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