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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This is an entry from my journal. I seldom travel. If I go further than a few kilometres, it will be to the next closest city for some essential task, such as to buy a new pair of glasses or take the dogs to the vet. Otherwise, I just...
In this +2-hour video, I talk to Logan about story-telling, finding conflict and escapism in fiction, and related life lessons. We start with a brief introduction to what Logan is doing right now. He is a university student in the field...
In this +2-hour video, I talk to Logan about story-telling, finding conflict and escapism in fiction, and related life lessons. We start with a brief introduction to what Logan is doing right now. He is a university student in the field...
This is an entry from my journal. I write about some immediate issues I am dealing with and then comment on wider themes about not taking things for granted. Local time is past 21:00. I am writing this on the laptop. It still has about...
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait...
In mid-September I launched my “selfies project”. Here is the dedicated section of my website: https://protesilaos.com/selfies. The idea of this project was to take a selfie each day and post it on my website. Why? Because I realised...
The distant is far away and unreachable The distant is close by and unattainable
For our small beginnings in anticipation of your becoming I join you by the stream where plane trees summon their Winter
In this 2-hour video, I talk with Maxim about the themes of writing and thinking, as well as productivity at-large. Maxim is a professor of linguistics at a university in Russia. He has a PhD in philology. The first point of interest we...