June 14, 2022
Here is a list of my likes and dislikes to give a rough idea about me. I’m also on Goodreads.
Like
… books, thinking, ice cream, language learning, good food in small portions, yarn, stationary, gadgets, Java, Istanbul, libraries, rainy days, Zaytuna College, puns, compilers, logic and reasoning, Feynman books, airports, Kung Fu, knowledge based approaches to life, command line programming, Wodehouse, Ramadan (the month), Stargate, Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens songs (Peace Train, Miles from Nowhere, On the Road to Find Out), tea, Dr. Who, watermelons, Bortolotti, tulips, LaTeX, Discworld, Ken Robinson talks, JavaScript, board games (Dixit, Bohnanza), essays by William Zinsser, tiny houses, duolingo*, forvo, replit, …
*Autocorrect tries to correct duolingo to dueling. I wouldn’t like dueling.
Dislike
… self-pity, loudness, smoking, disturbing videos and books, to cry when not alone, greed, miserliness, indecisiveness, alarm clocks, opera, sloppy thinking, assumptions based approaches to life, television, bubble gum noise (major misophonia trigger), arrogance, …