music; recording arts; songwriting; cartooning; narrative poetry; platonism; books about science and math; books about gnosticism and early (pre-catholic) christianity; books on multi-disciplinary topics; philosophy of mind; database theory and design; machines that kill fascists; squashing the horror; my beautiful wife, lori g; our wonderful puppy, arrow; art that hasn't abandoned meaning or beauty; ethical systems that haven't abandoned truth; trying to get godel and einstein right, and insisting others do too for a change; hating on the copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory; making both moral relativists and moral absolutists choke on it.