I have: A way with words, 1.5 cats, a small apartment, 2 Macs, 1 iPhone and 3 PCs, lots of books (including old tabletop RPG manuals), a 3rd Dan in Aikido, a few friends.

a Shodan rank in ShoDo, too... [Dec.2012]

I don't have: a TV set (since 1993), a car (I still drive, and usually rent one when I need it), DVDs (movies are to be seen in theaters), lots and lots of music CDs (I like music, but rarely listen to it), any regrets for not eating meat or fish (since 1996).

I should probably get: a few more friends, a new job, a new hobby, a bit of drawing practice, some more English conversation lessons.

Update!!! I started studying ShoDo, i.e. Japanese Calligraphy. So maybe I don't really need another new hobby... it also helps with the drawing practice, after all.

I am vegetarian, introvert, and Aikidoka

www.pa-mar.net

System analysis, Computing in general, role playing games, words, Aikido. Actually I know a lot of people who are better than me at Aikido, but I still think it deserves to be mentioned here.

Also, see this: http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/the-elemental-balance-test/?fromCGI=1&var_water=10&var_wind=20&var_earth=16&var_fire=12

I probably look a little alien. Or alienated.

"A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished.

He who is grateful for the existence of music.

He who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology.

Two workmen playing, in a cafe in the South, a silent game of chess.

The potter, contemplating a color and a form.

The typographer who sets this page well though it may not please him.

A woman and a man, who read the last tercets of a certain canto.

He who strokes a sleeping animal.

He who justifies, or wishes to, a wrong done him.

He who is grateful for the existence of Stevenson.

He who prefers others to be right.

These people, unaware, are saving the world."

** -------- The just - J. L. Borges (Translated by Alastair Reid)

also: http://www.anobii.com/pamar

Mirrors.

Practicing Aikido.

... you like talking with aliens.

Kasparov - during his match with Deep Blue - stated that during one of the games he sensed, for the first time, something intelligent and unnervingly "alien" on the other side of the board.

Sometimes I suspect that this is I how come across. Contact me and prove me wrong, please...