Hobbies¶

Favorite Music¶

Alan Parsons Project
Pillows
Queen
Seatbelts
Tsuneo Imahori
Pink Floyd
Yashishi Ishii
Yoko Kanno
Tinwhistle and ocarina playing

Favorite Book Authors¶

Roger Zelazny
Stanisław Lem
Ursula LeGuin
Arkadi and Borys Strugacki
James White
Terry Pratchett
L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Vernor Vinge

Favorite Comics and Manga¶

Masamune Shirow (Appleseed)
Tsutomu Nihei (Blame!)
Hitoshi Ashinano (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō)
Mike Mignola (Hellboy)

Computer and Board Games¶

Game development
Console role playing games (Final Fantasy, Chronotrigger, Seiken Densetsu)
Roguelike games (Rogue, Moria, Nethack, Angband, ADOM)
Miniature painting (Warzone, Necromunda, Mordheim)
Go (aka Igo, Baduk)

Interesting Books¶

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
Douglas R Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Alfie Kohn, No Contest: The Case Against Competition
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention