Amateur is Not Just a Flavor of Porn

An anonymous graffito poignantly remarked that “time doesn’t exist, clocks exist”.  As an amateur quantum physicist (very amateur), this tickles my ganglia. While my feeble grip on the finer points of quantum theory, compression of time and the Singularity would probably cause Steven Hawking to roll over Einstein’s grave, I’d like to consider for a [...]

Slippery slopes

In the pursuit of expanding one’s musical tastes, you eventually reach a point where you can go no further within the confines of rhythm, melody, harmony and chord structures. You may have experimented with some jazz you found in your dad’s sock drawer, but it was probably before you were mature enough to understand it. [...]