Books and music. Software development methodologies, UI usability, and radical changes to the current computing metaphor. Travel.... to anywhere, at anytime, at the drop of a hat.
Music:
stereo total, belle & sebastian, ramones, looper, the sweet, elo, velvet underground, television, thee headcoats & all thee rest, the monks, clancy brothers, the libertines, the clash, magnatone, careers in modeling, the spectors, the kinks, zz an de maskers, francoise hardy, beatifics, rank strangers, mofos, the autumn leaves... to name a few off the top of my head.
Movies:
Beowulf and the Bee Movie.
Television:
Reruns of the Gilmore Girls, West Wing and Lost.
Books:
Watchmen, Kavalier & Klay, V for Vendetta, and The Gold Mine, a novel of lean turnaround.
Heroes:
Okay, instead of "heroes", let's call this part "places I've been" because I'd rather think about that than about buff white guys in spandex underoos:
NYC, Sag Harbor, Madison, Amherst, Cambridge, East Mansfield, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Portland, Berkeley, New Orleans, Chicago, Memphis, DC, Vegas, Duluth, Marine-on-St-Croix, Mitchell SD, Key Largo, Columbia, Chapel Hill, Rio, Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Avignon. Oh yeah, and Cancun.
