Terje Runde

life is a bitch, then you die

About Terje

Terje Runde is a rather cute Computer Science student living just a 5 min walk from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is born in the late eighties (1989 to be accurate) and have lived most of his life in Trondheim, Norway.

Contact information

If you notice any problems with this site (or lack of updates), or for some other reason want to come in touch with me, please feel free to drop some lines in one of the following ways. I start with the most preferable.

  • E-mail: terje “dot” runde “at” gmail “dot” com (of course, you know what to do with the at’s and dot’s)
  • Internet Relay Chat: MrMinit @ EFnet (and sometimes at Freenode as well)
  • MSN: The same address as e-mail
  • Skype: mistminit

Tastes and preferences

Interests

Computers (especially macs), GNU/Linux, open-source, science, mathematics, whisky tasting (preferably scotch single malt), snooker, Formula 1, golf, NFL

Music

Of course, there are many artists within many genres I like, so for a complete survey have a look at my Last.fm-profile. For simplicity, here are some of them:

Vågsbygd Handy, Absurd Oppspinn, Sheepy, Bad Spit, Fremmed Rase, Gode Ord Dør Sist, Kompani 69, Klovner i Kamp, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madrugada, Gartnerlosjen, Joachim Nielsen, RSP, Marabakka, Bio-Circuits, The Offspring, Sørsia Gerilja, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, Monzy, MC Frontalot, John Lee Hooker

Enjoyable TV series

Prison Break, Lost, Heroes, Top Gear and Flight of the Conchords

Goals

Annual goals

  • Read 50 books
  • Watch at least 50 movies
  • Ride 500 kilometers on my bike

Short-term goals

  • Visit the United States of America (again)
  • Be good at programming
  • Get a respectable whisky collection
  • Accomplish a century break in snooker

Active long-term goals

  • Buy an Aston Martin for the existing car park
  • Expand my parents home into a capitalistic mansion with a squash court, library and wine cellar
  • Start a company -> open investor relations with a major tech company
  • Get a master’s degree in Computer Science
  • Buy luxury properties in San Franscisco (Tiburon?), Edinburgh, Aspen, Switzerland and France (note the and)
  • Play basket with Barack Obama
  • Entitle myself as investor
  • Open a snooker academy in Trondheim