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I have had phases of playing games like chess, backgammon, hearts, bridge, scrabble, blokus, Spanish train, dominoes and qwirkle. I play euchre with my family all the time. I play mah-jong with Mandrin speakers. I play a decent game of poker and I’m not bluffing.

I am a numismatist, a philatelist, and a collector of priceless treasures and worthless knickknacks. In brief, I am a hoarder.

I especially enjoyed latin dances: salsa, merengue and bachata, but I am really rusty now.

My buddy Adrian created a DNA club in which I extracted and modified DNA to make organisms glow. Adrian is a University of Waterloo graduate (with a perfect A+ average!) who contributes to MIT and to Wikipedia. He discovered a new actinobacteriophage virus (with 8 genes and 55,000 base pairs) that he named Discoball: