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