Toomas (Tom) Karmo
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | RIchmond Hill, in Greater Toronto Area, Canada |
| Introduction | I would like to help set up a blog for Catholics pondering the various deep points being made, from week to week, by social commentator John Michael Greer at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com. Mr Greer has an interest, relevant to the practical Catholic, in the social changes we shall be facing as climate change and fossil-fuel depletion cause our industrial civilization to decline. I for my part think of it like this, that we are living in something like Imperial Rome - not, as yet, in the full horror of 410 A.D. as witnessed by the aging Saint Augustine, but already in the unhappy years of Saint Augustine's youth. - I am also keen to discuss duties of Catholic service in astronomy, maths, physics, and ham radio. (I hold callsign VA3KMZ. I copy CW at approx 15 wpm. I have some ancient gear collected, but as yet not refurbished, for an eventual ham-radio shack.) |
| Interests | Catholic life (including Catholic Worker movement), multivariate calculus (including use of Alonzo Church's functional-abstraction notation to promote rigour), electromagnetic theory up to basic Maxwell (for radio-propagation-through-vacuum), stellar spectroscopy, conservation of David Dunlap Observatory heritage, GNU/Linux, Latin, Estonian history and politics, Estonian literature and cinema, impending decline of industrial civilization |
| Favorite Movies | 'Siin Me Oleme' (Soviet Estonian comedy, 1979), 'First of the Few' (1942 UK), the 1980s BBC serializations of 'TInker Tailor Soldier Spy' and 'Smiley's People', the 1980s-1990s Granada television Sherlock Holmes dramatizations |
| Favorite Music | Bach, Sibelius |
| Favorite Books | Tammsaare 'Tde ja Oigus' first part, David Copperfield, the Sherlock Holmes corpus |