Playing poker, making music, playing ice hockey, hiking, mt. biking, creating small, mostly contained explosions with strong oxidizing agents, analyzing and picking apart EVERYTHING, wondering "why" and "why not".
Morgan Freeman, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, John Lennon, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, the 1986 Edmonton Oilers, Vincent Van Gough, Monet, Galileo, Aristotle, Plato, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Confucius, Orson Welles, Gott-fried Wilhelm von Leibniz, and Sir Isaac Newton (greatest of the great). Anybody who wants to play poker.
All time list is the Beatles, Jimi, Pink Floyd, SRV, Clapton, Indigo Girls, Johnny Cash, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Mathews, Counting Crows, Grateful Dead, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Mozart, Handel, and Beethoven (and probably 100 others I have failed to mention).
All movies.
Science and movies, and the occasional Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park indulgence. Also the Daily Show and Colbert rock. Oh, and House. House kicks ass. For my soul...Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown, and Julia Child re-runs. BBC series CHEF! is the best all time!!! For my game: High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, WPT, etc., etc.
Super System, Doyle Brunson, et al; Poker Tells, Mike Caro; The Fountain Head, Ayn Rand; Anything by Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Welles, Orwell, King, Clarke, Bradbury, Howard Zinn, etc, etc, etc...; The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson,... The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller (THE man), any of Charlie Trotter's books (used to be the man before he went goofy about foie), Le Répertoire de La Cuisine (the bible), Larousse Gastronomique (the other bible), and any old French, Italian, or Japanese cookbook or culinary manual... Any book that combines Science and Food (including the one I am slowly working on!).
My dad and my great-grandparents Opal 'bobo' and Clifford E. Davis. They were truly "great" grandparents. The American Cowboy. Mike Modano, George Carlin, Hunter S Thompson. Anyone who is able to live true to their own convictions. Anyone who has the strength to say, "fuck it!" sometimes.