Me, myself and I


Hobbies & Interests & Likes & Cool Stuff

Comics
Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, Bloom County, Outland, Heavy Metal ...
Books
Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Clive Barker, Stephen King ...
Movies & TV
All types of stuff go, scifi, comedy, action, horror, etc., for example: Disney animations, Star Trek, Star Wars, Monty Python, Greenaway, Kummeli, Beavis & Butt-Head, Married with Children, the Simpsons ...
Sports
Cycling, walking.
Arts, Drawing
Dali, Escher. I do a bit of drawing myself, too.
Music
Classical music (e.g. Stravinsky), Kraftwerk, Queen, Björk, Beatles, ..
Games
XPilot, Tetris, Omega Race and Asteroids type of games, Shanghai, Poing! (a breakout game), Doom (when I have a chance, I don't have a PC myself (lucky me :)), Solitaire, Infocom games.
Dogs
Back home we have to Newfoundlandian dogs, one 6 years, the other almost one. (Overall description: big, black, lots of hair, absolutely wonderful). We have also had two Bernese sheppard dogs (suomeksi berninpaimenkoira ). (I'm not sure about the English names...) I have some pictures of the dogs back in my home box.
Computer stuff
Amiga, UNIX, NetBSD-Amiga, SGI machines, computer graphics, animation and art, fractals, programming, PostScript, Scheme (I teach that too), C, reading Usenet news (too much really).
Japanese
I know little Japanese, but I haven't studied it for over an year now. I'm thinking of continuing next fall.
Food and drink
Ice cream, pizza, junk food, Coke, Schweppes Exotic & Grapefruit, Pommac.

Dislikes & Stuff that Sucks

Stupid commercials
Well, basically all commercials, but the really stupid ones are the worst. Specially in movie theaters before the film starts, you can't just visit the fridge or something.
Watching sports
Sports is something you do yourself, not watch. I generally don't watch sports but sometimes I watch F1-races (waiting to see a spectacular crash) and some other stuff too if there is absolutely nothing better on TV at that moment and I'm feeling too lazy to do anything else. I have to admit that I sometimes enjoy watching golf.
Smoking