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exabgen

Confessionalist and critical Qaraitist

About Me


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My Interests

winter sports; rollerblading; music (e.g. cantorial singing); reading; photographing people, artifacts, and events; dancing (too bad I had no idea growing up that my Mom professionally teaches swing and pretty much every kind of the formal styles); social cooking; languages; developing "computational philology"; creating digital graphics; being a neo-Luddite; being sentimental; living life for and with people—friends, family, and associates

Music:

Examples of favorites in non-English languages/lyric-less: Israeli — Rita Kleinstein, Infected Mushroom, Sarit Hadad, Orbital; German — Blümchen/Jasmin Wagner

Movies:

Hackers — {{The connection is made… oooh. oooh. oooh. -wee ooh wee ooh-}}; Pi; Requiem for a Dream; Shiri; Swingers; Aliens 3

Television:

I try not to miss an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! when I have a television, although hadn't seen it in German; Iron Chef is the best

Books:

Rudy Rucker and Neal Stephenson (e.g. Snow Crash) cyberpunk thriller novels; S.Y. Agnon novels (e.g. Shira, Only Yesterday); I'm a Classical Ricoeurian at heart; L. Wittgenstein; Wright is Right!; David Hartman