What are you interested in right now?

[Me-Ike]

Have been interested in metaphysics for some time. Read a large cross-section of the material by now. Just started The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (been sitting on my nightstand for a few weeks actually), which is probably where most people begin. Always been back to front though, why change now?

Not my area of study or work at all. Makes a refreshing change to both.

I'd love to hear what you think. I haven't read The Alchemist yet, but I had a seminar on a metaphysical aspect in the works of Feuerbach and Nietzsche. This might make an interesting thread.

I have recently discovered that I a) have never read Kafka and b) am knowledgeable about evolution but not to a degree that I can satisfyingly explain it. So I am currently reading The Metamorphis and a book about, you guessed it, evolution.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Same as usual: Literature, Poetry, Art, Astronomy, Paleontology, Anthropology, Physics, History, Philosophy and Roaring 20s Artistic Nudes.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Other things that interest me (except that) right now are music of all sorts, sci-fi writing, music remixing and editing, classical literature, and, most recently, mathematics and logic.

 

[Me-Ike]

Same as usual: Literature, Poetry, Art, Astronomy, Paleontology, Anthropology, Physics, History, Philosophy and Roaring 20s Artistic Nudes.

Not biology? Don't you have any interests at all?

 

[SeerSGB]

Swinging from working on my novels and trying to restart my career as a columnist-- but this time outside the local market, and reading up on Podcasting, audio-drama production, and trying to write a business plan to expand my business.

 

[Aurian]

Right now I am very interested in baking, always reading food-blogs and cookbooks and trying to challenge myself in making things more presentable aswell as tasty. Want to get into decorating cakes such as weddingcakes and more festive things with sugarpaste flowers etc. I got the "taste" thing down, I hope. Still have lots to learn in decorationskills.


I am also very interested in learning more about my childs disability. So I have borrowed lots of books on the subject. It is for the most part nothing new for me, but I get more meat on my bones so to speak. And I can see what the things the doctors are hinting at for the future.. they are wondering if he has an additional diagnosis coming or not.. so I want to look into that and see if it fits or not. Maybe premature, but my boy has never been the sum of his dificulties for me. I just don't want to be suprised anymore and ask the "wrong" questions if new things arise.

I am also in a very heavy reading phase again. I am reading several books at once, for enjoyment only. Loving it.

 

[Goliath]

Finishing my book.

It's a long weekend here, and I've decided that I simply can't spend any more time revising my dissertation for publication.

So, I've given myself until Monday evening. After that, it's done--even if it's not.

Beyond that, in my spare time, I've been working my way through the "fifty essential films noirs" listed in the Rough Guide to the subject, in alphabetical order. The last film was Gilda. The next will be Gun Crazy.

That, and reading Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Brian Burrough.

Finally, I framed the three prints I mentioned here, and hung them up. They look fantastic--especially the nymphs and satyr painting. It's in a nice gold-painted wood frame, with a forest-green mat and a gold fillet.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

China, under Mao, through the eyes of the people.

Mainly fact-based fiction. Interest started with Memoirs of a Geisha, A. Golden then Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah (biographical) whom I was incredibly lucky to be invited to have dinner with in London last year.
Watching the Tree again by Ms Yen Mah and just finished The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. All absolutely shocking and fascinating.
And then I go and ruin it by doing something stupid like reading Jilly Cooper, but one can only have so much misery

 

[Jadzia]

I find subjects to have rather artificial boundaries, and so I don't really do subjects. I see all things as overlapping and interrelated. So my interests tend to expand amorphically, and build upon themselves. Sometimes there are mathematical undertones to them.

I'm also a creative person, so I take more interest in things which I can playfully experiment with, and things I can create. I find interest in improving my understanding of things, in improving my abilities, discovering and satisfying my personal tastes, and in being inspired.

This past week for instance I've resurrected interests relating to computer games. I've begun exploring various ideas I had related to drawing computer graphics, and also thinking up ways of simulating the behaviours of various in-game elements with physics laws.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm slowly but surely teaching myself music theory via the conduit of teh internets in the vain hope that said knowledge will fuse with my self-taught musical stylings to create a freakish hybrid of musical Frankensteinery...

Should I live in fear or hope that you succeed?

This might make an interesting thread.

Might? MIGHT?

ALL my threads are interesting!

I have recently discovered that I a) have never read Kafka and b) am knowledgeable about evolution but not to a degree that I can satisfyingly explain it. So I am currently reading The Metamorphis and a book about, you guessed it, evolution.

Read Kafka's The Castle - a more damning indictment of our protocol and policy driven world you will not find.

logic.

Logic scares me.

Still have lots to learn in decoration skills.

I would so not have the patience for this. It can look tremendously impressive though. Good luck!

It's a long weekend here, and I've decided that I simply can't spend any more time revising my dissertation for publication.

So, I've given myself until Monday evening. After that, it's done--even if it's not.

As Robespierre probably once said, there's no problem that can't be fixed with a guillotine.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Logic scares me.

Not as much as it scares, humiliates, and taunts me.

 

[Holdfast]

Logic scares me.

Not as much as it scares, humiliates, and taunts me.

That's a statement that's true in all possible worlds....

 

[Jadzia]

Logic scares me.

You know we can dismiss this conjecture until you provide us with a formal proof.

 

[Plecostomus]

Steam engines, battle-ships, and alternate WW2 histories.

 

[Kestra]

Right now I am very interested in baking, always reading food-blogs and cookbooks and trying to challenge myself in making things more presentable aswell as tasty. Want to get into decorating cakes such as weddingcakes and more festive things with sugarpaste flowers etc. I got the "taste" thing down, I hope. Still have lots to learn in decorationskills.

If you ever have pictures, I'd love to see your progress! I love baking although I don't often have reason to do it.

Right now I'm focusing on going back to school and my focus there is psychology. If I'm going to be caught in my head all the time, I might as well understand it a bit better!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Logic scares me.

Not as much as it scares, humiliates, and taunts me.

That's a statement that's true in all possible worlds....

True, False, If, And, Or, Xor, Nand, Not...

 

[Plecostomus]

Not as much as it scares, humiliates, and taunts me.

That's a statement that's true in all possible worlds....

True, False, If, And, Or, Xor, Nand, Not...

Whatever.






Seriously, logic was fun I had quite a bit of fun with that when I was studying maths.

Trig is what I use now, most often. Math that can control angles, helps me make stuff. A lot of coordinate geometry too.

 

[Jadzia]

True, False, If, And, Or, Xor, Nand, Not...

You've missed out Nor, and Only If, and Equivalence.

You will have fun trying to 'see' the difference between if and only if. It makes good night time thoughts just before going to sleep.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

You've missed out Nor, and Only If, and Equivalence.

Dammit, Jadz, I'm a doctor, not a logician!

You will have fun trying to 'see' the difference between if and only if. It makes good night time thoughts just before going to sleep.

Every night time I go to bed with those thoughts you describe, and before I drift to sleep I think to myself "If only..."

 

[Holdfast]

Logic scares me.

You know we can dismiss this conjecture until you provide us with a formal proof.

You see, this right here is why I prefer Ethics to Logic.

Right now I'm focusing on going back to school and my focus there is psychology. If I'm going to be caught in my head all the time, I might as well understand it a bit better!

You do realise you'll just find more things to puzzle over in there...