Extracurriculars

What I like

What are my favorite …

• drinks? Coffee, coconut water, water.
• food? Pizza, socca, couscous, cheesecakes.
• books? David Garber’s Bullshit Jobs, Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, all the 87th precinct collection, Baba Kama’s tractate, La Boetie’s Discours de la Servitude Volontaire, Grothendieck’s Recoltes et Semailles.
• movies? Star Wars 3 to 6 for accessible ones, Memento and Rashomon for more complicated movies.
• bands? Berurier Noir, Pantera, Paradise Lost
• scientific proofs: Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for B.Sc. level, Doob’s submartingale results for M.Sc. level.
• things to do? classical music / metal listening, role-playing games, computer stuff, playing the guitar / piano.
• places? where my wife and kids are.
• TV shows? Community, X-files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

What I do not like

I’m way over 40, so the list is long. In a nutshell, I do not like things that prevent people’s critical thinking. This includes (but is not limited to) politicians, social networks, cult leaders, marketing, pseudo-science and possibly ananas on pizza. But I have no factual proof for the possible correlation between the lack of critical thinking and ananas on pizza.