User:Phnk

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Real name: François.

Languages: French, English.

Profile: Not a direct contributor, I've made a few points in discussions on King Crimson, the butterfly effect, and a few other topics. What's refraining me from writing full articles is that objectivity is often confused with absence of style and lack of originality.

Articles I would like to write: pathocenosis (refers to Grmek's work on AIDS), themata (refers to Holton's work on scientific imagination).

Cool Greek letter: Ψ

[edit] Pages I've read/skim-read recently

- Rock musicians, lots of them (last one: Genesis).

- Jazz musicians, lots of them (last one: Keith Jarrett).

- I need to read some Ian Hacking some day.

- We had a good laugh at Turkmenbashi's dictatorial eccentricities (oh, the guy is now dead).

- One of the PhD students in my department comes from Kazakhstan.

- I had to review a paper on Robert Millikan's oil-drop experiment.

[edit] Stuff I played to when I was younger

- I liked Magic: The Gathering a lot.

- Epic 40,000, a wargame from the Games Workshop series; I used to play the 3rd edition.

- I played to a few role-playing games, including Warhammer, Hawkmoon, Call of Cthulhu (roleplaying game). I have a few handbooks at home for RPGs I never found the time to master and/or play to, such as Nephilim (3rd edition) and Cyberpunk 2020 (2nd edition). I liked the Chaosium games quite a lot, and always wanted to take a try at Pendragon. The White Wolf, Inc. are great fun too.

Because I tended to spend hours reading RPG catalogues, seeking for the ultimate game, I remember a few games I really wanted to try, most of them from the French game designer Croc [1]: 'Berlin XVIII' [2], the cynical 'In Nomine Satanis Magna Veritas' [3], 'Bitume' [4], Scales [5], …