User:TimDuncan



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 :-)

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

A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

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, Leif G. W. Persson, Camilla Läckberg, Helene Tursten, Anne Holt, Åke Edwardson, Åsa Larsson, Jo Nesbø, Johan Theorin, Inger Frimansson, Kjell Eriksson, Antti Tuomainen, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Sara Blædel, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Gothenburg Book Fair, Swedish Crime Writers' Academy


 * Francophone Crime Fiction: Fred Vargas, Roxanne Bouchard, Philippe Georget, David Foenkinos


 * Italian Crime Fiction: Andrea Camilleri, Gianrico Carofiglio, Carlo Lucarelli, Marco Vichi, Maurizio de Giovanni, Massimo Carlotto


 * World Crime Fiction: Janwillem van de Wetering, A. C. Baantjer, Simone van der Vlugt, Donna Leon,   Colin Cotterill, Adrian Hyland, Jan Costin Wagner, Reggie Nadelson, Keigo Higashino, Shamini Flint, Hiromi Kawakami, Nicolas Freeling, Louise Penny,  Peter Carey,  Sayaka Murata


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


 * UK Writers: Alexander McCall Smith, H. R. F. Keating, Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre, Philip Kerr, The Mulgray Twins, Denise Mina, Lin Anderson, Craig Russell, Gillian Galbraith, Alex Gray, Maggie O'Farrell, Sara Sheridan, Tracy Chevalier, Sophie Hannah, Andrew Taylor, Aly Monroe, David Hewson, Agnes Owens, Laura Marney, Kate Atkinson, Val McDermid‎, Ruth Rendell, Elena Forbes, Caro Ramsay, Karen Campbell, L C Tyler, Anne Zouroudi, Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Mick Herron, Ben Aaronovitch, Ruth Thomas, Sophie Hannah, M. C. Beaton, Abir Mukherjee, Vaseem Khan, Gail Honeyman, Edinburgh International Book Festival, The Expert at the Card Table


 * TV series: The Killing, The Bridge, Marcella, Elementary, Shetland, Broadchurch, Orphan Black, Maigret, Dead Beautiful/Les Dames, Commissario Brunetti, Dicte, Outlander, Beauty and the Baker, Forgotten Girls, Engrenages, Tony's Revenge/Les Beaux Mecs, Professor T., Game of Thrones, Non uccidere, Temple, Only Murders in the Building, Badehotellet, Ófærð, Le Mystère du lac, Normal People, A Suitable Boy, Mare of Easttown, When the Dust Settles, Fresh Meat, Astrid et Raphaëlle, Rocco_Schiavone, Commissario Ricciardi, The Good Wife, Presumed Guilty, Shōgun (2024 miniseries)


 * Creative Ideas: David Eagleman, SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, Rebecca Solnit, Camille Claudel, Oblique Strategies, Mindfulness, High dynamic range imaging, Robert Greene, ACT, 42 (school), Harmonograph, Nissan S-Cargo, Derek Parfit, Blissymbols, Generative music, Algorithmic composition, Toki Pona, Biodanza, Ellen Langer, Storm glass


 * Music: Little Feat, Robert Palmer, Geraint Watkins, Ana Moura, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Peter Tosh, Sly and Robbie, Jackie Mittoo, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Keith Sterling, Robbie Lyn, Koffee, Adrian Sherwood (dub), John Martyn, Tina Turner, Nile Rodgers, Regina Spektor, Sara Bareilles, Joe Hisaishi, Ludovico Einaudi, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Ólafur Arnalds, Sigur Rós, Lullatone, Lambchop, Bill Laswell, Silver Apples, Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate, Boubacar Traoré, Quantic, Momo Wandel Soumah, Dobet Gnahoré, Abner Jay, Bryn Merrick, Joe Brown, Ukulele Ike, Po' Girl, Mop Mop, Club des Belugas, Biréli Lagrène, Zaz, Ambient music, Dan Friel, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Old Sock, Tulsa Sound, Minoru Mukaiya, Vanessa Wagner, FujiGen Gakki guitars, Ukulele, Richter-tuned harmonica


 * Electronica: Moog Music, Doug Curtis, Teenage Engineering OP-1


 * Programming etc: Constraint programming, ECLiPSe, Local consistency, Backjumping, Swarm intelligence, Harlequin, IDSIA, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Palantir Technologies, Psi-Theory, DeepMind


 * 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, 花〜すべての人の心に花を〜


 * Japan: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Airport, Huis Ten Bosch, Glover Garden, Ringer Hut‎, Iōjima, Goto Retto, Mount Unzen, Sanma, Beat Takeshi, Makuuchi


 * Other People/Places: Lake Como, Lugano, Annecy, Lofoten, Mount Beuvray, Advocates' Library, Makars' Court, Corstorphine Hill, Cramond, Merchiston, Elton Hall, Fotheringhay, Barry Island, Henry Duncan (1774–1846), Ruthwell Cross, Avebury, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Guy Scott, The Burryman, Preseli Hills, Lavertezzo, Electric Brae, Baarle-Hertog, Jämtland, Caminito del Rey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Porquerolles, St Nicholas' Church, Worth, Hawthornden Castle, Bletchley Park, Mary Rose Young, Livraria Lello, Ticinese dialect

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