Home as Think Space 151.0
Here is where I read, think and write
I invite you into my think space at home! This long season is a time to ponder.
At home, my iMac has a super-fast DSL connection – I think it is a T1 – that allows me to do Internet search quickly! The screen shows the edit page for SYNTHESiST on WordPress as I am working on Dr. Khryss’s post as innovator in medical education.
The cable TV showing CNN may just as well be on ANC, Bloomberg or BBC. The small Bose Companion may be playing my favorite 70′s music. So much technology to facilitate learning. Time is the scarce commodity!
Access and Storage. The iMac router cable can be punched to the MacBook at right to directly share files. Some files are also stored and shared on the cloud like those for the blog.
For SYNTHESiST, my working camera is a Canon PowerShot that captures 7.1 mega-Pixels per picture, more than enough for producing images for the e-journal.
The MacBook allows me to post on the road.
The big and easily accessible information are in my library part of which is pictured below. It is just two meters to my right from my seat before the computer.
I have more books in other shelves and half-read ones beside me on my bed and strewn around the TV couch.
Food. My covered pantry is creatively cut out as a six-inch ledge, a space saver. The emergency food stock is set up as a kanban; my ref usually has greens for salads for which I can whip up fusion dressings. The picture partly caught at right is a print from the National Palace museum in Taipei of the mei hua, a reminder of a country’s hardiness and of a nice memory.
Inspirations and Talismans.A framed brocade print from Chengdu of the lantingxu by Wang Xizhi of the Jin Dynasty is a reminder from the past about unchanging needs and motivations of people despite fast changing technology.
Part of a popular Buddha image from Vietnam and Indochina in general. It broods and encourages contemplation.
A Tibetan version of Ganesh from a flea market. The elephant god is most popular in India for good luck or, more accurately, for breaking barriers.
An Orlina glass sculpture as a constant reminder of youth in many ways!
An F. Cacnio brass work as another reminder of youth, the constant movement and not the jazz dance!
A clay sculpture of a grown person awakening from New Zealand as a reminder of re-birth and re-invention.
This year end is time for pondering about global, local, community and persona events!
