talking, Mexican-food-eating, doing stuff, squash (not the vegetable), The Stick (not the tree part), writing fiction and essays, taking long walks in the moonlight, home fixer-upping, travel, languages human and otherwise, software development, entrepreneurism, feng shuei, house plants (I've got about 20, which is a lot), and cooking (kinda).
Somebody who also wants to do Toastmasters
2001, Saving Private Ryan, Breaking Away, Star Wars, Go, Pi, Pulp Fiction, Seeing Other People, In the Bedroom, Adaptation, Orange County, The Good Girl, About a Boy, Nine Mile, Terminator 1 2 and 3, Boogie Nights, Training Day, Master and Commander, Barbershop, Godfather 1 and 2, Lost in Translation, The Shawshank Redemption, Seeing Other People, Office Space, Crimes and Misdemeanors. .. .. ..
gets all my attention to: Sopranos, simpsons, south park, entourage, unscripted, daily show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
To have on as a second-tier multi-tasking sort of distraction: Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Charlie Rose
A Long Way Down, Extremely Loud and Very Close, The Corrections, About a Boy, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Guns Germs and Steel, Everything Bad is Good For You, Story, A Man in Full, The Poisonwood Bible, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Stein on Writing, Bonfire of the Vanities, Man Crazy, The Little Schemer, Joel on Software, Long Way Down, Higher Order Perl ..
Interesting question: Robert Fripp, Paul Graham, Alexander Hamilton, and former Minnesota Governor Jessie Venture whenever he appeared on This Week with Tim Russert