My Hobbies
Web Design/Computer Programming
I really enjoy playing with my computers. I built this server. Including the OS.
I have grown up around computers and this kind of stuff is really fun for me. As the son of two computer programmers, seeing this comming was a no-brainer.
(father: VisualBasic, BASIC, COBOL, PL/I, FORTRAN, IBM 1401 Autocoder, IBM 7070 Autocoder, SAS, LOGO, Lisp, XML)
(mother: COBOL, 360 assembler, PL/I, FORTRAN, RPG II, BASIC)
(me: VisualBasic, BASIC, LOGO, COBOL, C, C++, Visual C++, HTML, Javascript, CSS, PERL, PHP, (My)SQL, Java, Python, Qt, and the list goes on)
Reading
I have recently decided to take up reading as a hobby.
Here is list of books that I have read with the dates I completed it:
- Planet of Death by Robert Silverberg. April 1986.
- A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle. May 1986.
- Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard. April 1996.
- The Basic Study Manual by L. Ron Hubbard. May 1996. (This is where I learned that despite my high school education, I didn't really know how to read and decided that I should learn.)
- Self Analysis by L. Ron Hubbard. August 1996.
- Scientology: The Fundamentals Of Thought by L. Ron Hubbard. July 1998.
- Scientology: A New Slant On Life by L. Ron Hubbard. July 1998.
- Introduction to Scientology Ethics by L. Ron Hubbard. August 1998.
- Scientology: 0-8 The Book of Basics by L. Ron Hubbard. August 1998.
- ...(more to enter here)...
- Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Aug 2001.
- ...(more to enter here)...
- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. April 2002.
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Dougals Adams. April 2002.
- Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams. May 2002.
- ...(more to enter here)...
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Feb 2004.
- So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams. (currently reading).
- Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. (Just started...I know, I should be ashamed of myself for not reading it sooner.)
- Dune by Frank Herbert. September 2004.
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. October 2004.
- ...(more to enter here)...
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling. July 2007.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling. July 2007.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling. July 2007.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling. August 2007.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling. August 2007.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K Rowling. August 2007.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling. August 2007.
- Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card. Sept 2007.
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyne. incomplete.
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. April 2008.
Movies
I really enjoy a good movie. That is, what I consider to be a good movie, which may differ sligltly from what others might consider a good movie because everyone has different tastes and therefore some might find certain movies more to their liking than others and...okay, I'm rambling. A list of movies that I own.
Music
I enjoy listening to music as well. There is much philsophical discussion on the role music plays in the lives of mankind. But I won't get into that. Here is my Last.fm profile.
I find myself looking all over for song lyrics from time to time. So here is a useful link for others so inclined:
Games
Sometimes I get to enjoy a nice video game.
- Here is one that I have been playing continously for several years via a nice little PHP script (writing a computer program to play the game for me...how lazy is that!): Dark Throne - check it out.
Last updated: 2009-07-21 14:49:21.