About Me and This Site

Who is Oddish1?

I am currently a computer science student and am looking forward to getting a job in the summer.

Stats

• pronouns: he/him
• age: 25
• location: washington state, USA

Favorites

These lists are by no means complete, and are really just compiled off the top of my head. Over time I will come back to refresh them, in the hopes of one day making complete lists. But for now this'll have to do. ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

🕮 Books 🕮

I am generally partial to science-fiction or fantasy books. But I do like a lot of other types of books.

• The Midnight Library (2020); Matt Haig
• Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024); Annie Javobsen
• The Hobbit (1937); JRR Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (1954-1955); JRR Tolkien

♫ Music ♫

I like basically any and all music that exists. So it's always a tough question to answer, "what is your favorite music".

• The entire Minecraft Soundtrack
• Pretty much all classical music
• Charlie XCX
• Troye Sivan
• Sabrina Carpenter
• Chapelle Roan
• Noah Kahan
• Billie Eilish
• The Mandalorian Soundtrack

📽 Movies 📽

Fun fact: My first job was working at a movie theater in high school. I really like movies!

• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• The Holdovers (2023)
• Dan in Real Life (2007)
• Treasure Planet (2002)

🎞 TV 🎞

I watch too much tv... but I also really enjoy it. I realize some of the shows on this list are objectively not very good, but we as individuals have only subjective opinions... so... this is what I like.

• The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
• Schitts Creek (2015-2020)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)
• Chernobyl (2019)
• Rick and Morty (2013-Present)

🖮 Video Games 🖮

I really enjoy video games, but don't play them all that much for some reason...? As a result I have a big backlog of games to play ◉_◉

• Minecraft (2011)
• Rimworld (2013)
• Crusader Kings 3 (2020)
• Stardew Valley (2016)

What is This Place?

This site acts as a place for me to put whatever I want on the internet! (ᵔᴥᵔ) I have always admired websites of old with simple html/css and maybe a slight amount of php or javascript to add light functionality. That is the web that I grew up on. Then social media came around and everyone stopped making websites. Fastforward to about a year ago, and I started to realize that some people still did make their own websites. I learned about the indie web or small web or whatever people want to call it. So I decided to completely forgo social media (except youtube for now) in favor of just posting things on my own site.

I have already been more active here than I really ever have been on my own social media accounts. I never liked the lack of creative expression most social media affords it's users. This will be a place for me to nerd out on things that I like, share whatever I want, and hopefully inspire some other people to do the same.

HTML and CSS are easy to learn and I really think that everybody can and should build their own personal websites from scratch ... maybe some day I will write my own indie web manifesto. >_>