Radiation health and nuclear physics, geology, minerology. I use a Bicron Surveyor M with Victoreen 44-9 thin window pancake probe for my principal Geiger counter. I never got around to buying a decent UV light, so for my flourescents I use a blacklight from an old fish tank. I'm still working on my mineral collection, but even now it's too big to safely store in my apartment. My wife and I have some mine explorations planned, and we're really excited about that! I'm also a general computer/small electronics enthusiast. Fifteen years, a little money and a lot of garage sales can lead to a vast bank of knowledge in this field.
I'm a die hard gen 2 Acura 3.2TL fan. I LOVE my car.
Old time people who probably don't want to talk to me, co-workers and fellow students, people who sell their organs so they can buy heroin for street people. That's so nice of them.
As of late, I have been listening to Elvis Costello almost non stop. I do a little Johnny Cash, some Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel... The Magnetic Fields occasionally come up, as do the women of jazz and good ol' Coltrane. I have thirty gigs on my iPod, twenty-seven of which I don't listen to. Has anybody else ever listened to that Moog Cookbook shit? Those assholes should be fined. Moogs are for joy, not mockery, you stupid bastards. Update on 8/25: I am having a tape flashback to the 80s and early 90s. Depeche Mode, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Cutting Crew, OINGO BOINGO, Naked Eyes, Talk Talk. I bought some classical tapes too and some 80s chick band whose name has escaped me. Very exciting! Nothing but tapes now for 3 days!
I have never seen Napoleon Dynamite, Titanic, any of the Star Wars series.
I'm hooked on "Deadliest Catch." There's some other primetime crap that I'm down with, but the wife generally controls the TV, meaning that I get to enjoy "Americas Next Top Model" marathons several times a week.
Various periodicals, primarily stuff that would be of absolutely no interest to anybody that is interesting. I'm in school, so various healthcare oriented textbooks are very common. I also spend three hours a day or so on wikipedia getting lost in a swirl of learning. Sometimes I edit articles arbitrarily and see how long it takes for them to be corrected again. My record is four months. Did you know that AIDS can be contracted by coming in contact with fingernail clippings of an infected person?
Carlyle, our ex-fish. May he rest in piss.