fjorab-teke picked:
1. daifugo - a card game, also called rich man, poor man or Asshole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Hin_Min 2. disgaea - A RPG/strategy video game with a chess like battle system that I used to enjoy playing when I had the chance
3. grok - Term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It means to understand. "Do you grok what I'm sayin man?"
4. j. michael straczynski - creator and writer of Babylon 5, one of the best sci-fi tv series out there.
5. nihon - Japan. I've always been interested in it and I was born on a Navy base there.
6. onigiri - a type of sushi. Very yummy
7. patricia wrede - She wrote a series of 4 books about dragons that I credit with first building my love of dragons.