Ambient (Chillout)/Lounge (Downtempo)/House/Techno/Electro, Alternative and Indie Rock, Pondering the Sentimentals, Almost all Ethnic Foods, The Sands of a Beach, The Sun, Astronomy, Cosmology, Quantum Physics, Salsa and Latin Dancing, Cooking in the Kitchen.
Your smiles, thoughts, and presence.
I love the meaning of this. From Waking Life:
Soap Opera Woman: Excuse me.
Wiley: Excuse me.
Soap Opera Woman: Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?' "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?
Read the genres above.
The weird/thought provoking ones, the nonlinear storytelling ones, the beauty of life ones, the ugliness of life ones, the incomprehension of life ones, the time-traveling ones, the "why would you ever split up as a group to be slaughtered in a horror film" ones
The Science Channel, The History Channel, National Geographics, PBS, and HBO
A plethora of RF/RFIC/MW/MMIC/AnalogIC design textbooks, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, The Stranger, Hyperspace, A Brief History of Time, Ethan Frome, The Divine Comedy: Inferno
The hard-working illegal immigrants; people who I can learn from; an apparition of my future and the ghost of my past; Dave Barry