During the winter I love to snowboard, summer time it's swimming, roller blading [i miss the days of skate parks...], and rock climbing. I like to work out but don't find time as often as I like... Another thing I really enjoy is target shooting, whenever my dad is in town he takes me to a range.
Whenever I decide to relax a good movie is usually my first choice. I've been to so many concerts that I'm starting to wonder how I still have perfect hearing... I'd say 75% of my awake time is spent listening to music (mostly for the instrumental part, lyrics mostly suck although a song comes along every once in awhile that blows me away).
I spend a lot of time just hanging out with friends, usually in someone's basement... Just talking. I prefer that to the "go out and find mindless entertainment method"... I spend a lot of time here on MySpace, trying to meet people who share my beliefs and also to keep in touch with "real-life" friends.
Computers. Nearly everything about them. Programming, Windows, Web Design, Yearbook Design (lol) Networking, you name it. I know I want to be a programmer and/or run a software company. It would be an understatement to say that it is my passion. I've done a pretty full-featured image editing program (way more than Paint, less than Photoshop), an Mp3/WMA tag tool, a map editor for a game, and a bunch of other little things.
And last but not least philosophy. I'm always reading a book about Objectivism or one that embodies its principles. It really enables you to truly enjoy life. Just to put it into perspective, I am devoted to Objectivism more than the average person is to their misc. religions (except Objectivism is based on rationality so it requires slightly more thought then blind faith).
Remember, remember, the 5th of November. The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot
Comedy:
Ace Ventura
Airplane
American Pie series
Austin Powers
Big Daddy
Biodome
Black Sheep
Finding Nemo
Freddy Got Fingered
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Kung Pow
Monsters Inc.
Naked Gun
Office Space
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Space Balls
The Breakfast Club
The Girl Next Door
The Incredibles
Tommy Boy
Zoolander
Action:
007
After the Sunset
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down
Dante's Peak
Enemy At The Gates
Entrapment
Fast And The Furious trilogy
Flight Of The Phoenix
Gone In 60 Seconds
I-Robot
Italian Job
Minority Report
Mission Impossible series
Oceans Eleven and Thirteen
Paycheck
Riddick series
S.W.A.T
The Bourne series
The Butterfly Effect
The Fifth Element
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Mummy series
The Patriot
Torque
Horror:
13 Ghosts
28 Days series
Alien/Predator series
Blade series
Freddy vs Jason (and the series)
House of Wax
Identity
Resident Evil series
Rob Zombie's films
Saw series
The Relic
Underworld (not the second)
Van Helsing
Zombie movies in general
All-Time-Favorites:
300
The Brave One
The Crow series
The Fountainhead
The Island
V for Vendetta
Actors:
Adam Sandler
Chris Farley
David Spade
Gary Cooper
Jim Carrey
Patricia Neal
Pierce Brosnan
Ancient Discoveries
CSI
Dirty Jobs
How It's Made
Man vs Wild
Modern Marvels
Mythbusters
The Universe
Documentaries in general
Since college started and I have had an inordinate amount of homework, and because I have the tv on while doing said homework, I think I have seen everything ever shown on the Discovery and History channel
Currently Reading: The Data Modeling Handbook, Markets Don't Fail!
Books I have read and found worthwhile:
Philosophy:
Achilles, the Tortoise and the Objectivity of Mathematics
Anthem
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics
Ayn Rand Answers
Calumet "K"
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
For the New Intellectual
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
James Bond and Philosophy
Letter to a Christian Nation
Libertarian Short Answers to Tough Questions
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Philosophy Who Needs It?
Physicists Lost in Space
Return of the Primitive
The Art of Non-Fiction
The Ayn Rand Lexicon
The Ayn Rand Sampler
The Capitalist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
The Concise Guide to Economics
The Early Ayn Rand
The Foreign Policy of Self Interest
The Fountainhead
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The Night of January 16th
The Ominous Parallels
The Romantic Manifesto
The Virtue of Selfishness
The Voice of Reason
We the Living
What it Means to Be a Libertarian
Writing and Thinking
Technology:
Building the Ultimate Game PC
C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data Structures
Computer Program Design
Cryptoanalysis for Microcomputers
Extreme Programming Explained
Game Coding Complete
Game Programming with Visual Basic
How Computers Work
How Networks Work
Mastering VB.NET
Microsoft Visual Basic.NET Introductory Concepts and Techniques
Microsoft Visual Basic Game Programming with DirectX
Microsoft Windows Vista Unveiled
Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers
Practical Visual Basic 6
Professional C#
Programming Visual Basic.NET
Reversing Secrets of Reverse Engineering
SQL in 10 Minutes
The Mythical Man-Month
Visual Basic.NET Language Reference
Visual Basic.NET Programmer's Cookbook
Visual Basic.NET Step By Step 2003
Visual Basic 6 For Dummies
Visual Basic 6 Weekend Crash Course
Visual Basic Graphics Programming
XNA Game Programming
History:
American Pageant
Founding Brothers
A History of the Modern World
The Myth of the Robber Barons
Science/Math:
Chaos: Making a New Science
Crypto
E=MC 2
Flatland
Flatterland
The Philosophers:
Ayn Rand, John Ridpath, Leonard Peikoff, Aristotle, Andrew Berstein, Alex Epstein (I had the oppurtunity to attend his class this last summer and have dinner with him, he's a great guy)
The Creators:
James Jerome Hill (railroads), John D. Rockefeller (oil), Commodore Vanderbilt (steamships and railroads). I've been reading biographies on these types of people and am sure to find other inspiring people as I go
More generally, anyone who cares to think