Peanut gallery

Stream: Lean Together 2025

[Joachim Breitner]

I’m amused by Kevin’s virtual background. I am imagining he is really in a very tidy, orderly, blank room that he is embarrassed about, and thus has this virtual background of a somewhat messy room full of stuff.

[Kevin Buzzard]

That is my real background and I tidied up especially! Expect to see more of it tomorrow.

[Joachim Breitner]

It looked to me as if it was zoom cropping your face and superimposing it with a static background, but maybe I was deceived.

[Kevin Buzzard]

No I actually live in chaos :-) (not mine! I live with several other people)

[Edward van de Meent]

Imagine not living in chaos

[Edward van de Meent]

Couldn't be me

[Johan Commelin]

If your environments reflects the inside of your skull, would you rather live in a messy place or a sterile and empty place?

[Jireh Loreaux]

Joachim Breitner said:

and superimposing it with a static background

I thought it was real, but then your initial post made me question it, and then I saw someone walking in the background! So Kevin isn't lying. :smiley:

[Ruben Van de Velde]

Now I wonder if Kevin is an obsessively tidy person perpetually stuck in other people's chaos :thinking:

[Yaël Dillies]

Richard Thomas told me Kevin's office (including some/most of the preprints) used to be his

[Jireh Loreaux]

So Kevin has a really sophisticated AI background where he can interact with the objects in it. Super cool! :laughing:

[Joachim Breitner]

I guess it's the lighting that threw me off, with bright sunshine in the background and the foreground rather shaded. 🤷🏻

[Edward van de Meent]

🤷🏻 :shrug: