Smartie's Bar & Grill #72

You've got one... it's just not assembled yet!

 

Love the new avatar, TC.

 

Good lord.

I thought crazy people stopped doing that back when Istanbul was called Constantinople...

 

Did you get beer smith brewing software yet?

 

Not yet, but I plan on purchasing it now that I've got a computer that doesn't have a hamster for an operating system.

Aren't there a couple different levels of that software?

 

Why not as a good test take the filthy door latch to the Ford
Dealer { after merely dousing overnight in WD-40 } and ask what they
thought it was worth.For context,of course.
Because I've personally seen how my ford dealer dealt with such
parts.They have a parts bin where some parts have sat for a long time.
And in particular a part I needed.It was not even close to looking new.
So they { Dealers } aren't even concerned if a part is new and fresh
out of a box.If it was close to new and repurposed ... they still change as
if right out of the box.As long as it works.

 

My truck is a 1993. The controller that I bought came out of a 1995 truck. It had the same number stamped into it that mine did, but the newer one was obviously redesigned. That tells me that Ford realised that my version was inadequate.

It's not likely to be worth much.

 

I think so. Mine is beer smith 2.
Plenty for what I do.

 

I guess my wife and I are both crazy. My pond has pebble mosaic on the outside. Posted pics once.

 

NoT Poss-ee-Bow to love an inanimate object.Even an expensive
wedding ring.I'll let you explain as to why.
Maybe on account an inanimate object does not even appear
in one's dream.I don't care if it's your favorite car.
Love is The most important and valued emotion the human condition
personifies.Just as it's not poss-ee-bow for one to Love thyself.

" Love seeketh not itself to please. " -- William Blake

 

Good morning, barflies. Going for a haircut today... hopefully give me that boost I need to reenter the rat race. We'll see.

 

Love is the ultimate gift God endowed upon mankind.
Use it wisely.

Amor ordinem nescit

" Love knows no rule " -- Saint Jerome

 

For what's it's worth.
Could be an Id Avatar { Not of the Divine inspiration inclination }.

 

I like crazy, and Byzantine mosaics are magnificent. Here's today's lesson in Early Christian Art History from Ravenna, Italy and the Hagia Sophia in Turkey:



Full screen pics:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FLAfLi0UDko/TujJSRCefGI/AAAAAAAADZg/spye0IXnjAk/s1600/IMG_6084.JPG

https://i0.wp.com/www.travelsignposts.com/Italy/files/2015/03/IMG_4473-2.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EmQ1TdoT-zE/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/Hagia-Sophia-mosaic-Christ.jpg

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3757/14068317039_ed837fda00_b.jpg

 

I agree, but it's not the avatar I love - it's the wit and sense of humor behind it. I can appreciate that the same way I love my wife's laugh or watching her tend to her flowers on a Spring day that is so clear the air practically sparkles. It's a human thing...

Oh, I think it's possible to love one's self, Fooli. In fact, I think it's important and even desirable for people to learn to love themselves, not in a vain or arrogant way, but in a way that enables you to accept and be happy with who and what you and learn how to accept, be happy with and love other people and living beings, too. For the most part, people who hate themselves are incapable of loving others - they are only capable of radiating and projecting their own self-hatred and unhappiness.

 

Spoken by a wise man.

Can you make one of these?

 

One who holds the view that it may be good or a positive to
Love oneself,need NEVER apply to a Seminary let alone a Nunnery.
Or a Monastery for Monks.Love can never derive internally as
oneself being the object.In fact,Love is just the opposite.
Love is the ultimate example of sharing and giving.
Plus of course Caring as the main objective.
Vanity is of course a possible sin.Loving oneself is Vanity.

" One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme
actions to Vanity,average ones to habit,and petty
ones to fear. "
-- Nietzsche

 

Thanks, Smartie.

Piece of cake - I could make one of those pebble rugs, too.

Little did you know that you're talking with one of the rarest creatures on the planet - a RW artist. Yes, we're not mythical creatures like unicorns and centaurs - a few of us actually exist.

That's how I know about all those old Early Christian/Byzantine mosaics I posted in #1264 above. We studied them in Art History when I was a poor starving artist in college and when I saw that pebble rug you posted I immediately thought of them. Coincidentally, to Fooli's point about love, the reason those mosaics in San Vitale and the Hagia Sophia are so amazing is because they were ultimately a labor of love and devotion, not just artistic talent, and it shows.

 

I'm impressed but not surprised. Your artistic flair comes thru in your posts.

I love art in unexpected places. Having no artsy talent myself, I admire creative types.

 

What I'm talking about has nothing to do with vanity and narcissism.

As for monks and nuns and sundry ascetics, I get the selflessness and self-sacrifice and service to others, and that's all well and good, but I trust they've alo heard Jesus' dictum "Love thy neighbor as thyself." I would also think they understand the implications of his message that we are all God's children, God's love flows through all of us and our individual lives possess an intrinsic value that doesn't depend on our sex, position amongst the siblings in our family and station in life and society. That was the great break that Jesus made with ancient society (and why so many women were attracted to Christianity in Ancient Rome), and it's why he can be considered the Father of Western Individualism and Liberalism. If you want to torment your "secular humanist" (atheist) friends you could call him the Father of Western Humanism.

Boris Pasternak somewhat touched on this in one of my favorite passages from Doctor Zhivago, which is contained within a conversation between Yuri's uncle Nikolai, who is a former Orthodox priest, and a friend of his that you won't see anywhere in the film (like the rest of the best parts in the novel):

"...There was no history in this sense in the classical world. There you had the blood and beastliness and cruelty and pock-marked Caligulas untouched by the suspicion that any man who enslaves others is inevitably second-rate. There you had the boastful and dead eternity of bronze monuments and marble columns. It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and man could breathe freely. It was not until after Him that men began to live in their posterity and ceased to die in ditches like dogs..."

 

That's so beautiful and profound, I oughta be ashamed to post this...

 

Doc visit today, 2 more injections and one more week off. Feeling better, seeing light at end of tunnel and hoping it's not a train.

 

I wanted the wall to go down the side, but got talked out of it. It should have continued down the side.

Here's the fix:

 

Been moving into my man cave complex.... Two sheds, a bench, and small table for sorting stuff. Refinished a dresser and moved some stuff into the space leftover from moving old siding outside and racking it up under cover. May start making storage boxes out of some old 1/4 plywood laying around. Trying to figure best use of material. Lightweight storage is the goal. Got a bunch of old hinges to use.

 

Watching hibrow movie from 1965