Category: Notepad

Happy new year to all of you, may it bring you happiness and inspiration! Once again, I wish you something good, something funny and something beautiful this year! As for me, I think I had all three last year: The good, in finally deciding to move to Hong Kong; The funny,…

Finally done with version 3.0 of “The People Below”, a steampunk novella. Now on to the next (and hopefully final) phase — pestering people to find a few readers, and then pestering them to get comments and suggestions back. Let’s spread the love… 😉 Happy holidays to all!

Thales, so the story goes, because of his poverty was taunted with the uselessness of philosophy; but from his knowledge of astronomy he had observed while it was still winter that there was going to be a large crop of olives, so he raised a small sum of money and…

Amusing view from Plato on how to train politicians: We must endeavour to persuade those who are prescribed to be the principal men of our State to go and learn arithmetic, not as amateurs, but they must carry on the study until they see the nature of numbers with the…

Haven’t posted here in a long time — I must confess it’s been a very agitated two or three months. I now find myself with a number of opportunities, including: a) taking some time off to write a novel (or three), and b) changing the scenery… drastically. I’ll be spending…