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[edit] About me
- Real name
- Hannes Rydén
- Date of Birth
- 9 July 1983
- Sex
- Male
- Location
- Göteborg, Sweden
- Occupation
- Web developer
- Formal education
- Elementary school between age 7-15. I quit school after the beginning of my second year of secondary education (gymnasium), when I was 17 years old, because I had no motivation to go on. I could find no justified reason to finish school, and as of today I still feel that our current educational system is wrong in many ways.
[edit] Interests and hobbies
- Music
- I love music that affects me and makes me experience a feeling I enjoy - feelings such as energy, melancholy and fascination. I find that I'm affected by both rhythm, harmony (vastly minor chords), melody and instrumental/vocal skills. I can find songs I like in almost all musical genres but worth mentioning are film music/video game music and modern-day music of Japan. Other than that, I regularly consume funk, salsa, hip hop, rock, pop, metal, classical and brazilian music, to mention a few.
- Dance
- Dancing was a way for me to combine my love for music with my interest in physical movement. Currently, I'm quite captivated by the various forms of street dance, mainly locking, breakdance, popping and hip hop new style. I've also been dancing salsa for some years and would like to learn tango.
- Thinking
- Few things are as engaging to me as thinking and philosophy. The universe, nature, politics, psychology and the inner-workings of humans can absorb my attention and devour my waking hours in no time. In my thinking, I prefer logic, science and simplicity, though I accept that there are things we do not know and that true spirituality might exist. Some specific subjects that keep returning to my mind are pacifism, intellectual property, feminism, emotions and emotional intelligence. I'm more afraid of ignorance and stagnation than I am of admitting that I was wrong.
- Chinese martial arts
- I have always been fascinated by martial arts. Not its means of causing harm but its technical complexity and the beauty of the physical artforms that have come to surround most Asian martial arts. I have taken lessons in Shaolin kung fu and Chen style Tai Chi Chuan, and are interested in the development of contemporary wushu.
- Computer and video games
- Throughout my youth I've been involved with various forms of digital games and interactive stories. I've always been enchanted by the atmosphere of role-playing- and adventure games, the skill and action of first-person shooters and the social possibilities of online gaming. I've also become increasingly interested in understanding game addiction and many other video game controversies. The latest years I've been almost exclusively active in music video games, such as Dance Dance Revolution, DrumMania and Guitar Hero.
- Anime and manga
- I seldom have time to read books or watch movies, but I've grown to like the Japanese animation style known as anime. Most films by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli have given me wonderful moments, and I'm easily inspired by action anime and manga with a pacifistic message, such as Trigun and Rurouni Kenshin.
- Other than that...
- I'm quite interested in nutrition and physical exercise in general, and I've always been entranced by fantasy stories, folklore and fairy tales. Over the years I've realized that my interests change constantly and that they can be quite intense at times, but I think I like it.
[edit] Wikipedia
I consider Wikipedia to be the overall best website in the history of Internet. It's a joy to see all this knowledge being gathered into one place that is available for everyone to see, to witness how it's constantly growing, and to even be able to contribute to it myself. This is a fine example of freedom and trust at its best and is in my opinion a great example of a working relationship between a large complex system and the people who use it. It proves that openness is effective as it automatically gives authority to people who're genuinely interested in the system or a specific part of it. I'd like to see a government that operates in similar ways.
Wikipedia is the first website that I have donated money to. If you haven't already, you should do the same.
[edit] My life in userboxes
And here are pieces of my personality written in userboxes...
Note: Some of these userboxes were custom made.
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