"The mind, sharp, but not broad, sticks at every point, but does not move."
"There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before."
"He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.
Epigenetics.
Psychoneuroimmunology.
Water.
Struggle.
Glissading.
Poetry.
Recursivity.
Sense deprivation.
Enantiomers.
Playing D&D for several hours. Playing Risk 2020 A.D. for longer.
Aesthetics.
The Biosphere.
Biomusicology.
Grinning when I find important lines in books--then highlighting them--then marking the page with the sticky notes that come out of my highlighter. (Oh you wish you had it!)
Losing.
Bioluminescence.
Sobriety.
Blanket Forts and Couch Rockets.
Concerts.
Coin wisdom.
Piano- Acoustic: Samick standing. Electric: Korg Le Triton 88-key Workstation.
Guitar- Acoustic- Takamine EAN40C (<--best guitar ever). Electric- Well..I play on my brother's black Gibson Les Paul.
Drums- Ludwig 5 piece with Sabian AA cymbals
Viola- Knilling 3105T
Cello- Scherl & Roth F511/C
Board games. (Id est- Pictionary, cranium, scrabble, what ever.)
Eccentricity.
Sustainability.
Engrams.
1,3,7-Trimethylxanthine.
Somnombulation.
The band http://www.myspace.com/tonewbeginnings
Wearing socks with sandals.
Singularity.
Philology.
Reading while walking. And just reading.
Painting.
Volleyball.
Plays.
Acoustical resonance.
Trying to remember a dream.
Tesseracts.
Freestyle walking.
Onigiti.
Snow/wake-boarding.
Writing. (I'd have to say this is most central in my life).
Postcards.
Tennis.
Gelato.
Museums.
Trying to change something by looking at it.
Philosophy.
Any derivitive of HOH being dragged down by gravity.
Rare prints.
Talking into a fan.
Medicine.
Walking indoors after staring at the sun.
Virtue.
Discovery.
Anamnesis.
Holding my breath for far too long.
Tessalations.
The beginning and middle part of a run.
Lectures.
Tea.
Adynatons.
Laying in the middle of a street.
Overdue library books.
Puns.
Making up words and made up words.
Lyrics.
Film. (Specifically.)
Pajama pants.
Chocolate milk and hot chocolate.
Of course...that's only the prologue.
