Personal stuff

If you have a home page, it seems to be traditional to devote some of it to saying something about who you are, what you like, etc ... so here you are.

I like watching films a lot. I like reading, but I don't read nearly as many "real books" (not computer science-related) as I would like. I also like going to restaurants. I would like to say I am interested in photography, but I don't really know very much about it, other than knowing how to press the right button. You can see a few of my photos:

In a nutshell:

news: as far as newspapers are concerned, the Guardian; on TV, the BBC.
film directors: Krzystof Kieslowski, Steven Soderbergh, Akira Kurosawa.
music: I like jazz a lot. Non-jazz: varies, but Soul Coughing is a personal favourite. I am getting more interested in downtempo and electronica-type music recently (Amon Tobin, Autechre, etc).
languages: I wish I spoke French better. But my favourite language is Polish, I would like the opportunity to speak it more often! Mail me if you're at Cornell and you speak Polish!
cuisine: Polish, of course ... bo to najlepsze!
beer: Saranac is one of the best American beers available around here, in my opinion.

According to Google, this is the only page on the web which contains the phrases "soul coughing", "kurosawa", and "saranac". This is the authoritative source!