Writing poetry, short fiction, Book Without A Name, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, academic articles, blogs, blurbs, bullshit; perception phenomena; logical positivism; researching everything; hypertexting the universe; distance learning and the teaching of college composition; cognitive science; philosophy, particularly ontology and epistemology; visual media as they pertain to uniting/educating/inspiring humans; computer science and engineering as they pertain to how one can relate (analogize) them to the processes of the human mind; biology as it relates to sex and sexuality (and avoiding hangovers); conflating all the "schools" in higher education to embrace a more pluralistic perspective; minimizing environmental damage in the everyday use of everything; liberation and liberty for ALL, including (gasp!) women, minorities, and the poor--who tend to be women and minorities; progressive policy; nanotechnology in its capabilities to see the unseen; AI in just about every potential it has, cybernetics in its capabilities to make humans last longer, think smarter, function more efficiently; ART in all forms; MUSIC in all forms; people in general. And love-hugs-kisses, drunken revelry, subculture, counterculture, independence, and DIY.
Humanists, IT people, publishers!, scientists, broadcasters, educators, literati, artists, musicians, policy-makers, revelers, people who love the world but still want to make it better for everyone--and most importantly people who will hire me to do something creative, interactive, and meaningful...or give me grants to write/research. Changing the world ain't free.*At this point, meeting ANYONE, actually, in person, with a conversation going two ways, would be nothing short of a miracle. How many people are there in New York? I haven't met a single one of them.
Right now, people who play in subway stations for hat tips.
Life. I would like to meet Stanley Kubrick, though, and David Lynch. And Steven Spielberg, and Sophia Coppola. All the rest of the good ones don't speak English, I think, so our conversations would have to be charades. Rather thinkers than "celebrities."
Life.
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
Everything and Nothing by Jorge Borges
Aristotle, Homer, Lao Tze, Galileo, Copernicus, Joan of Arc, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, Kurzweil and his people.