| General | formal semantics, (direct) compositionality, logic and computation, philosophy of language, theories of discourse, lambda calculus, programming languages, german, sanskrit, prosody, sprawl, binding, (reasonable) intellectual property law, free software, free culture, polarity items, Sinn und Bedeutung, continuations (I think), antecedent contained deletion, exception constructions, donkey anaphora, dvorak keyboard layout, web2.0, james burke, functional programming, object-oriented programming, recursion, gnu, hefeweizen, sanskrit, hiking, puzzles, figuring tricky things out, bikram yoga, live music, retro-pastiche, nature, dancing (not the bumpy bumpy grind but rather the epileptic moving from my center), people who design things, watercolor, xkcd, pop culture, 60s counterculture, neat videogames, thinking about cause and effect and how things and people and nature interact (um, it's called cognitive science?), galaga, beating raj's galaga score, getting tractor beamed in galaga | | Music | the Flashbulb, Bell Orchestre, Do Make Say Think, Wir sind Helden, Talkdemonic, Desaparecidos, psychedelic 60s rock (West Coast Workshop's rendition of the Wizard of Oz soundtrack is awesome), early electronic music (Wendy Carlos, Morton Subotnick), trippy 70s children's tunes (Jackpine Savage, Bruce Haack), Spoon, the Cure, Explosions in the Sky, kcrw, This American Life | | Movies | Mysterious Skin, Singin' in the Rain, Hero, the Muppet Movie, 8 1/2, In the Mood for Love, Sleeper, Old Boy, Secretary, Return to Oz, documentaries of all sorts, Interstella 5555, Primer, Shortbus, ET, Better Off Dead, Mars Attacks!, Being John Malkovich, the Host | | Television | the Wire, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, the Muppets, the Adventures of Tintin, Rocko's Modern Life, Connections (1970s British science/history documentary series), Around the World in 80 Days (travel documentary by Michael Palin from the mid-80s), Firefly, Weeds, Dexter, Ninja Warrior, science/nature/dinosaur documentaries, Entourage, Invader Zim, Flight of the Conchords | | Books | my PowerBook, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, East of Eden, From Frege to Gödel, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Ender's Game & Speaker for the Dead, Free Culture, the Syntactic Process, the Doors of Perception, Der Dativ ist dem Genetiv sein Tod, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the Foundation Trilogy, Essentials of Programming Languages, Tintin, Hergé, Absolute Java, anything by John Steinbeck, Things Fall Apart, We, Bücher auf Deutsch, Pride of Baghdad, Kingdom Come (and other graphic novels) | | Heroes | Gottlob Frege, George Boole, Polly Jacobson, Elena Guerzoni, Barry Schein, Eben Moglen, Chris Barker, Brewster Kahle, Catherine of Aragon. |
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