Hanging out with my friends, playing video games, watching movies, shooting pool, amateur photography, firearms, camping, fishing, astronomy, philosophy, and reading.... I also enjoy (thought don't get to do very often) cooking, landscaping, minor automotive repair, small scale carpentry, and pretty much anything that leaves me with a sense of accomplishment and something to show for what I've done. While I only understand general principles, I quite enjoy reading about and trying to understand physics (specifically String/M-theory, Relativity, Quantum Physics).
This is how programming makes me feel.
Gandhi, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, All the guys from roosterteeth productions (www.roosterteeth.com), Tenacious D, Frank Sinatra....
Im a music lover, I like classical, rap, R&B, jazz, swing, grung, rock, heavy metal, country, folk, punk, and just about anything else you can think of. My favorite artists/bands include: Curt Cobain (Nirvana), Johnny Cash, NIN, Louis Armstrong, Alabama, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, System of a Down, Counting Crows, Tenacious D, Dave Mathews Band, Ben Folds, Aerosmith, Guns & Roses, Willie Nelson, Eminem, Disturbed, Eric Clapton, Ludacris, Poison, Green Day, Hank Williams (Jr. & Sr.), ICP, Jewel, Jimi Hendrix, Linkin Park, Matchbox 20, Tenacious D, Journey, MC Hawking, Metallica, Nickleback, The Offspring, R.E.M, Powerman 5000, B.B King, John Lennon, The Beatles, Rage Against the Machines, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Rob Zombie, Royal Crown Revue, Stone Temple Pilots, Tom Petty, Weird Al.... the list is getting kind of long so I'll stop there. ___________________________________________________________
Some of my favorite movies (in no particular order): The Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars I - VI, Donnie Darko, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, American Beauty, K-Pax, Spiderman I & II, The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shawshank Redemption, Kill Bill vol 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Se7en, 12 Monkeys, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, American History X, Forrest Gump, Fargo, Full Metal Jacket, The Green Mile, Patton, Big Fish, Being John Malkovich, The Untouchables, Walk the Line, The Truman Show, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The 40yr Old Virgin, 4 Brothers, Open Range, Tombstone, Any John Wayne Move, The Untouchables, X-Men, X2, Army of Darkness, The Matrix Trilogy, 300, 23
I don't really watch much TV anymore (only get the ultra-basic cable) but I sometimes watch: Mail Call, Modern Marvels, History Undercover... actually pretty much anything on the History Channel. Chappell's Show, Southpark, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Bevis & Butthead, Star Trek TNG & Enterprise, MTV's Liquid Television, Quantum Leap, Macgyver, Law & Order, CSI
I don't read as often as I'd like but these are some of my favorite works. The Demon-Haunted World and The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The world as I see it, and Relativity by Albert Einstein, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Republic, and Apology by Plato, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
I have a lot of hero's... Pretty much anyone who seeks the truth above all else, shows true moral and/or physical courage, puts the needs of others before their own (Einstein, Gandhi, Stephen Hawking, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa...ect).