On 21-4-2009 10:27, Invisible wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if anybody will point out any of the other interesting 
>> objects in my room...
> 
> Well let me see now... There's a copy of Godel, Escher, Bach clearly 
> visible. Oh, and take a look at my monitor stand - looks like I found a 
> good use for A New Kind of Science after all! :-D
> 
> Less obviously, there's a copy of Classic FM Organ Tocattas resting on 
> my keyboard. There's also a plasma ball in shot, and several glass paper 
> weights. There's the box for a Casio graphing calculator. (That's not 
> actually mine; my graphing calculator is a higher spec.)
> 
> Even less obvious, there's my latest bank statement resting on top of 
> the book. I hadn't noticed that - but I'm fairly sure you can't read it. 
> There's a HP LaserJet 1000 printer behind that. The black thing resting 
> on top of it is my IR thermometer in its black leather carry case. Next 
> to the printer you can just make out a grey thing; that's my camera.
> 
> Getting *really* freaking obscure... you can just make out a copy of 
> Widor's Tocatta propped up in the bottom-right corner of the frame. 
> Notice the hand-written scape of notes balanced on the function knob on 
> my synthesizer. (I suck at reading music!) The mini CD you can see is an 
> earlier recording of my playing this tocatta, as luck would have it. You 
> can also see Enya's "And Winter Came" propped up. Next to it is Mike 
> Oldfield's "Music of the Spheres". (Even *I* only know that because I 
> remember it.)
> 
> So there we have it. Aren't you enlightened? :-P

Not really ;)
Everything you mention is only recognizable if you know how it looks. 
The only thing I can recognize for certain even after your explanation 
is GEB end even that is positioned in such an unconventional way that I 
can not know if it is the actual book or a prop.
The relevant question here would be: why would I care?

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