User:TimDuncan

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Hi, pleased to meet you :-)

I live in Edinburgh, Scotland, and no, I don't play basketball! Perhaps you're looking for the other Tim Duncan :-)

My interests include:

• Crime writing, especially Donna Leon, Håkan Nesser, Karin Fossum, Karin Alvtegen, and Sjöwall and Wahlöö
• Japanese language and culture, Sanshin music
• The Big Bang Theory,Philosophy etc: Montaigne, Stoicism

See a gallery of my photos of authors and musicians over at Wikimedia Commons

A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire

Pages I'm interested in ...

• Scandanavian Crime Fiction: Henning Mankell, Sjöwall and Wahlöö, Håkan Nesser, Mari Jungstedt, Kerstin Ekman, Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund, Karin Alvtegen, Arnaldur Indriðason, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Karin Fossum, K O Dahl, Gunnar Staalesen, Leif Davidsen, Camilla Läckberg, Helene Tursten, Åke Edwardson, Åsa Larsson, Jo Nesbø, Johan Theorin, Inger Frimansson, Kjell Eriksson, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Gothenburg Book Fair, Swedish Crime Writers' Academy

• World Crime Fiction: Janwillem van de Wetering, A. C. Baantjer, Simone van der Vlugt, Andrea Camilleri, Gianrico Carofiglio, Fred Vargas, Colin Cotterill, Adrian Hyland, Jan Costin Wagner, Reggie Nadelson

• Translators: Laurie Thompson, Steven T. Murray, Tiina Nunnally

• UK Writers: Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre, Philip Kerr, The Mulgray Twins, Donna Leon, Denise Mina, Lin Anderson, Gillian Galbraith, Alex Gray, Maggie O'Farrell, Tracy Chevalier, Sophie Hannah, Andrew Taylor, Aly Monroe, David Hewson, Agnes Owens, Laura Marney, Kate Atkinson, Grace Monroe, Val McDermid‎, Ruth Rendell, Elena Forbes, Caro Ramsay, Karen Campbell, L C Tyler, Anne Zouroudi, Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Ruth Thomas, Edinburgh International Book Festival

• Creative Ideas: David Eagleman, SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, Oblique Strategies, Mindfulness, High dynamic range imaging

• Music: Little Feat, Robert Palmer, Peter Tosh, Sly and Robbie, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Keith Sterling, Robbie Lyn, John Martyn, Tina Turner, Lisa Hannigan, Taylor Swift, Joe Hisaishi, Ludovico Einaudi, Bill Laswell, Ambient music, Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate, Boubacar Traoré

• Programming etc: Constraint programming, ECLiPSe, Local consistency, Backjumping, Swarm intelligence, Harlequin, IDSIA, Lift

• Okinawa: Ryukyu Islands, Yaeyama Islands, Ryukyuan Music, Shima Uta, Nenes, Rimi Natsukawa, The Boom, Begin (band), Shoukichi Kina, Frank Chickens, Parsha Club, Tetsuhiro Daiku, Yasukatsu Oshima, Soul Flower Mononoke Summit, Kariyushi58

• Japan: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Airport, Huis Ten Bosch, Glover Garden, Ringer Hut‎, Iōjima, Goto Retto, Mount Unzen

• Other Locations: Lake Como, Lugano, Lofoten, Advocates' Library, Makars' Court, Corstorphine Hill, Merchiston, Elton Hall, Barry Island, Henry Duncan (1774–1846), Ruthwell Cross

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