Self-Profile

What I'm interested in, who I am, etcetera etcetera.

I am not an artist. Do not refer to me as such.

The site's name comes from an abbreviation of two leucine-isoleucine dipeptides forming my nickname. For what its worth, the site's name is supposed to be unrecallable. I am a scholar of biology, and I do wonder how much of the site will eventually reflect that. Clearly not much right now.

Vladimir Voloshko (pictured) was the mayor of Pripyat. This one-of-a-kind coloured portrait of the man was made by a dear friend.

Books

Nonfiction:
The Penguin History of Latin America (Williamson)
Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 (Barnstone)
Knowing Your Horse: A Guide to Equine Learning, Training and Behaviour (Lethbridge)
A History of the Vietnamese (Taylor)
Witness to the German Revolution (Serge)
Joh: The Life and Political Adventures of Sir Johannes Bjelke Petersen (Lunn)
American Civilization: An Introduction (Mauk, Tonnessen, Oakland)
Deng Xiaoping's Long War: The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam 1979-1991 (Zhang)

Fiction: Faust: A Tragedy (Goethe)
The Gaucho Martin Fierro (Hernandez)
The Infinite and the Divine (Rath)
Final Orbit (Hadfield)

Other: The Professional Chef, 10th Edition
Life of Charlemagne (Einhard)

Papers and Lectures

Robert Frost: A State so Oddly Constituted? The Political Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Union

Music

Ma Vlast (Smetana)
The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
Symphony No. 10in E Minor Op. 93 (Shostakovich)
Crown Imperial (Walton)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Scythian Suite, Op. 20 (Prokofiev)
Waltz from Masquerade (Khachaturian)
El amor brujo (de Falla)
Andante (Kasputin)
Voyager (Harvey)
Etude (Tohoku Youth Orchestra)

TV and Series

For All Mankind
Star City
Foundation
Severance
The Royal Family/Passing the Reins
Wandering Earth

Other Media

Lateral with Tom Scott/Tom Scott: England
BobbyBrocolli
Jet Lag: The Game
Project Aces IPs
Paradox Interactive IPs