Waldheri
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Waldheri Donarszoon
- Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL
- Last Login: 12/21/2009
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Details
- Status: Single
- Here for: Friends
- Hometown: Eindhoven
- Orientation: Straight
- Height: 6' 0"
- Zodiac Sign: Aries
- Smoke / Drink: No / No
- Education: In college
- Occupation: Translator
Interests
General
I study biomedical engineering, so my main general interest is science - lots of it, please: continuum mechanics, mathematics, signal processing, bioinformatics are sciences that I am actively involved in. I have general interests for almost all other sciences though.
I'm also interested in philosophy, specifically in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. One of my favourite philosophers is David Hume, the British empiricist that woke us up to the reality of our inability to perceive causal relations and introduced a healthy skepticism to philosophy in general.
Departing from my more knowledge-oriented interests, I have an interest in mythology and religion (which is just contemporary mythology anyway). I love reading about the pantheons and myths of lost civilisations (the greek and norse pantheons specifically).
Music
I listen almost exclusively to metal, the exceptions being folk-, classical-, ambient music and rock oldies I am a great fan of folk, doom and progressive metal. Have a look at my last.fm profile. Some of my favourite bands are: (The) Devin Townsend (Band), Ayreon, Amon Amarth, Lumsk, Ancient Rites, Heidevolk, Wintersun, Ahab, Doom:VS and Isole
Movies
I like all kinds of film, excepting american comedy, which usually sucks. Some of my favourite films are Les Fabuleux Destin d'Ámelie Poulain, Memento, The Matrix, American Beauty, Braveheart, Ghost In The Shell, The Dark Knight, The Shawshank Redemption, Gattaca, Jacob's Ladder and Starship Troopers.
Television
I hate television - too many commercials. There are some entertaining shows though, which include Dexter, True Blood and House.
Books
It's only more recently that I've taken up reading more seriously again. I love science fiction and fantasy but I also try to read some historical literature. My favourite authors are Arthur C. Clarke, Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Watts.
......>My Library at LibraryThing..>
Blurbs
About me:
I'm 2.1 deciyears old, I live in the Netherlands and I'm a(n average) student of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Anything more about me you can learn in more interactive ways.
How I spend my time
I listen to music whenever possible and I try reading in books at least an hour per day (something I wish to push to two). Two nights a week I go ballroom dancing, something I have been doing for the last 3,5 years now. One day a week I work as a translator for a company implementing an american software system for hospitals in the Netherlands and at saturdays I work as a checkout chick at the local supermarket (although I'm giving up that job pretty soon). I spend a decent amount of time on the internet; the computer has been a hobby of mine since my youth. Any spare time is spent on films.
Music
Like you can read in the section on the left, I can be considered a "metalhead". I am especially fond of folk&pagan metal (of which some good examples are linked in the second row of my Friend Space) and more recently doom metal (of which some good examples are linked in the third row of my Friend Space). You can find some statistics on my listening habits in my last.fm profile (don't mind the old nickname). Below you can find a Wordle generated tag cloud with my last three months most played artists.
Films
I have seen a great many films in my life, so it is hard to say which I like best, even though I provided you with a list of films that are very good in the Movies section on the left. Have a look at my more complete Flixster profile and my less complete and my less complete but more recent Criticker lists.
Books
I try to read at least one hour a day and I hope I will be able to make that two hours a day on a regular basis. I am an escapist when reading fiction: science fiction and fantasy novels are the ones for me. Writers belonging to those genres that I enjoy can be found on the left. I also try to read some "classics" like Nineteen Eighty-Four, Paradise Lost and The Iliad. You can find a complete list of my recently read books on my LibraryThing catalog.I also read some non-fiction; mainly books to do with my study and a lost book on philosophy.
Adding me
Feel free to contact me. I am always up for a discussion of topics less superficial than what you will find in the last pages of your average newspaper. Please leave me a message if you add me, so I can separate you from those brainless ingrates who feel the need to validate their empty existence through the social pretense of having many friends.