I knew that retroactive task completions were no good for sf0, so I had to take a new picture of myself.  But I didn't want to wait around for somebody else to come over to take a picture of me, and I didn't want to try to take a picture of myself at arm's length or anything like that.  So, what to do?

The piano idea came first -- right hand on the camera, left on the keyboard.  But that looked weird, like I wasn't really playing.  Then I realized I could probably splice together two images, one of which had my left hand holding the camera, the other, the right.  And while I was at it, why not take a picture of the keyboard that I spend even more time at?  (I'm a graduate student in Computer Science.  I make robots think.  Hello, Equivalenz!)  The way the white keys merge into the desk, and the black keys into the computer keyboard, was an added bonus.

So my photo reflects my two halves, the guy who picks out tunes and makes stuff up and the mad computer scientist.  And this photo is how I think of myself visually -- as what I do with my hands, what I create and invent.

Bonus:  it's known that the left and right halves of your brain can react separately to things presented to the left and right halves of your visual field.  So if you look at the center of my picture, your left brain, the analytical language one, should be seeing my right hand at the keyboard (your optic nerves cross in the middle), while your right brain, more musically inclined, should be seeing my left hand walking bass.  And hopefully both will like what they see.