My Interests

I have fox-like tendencies so I've tried a lot of different things.  Here's a list of things that I've done and stuck with for a good amount of time.

Active depending on the availability of time and resources.  (1/29/04)

• None 

Currently Inactive due to lack of time, interest, or resources:

• Ballroom Dancing - Swing, Salsa, Merengue, Waltz, Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz (But only a little 8-( )
• Board/Card Games
• Chess
• Cooking
• Creative Writing
• Drawing
• Fencing (foil and Sabre)
• Hiking
• Juggling
• Kite Flying
• Martial Arts - Aikido, Hapkido, Taekwando
• Movies (but only really good and really bad ones)
• Music - Violin, Harmonica, Mandolin, Irish Penny Whistle, Sioux Flute
• Netrek
• Ocean Kayaking
• Origami
• Photography
• Racquetball
• Reading
• Rock Climbing
• RPGs - 7th Sea, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Deadlands, Runequest, Shadowrun
• Softball
• Swimming
• Tree Climbing
• Volleyball
• World Folk Music
• World Folk Tales
• Writing Movie Reviews

Hobbies I want to acquire/try eventually.

• Backpacking
• Ballroom Dancing (Salsa, Lindy Hop)
• Bonsai
• Chinese Calligraphy
• Hang Gliding
• Gardening / Landscaping
• Kendo
• Living
• Mountain Climbing
• Oil Painting
• Storytelling
• White Water Kayaking,

Projects for after graduation

• Design and build a Haunted Room
• Design an intelligent computer game 
• Publish a Short Story
• Write a Novel
• Write and illustrate a Children's Book

Favorite Books (11/25/02):

• Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
• Autumn Lighting - Dave Lowry
• Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
• Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Five Equations that Changed the World - Michael Guillen
• Genius - James Gleick
• Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
• Just So Stories and The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
• Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
• Necronomicon - Neal Stephenson
• Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard P. Feynman
• The Journey to the West - Wu Ch'eng-en
• The Microbe Hunters - Paul de Kruif
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandré Dumas
• The Unfettered Mind- Takuan Soho
• Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
• Anything by Dr. Seuss
• Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Favorite Comics (11/25/02)

• Hellblazer - Garth Ennis
• Kingdom Come - Mark Waid, Alex Ross
• Lone Wolf and Cub - Kazuo Koike and Gozeki Kojima 
• Planetary - Warren Ellis
• Sandman - Neil Gaiman
• The Books of Magic - Neil Gaiman
• Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis
• Watchmen - Alan Moore

Favorite Movies: (1/29/04)

• A Christmas Carol (Either the George C. Scott or the Patrick Stewart version)
• Amélie
• Casablanca
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Field of Dreams
• Finding Nemo
• GATTACA
• Ikiru
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Lord of the Rings: Trilogy
• Monty Python and The Holy Grail
• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
• Pinnochio
• Rashoman
• Roman Holiday
• Singing in the Rain
• Smoke Signals
• Spirited Away
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Great Race
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Seven Samurai
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Third Man
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Wit

Favorite Music: (1/29/04)

• Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Some Favorite Television Bits: (1/29/04)

• Band of Brothers
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Babylon 5
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Cosmos
• Crocodile Hunter
• Farscape
• Ken Burns - The Civil War
• Law and Order
• Northern Exposure
• Sex and the City
• Space Above and Beyond
• Star Trek: TNG (but only certain episodes)
• The Day the Universe Changed
• The Twilight Zone (The Rod Serling version)