About Me
I use this website to verify my identity and confirm that I am a living, breathing human being.
I will also add information on my current projects/interests.
You can find me @tomhartley.me.uk on Blue Sky
You can still find my old wordpress site and a few of my old blogposts at thermaltoy.wordpress.com. This includes pdfs of most of my scientific publications. You can also see my Google Scholar profile.
One of my current project is a new blog, I'm Looking Through You", which reviews the Beatles' songs, one each day. It began as a thread on Blue Sky. Under the pretext of ranking the songs, it uses them to try to understand the Beatles' creativity and what it might mean for the rest of us.
My main hobby is recording music (I also try to play various instruments, sing, write songs etc.) see my SoundCloud for examples. For all my efforts at songwriting and performing, the most popular track (rightly) is a mashup I made of The Who v MC Young called Know Baba O'Riley.
Selected Lyrics
When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game?"
John Lennon, Watching the Wheels
I'm coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine.
The Killers, Mr Brightside