Favorite Movies

Gandhi
an extraordinary man

Aliens (sequel to Alien)
they mostly come out at night... mostly

Memento
a movie that plays backwards and forwards at the same time; a thinking-man's action movie

The Outlaw Josey Wales
dying ain't much of a livin'

28 Days Later...
rage is a disease

Fiddler on the Roof
musicals don't always suck

Saving Private Ryan
so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom

Favorite Music (in no particular order)

John Mayer - Daughters
John Mayer - Your Body Is a Wonderland
The Doors - Light My Fire
System of a Down - BYOB
Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Red Hot Chile Peppers - Californication
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Rihanna - SOS (Rescue Me)
U2 - Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
O'Jays - Love Train
Dave Matthews Band - Crash
Hideki Naganuma - Like It Like This Like That
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do (Is Have Some Fun)
Smashmouth - Walking on the Sun
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Bright Eyes - Sunrise, Sunset
Alient Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Blink 182 - Dammit

Favorite Websites

HomestarRunner.com
strongbad and the cheat rock

This American Life
discribing this makes it sound stupid, so just listen to it

NPR.org
I often miss their broadcasts, so its great that I can listen to the archives

Penny-Arcade.com
some funny stuff, if you know your video games

Folding@Home
I used to look for aliens, but now I actually do something useful with my unused CPU cycles

KnightReplicas.com
hey, nothing like a little shameless self-promotion

Favorite Technologies

Object Role Modeling
still waiting for some of the tools to get better, though

Rodney Brooks
machine learning, reflexive and emergent behavior, intelligence without reason

Garbage Collection
it's got nothing to do with junk

ITER Fusion Reactor
will it politics kill the most important project in human history?

GUIs
I was a proponent of them back before they were fashionable

Thermal Depolymerization
in the future, we will mine our used landfills

Favorite Reading

Scientific American
magazine

Discover
magazine

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
book: fiction

.NET Framework Reference
manual

A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture
book: non-fiction