Things that are round: spirals, kaleidoscopes, mandalas, clocks, sunflowers
Things that taste good: coconut, eggplant, artichokes
Things that reveal secrets: information theory, thermodynamics, conjuring, puzzles
Places that have undergone significant transformations: Britain, India, UAE
Intelligent things that are alive: crows, octopuses
Unintelligent things that want to be alive: Clocks, automata, computers.
Things that are difficult to assign to predetermined slots.
Music
Sufjan Stevens, Dengue Fever, Radiohead, The Beatles, Aimee Mann, Portishead, Bjork, Beck, Yann Tiersen, The Shins, Palestrina, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Ralph Vaughan Wiliams, Henryk Gorecki, Georgi Ligeti, John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Raymond Scott, Steve Reich, Donovan, The Kinks, Fairport Convention, Harry Nilsson, Bat for Lashes, Chemical Brothers, White Stripes, Janet Klein
Movies
Charlie Kaufman, Jean Jeunet, Terry Gilliam, Ridley Scott, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Ray Harryhausen, Buster Keaton, John and James Whitney
Television
Rod Serling, Monty Python, I Clavdivs, The Daily Show
Books
Umberto Eco, Tom Stoppard, Edward Tufte, Strunk & White, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Rex Stout, Patrick O'Brian, Tolkien, Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, Connie Willis.
Heroes
Athanasius Kircher, Robert Hooke, Leonhard Euler, Claude Shannon
People who believe that "Music, Television, Movies, Books" are inadequate ways to summarize what is interesting and unique about a person.
About me: Hi, I'm Jim Bumgardner, a huge nerd. Maker of software toys. Proprietor of krazydad.com, where I showcase some of said toys, and computer-generated art.
Educator, teacher at Art Center in Pasadena, author of Flickr Hacks from O'Reilly publishing.
Puzzle constructor, creator of Krypto Kakuro, Penrose Slitherlink and other puzzles. Author of some puzzle books.
Computer Maestro for Time Warner, Pittard Sullivan, Pioneer, Aptiv, Gemstar, and now, Yahoo!
Who I'd like to meet: Ecclesiastes, Athanasius Kircher, Umberto Eco, Georgi Ligeti, Claude Shannon, Raymond Scott, Robert Hooke, and the mysterious author of the Voynich Manuscript.
The LORD bless you today with His Holy Spirit filling and flooding you, leading you with His great wisdom, knowledge & discerment to bless and glorify Him. In Jesus' name i pray. Amen.
Dizmas, Scott Cunningham, Esterlyn, Shachah, Sherri Youngward, M.O.D., Call To Glory
See you there!
Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Contemporary English Version: Rom 15:7 Honor God by accepting each other, as Christ has accepted you.
Rom 15:8 I tell you that Christ came as a servant of the Jews to show that God has kept the promises he made to their famous ancestors. Christ also came,
Rom 15:9 so that the Gentiles would praise God for being kind to them. It is just as the Scriptures say, "I will tell the nations about you, and I will sing praises to your name."
Rom 15:10 The Scriptures also say to the Gentiles, "Come and celebrate with God's people."
Rom 15:11 Again the Scriptures say, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles. All you nations, come and worship him."
To anyone who doesn't have a personal relationship with God, please ask God to forgive you of your sin
Wow, the legendary software developer Jim Bumgardner. I truly am in the presence of greatness. I'm glad you've discovered the developer platform, and I'm looking forward to your contributions to the ActionScript libraries.
By the way, are you still an engineer at Yahoo? (despite the Microsoft ordeal...?)
God bless and use you mightily for His glory to draw many close to His heart through the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. In Jesus' name i pray. Amen.
Jesus loves you.
In Christ, Sunny
God bless you. Jesus loves you.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Wow! What an amazing website your have on krazydad.com. I know how I can get "Moon Dance" (VHS), but I haven't found out how I could get "Arabesque", "Lupis" and the other films.
