are finding out that 'magic' inventions, like plastic & nylon, are not as wonderful as we 1st thought. In fact they cause a lot of trouble & some products cant be recycled yet as we don't have the technology....yet

This looks dam good

https://www.facebook.com/viralinusa/videos/522373294789245/

I'd think a tree would be damn nervous to see one of those things approaching.

I'm 26 in four days

yeah... soooo ooooold..... lulz... (read: sarcasm)

Norc wrote:yeah... soooo ooooold..... lulz... (read: sarcasm)

Two of the guys on my princes trust course thingy I'm doing are only 16, and I've already been 'affectionately' dubbed Grandad by the group on the third day

You might as well start looking into retirement homes at this point, Malick.

Eldorion wrote:You might as well start looking into retirement homes at this point, Malick.

Noticed a couple of grey hairs in my beard the other day

I do already own a very nice pair of slippers, I enjoy moaning about public transport and find young children very annoying, I guess I'm a bit of an old fart at heart.

Eldorion wrote:You might as well start looking into retirement homes at this point, Malick.

I keep threatening to do that for my dad

malickfan wrote:

Eldorion wrote:You might as well start looking into retirement homes at this point, Malick.

Noticed a couple of grey hairs in my beard the other day

I do already own a very nice pair of slippers, I enjoy moaning about public transport and find young children very annoying, I guess I'm a bit of an old fart at heart.

That's the spirit lad !

honestly... i rock the grandma style, clothing-wise so...... why bother? we are as young as we feel

https://www.facebook.com/peopleareawesome/videos/1554628551252984/

That wall climbing technique looks useful, I'll have to study up on it.

The look on the face of the trampoline girl when she was done was sort of magical.