Welcome to the megalomanical noder's homenode.
Oh gee, this is hard. Noding about other people and interesting things is easy, but how do I describe myself without boring the heck out of you.Still, I feel I have to share a bit of myself to be a part of this great community.
I think of myself as a Traveller, having lived in various countries in my short life already. Indeed, I think home is where I hang my hat. Born and raised in northern Germany (I still feel like a northern boy), I moved to the southern Netherlands at age 16, then served in the Luftwaffe in Goose Bay, Canada as bartender and waiter for nine months of mandatory military service, before returning to Germany in 1995 to enter Trier University to study Law.
But Law being as boring as they say it is at times, I realized that I needed to do something entirely different on the side to change perspectives, and so I also started studying Japanese. At first only as a hobby, something on the side, but soon taking on more and more courses. Had I known that the subject was this interesting from the start...
But anyway, I finished my universitary studies of Law, and before starting the 2-year stage period in the legal system, I decided to escape for a while, and applied for a 2-year post-graduate scholarship by the DAAD: Living, learning and working in Japan, my current home. The first year was a study period at Naganuma school to learn the language better, and now I am in the work period, as an Intern at the big private TV station TBS, working on program sales.
Although the schedule is rigid, I still have time to explore, but the longer trips have to wait until the end of the Internship period, next summer.
Vitals:
195 cm, 105 kg, 28 years.
Past and present residences:
Niebuell, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Wittmund, Niedersachsen, Germany
Bunde, The Netherlands
Happy Valley, Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
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Hobbies:
Go
Anime/Manga
Books
Eating
Role-Playing Games (Traveller, GURPS, D&D, Hackmaster, Paranoia)
Cycling (rather: cheap and easy movement)
Swimming (rather: Playing around in water)
Travelling
Japanese Culture
Reading
E2 (even though I am not sure wheather to list it as hobby or addiction)
Watching Movies with friends
Music (listening, not talent for making)
Memberships in Everything2:
Usergroup: Anime/Manga
Usergroup: Kneipe
Usergroup: Bakufu
Things to do:
- Short Term:
- Work on my Kanji reading and writing skills
- Climb Fuji-san
- Cycle/hitchhike around Shikoku and Kyushu
- Learn as much about Go as I can
- Stay in touch with my friends at home, and deepen the new friendships here
- Learn about the Entertainment and the Anime industries
- Long Term:
- Assume control of the world
- Find a non-boring job, using both my knowledge of Japan as well as my legal knowledge
- Stay free and mobile, mentally, spiritually and physically
- Not die, ever!
- See the fictions I read about become realities
- And finally: Become a Content Editor on E2
Underpriviledged nodes need your help!
Alan Parsons
Bifrost
Book Off
Classic Traveller
Conbini
Conan The Adventurer
Deep Core
Ghiblies
Go Seigen
Go Weekly
Grasscutter
Gundam Continuity
Infocom
King Conan
Kisei
Maximo
Maze: Mega Burst Space
Metal Gear
Metal Gear Solid
Perry Rhodan
Porco Rosso
Rave
Red Shadow
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Spinward Marches
Spirit of Wonder
Stan Sakai
The Cat Returns
TML
Tomoyasu Hotei
Traveller 20
Tsumego
Unbreakable
Vargr
Zaurus
.hack
My mentees:
dezignchic (since 2003.02.10)
dgrnx (since 03.02.16)