What it is all about …

So now I’ve started a blog of my own. Although the world clearly has not been waiting to receive my two cents about anything, here it is anyway.
Originally I planned to publish all I wanted to publish on a website of my own — but I found that that was, for several reasons, not the best idea. So here is my blog, with the sad restrictions it imposes on individuality. I will try to make the best of it.

What can you expect to find here?

Firstly, I hope, something at all, that is, I hope I will find the time to post new articles once in a while.
Secondly, all kinds of stuff. I will try to only write stuff, which I can reasonably expect to be of interest to someone — I’ve spent too much time on Youtube, for example, watching stuff that was — let’s call it … strange and I really do not wish to become the reason for anyone’s “facepalm” gestures. Also there’s way too much gibberish out there.
I expect my topics to include science (especially mathematics), literature, music, history, alternate history (a branch of literature, really), archeology, some of my own curious ideas and projects, various odds and ends and whatnot.

Another topic I will sometimes take up is the various kinds of weird theories that float around in the western world: Crop circles, UFOs, all the historic weirdness (Atlantis, pyramids, etc.), and so on.
With these I might just as well tell you what not to expect from me:
If you look for a “believer”, that is someone who basically says “It must be true, so let’s find out how it is”, look somewhere else.
If you look for a “debunker”, that is someone who basically says “It can’t be true, so let’s find out how it isn’t”, look somewhere else too.
I consider myself a scientist, and, having taken courses in the theory of science as well, I have specific views of what that means. Believe it or not, it means having an open mind and going where the evidence leads.
But, as the saying goes, not so open that the brain falls out. This is very important! By the way, this is what being a skeptic really is about. So I’m a skeptic.
Then again, I write about these thing for enjoyment. I may play around with a point and then drop it without a conclusion. Expect a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek. No aggressive sarcasm, though (I hope). I will ask inconvenient questions. I will ask both sides. I may carry things to the extremes and beyond (that’s what mathematics is all about). If I can’t prove a thing, I will say so. Feel free to stay unconvinced. In short, I won’t bother too much.

Now that was a long paragraph concerning a single topic for my blog. Don’t think it will dominate all the other topics. Well, see for yourself!

Have fun!