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My Interests, Part 1
I saw someone do this and thought it would be interesting. (For me if not for you.) The rest will come tomorrow some time.
24-hour time: I'm a big fan of 24-hour time. It isn't inherently harder than 12-hour, and it saves confusion. All my devices that can be are set to use it. The wall clock in my workroom and my watch are both (analog) 24-hour.
aikido: I took it for a few months. I really liked it, but fell out. I liked the boken practice best, so I think I'm best of sticking to kendo for now.
anarcho-capitalism: It isn't like I think it would work, but I love the idea. I liberally mined it for comedic value in my defunct webcomic.
ari fleischer jokes: I always thought he was pretty funny. Particularly with a monkey.
axes of evil: That is the plural of 'axis', not 'axe'.
biking: I don't bike enough. I'm too lazy. But I do enjoy it, when I force myself to do it.
biomedical informatics: It pays the bills.
boeing surplus: Boeing Surplus is, as you might expect, the surplus outlet for Boeing. One of the best things about living in Seattle: cheap, surplus blocks of aluminum.
cargo cults: I first read about them in Niven and Barnes' Dream Park. A great concept, and not inapplicable to modern life. I would say most people treat their computers, for instance, in a very similar fashion.
cartography: I like maps. I have lots as wall decorations, including two nice old classroom maps on the fabric backing with the wood dowels to roll up around. I've also been involved with a couple of simple GIS projects.
certifications: I just like having certifications. I don't have enough.
coding in freefall: (Unique.) I got to do this on the vomit comet. The hardest part was not pushing myself away by typing.
collapse of civilization: I've always had an unnatural obsession with this. I blame my physicist/hippie/survivalist father. We used to play 'what if' around nuclear war all the time.
daria: The one media fandom I'm unhealthily obsessed with.
dystopias: A good word. And a fun concept.
emacs: Best editor ever.
escape key: The filk group I'm the guitarist in. You should buy our CD.
eschatons: In The Physics of Immortality, Frank Tipler asserted that we could all be resurrected as simulations in a giant computer, powered by the final collapse of the universe, to live forever as the last nanosecond of objective time stretched into infinity. Frederick Pohl, in his rather depressing Siege of Eternity series, gave it the label of the eschaton. A really great word for a very fun, if a bit silly, concept.
24-hour time: I'm a big fan of 24-hour time. It isn't inherently harder than 12-hour, and it saves confusion. All my devices that can be are set to use it. The wall clock in my workroom and my watch are both (analog) 24-hour.
aikido: I took it for a few months. I really liked it, but fell out. I liked the boken practice best, so I think I'm best of sticking to kendo for now.
anarcho-capitalism: It isn't like I think it would work, but I love the idea. I liberally mined it for comedic value in my defunct webcomic.
ari fleischer jokes: I always thought he was pretty funny. Particularly with a monkey.
axes of evil: That is the plural of 'axis', not 'axe'.
biking: I don't bike enough. I'm too lazy. But I do enjoy it, when I force myself to do it.
biomedical informatics: It pays the bills.
boeing surplus: Boeing Surplus is, as you might expect, the surplus outlet for Boeing. One of the best things about living in Seattle: cheap, surplus blocks of aluminum.
cargo cults: I first read about them in Niven and Barnes' Dream Park. A great concept, and not inapplicable to modern life. I would say most people treat their computers, for instance, in a very similar fashion.
cartography: I like maps. I have lots as wall decorations, including two nice old classroom maps on the fabric backing with the wood dowels to roll up around. I've also been involved with a couple of simple GIS projects.
certifications: I just like having certifications. I don't have enough.
coding in freefall: (Unique.) I got to do this on the vomit comet. The hardest part was not pushing myself away by typing.
collapse of civilization: I've always had an unnatural obsession with this. I blame my physicist/hippie/survivalist father. We used to play 'what if' around nuclear war all the time.
daria: The one media fandom I'm unhealthily obsessed with.
dystopias: A good word. And a fun concept.
emacs: Best editor ever.
escape key: The filk group I'm the guitarist in. You should buy our CD.
eschatons: In The Physics of Immortality, Frank Tipler asserted that we could all be resurrected as simulations in a giant computer, powered by the final collapse of the universe, to live forever as the last nanosecond of objective time stretched into infinity. Frederick Pohl, in his rather depressing Siege of Eternity series, gave it the label of the eschaton. A really great word for a very fun, if a bit silly, concept.