About Me
By Kenneth Bernholm
These are random facts about me that may or may not interest you:
- I live in Sorø, Denmark with my wonderful wife and our terrific, adult son.
- I am very much a morning person and usually up around five and back in bed around nine.
- I prefer maintaining the things that I own rather than buying new things.
- I enjoy working and I enjoy not working.
- I practice mindfulness to be present in the moment.
- I never stress for anything or anybody.
- I use parts of stoicism to focus on the important elements of life.
- I do not practice any form of religion. I am an agnostic, not an atheist.
- I don't drive cars and I don't enjoy being passenger in a car. Traffic is scary and dangerous.
- I would like to save the planet but I can't eradicate greed from human nature.
I am diagnosed with depression and anxiety. These two very unpleasant sufferings are in my case triggered by stress which I avoid at all costs. But I'm happy as a clam (if clams are happy, I don't know) thanks to a good understanding of my limits and a set of effective psychological tools. My daily dose of 100mg Sertraline also makes a difference, I suppose :-)

Stanley Kubrick's wife once said that "Stanley would be happy with eight tape recorders and one pair of pants". I can totally relate to that. I love tape recorders and always have several in my possession. As for pants, one pair would certainly be sufficient if they didn't need washing.
Kubrick himself once said that he wanted a Fortune 32:16 computer for Christmas because it had the best chip architecture (MC68000) and the most advanced operating system (Unix). I totally agree, and I would love an m68k Unix machine for Christmas.
Here I am in the company of nine brilliant people but why? A bit of searching should provide you with the answer. Good luck.
- Carl Rogers (1902-1987), psychologist and co-founder of humanistic psychology.
- Joseph Weizenbaum (1923-2008), computer scientist and author of the Carl Rogers-inspired ELIZA.
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977), singer and musician and ... you know who Elvis is.
- Shirley Bassey (1937), singer and the voice of no less than three James Bond theme songs.
- Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and professor of mathematics.
- Graham Chapman (1941-1989), actor, comedian, and writer and member of Monty Python.
- Robby Krieger (1946), musician, composer, and guitar player for The Doors.
- David Bowie (1947-2016), singer, musician, composer, actor, painter, and the "chameleon of rock".
- John McTiernan (1951), filmmaker and director of Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October et al.
- Kenneth Bernholm (1970), programmer/writer.