Thread: Sun August 11th - Sat August 17th

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Physically? Now? Six straights and a DE. I know I know, I've got seven counting the one that's on holiday...

Yes, was trying to see if I would be helping cure your rad, or whether I would be enabling it.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'm pretty sure it's 42 from memory...

I was going to venture this answer myself, after spending some time contemplating what the answer should be. I came up with either it depends, or to improve the future of the species without undue adverse effect on other species or the environment that future generations will live in.

42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything, so with equal weighting, the answer to life would be 14, however it could be argued that everything encompasses life and the universe contains life, so life wouldbe weighted more heavily, but the universe and a lot of the everything would probably get on better without the life part so now I really don't know....

Originally Posted by johnnypipe

I personally prefer the top picture. I like the way it shows everything laid out. Nice looking brush.

Me too.

Gents,
I had a great evening shave using my all-star lineup for all the various categories, so I thought I would share!

Pre: Hot shower
Soap: Martin De Candre
Brush: Whipped Dog 30mm silvertip w/custom monogrammed handle
Bowl: Conk Santa Fe
Razor: Jenes 8/8th's custom, "the Fairy Tail"
Post: Truefitt & Hill Grafton A/S

Pardon the iPhone pic, I think it will do...

Prep face wash L'Occitane cedarwood soap
Razor Filarmonica Especial full hollow 8/8
Strop Kanayama cordovan #8000
Brush Semogue OC special 2012 Boar & Badger mix
Mondial bergamot & neroli Italian soap
Alum & Thayers rose & aloe toner
Kiehl's aftershave balm
Creed Tabarome Millesime Eau de parfum


A great shave from a great razor.

Thursday

Razor | Burrell Top Flight | Cream | Irisch Moos | After Shave | TOBS Mr Sidney’s | EDT | Joop! Jump

Great shave this morning, I love this cream, after shave and Eau de Toilette combination; they all work so well together. The Burrell Top Flight performed admirably as it always does.

Today I wore my new suit to work and my new boots and my new belt. I was PISSED off that the belt (which cost 85 f’n dollars) was too long; I looked like a kid wearing my big brother’s belt.

A beautiful day weather wise, I wish you could have seen the view across a certain dam (pond) this morning. If it wasn’t some sort of weird mirage of heaven being beamed onto that spot of land between Mount Torrens and Mount Pleasant than, well, I’m mistaken…

Carl

Originally Posted by RMarsh

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Is that like a surgical tray thing? Pic looks fine to me. As an old bastard I am always amazed at the resolution of camera phones these days. My first digital camera had a resolution of 2 mega pixels, my first computer had only 4 MB of RAM...

Prep - None
Soap - Tabac
Brush - Muhle XL synthetic silver tip
Strop - Neil Miller 3 inch Cordovan leather/English linen
Razor - No name Solingen (Begonia?)
Post - Alum block
AS - Aqua Velva Ice Blue

Cold water face lathered shave. That Bohler steel took a great edge at least that is what my face and alum block tell me. Great little razor and goes to near the head of the class on its first outing.

Bob

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I was going to venture this answer myself, after spending some time contemplating what the answer should be. I came up with either it depends, or to improve the future of the species without undue adverse effect on other species or the environment that future generations will live in.

42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything, so with equal weighting, the answer to life would be 14, however it could be argued that everything encompasses life and the universe contains life, so life wouldbe weighted more heavily, but the universe and a lot of the everything would probably get on better without the life part so now I really don't know....

Oh yes but life IS life, the universe and everything, for if there was no life there would be no life, universe and everything. For you to exist I must enter into a relationship with you; I must experience you and name you. I can also name a thing; but if I enter into a relationship with a thing it becomes a 'thou'. For there to be an 'I', I must name myself as being distinct and apart from the other; I must stand aside from all other. Life, the universe and everything (as I name it) can only exist if I Am. All that is not me Now, is other than me Now. Things that are not me can become a part of me, and then cease to be a part of me. All things are parts of all things. There is only one thing, which is all things; there is only one entity which is all collective entities. Separate entities do not exist, all is one. We (you and I) are not individuals, we are parts of one entity; like atoms are parts of one thing. We just THINK we are separate things. Atoms have memories. All atoms can remember being parts of all things which are in fact just parts of one great thing which is all.

I had this idea a while ago that, if we consider that atoms are moving through us all the time, what if we considered that we are like a leaf on a tree, thinking that it's an entity, but it's not, it's just a leaf on a tree, a part of a tree. But the leaf is sharing atoms with the air around it, so the leaf and the tree and the air are not separate things but one thing. Expand that idea to all things. Consider that all parts (atoms) of all things have memories like you have memories (personalise atoms, make them knowing like you are). So atoms are like you and I, with memories, they are an 'I' and an 'I' and an 'I', for they name themselves and stand apart from each separate 'I' (like I do and you do). Each 'I' (atom) can enter into a relationship with another 'I' and so then names that other 'I' (that thing) so that other 'I' (that other thing) now becomes a 'thou'. Yet these are atoms. They are not entities. Consider that you are made up of these atoms (an 'I' and an 'I'...). Consider that a leaf enters into a relationship with the stars and the moon and the earth and its tree; for it names them and sets itself apart from them; it has a conversation with them. But it is a leaf. It is not separate from the tree; it is only a part of the tree. You are only part of the stars and the cosmic dust.

All things are all things.

[some of those concepts come from Martin Buber's 'I and Thou'. Martin Buber can make your head spin. I've never had to read such short sentences so many times to understand what's being communicated.]

Originally Posted by ischiapp

...What composition do you prefer: vertical or orizzontal?...

orizzontal. But only so I can use the word orizzontal :-)

Originally Posted by celestino

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Nice darkness. Reminds me of a Caravaggio...

http://www.caravaggio-foundation.org...c.1597-99.html