Miles O'Neal

Man, Martian, Myth

Current & Alltime Favorites

• Books, Stories, Authors, etc.
• Music
• Movies
• Magazines
• My Heroes
• Computer Stuff
• Miscellaneous

Books, Stories, Authors, etc.

• Lord of the Rings trilogy, J. R. R. Tolkein
• Who Goes There?, John W. Campbell
• C. S. Lewis
• Andre Norton
• Madeleine L'Engle
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Dr. Richard Feynman
• What do YOU care What Other People Think?, Dr. Richard Feynman
• The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
• The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss
• I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, ???
• The X Window System in a Nutshell, Cutler/Gilly/O'Reilly
• The Witches of Karres, James Schmitz
• Everything else by Schmitz
• nearly everything by Keith Laumer, esp. the Retief series
• Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy
• Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers
• The Hitchikers Guide series
• Anne McCafferey
• Tom Clancy
• Tom Swift (both series), Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc.
• Francis Schaefer
• James P. Hogan (except Code of the Lifemaker, which was so lame I haven't bothered to read the sequel)

Reasonably Recently [Re-]Read, Recommended

fiction

• Andre Norton's Thassa series:
  • Moon of Three Rings
  • Exiles of the Stars
  • Flight From Yiktor
  • Dare to Go A-Hunting
• Forget the Alamo, Wallace O. Chariton
• Perelandra, C. S. Lewis - still a most incredible work
• A Ring of Endless Light, Madeleine L'Engle - predecessor to Troubling a Star, had to reread it after reading TAS.
• The Young Unicorns, Madeleine L'Engle - predecessor to above, had to reread it after reading aRoEL.
• Hank the Cowdog series by John Erickson. I've had about half of them this past week.

non-fiction

• To Ride, Shoot Straight & Speak the Truth , Jeff Cooper
• Guns, Crime & Freedom Wayne LaPierre

Music

• nearly everything by the 77s
• Nantucket Sleighride (Mountain)
• Pyscho Surgery (Tourniquet)
• Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance (Tourniquet)
• desert wind (Ofra Haza)
• nearly everything by Mark Heard
• On Your Feet or On Your Knees (Blue Oyster Cult)
• Rock n Roll Animal (Lou Reed)
• nearly everything by Rez (Rez Band, Resurrection Band)
• Metal Machine Music (Lou Reed)
• One Bad Pig
• Timbuk3
• Mad at the World (7 albums, 6 styles)
• Blind Man*s Zoo (10,000 Maniacs)
• Dire Straits
• pre-crash Lynyrd Skynyrd (I still like Free Bird)
• Tom Lehrer
• early Allman Brothers
• Deitophobia
• Black & White World
• Crash Dog
• Steve Taylor
• Leslie/Sam Phillips
• Kari Job
• The Pretenders

Current Primary Play List

• Kari Jobe's new album (http://www.karijobe.com/")
• Flowers of Evil, Mountain
• Kiss the Son, The Kevin Prosch Band
• 88, 77s
• Conspiracy #5, Third Day
• Third Day, Third Day

Movies

• National Treasure (my current favorite)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
• Batman Begins
• Spiderman I and II (have yet to see III)
• The Fantastic Four I and II
• I, Robot
• The Italian Job
• Oceans 11 and 12
• The Manchurian Candidate (200x version)
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Hardware Wars (not available on video?)
• Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• the original Batman movie (circa 1966)
• The Addams Family I and II
• Terminator, T2
• The Alien movies (more or less in order)
• The Brothers Grimm
• This is Spinal Tap
• Lethal Weapon (first 3 were great, #4 was OK)
• most Clint Eastwood flicks
• the movies based on Tom Clancy's books
• the Pink Panther movies
• most anything with the Duke in it
• Red Dawn
• the Little Marines (both)

Magazines

• MAD (Deceased) [PI]
• HM Magazine
• American Rifleman
• UNIX Review (web only now)
• World Press Review
• Sun Expert (Deceased)
• The Door (formerly The Wittenburg Door)
• Guitar Player (sometimes)

My Heroes

• Jesus
• My Dad
• Mark Heard
• Louis Snyder
• Allen Hickman
• Kari Jobe
• Gary Larson
• Berke Breathed
• Bill Waterman

Computer Stuff

• Linux
• VMS and unix
• NOS (CDC mainframes)
• the original adventure
• Zork
• SGI's multi-player flight simulator
• vi (here's an emacs flame)
• SGIs, Suns, RS/6Ks
• T1 (and better) links
• Xmcd/cddb (CD player and distributed CD info database)
• The GIMP (well on its way to leaving Photoshop behind, and its free!)
• MicroSoft (but only in flames)

Miscellaneous

• The XB-70 Valkyrie (murdered by politics)
• The letter wuh
• Dead Bills:
  • Bill" Gaines (deceased) [PI]
  • Bill The Cat (deceased several times)
  • water bill (deceased (we're on a well, so we don't have one!))
  • Bill Gates (not deceased - but I wish he'd go play in another market)

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