Aikdo
Shinkendo
Tango
Rock Climbing
Mountaineering
Hunks of steel with handles
Robotics as a field for elegant solutions
Zazen for no good reason
Finding more sunsets
Sweating more
Putting a new engine in my truck
My bus:
People I am blessed to know, and beautiful sights I have seen:
I'd like to meet:
Myself, People who see from other angles, Thinkers, Dreamers, Lovers, Warriors, Poets, those with Discipline, and those have Intentionally left it, Masters, Architects and Builders of great things, the One, the Other one, Her, Myself.
Music:
I like the song "Paschendale" by Iron Maiden.
Also, I like the "Visions of Johanna" by Bob Dylan.
Movies:
I
Ikiru, city of lost children,
subway, Office Space, Big Lebowski,
Road Warrior, blade runner, kill bill, sin city, 2001aso,
anything indiana jones, 12 monkies, amalie, big trouble in little china,
naked gun, fight club, apocolypse now, matrix, thin red line, rashomon,
anything Monty Python, the professional, Braveheart, Last Samurai,
the princess bride, gladiator, lost in translation,
groundhog day, blow, snatch, lock stock,
oh yeah... dune (the original of course),
true romance
Television:
Seeing that a man's life is like the dew of evening, I spend as little time as possible watching advertisements and thinking pre-programmed thoughts.
Books:
I just look at the pictures. Ok, not really, but I do like books with pictures.
Budoshoshinshu by Daidoji Yuzan
Favorites:
Gozo Shioda: Total Aikido, Dynamic Aikido.
Dave Lowry: Autmn Lightning, Moving Toward Stillness, Sword and Brush.
On Combat, by Grossman.
The Way and The Power by Frederick J. Lovret;
John Hedgecoe's Complete Guide to Photography.
And of course, Angry White Pijamas.
Recent:
Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Pierret.
Shellcoders Handbook.
Blossoms in the Wind, Human Legacies of the Kamikaze.
Embedded Design with the PIC18F452 Microcontroller by John Peatman.
Brother Iron Sister Steel.
Recommendation of the Moment:
Budoshoshinshu, the Warriors Primer of Daidoji Yuzan
Simply incredible. Go get it.
Heroes:
My friends. They're all genuine.
Anyone who has ever succeded.
Animals, because they don't think too much.
People who are still having fun.
Alexander the Great.
Dave Draper.
Noritsune.
When Noritsune
drowned himself
three trails of bubbles rose.
