music
audio/video recordings, transcriptions
Without it, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the idols — alternatively: it would B♭). Music is absolutely essential to me, and I've learned to play a variety of instruments of the years, to varying degrees of success, though I'm not a professional (evidently, nor do I have the ambition to be one, not in this life). These recordings are for myself and the Muses, and for whoever else might enjoy them.
comp
personal and professional projects, articles, lectures
My entire professional career, which by now is approaching two decades, has been as a computer programmer (perhaps surprisingly, given the content of the rest of these pages, but it is what it is). Mathematics, physics, and everything related to computer science and engineering have always been very close to my heart, and subjects I research and practice constantly.
(this is where the old home page went, in case you were wondering)
places
traveling journal, pictures
History, geography, philosophy, culture, language, … the world is too interesting, and I spend much of my leisure time (though it can hardly be called that) travelling, visiting, exploring, and learning about the amazing places on this planet. Writing about those experiences makes me learn even more, and serves as a lasting memory — verba volant, scripta manent.
literature
reading lists, book reviews, publications
Books have always been my closest companions, and I've been a voracious reader from infancy. There is nothing like the world of literature, where we can “abstract ourselves from our own petty fleeting span of time, and give ourselves up with our whole mind to what is vast, what is eternal, what we share with better men than ourselves” (Seneca, De brevitate vitae).
writing
essays, divagations, encomia, diatribes
The great poet, in writing himself, writes his time. While I'm no Seneca, Shakespeare, or T. S. Eliot, I like words in all their forms, and I enjoy the process and practice of writing: it assists the mind in ordering and developing ideas. Words shape your view of the world, and ultimately shape your soul (which is why the origin of character is the verb χαράσσω, to carve). Here you can find a varied, loosely-related collection of texts which don't fall under any other category.
pictures
amateur photography
Recently I decided what was really lacking in my life was yet another activity which demands a lifetime to master, to obsess over and occupy all the free time that is already completely occupied by all my other interests. So I got myself a camera.
