Hello! I am Kirarin☆Snow ☃ (more info), also known as Kawaiirrhea:

kawaiirrhea (or kawaiirrhoea) [kʰəˌwaɪəˈɹiːə] n.
: an overwhelming feeling of being inundated with extreme cuteness, as often occurs in conjunction with experiencing the output of Hello! Project
(from Japanese kawaii ‘cute’ + Greek rhoia ‘flow’)

I am a master’s student in electrical engineering and computer science at some tech school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Besides J-pop, I have geeky interests in math, comp sci, physics, linguistics, philosophy, science fiction, literature, literary theory, music theory, biology, geography, gender studies, puzzles, and a bunch of other things, many of which have a weird way of ending up in my blog at seemingly random moments.

A list of favorites:

• Favorite novel: Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Favorite work of short fiction: “Border Guards” - Greg Egan
• Favorite movie: Mini Moni ja Movie: Okashi na Daibouken! and Tokkaekko [tie]
• Favorite album: Café Buono! - Buono! and Kirarin☆Land - Tsukishima Kirari starring Kusumi Koharu (Morning Musume.) [tie]
• Favorite magazine: Asimov’s Science Fiction
• Favorite video game: Super Mario World
• Favorite board game: Archipelago
• Favorite literary award: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
• Favorite writing system: Hangul
• Favorite musical scale: D major
• Favorite transcendental number: e
• Favorite two-dimensional manifold: Klein bottle
• Favorite programming language: Scheme