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I am an old-school grouch who spends too much time reading and too little time in the big blue room.
[edit] Interests
- all things language and linguistics
- computers, computing, programming and all that jazz (but not consoles) but especially
- python, because it has become my native programming language
- computational linguistics
- Using sets instead of trees in categorization/ontologies (trees suck to describe natural phenomena!)
- Freenixes like linux (currently running Ubuntu) and *BSD's (currently running FreeBSD, looking into DragonflyBSD)
- Computer games:
- general world building, including conlanging
- drinkable stuff
- tea, also iced tea
- various carbonated beverages, especially schorle and pepsi max
- hot and cold concoctions based on cocoa
- beer (especially wheat and trappiste)
- cider (English and French) and apfelwein (from Frankfurt)
- calvados (the cider's answer to cognac)
- rum (especially dark and Cuban) and its associated drinks
- white wine (especially riesling from Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Nähe and Alsace, kabinett or better)
- eatable stuff, especially if not in the IMHO much overused and boring French/Italien international nice restaurant style
- Pork is quite simply the meat of the gods
- Bulgur is the clearly the best carbohydrate-source
- I try to eat at least one dish of blasfemic food a week. Liberate your tastebuds!
[edit] Edits when not logged in
(So easy to do, especially when the #%$ login times out!)
[edit] Useful links
[edit] Pages I've started (some even in a proper manner)
[edit] Subpages
[edit] To keep an eye on
