Protesilaos
Protesilaos
Protesilaos
I am a philosopher living in the mountains of Cyprus at a house I built myself which I affectionately call “the hut.” I spend my free time programming on GNU Emacs, writing essays on a wide range of life issues, and doing infrastructure work around my house. My background is diverse and reflects my intellectual curiosity as well as consistently high work ethic.
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A friend of mine told me about this CNN article which covers the religious practices of a polytheistic group in Athens. These people say worshiping ancient Greek gods is a route to modern happiness. There are many such groups, including...
Sacha Chua m’a mentionné hier dans son article titré Tisser des liens personnels pour mon apprentissage du français. Elle écris: J’ai remarqué qu’au cours de mon apprentissage du français, j’apprends aussi à renforcer ma motivation par...
What follows is a lengthy comment on the unscrupulous interests that benefit from the endless war in Ukraine as well as a critique of certain narratives about masculinity. Writing for UnHerd, Marta Havryshko comments on Why Ukrainian...
In this ~22-minute video I explain how Emacs performs completion in a buffer. I cover what happens behind the scenes with the variable completion-at-point-functions. Then I also go to the frontends, which affects the modalities of...
J’ai la confiance de faire des erreurs en public, pas seulement sur le sujet de pratiquer mon français mais sur tout ce que je fais. Je ne suis pas parfait. L’acceptante de ce fait simple me libère de la pression. Ce n’est pas facile de...
I have been working on two new themes for my minimalist doric-themes package. The original plan was to publish them together as part of the version 1.2.0 from a few days ago (the version that also brought doric-tiger and doric-lion), but...
Halo: The Master Chief Collection is not a single game. As its title suggests, it is a collection of games (spoilers throughout this article). They all belong to the first-person shooter genre. Halo: Reach and Halo: ODST do not feature...
Un aspect de ma personnalité est l’introversion. Ça veut dire que j’ai le disposition de me renouveler par l’introspection ou, autrement, par minimiser les stimulais externes. J’écris beaucoup parce que ça me donne la chance de diriger...
Aujourd’hui je parle français pour la première fois depuis ~10 ans. Je lisais et commentais sur un article que Sacha Chua a publié la semaine dernière:...
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour,...
Open a window to sunbathed Olympos where three eagles guide mountaineers to the slopes of serenity Pause and marvel as the doves take flight from the ancient oak tree to reach the golden grapevines that bee-eaters now call home
Writing for Jacobin, the leftist magazine, in an article titled Norway’s Vikings Are Reclaiming Valhalla at the World Cup, Mímir Kristjánsson notes: The fundamental requirement of multiculturalism is a diversity of cultures. For...
On this summer night frogs appear to retell the story of days gone by In water they stay yet never ride the waves to the farthest reaches where fire and ice are one Here they reside a creek as their habitat Content with what they have...
For the present entry, I am picking a piece from the works of Lavrentis Maheritsas. Lavrentis was at his peak before modern audiovisual technology became the norm, which means that it is hard to find any of his songs rendered in high...