A while ago a was asked by Kilian to share seven things about me. The hype of seven things is cooling down a bit, so I will not link to seven other people to share their things. I hope it if you don’t mind me showing off some personal details.

• I’ve been a lifeguard for about eight years. But unlike the images along the article at Wikipedia show, we train in a covered swimming pool since it is not that sunny in the Netherlands. Currently, I train a bunch of children to become a lifeguard. A few years ago I launched a Dutch website to promote the sport, but I haven’t updated it in a long while.
• Last year I finished my high school. I now study Artificial Intelligence at Groningen University, and I really like it so far. Since AI is a broad subject, I don’t really know what I’m going to do later. It can be robotics, but also something more close to the subject of ‘Internet’.
• I like watching movies, and don’t really follow series. Since it became more of a habit to watch several movies a week, I recently started collecting and rating them on this webpage. An actor I really like is Edward Norton. He has portrayed several characters extremely well, so it is a pity he hasn’t won an Oscar yet.
• I have a weird habit to say a word or sentence for a few weeks after I heard it or made it up. Sometimes it comes from a movie, sometimes from someone else. It is really annoying for people in my surroundings (sorry!). Problem is that it keeps going on and on with a lot of different sentences over the years.
• The Rubik’s cube is my slave. I can solve it, but not extremely fast: in about 40-45 seconds on average. Unlike most people think, it is quite easy to solve. The hardest part is solving it fast. I very recently started this list of Rubik’s cube appearances in feature movies to combine cubing and watching movies.
• Liquids I drink often are—in no particular order—coffee, beer, water, milk and Taksi Tropical Fruit. The latter is only available in the Netherlands. It is a not really a fruit juice, but it comes close.
• From time to time I like to imagine the faith of people I meet on the street or in the train (a bit like in the movie Lola Rennt). Most of the times it is a nice way to make jokes of people anonymously.

So that’s seven things. If you have questions or comments, I hope the form below does not shy you away.