I wish I had accomplished more today, but all-in-all it was not too bad. I did sleep in until 12:00, which is a good thing for me. I do not understand how it works, but my body seems to recognize that it is the weekend, and gets as much sleep as it can. This is [...]
I am stuck with one of my four-monthly (or perhaps three-monthly) stress headaches. It appears about 12 to 24 hours after I start consciously worrying about some or other aspect of my life. Well, 99% of the time it is about deadlines. I happen to know what is bothering my head this time: I have [...]
I am reading Allan Bloom’s book called “The Closing of the American Mind”. This is about the most challenging book I have ever read. Every sentence, almost every phrase, is an uphill climb. Like a long marathon, every word a mile. But once I reach the summit, the vista of new meaning makes it worth [...]
Yesterday evening I attended a lecture by Hannu Sinisalo about “Finns vs. others — Cultural prejudices and sympathies of the Finns”. It was fascinating and made me think about many things related to the topic. Firstly, it made me think about my own experience of Finnish tolerance/intolerance. Of course I have thought about it before, [...]
I will freely admit that I suffer from a terrible disease called blogdearth: the inability to write frequent blog entries. Is there a cure? Who knows. Promises to be more regular sound so empty… In any case, this is record that I finished “This is your Brain on Music” by Daniel Levitin. Such an excellent [...]