The Nils W FAQ Last updated: 1999-02-27 This page was getting woefully out of date, so I have corrected the worst errors. Q. Why is this page in english when you are swedish? A. Because I'm a pretentious fool. Besides, very few people out there understand swedish. Q. What's with the hair. Didn't you use to have a 7mm stubble on your head? A. I did, and now I'm wearing my hair longer, and I usually braid it too. The facial hair is back to early 17th century style. Q. The answers here project an attitude, are you like that? A. No, not really. I'm a very timid person. It's easy to act arrogant in text though. Q. So, wanna give some hard facts? A. Sure (like anybody cares!) Name - Nils Erik Weinander Date of birth - August 23, 1964 (year of the dragon) Height - 180 cm Weight - 64 kg Occupation - Software designer & manager Location - Stockholm, Sweden Myers-Briggs personality type - INTP Q. Is it true that you are some kind of management person nowadays? A. In a way yes. I am managing director of Carasoft AB. But don't hold that against me. I still consider myself mainly a programmer. Q. I heard someone call your apartment Hotel Claustrophobia. Why is that? A. I don't live there any more you know. But I did have a place with a room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a fireplace, windows in two directions, lots of electronics and 900+ books in ~20 sq.m. And it's OK, I have called the home of my friend who made the name up Casa de Chaos. Q. Can I see a picture of you? A. Sure, you asked for it. This one is fairly accurate. My hair is longer and I have new glasses (smaller, more 19th c intellectual) but otherwise it's fine. This one tells very little about what I look like, but it's a fun picture. This one is only a year and a half old... Q. Why are you such a pessimist? A. I have more than a passing familiarity with failure and rejection - being a loser is in itself reason enough for pessimism, but I don't really consider myself to be a pessimist. In the truly excellent essay Paideia, Georg Henrik von Wright writes about tragic optimism. I like that expression and it comes pretty close to my own outlook. Since von Wright is in my opinion probably the wisest person alive, I think I could have chosen worse. This by the way, is the closest thing to hero worship you are likely to see from me. Q. You pass yourself off as one of the perpetual bachelors, who never get the girl. Is that so? A. Normally yes, most women don't even notice my existence, much less the fact that I am a man. To prove the dangers of generalizations though, I actually live with my girlfriend now. Back! Send email to nilsw@ibm.net