Saturday, 22 August 2015

All along the watchtower

19:44 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) 1 comment
In days past, I had compact discs (or even cassette tapes). I'd listen to albums from end to end. With the advent of music compression such as MP3 and subsequent innovations like Spotify and Apple Music, we digest our music in very different ways. I've noticed that I listen to a much more eclectic...

Saturday, 15 August 2015

Give your ideas a Proust

15:08 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
I've started reading Proust's epic In Search of Lost Time. It's my project to try to finish reading it by the end of this year. The work consists of 7 volumes and 1,267,069 words when written in the original French. In an age, where messages consist of 140 characters and words stream...

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Football's coming home

15:56 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." Bill Shankly, former Liverpool manager.  It's the first day of the football season in Britain. Tomorrow, the newspapers will be...

Saturday, 1 August 2015

Who wants to be a rock star?

20:59 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
Please forgive me. I am going to quote some lyrics from Nickelback's hit "Rockstar" below. I realise these Canadian rockers do not occupy a position in that rarefied space called "cool", but they do have a knack for the occasionally snappy riff and memorable, and somewhat catchy lyrics (this view...