Hansjörg Neth > ecce hanzo?

Which Hans* are you looking for? The juvenile swot and much too serious wise-guy? The naïve student of Philosophy, Literature and Maths, who then became a Psychologist? The Cognitive Scientist who seems to suffer from a quasi-schizophrenic variety of interests into theoretical, applied and clinical issues? The experienced software reviewer and dilettant programmer of various languages? The card-carrying emacs user, LaTeX afficionado and Linux enthusiast, who nonetheless spends most of his days using MS products? The spoiled resident of sunny Freiburg, temporary resident of Princeton, or wind-blown doctoral student of Welsh sheeplands? The impeded cellist, who has been missing his a-cord for quite a few years? The visionary investor into bancrupt ebusinesses? The sweaty and sleepy early morning jogger? Or the neighbour, tutor, friend, brother, or son?

As I hope to have successfully eluded most attempts of categorization so far, I won't commit myself to any particular description — let's hope that the question mark of this page's title is permanent. Nonetheless, I'll disclose some aspects of myself throughout these pages and hope that your judgement will be kind and favourable.

*: In case you wonder about my name: My first name actually is "Hansjörg" — spelled with the Umlaut 'ö', which is pronounced like the 'o' in 'work', properly transcribed as 'oe', and can be typed on most keyboards by pressing Alt+148 (on the number key pad). But as this seems to twist the tongues of English speakers in peculiar directions and causes confusion in most electronic databases my friends in the US and UK usually just know me as "Hans" or — to avoid confusion with a multitude of proper Hansens — "hanz". You may use whichever you prefer as long as you don't confuse me with someone else. And "Neth" bears no relation to the Netherlands, as far as I'm aware.

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