Some of my likes, dislikes and favorites
- My favorite book – non-fiction:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1978)
- My favorite book – fiction:
- N/A (I don’t read fiction)
- My favorite musical compositions (a selection):
- Commando Theme (C=64 version by Rob Hubbard, 1986)
Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1892)
Ikiliikkuja by KOM-teatteri (1971)
- My favorite movies (a selection):
- Aliens by James Cameron (1986)
Top Secret! by Zucker–Abrahams–Zucker (1984)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
- My favorite city:
- Helsinki (even though the name contains words for the phrase “hell sinks in”)
- My favorite sans-serif typeface family:
- Helvetica
- My favorite colors:
- Cyan, magenta and yellow
Infrared
- My favorite anagram:
- Jeremy Irons → Jeremy’s iron [1F17]
- My favorite word:
- Sesquipedalianism
- My favorite literary genius:
- Steven E. de Souza
- My favorite military hero:
- Pvt. T. Wierzbowski
- My favorite links:
- Minesweeper is NP-complete!
Tarkistusmerkkien laskentamenetelmiä (in Finnish only)
Salainen tiedekunta (in Finnish only)
- My favorite titles of academic works:
- How to Avoid Death
Suomen kun
- My favorite Archimedean solid:
- Rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron
- My favorite Unicode character:
- SOLIDUS (U+002F)
- My .plan file in Unix:
- Here’s my plan
- My favorite lorem ipsum:
- Colorless green ideas purple monkey dishwasher
- My favorite Latin expression:
- Per se (you need to speak Finnish to get the joke)
- My favorite hand-coded XHTML table:
- The larger table on this page (you need to view the source to get the joke – and yes, it validates)
- My favorite joke:
- “Elephants Never Forget”
- My second favorite joke:
- Alma, the intranet of the University of Helsinki
(The Web reinvented, sans back button support and URLs! Utterly hilarious, except for the huge price tag. See a scathing usability analysis in Finnish.)
- My favorite celebrities:
- Richard Feynman
Steven Pinker
Sarah Silverman
(think about it)
- My least favorite celebrity:
- Brad Pitt, because people keep mistaking me for him
- My handedness:
- I’m right-handed
- My interests:
- Just about everything – with the following exceptions: fishing, memorizing animal and plant names, watching sports and reading fiction
- My pet peeve:
- People who are unable to discern which parts of this page are meant to be taken seriously and which aren’t
- Am I like this in person:
- No.