neurosurgery, functional neuroimaging applications in neurosurgical planning, medicine, going to the gun-range, soccer, fishing, hiking, traveling, philosophy, Stanford Alumni Events, theoretical physics, riding/breeding/training Arabian horses, endurance riding, collecting art, fragrant orchids, Buddhism, basic science research investigating the role of NMDA-mediated glutamate induced excitotoxicity in cerebellar granule neurons using rat as model to inform clinical neurosurgical patient care and potential therapeutic intervention in excitotoxic human brain injury
Leonardo da Vinci
hip-hop/reggaeton/epic trance/polish hip-hop/some house/classical/opera
the Cuckoo (foreign: Finland); City of God (foreign: Brazil)
most television programming serves primarily to detract from one's mental acuity and cultural sophistication, not to mention one's sense of self-worth
Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, Zizek, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Dennett, Nagel, Heller, Vonnegut, de Bernieres, Kurzweil, G Gamow, D Deutsch, Hawking, Brecht, DSM-IV, Dostoyevsky, T Hardy, W Golding, Tolstoy, Bradbury, H Hesse, Turgenev, Orwell, Steinbeck, J Conrad, Garcia-Marquez, Salinger, Voltaire, E A Poe, A Huxley, Principles of Neurosurgery, Greenberg's Handbook of Neurosurgery, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
my parents, Imhotep (the first surgeon known by name)