ZBB Census 2018

[Vilike]

Basics
Username: Vilike
Name: I'll link to papers by me one day and you'll know
Other nicknames: vilikemorgenthal, Mardikhouran
Birthplace: Alsace, France
Place of residence: Alsace, France
Any particular reason you live there now?: A lot of my ancestors were buried there
Occupation: Student, farmhand
Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): Family dog

Identity
Gender: Visible whenever I write in languages with grammatical gender
Sexuality: Yes
Nationality: French
Ethnicity: Catholic/Protestant mix
Religion: Rites are fascinating

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 1994
Height: 1.8m
Weight: Not enough
Shoe size: 42<>45
Blood type: Universal donor
Handedness: I am clumsy

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): Alsatian (not fluent)
Other languages:

• French (native level)
• English (there is nothing I cannot read)
• Russian (TRKI1 certification)
• German (theoretically B1 level)
• Latin (it's a stretch, but if I were to go at it again...)
• Finnish (maybe A1 one day)
• Uropi (already tried my hand at translating in it from French and English)
• Chinese, Arabaic, Kotava, Esperanto, Dothraki (notions)

Your conlangs: Old Greedian, Ɣu, Tüchte, a lot of sketches at various points of usability
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once:
Innu, Cherokee, Hindi, Herero, Ghomara Berber, Kebreni, Haitian Creole, etc.

Favourites
Favourite language: Finnish
Favourite colour: Blue
Favourite food: Fleischschnäcka, Griespflùtta
Favourite drink: Panaché
Favourite animal: Cats
Favourite book: The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Favourite movie: Castle in the Sky
Favourite video game: Heroes of Might and Magic IV

Extra Credit
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?: the internet

[hwhatting]

2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?: the internet

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[Karch]

Basics
Username: Karch
Name: I'd prefer not to say
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): opipik
Birthplace: Czech Republic
Place of residence: Czech Republic
Any particular reason you live there now? I was born there.
Occupation: None yet
Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): I have a cat.

Identity
Gender: Not sure.
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Relationship: None
Nationality: Czech
Ethnicity: same as nationality
Religion: Atheist.

Measurements
Age and date of birth: I can fuck but I can't vote yet.
Height: cca 188 cm
Weight: 80~85 kg, varies
Shoe size: I don't know
Blood type: dtto
Handedness: Left

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): Czech
Other languages: fluent in English, learning French
Your conlangs: A lot of.
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Tok Pisin

Favourites
Favourite language: I don't know.
Favourite colour: I don't know.
Favourite food: I like most food, but probably potato pancakes (bramboráky in Czech)? I don't know
Favourite drink: Water
Favourite animal: Cats, definitely.
Favourite sport: I don't do any sports.
Favourite book: I read a lot of books, but I'm really bad at deciding.
Favourite movie: any movie from the first two Star Wars trilogies
Favourite video game: maybe Crusader Kings 2?
Favourite non-video game: either Catan or Autobus (a kind of a card game played with bridge cards, you have 5 cards and a 10-card deck called "bus", you make piles from A to K and in order to win, you need to use up your "bus".)

Extra Credit
1) Link to the funniest picture you know of on the internet that isn't goatse or in the same spirit.
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?

[Vijay]

Damn, you are young!

[mèþru]

Never would have guessed you are around my age; thought you were older.

I made some changes to my entry.

[Linguoboy]

Basics
Username: Linguoboy
Name: Da
Other nicknames: Big Cat
Birthplace: Baldimer, Marilyn, USA
Place of residence: Chicawguh, Illinoy, USA
Any particular reason you live there now? Came up for college and stayed.
Occupation: Librarian.
Pets: ブーちゃん (a.k.a. "Boobers"), an eleven year-old American shorthair
Phone: Galaxy 6

Identity
Gender: Cis male
Sexuality: Supergay
Relationship: Widowed
Nationality: USAmerican
Ethnicity: Predominately German-American with some Austrian (Wachau), Irish (Cork), and English (Durham)
Religion: Atheist with Buddhist leanings

Measurements
Age and date of birth: A couple days after Alan Shearer
Height: 5' 11¾"/182 cm
Weight: 12 stone and 9 lbs/80 kg
Shoe size: 11 (US)
Blood type: A or O. [As a sexually active gay man, I haven't been allowed to give blood since my teens.]
Handedness: Lefty

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): English
Other languages (in rough order of ability): German, Spanish, Catalan, French, Irish, Dutch, Welsh, Chinese, Korean
Your conlangs: Nothing you'd have heard of
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Too many to mention

Favourites
Coffee: Dutch Bros. (Runners-up: Café Meinl, Metropolis)
Dessert: Crema catalana
Entree: Pizza (Neapolitan style)
Music: Post-punk
Sports team: St Louis Cardinals [MLB]

[Frislander]

Basics
Username: Frislander (not Frieslander as I've seen sometimes)
Name: John
Other Nickname: none that I know of
Birthplace: Hexham, Northumberland, UK
Place of Residence: Cambridge during term time North Yorkshire/Teeside otherwise
Any particular reason you live there now? Former for university, latter because it's where family currently lives
Occupation: student
Pets: Some fish in my parents' house
Phone: Galaxy S5 Neo

Identity
Gender: Cis male
Sexuality: Probably bi, but currently preferring men
Relationship: Single
Nationality: British/English (specifically Northern English/Northumbrian)
Ethnicity: White British
Religion: Liberal Anglican (Church of England)

Measurements
Age and date of birth: still young enough to make me reluctant to tell people
Height: About 6 foot
Weight: 12~13 stones or something idk
Shoe size: Maybe 8~9 (UK)
Blood type: No clue
Handedness: Right

Languages
Native Language: English
Other languages (no particular order, mostly equally disfluent): French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek
Your conlangs: Constantly changing, though Frislandian's always present in some form
Natlangs/Conlangs interested in but never learned: too many and varied

Favourites
Language: None
Colour: Blue (it compromises the majority of my clothes)
Food: None
Drink: Ale
Animal: Frog
Sport: Starcraft II
Book: Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home (despite not having finished it)
Film: Hard to choose, probs Spirited Away
Video Game: The Banner Saga (1 & 2, looking forward to 3 at the end of the month)
Non-Video Game: Carcassonne

[statelessnation]

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[Torco]

Basics
Username:
Name: Tomas
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Torco is an old nickname. back in school they used to call me Encarta.
Birthplace: Las Condes, Santiago
Place of residence: Providencia, Stgo
Any particular reason you live there now?: its always struck me as weird that people have *reasons* to live where they live: Americans and other first world peoples seem to move with the lightness one might change personal trainers, or get a new car: for me, the idea of moving away from Santiago, the city where almost everyone i care about lives, sounds like this HUGE, life-changing decision. Then again, we latin americans are known to be a lot less mobile in general.
Occupation: IT consultant
Pets. I used to have a dog, who now lives with my mum. he's a good boy.

Identity
Gender: man.
Sexuality: mostly straight.
Relationship: yeah, few years now
Nationality: Chilean, with spanish doble nacionalidad (though the spanish authorities think i'm called jorge, its a weird story and I should really straighten that out)
Ethnicity: I don't know, man, Chilean? White Chilean? is Chilean an ethnicity?
Religion: There are no gods or fairies or spirits or so on, if that's a religion, that's my religion... but its kinda not a religion.

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 86, ju 13
Height: 179cm
Weight: like 110k
Shoe size: 45 to 47, which in american is like... 11 ? 12?
Blood type: i'm told O+
Handedness: right handed.

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): Spanish
Other languages: English, bad at French, worse at Chinese.
Your conlangs: a bunch, all abandoned. I get the urge to build a new one every now and then.
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Swahili and Russian

Favourites
Favourite language: I think english, empirically.
Favourite colour: I don't know man... favourite for what.
Favourite food: huuuh...
Favourite drink: Beer or fruit juice
Favourite animal: humans
Favourite sport: huuuh...
Favourite book: Probably like El Aleph by Borges
Favourite movie: huuuh... Legends of the Fall, I guess ?
Favourite video game: I mean, right now im very into Steel Division Normandy 44
Favourite non-video game: huuuh... does playing the piano count?

Extra Credit
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?
what's an interesting place? But probably that bone church over in Kutna Hora.

[nebula wind phone]

Username:
Name: Leah
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any):
Birthplace: Princeton, NJ
Place of residence: Medford, MA
Any particular reason you live there now? The genderqueer folk dancing cabal
Occupation: Editor
Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): Two cats

Identity
Gender: Gender is fucking terrible; but honestly, female
Sexuality: Queer
Relationship: Polysaturated
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White Anglo Jew
Religion: First atheist and then Christian and now atheist again but angry about it

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 36, 11/09/1981
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 180
Shoe size: Absurd
Blood type: Don't know
Handedness: Right

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): English
Other languages: Spanish (competent), K'ichee' (formerly sorta-competent, now rusty)
Your conlangs: Kalathi, Nea
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once:

[Kuroda]

I'm basically an inactive conlanger and even more inactive member of this list, but maybe if I put my hat down at the (re)start here I'll somehow get all fired up and re-activated.

Basics
Username: Kuroda
Birthplace: Uncertain. (No, really.)
Place of residence: Cthulhu's Nursery, the Pacific Northwest (of N. America)
Any particular reason you live there now? Keep wandering back here; the climate is the least unpleasant I've found in the US.
Occupation: Crazy homeless person.
Pets: None... that I know of.

Identity
Gender Sex: Female. Gender is patriarchy.
Sexuality: Homosexual; lesbian. Not queer.
Relationship: None.
Nationality: Technically stateless. Been in the US since I came here for university; I consider it 'home' now, and maintain I'm legally a citizen.
Ethnicity: White enough to pass, mongrel enough to know it.
Religion: No.

Measurements
Age and date of birth: Pushing fifty. (And putting your d.o.b. out there on the internet is a terrible idea; I've been doxxed and real-lifed stalked a couple times -- save yourself the un-fun!)
Height: Tall? When I was younger and less-busted up, I was "freaky tall".
Weight: Chunky. Flabby and sagging. Bony here and there? No idea, quantitatively.
Shoe size: No idea.
Blood type: Don't remember.
Handedness: Left.

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): Chinese as a little kid, Russian and English as a bigger kid; had to go study Chinese and Russian as an adult because I'd forgotten them so thoroughly. Only fluent in English now, though (generously speaking).
Other languages: Classical/literary Chinese, Mongol, Manchu, Nanai; mostly forgotten Sanskrit, Tibetan, Lushootseed; some Nahuatl, Japanese, and the other Tungusic languages; and 'grad student bibliography' knowledge of French, German, Spanish, Russian, etc.
Your conlangs: For the last decade or two of the conlang racket I just did a-posteriori/bogolangs, namely various alt-history developments of Tungusic and Mongolic languages, a misplaced 17th century Min dialect, etc. Before that I did less 'grounded' projects, but always pretty naturalistic.
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Yoruba, Portuguese, Tocharian, Burmese, and the strangely exotic Swedish.

Favourites
Favourite language: I don't think I have a favorite. There are ones I especially enjoy or appreciate, but it's for all different kinds of reasons in each case (not just linguistic, but biographical, etc.) and not due to any systematic aesthetic.
Favourite colour: Soft, cool, dim, damp gray.
Favourite food: Toss-up between curry rice and khoresh-e fesenjaan?
Favourite drink: Black tea with star anise, or black coffee; unsweetened in either case.
Favourite animal: Raccoons. I'm living with them!
Favourite sport: Outliving my detractors' (and my own) expectations.
Favourite book: I don't believe in flattering books, or writers. They don't deserve my affection.
Favourite movie: Oh, same thing with them.
Favourite video game: I haven't played a video game in over a decade. So, Morrowind?
Favourite non-video game: I used to RPG some in Glorantha & Tekumel; that was good fun. But in terms of games in the traditional sense, I really don't care for them at all.

Extra Credit
1) Link to the funniest picture you know of on the internet that isn't goatse or in the same spirit. There is nothing funny on the internet.
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to? Homeland Security's off-the-books detention centers. Vividness may be contaminating their interest, I admit.

[Raphael]

Basics
Username: Raphael
Name: you can probably discover it with a bit of detective work
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): back when spinnwebe.com ran the AAA-1 Americaptions, I got three captions accepted as "street and rail", which I used because I was living in a house between a busy street and a rail line at the time
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Place of residence: a bit outside of Hamburg, Germany
Any particular reason you live there now? never had a good enough reason to move away
Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): None currently. As a kid, I had a dog for a while, and some gerbils (I think) for a shorter time. In my twenties, I often helped take care of the cat my mother had at the time.

Identity
(pedantic note: I think "identity", if you really think about it, covers pretty much everything in this census, and much more on top of that. I don't like the way "identity", these days, is used to refer to only the groups that a person belongs to. I think reducing a person's identity to what groups that person belongs to is a horribly reductionist view of a person's identity.)
Gender: male
Sexuality: straight
Relationship: single
Nationality: German
Ethnicity: German. Some Jewish ancestry
Religion: not very observant mainline protestant
Politics: I've had at least some problems with every political movement I've ever seen, and I don't like to call myself anything politically because I don't want to invite people to purity test me. But if you do a kind of vector addition of my different political views, you get something a bit left of center, and I usually vote for center-left parties and candidates. (On the Internet, I might sometimes come across as more right-wing than I am because a) I usually hang out in more or less left-wing places and b) I'm more likely to say something when I disagree with people than when I agree with them. But the main reason why I usually hang out in more or less left-wing places in the first place is that in right-wing places, I can't take The Stupid for long.)

Measurements
Age and date of birth: early 1982
Height: been a while since I measured
Weight: been a while since I measured, and since I turned from a skinny teenager into a somewhat fat middle aged guy, this is a depressing topic for me
Shoe size: 43/44
Blood type: O negative, so I'm theoretically the perfect blood donor
Handedness: right handed

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): German
Other languages: English (fluent); I can sometimes sort of decipher some written Dutch, Afrikaans, and to a lesser extent, Spanish
Your conlangs: none
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once:
I'm kind of fascinated with Korean, which I see as the language of the two most interesting places in the world - the most interesting-in-a-good-way place and the most interesting-in-a-bad-way place

Favourites
Favourite language: I think spoken Italian just sounds very cool
Favourite colour: not really any single one, but I kind of like the main primary colors more than the other colors
Favourite food: spaghetti bolognese (yes, I know that all actual Italians see that as a horrible foreign abomination)
Favourite drink: alcoholic: what the Brits call cider and the Americans call hard cider; non-alcoholic: really good apple juice (that is perhaps the only thing I'm snobbish about; I think the cheap stuff just doesn't taste nearly as good)
Favourite animal: probably cats - I know all the arguments against them, but they're just too cute
Favourite sport: as a spectator: it's fairly weird for me to say this, since I'm neither Irish nor from a small town, but I think Gaelic Football is a lot of fun to watch. As something I do myself, I have a soft spot for badminton, though it's been ages since I last played it. But the only sport I follow semi-regularly is soccer - I grew up in a family that only paid attention to sports when there was a World Cup or European Championship on, and it stuck.
Favourite book: too many to choose from
Favourite movie: too many to choose from
Favourite video game: right now it's a tie between Sim City 3000 and Alpha Centauri. Yes, I'm into older stuff
Favourite non-video game: I quite like air hockey, although I've only played it a few times. And the board game Labyrinth (Das Verrückte Labyrinth)

Extra Credit
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to? a wind tunnel, probably

[Torco]

Damn, you are young!

heartache to heartache he stands

[WeepingElf]

Basics
Username: WeepingElf
Name: Jörg Rhiemeier
Other nicknames: None, currently
Birthplace: Lemgo, Germany
Place of residence: Braunschweig, Germany
Any particular reason you live there now? Moved there to study computer science in university, found no reason to move away after that was over
Occupation: Library employee
Pets: none

Identity
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship: Single
Nationality: German
Ethnicity: Low German
Religion: Vaguely pantheist
Politics: Green left-liberal

Measurements
Age and date of birth: born 5 Dec 1969
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 78 kg
Shoe size: 41
Blood type: Unknown, but must be A+ or B+ inferred from the blood types of my parents
Handedness: I am a bit like a Motie - right hand more dextrous, but left hand stronger

Languages (including kevel of fluency!)
Native language(s): German
Other languages: English (fluent), Latin (rusty), can make sense of most Germanic and Romance languages in written form at least
Your conlangs: Old Albic (most developed), Roman Germanech (well-developed but obsolete), various others (in various stages from a few ideas to unfinished grammar sketches)
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Quite a few, chiefly Irish, Welsh, Proto-Indo-European, Georgian, Quenya, Sindarin

Favourites
Favourite language: Georgian
Favourite colour: purple
Favourite food: pizza margherita
Favourite drink: A&O (1:1 mix of apple juice and orange juice)
Favourite animal: don't know
Favourite sport: fully clothed swimming
Favourite book: Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Favourite movie: The Fabulous World of Amélie Poulain
Favourite video game: none, don't care about video games
Favourite non-video game: hard to decide, perhaps Würfelschlacht (a self-developed board game)
Favourite music genre: progressive rock

[mèþru]

Lemgo? So you know if Bielefeld really exists?

[WeepingElf]

Lemgo? So you know if Bielefeld really exists?

Yes. It exists. Have been there multiple times. That "Bielefeld conspiracy" joke was an invention of bored nerds and is long past its selling date now.

[Travis B.]

Basics
Username: Travis B.
Name: Travis B.
Other nicknames: I am referred to as Trav for short
Birthplace: Wauwatosa, WI
Place of residence: Oconomowoc, WI
Any particular reason you live there now? Moved there because I am living with my parents and they moved there.
Occupation: Programmer
Pets: None currently, have had rabbits, guinea pigs, and fish in the past

Identity
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship: Single
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: German and Polish
Religion: Atheist
Politics: Democratic socialist but with lingering anarchist sympathies, formerly an anarcho-communist

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 1984, would prefer not to be any more specific
Height: 5 ft 11 in
Weight: 236 lb
Shoe size: 12
Blood type: AB+
Handedness: Right-handed

Languages (including kevel of fluency!)
Native language(s): English (Inland North American English to be specific)
Other languages: German (basic), Japanese (rusty to the point of being nonexistent)
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: old Germanic languages, Semitic languages in general, Irish, Tibetan, Old Chinese, and so on

Favourites
Favourite language: Old Norse
Favourite colour: blue
Favourite food: tacos de cesina at the local Mexican place
Favourite drink: Sprecher orange dream soda
Favourite animal: cats (unfortunately everyone I have lived with has either not wanted or has been unable to have them)
Favourite sport: biking
Favourite book: none at the present, I really liked Snow Crash when I was younger
Favourite movie: the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Favourite video game: none, don't care about video games
Favourite non-video game: chess, simply because I don't play many other non-video games
Favourite music genre: I listen to a variety of genres, ranging from classic rock to metal to indie rock to progressive rock to rap-rock

[Gulliver]

Basics
Username: Gulliver
Name: Gulliver
Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): I usually just use my name...
Birthplace: The flat bit in on the East of England
Place of residence: The Wild Wild West Country
Any particular reason you live there now? It's where my house is. I have family here and can't really afford to live where I grew up in the London commuter belt.
Occupation: Teacher
Pets: 2 cats, 3 fish

Identity
Gender: I'm a mighty mighty man and I'm young and I'm in my prime I'm not old but everything begins to creak when you get past 30.
Sexuality: My fiancé is a man, so that one
Relationship: Engaged
Nationality: Britsh
Ethnicity: Pale and pink
Religion: Druid

Measurements
Age and date of birth: mid-eighties
Height: Statuesque
Weight: Rubenesque
Shoe size: 43-45 as they're not actually consistent
Blood type: Red and runny
Handedness: Right

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): English
Other languages: French (really good, but rusty - I can read without problems and watch French TV but I never use it), German (quite good but rusty), BSL (I can have pub chats but wouldn't be able to discuss anything too complex), Latin (working on it for my MA), Swedish (I can read the first chapter of Sent i November), Welsh (I can read a bit and pick bits up), Cornish (I started last week)
Your conlangs: Not for ages
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once: Old and Middle English

Favourites
Favourite language: I really do like English, actually. It's innovative and has an interesting and atypical history. I feel if it didn't have the status it did, people would nerd out about it more.
Favourite colour: I have no idea
Favourite food: Baked beans jacket potato. Can't go wrong.
Favourite drink: Probably water, or coffee or a good pinotage.
Favourite animal: Pussies
Favourite sport: Running? That's not a sport. I don't know.
Favourite book: Possibly The Night Circus or Jonathan Srange & Mr Norrell
Favourite movie: DOA: Dead or Alive. Not really.
Favourite video game: Fallout: New Vegas, modded to the nines.
Favourite non-video game: Mysterium is pretty good.

Extra Credit
1) Link to the funniest picture you know of on the internet that isn't goatse or in the same spirit. Not the funniest, but I like it.
2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to? I went to the set of the Crystal Maze when I was about 9. That was pretty cool.

[mèþru]

Basics
Nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): Colt47 is a name I used to use online years ago. It comes from a gunshot sound effect my brother found called "Colt45" which I thought sounded cool.
Birthplace: Rehovot, Israel
Place of residence: Lawrenceville, NJ
Pets (+5 extra credit if you provide photographic evidence): Family dog died when I was 7. (I occasionally feel depressed about it after all these years.)

Identity
Gender: Gender is stupid
Sexuality: Undefinably queer
Relationship: None
Nationality: Israeli-American
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi (although there's a family tradition in the male line that the last name is from Portugal)
Religion: Agnostic

Measurements
Age and date of birth: 2001-1-7, around 1:00 Jerusalem Time
Height: Been a while since I measured
Weight: Been a while since I measured
Shoe size: 8
Blood type: Don't know
Handedness: Mixed dominance

Languages (including level of fluency!)
Native language(s): Hebrew (not fluent, almost illiterate)
Other languages: English (fluent), French (learning), Latin (was learning and will resume at some point)
Your conlangs: I'll make an exhaustive list one day. Just search for my posts on both the old and new forums.
Natlangs or conlangs you have interest in but have never actually learned any of aside from maybe reading a paper on it once:
German (interest in learning after I feel competent in French and Classical Latin)

Favourites
Favourite language: Would be French if the writing was more phonemic.
Favourite colour: Like teal, but brighter
Favourite food: Can't decide between a ton of things
Favourite drink: Water
Favourite animal: Can't decide between dogs and koi
Favourite sport: Casual ultimate frisbee (generally not into sports)
Favourite book: Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
Favourite movie: Casablanca
Favourite video game: Dwarf Fortress (haven't really played it since I got it but just the idea made it a favorite before I even had it)
Favourite non-video game: Dungeons and Dragons

[Tropylium]

It's been a while since I've done this, but this may be a good point to give it a re-spin.

Name: J. P.
Nicknames: no
Birthplace: Helsinki region, Finland
Place of residence: "
Occupation: junior Uralicist
Pets: no

Gender: http://66.media.tumblr.com/d8a04b2ecdf9 ... xi_500.png
Sexuality: yes
Relationship: married
Nationality: Finnish
Ethnicity: "
Religion: no
Politics: in theory, a variety of green-(classical-)liberal; in practice, not fond any of the parties around and distrustful of most ideologies (probably including yours, if you have one; this covers even several variants of "green" and/or "liberal").

Date of birth: in the eighties
Height: medium-tall
Weight: BMI 25
Blood type: red?
Handedness: right

Native language: Finnish
Other languages: English (fluent), Swedish (once intermediate, much of it forgotten), German (intermediate written / beginner oral), Hungarian (beginner); a reading grasp of most other things Finnic (not Livonian) or modern Germanic (not Icelandic); rough basic knowledge of just about all other Uralic languages
Your conlangs: tend to get stuck around the phonology/morphophonology stage, and the few that have morphology/syntax sketched out tend to get stuck around the lexicon stage
Natlangs interested in: research interests aside? French, Georgian, Haida, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, Somali, Turkish

Favorite…
language: too many to choose
colour: favorite combos are cerulean/white and tangerine/black (will take a pass on blue/orange)
food: wild raspberries
drink: tea
animal: wolverine
sport: don't care
book: Lauri Viita: Betonimylläri
movie: let's say Le château de sable
video game: currently on a big HyperRogue kick
non-video game: probably some board game, but I get too few chances to try them out to develop a clear opinion
music genre: electronic, ambient, instrumental
band: Tangerine Dream

Funniest picture: after reviewing my funny pics tags / folders, I will have to go with this
Most interesting place I've been to: I do not really travel; I prefer local, average but little known locations over "interesting" ones.