science! nanotechnology, molecular manufacturing, government research facilities, drums and percussion, jazz, technical writing, cryptography, astronomy, computing, web design, caffeine, the weather, really good arguments.
I'd like to meet:
Well, that's up to you. That said, send a message, too! I've little interest in people trolling for higher numbers. Quality, not quantity.
Music:
Anything and everything. Someone please, please, pleeeze tell me they've got James Brown's DNA in a freezer for safe keeping.
Movies:
Bladerunner, Contact, Seven Samurai (Kurozawa), Underworld, Quest For Fire, Blazing Saddles, American Psycho, Fight Club, Good Bad and Ugly, Empire Strikes Back, The Search For Robert Johnson, Leon the Professional, Pitch Black, Lost Planet, Donnie Darko, Serenity, etc.
Television:
Only in hotel rooms during business travels, which means I get to see it all fall apart in 1-month snapshots instead of gradually like everyone else.
Books:
Starship Troopers (Heinlein), Modern Quantum Chemistry, Straight No Chaser (Monk), Dream Brother (Buckley), Miles (Davis), How To Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce), Notes and Tones (Art Taylor), CRC Handbook of Chemistry, The Underground Guide to UNIX, Nanosystems, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, whatever James Burke and Jared Diamond write next...