Gaddag's Unofficial Page

Fast facts

• At the movies I like to see:anything by the Coen brothers; especially Big Lebowski
• Last movie seen:Elementarteilchen (2006), dir. by Oskar Roehler. Based on the novel by Michel Houellebecq. It's all over now baby blue... And of course also Intacto (2001), dir. by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. A masterpiece and a complement to N. Taleb´s essays on chance
• Music I listen to:fm4.orf.at, www.wave.cz, immortal Frank Zappa and other sounds
• Best album right now:Mistr a Markétka by M. Bulgakov, complete book in mp3 (in Czech) (on two CDs)
• Favorite author:Carl Hiaasen, Tim Powers, Barry Hughart, Michal Ajvaz, Joe R. Lansdale
• Last book read:The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, and Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, both by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Fantastic!
• Best game right now:Plž scvrk hrb, chrt vchrst hlt v krk, mlž pln skvrn zblb, vlk zhlt prst, prsk, mrk, smrk, krk, frk, srk, trs, prd, cvrk smršť v srst, zvlh, ztvrd, zmrz v drn. Mrsk srp skrz prst, prst mrsk v krb.
• I'm passionate about:fiction, SF/F/H [see intermittently updated LINKS; let me know if you find a dead link], reading, music, movies, language, art, life, net, boomerangs, nonsens(e) and the eternal feminine
• I wish I could:learn to juggle 3-5 balls (sounds silly, but it can open your cosmic consciousness)
• Favorite travel destination:bookshops!
• On my vacation I..:roam The Library of Babel, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan and/or Ryhope wood...
• If I won 1 million dollars, I would:pay my debts
• Fashion I rather not see again:piercing and branding
• My worst purchase ever:Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.
• Food I like:dinosaur (= chicken)
• I don't like:insects, rodents, reptiles, headaches, and Sundays
• Software I use:(Opera Mini hifi assembler cs 4.2.14912, Opera Mini hifi viprdome cz 3.1.10423, RadioBee 1.51, UC Browser 7.4) Android 2.3, Ibis ePub online reader. W xp
• Hardware I use:Nokia 6234 [Vodafone] showing considerable entropic wear, an Acer notebook, HTC Wildfire S
• I discovered My Opera from:Yellow(ed) Pages of a dogeared copy of the unspeakable Necronomicon

Why I choose the Opera browser

It's simply the best.