Likes, dislikes and some opinions
This is of course just another uselesss page telling the world what I like
and dislikes.
Litterature
I'm a big fan of
Terry Pratchett's
discworld series, and other books by him. I also like lots of other
fantasy and science fiction books, but think most of fantasy is unoriginal
copies of Tolkien,
and belives that Terry Pratchett and Michael Ende's "Neverending Story"
(ok, the movies were awful, but you cannot blame the novel for that. No
story can be made foolproof against American film industry.)
are some of the few original fantasy novels written after Tolkien.
Other favourite authors are
Isaak Asimov and Umberto Eco.
Besides i read a lot of comics, mostly European, preferring French and
Italian authors like Benoit Socal (Canardo), Hugo Pratt (Corto Maltese) and of course
series like Spirou and Asterix. (Yeah, the best comics ever are continental European, and
most of them haven't even got an English name. Shame really.)
The only epic american comics i think deserves honorable
mentioning are Elfquest and
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman
(yes i know, Neil Gaiman is british).
Music
Not much to say. Favourite artist is Nick Cave. Most of the music I like is so
called "alternative" and "independent" music. Don't ask me what it is supposed
to be alternative to or independent of. I also belives that the Banana-album
by Velvet Underground is the best non-Nick Cave (a large and varied
form of music) album ever made.
When I find the time (or inspiration) I'm going to put som samples of the
Norwegian band Munch here,
because I think that is possibly the best Norwegian band ever.
Movies
...coming soon *
Computer stuff
Dislikes
- WWW pages telling me what browser I should use
- <blink>, <center>, <font> and other netscape specific html-extensions
- Basic
- Microsoft [fill inn product here]
- MacIntosh computers (Yikes, where is my command line??)
Likes
- UNIX (Ok, I use ms-windows. Reluctantly.)
- The joe editor
- Perl
- Pentiums (or is it "Pentia" in pluralis?)
- lynx - my favourite web browser, text and information, fast, no icons.
I am not looking forward to the day when all pages have imagemaps.
- IRC (dammit, that takes time).
Other
Dislikes
- Commercial television
- Getting up early in the morning
- Kristelig folkeparti (a Norwegian konservative christian, anti-alchol, anti-anything party)
- Ignorant psychologists/sociologists/anthropologists criticizing sociobiology/behavioral
ecology without knowing anything about it. (Educated criticism is of course welcome).
Likes
- The local beer (Hansa)
- Strong coffee
- Bergen in May
- The Skeptical Enquirer (a magazine)
- Trends in Evolution and Ecology (another magazine)
Anyway....this isn't really a list of what I like or dislikes, it's just a list
of what I liked or disliked the moment I made this list.
Last updateded 30. April 1995. Brage Førland,
Brage.Forland@zoo.uib.no.