Here are links to sites about some of my favourite composers.
Many of these composers are modern (twentieth century). One of my favourite recent books, on twentieth-century music, is The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. Here's a link: The Rest is Noise.
I discovered recumbent bikes (and trikes) after suffering from a stiff neck and a sore back after long rides on diamond-frame bicycles. Another convincing argument in favour of recumbents is not supporting more than 80% of your body weight between your legs, and the rest on your wrists. See the first link below for some other arguments in favour of recumbents.
When enclosed in an aerodynamic shell (“fairing”), recumbents are the fastest human-powered vehicles on the planet. The current record for the 200-meter flying start is 144.17 kph (no, not a typo). See:
My first recumbent was a Rans Rocket. Rans no longer makes the Rocket, but has some long wheelbase models.
My second recumbent was a tadpole trike made by M.R. Components, also no longer in production. My current recumbent is a Cruzbike Quest, a front-wheel drive (moving bottom bracket) bike. The model has been discontinued, but Cruzbike produces a full range of these bikes. The Quest is quite similar to the Q45.
I'll be getting a new bike this spring, an HP Velotechnik Gekko.
I run Linux on all my computers. I first installed Linux in 1998 as a replacement for the atrocious Windows 98, and have never felt any urge to go back. The last commercial software that I used was MATLAB. Now that DYNARE runs on top of Octave, I use open source tools almost exclusively.
Here's some proseletyzing about Linux:
My current distribution of Linux is Mint:
For any economists that stray onto this page, (or anyone else that does technical word processing), LyX does what Scientific Workplace does (minus the MAPLE interface) and is just as user-friendly.
Last updated 24/03/2021
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. (John Stuart Mill)
Fremd bin ich eingezogen, fremd zieh'ich wieder aus. (Wilhelm Müller/Franz Schubert, Die Winterreise)
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. (H.L. Mencken)
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time. (Friedrich Hayek)