A Few of my Hobbies
- I enjoy studying graphology. I've collected quite a few handwriting samples and have read a couple of books on the topic.
- I love to cook; I particularly love to bake.
- My favorite sport is racquetball.
- I usually do a fair amount of hiking, running on trails, backpacking, and camping each summer.
- I enjoy studying a number of branches of mathematical theory.
- I like to watch clouds. I am member #5121 of The Cloud Appreciation Society.
- I like photography but only have a point and shoot camera. Someday ...
- I mostly like to play games that involve some sort of strategy. Some of my favorites are Poker, Quarto, Jishaku, and It Came to Pass. I used to play Go, but haven't recently—I'd like to get back into that.
- I enjoy reading great works of literature.
- I love going to the symphony and especially the opera.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, et al
- Hamlet (1996 version)
- A Beautiful Mind
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- The Bourne Trilogy
- The two Star Wars Trilogies
For most of my life I have almost exclusively listened to classical music and opera. My favorites fluctuate from day to day and mood to mood. Of all composers I think I listen to Rachmaninoff most often.
Recently I've decided to expand my musical horizons. So I am currently listening mostly to contemporary, nonclassical music. I still have a lot of imperfect information on the topic, so my musical tastes are pretty undefined at this point. Hopefully I'll be able to more rigorously establish them in the near future.
