Modifying, programming, tinkering.
Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, Van Halen, Red Hot Chilli Peppers,
Love And Rockets, Prince and the Revolution, Madonna, The Bengals
Green Day, Weezer, Liz Phair, The Cranberries, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion,
Coldplay, Radiohead
Jeff Mills, Plastikman, Squarepusher, DJ Brisk, DJ SS
The White Stripes, All-American Rejects, Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson
Beethoven's P.C.4, Strauss's Vienesse Waltz, Strauss's Metamorphesis, Dvorcak's 9th,
Mozart's Requiem, Mozart's 9th, Handel's Messiah, Bach's Oratorios, Bach's Concertos for
Oboe
films
30 Rock, The Office, King of Queens, Scrubs, SnL. nothing
these days
Afterschool Specials, Dr. Who, Nova,
Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Moonlighting, Night Court,
Miami Vice way back when they were transmitted through the air.
Castle (Macauley),
Belgariad series (Eddings),
Magic Kingdom For Sale (Brooks),
Trinity (Üris),
Eye of the Needle (Follët),
Rogue Warrior (Marcinko),
Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics (Reiff),
Rule of Law(John Austin),
Learning the vi Editor (Lamb & Robbins),
sed & awk (Dougherty & Robbins),
The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie),
C++ (Bjärne & Straußtrup),Managing Projects with make (Oram, Talbott),Essential CVS (Vesperman), though I've used the PDF
Version Management with CVS (Per Cederqvist) more,
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Stevens),Contemporary Logic Design (Katz),
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (Patterson and Hennessy),
slau49 (ti dot com),
RFC822,
Sendmail ( Costales, Allman),
Ajax Bible (Holzner),
w3c dot org,
php dot net (I made a bad PHP book decision),
Honda 600 Hurricane (Clymer),
1995 Honda Accord (Helms),
BMX Plus, Dilbert( Adams), Tennis, Nuts 'n Volts
Dick Marcinko (everything in Rogue Warrior, except the leaving the wife and mother part), Sen. Pat Roberts (solid CSPAN lead), Rep. Barney Frank (constitutional expert), James Baker (best Ali G interview), Alexander the Great (technically oriented militant during simple times -- which meant he was a king and not a politician), Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin.