{"id":18092,"date":"2025-04-15T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18092"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:53:32","slug":"journal-of-the-week-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=18092","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

4\/17\/2025<\/strong> Getting ready to bring SSD HDD and Windows 10\/11 USB flash drives to Penang to meet TomTom's laptop for repair (Acer Aspire A515-51 n17c4<\/strong>). He was told the HDD was damaged. But this laptop carries both M.2 slot (from Amazon we bought: Crucial P3 1TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 3500MB\/s) and 2.5 SATA slot (from Amazon we bought: S101 SATA SSD 1TB, Internal State Drive SATA III 6Gb\/s 2.5\" SSD Sata, UP to 550MB\/s). I am building two flash drives for installing Windows 10 \/ 11 on his laptop. This should be 64-bit. Testing the Flash Drives for fakeness using FakeFlashTest v.1.1.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4\/16\/2025<\/strong> Painting of the day<\/a>: The Taking of Christ,<\/strong> Painting by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571-1610),<\/strong> Painted in 1602, Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fr. Patrick drawing<\/a> from Matthew 26:14-25, I cut out the parts I don't quite agree:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This theme is powerfully captured in Caravaggio\u2019s almost cinematic painting of The Taking of Christ. <\/em>The scene is dramatic and intimate. Seven figures<\/strong> are caught in a frozen moment of betrayal. From left to right, we see Saint John<\/strong>, Jesus<\/strong>, Judas <\/strong>Iscariot, three soldiers<\/strong>, and a man holding a lantern<\/strong>, believed to be a self-portrait of Caravaggio <\/strong>himself. Judas has just kissed Jesus, the prearranged signal for the arrest...To the left, John flees<\/strong> in terror, his red cloak billowing as a soldier reaches to grab him; a striking contrast to the chilling calm of Judas and the cold efficiency of the arresting soldiers. Yet the most striking element<\/strong> is not any single figure, but the shining<\/strong>, metal-clad arm of the soldier at the centre<\/strong> of the painting. Its brightness draws the eye, almost unnaturally so. It is believed <\/strong>Caravaggio intended this armoured reflection <\/strong>to act as a mirror, not just of light, but of conscience... a mirror for us all. It is as if the artist is asking us: Can you see yourself here? Are you a bystander? The betrayer? The one who flees?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4\/15\/2025<\/strong> SVG Tutorial<\/strong> with animation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Textbook<\/a> on data visualization<\/strong>: all types of graphs, charts, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4\/13\/2025<\/strong> Painting of the day<\/a>: Entry of Christ into Jerusalem,<\/strong> Painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641),<\/strong> Painted in 1617, Oil on canvas, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Fr. Patrick<\/a>'s own words (I don't see any relation to the verses he linked to this painting, so I skipped them):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strangely <\/strong>enough, there are not that many paintings depicting Palm Sunday<\/strong>. Most artists fast forward to the Passion, but few have painted Christ's entry into Jerusalem. Our high Baroque painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck<\/strong>, from 1617, depicts Jesus sitting on the ass foal he rides\/ The animal is almost entirely enveloped by his robes of rich blue and crimson. He is surrounded by his disciples on foot, and jubilantly welcomed by a crowd of locals who lay branches in his path. The restlessness and muscularity of the figures are very Baroque<\/strong>. Van Dyck was only 18 when he painted this canvas. By this time he was already Peter Paul Rubens' principal assistant<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4\/17\/2025 Getting ready to bring SSD HDD and Windows 10\/11 USB flash drives to Penang to meet TomTom's laptop for repair (Acer Aspire A515-51 n17c4). He was told the HDD was damaged. But this laptop carries both M.2 slot (from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18126,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions\/18126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}