The House of Mathom

This is a personal site, so some of the items here are password protected and no mails you can scrape from here would lead to working e-mails. On the other hand, should you really feel like e-mailing me, finding one should be a quick matter of searching.

Latest pictures from around the world (end of 2006 and 2007) in reverse chronological order

Year 2007 ^New Trip to Las Vegas and about with Karin and Stefan Las Vegas Hoover Dam Grand Canyon National Park Glen Dam and Lake Powell Zion National Park A visit to wine country and Berkeley with Karin and Stefan (June) Per and Johanna's Wedding (May) With Tamara and Lena in Hakone Gardens (April)
Pictures from Sweden Per, Johanna, Gabriel, Gustav and yours truly (November 2006)

The pictures from previous years are available below.

Books I really like:

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien	Selected Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco	Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny	Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene	Good Omens, N. Gaiman, T. Pratchett
King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild	Cryptonomicon, Neil Stephenson
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

Books I've read (starting sometime in 2004).
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Movies I've seen (starting sometime in 2006).
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Recipes

Soups and Stews	Salads	Other
Stifatho Harira Cold Beet Soup Fish Solyanka Vegetarian Harcho Tom Yam Kai Soup Tom Yum Goong Soup	Tomato and Chikpea Salad

Aniara blog — my book reading blog (my pretentious book reviews, a couple of years behind).

The amount of pictures on this site has been growing over the years, so from now on, I will attempt to categorize them, either by topic and chronologically. Password-protection level is listed in square brackets after the link.

Year 2006: pictures from Sweden, Italy, and England. Pictures from the trip to Italy (April) Pantheon, Rome St Peter's Cathedral, Rome Streets of Rome Forum Romanum, Rome Colliseum, Rome Villa Pitiana, Tuscany Duomo, Florence Florence Pictures from the trip to London, UK (April) Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey Tower of London Tower Bridge London Eye St Paul's Cathedral The British Museum London Streets, Rivers, and Old Bailey Buckingham Palace and Change of Guard	Year 2005: pictures from Sweden, California, and Japan. Best of our trip to Japan in November 2005 Nikko, Japan Neighbour's Kitten in our house (October-November) Jimmy, Boon, Natalie (October) David and Olga (October) Boston Visit (October) Matov Family (August) Hakone Gardens (August) Filoli Gardens combines two visits (August) Tall Ships in San Francisco (July) Anya and Sergey's visit to California Sweden in May San Francisco and Yosemite with Per and Johanna Alcatraz and more San Francisco Sunol Park (April)
Year 2004: pictures of Sweden, Greece, Northern California, and Annapolis, MD. Too many weddings and not enough bona fide vacation (but fun!). New Year 2005 in Boston Mom in B3CM 6 tshirt Matt, Bia, and Co Christmas in Stockholm Family, Örebro, Sten & co. Grand Canyon, Zion, etc. (November) Boston in October Greece and Natasha's Wedding Weekend in Santa Cruz Mountains More pictures of the apartment Mixed family pictures Anya's Wedding Stockholm & Friends Felix's Wedding	Year 2003: I have a vague uneasy feeling that some nice pictures from this year got misplaced somewhere (that of Newport, RI, for example). Iceland in January New York in Spring (Meistersingers) Midsummer in Sweden [friends] From Stockholm to Copenhagen [friends] Washington in October (Blaine's wedding)
Year 2002: It seems uneventful but is anything but. Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.	Year 2001: this year is remembered most by things I regret. Denmark with some MUME folks
Old pictures from several decades ago. Black and white

MUME is a MUD that I played for many years. I have abandoned it now, but here are some mementos of times past:

Some of my characters and their histories are listed here
Links to some other Powwow Links
MUME ad on Google
mume.net (log site currently managed by Mandor)

Articles of dubious interest — interesting literary excursions and exhertions:

The One and Three Quarter Towers
Predictions for Two Towers the Movie circa January 2002, MUME-style

My real persona no longer resides at Brown University, from which I have an ABD (PhD minus dissertation) in computer science. I am currently working for big bad bubbly internet company.