World travel, writing, SCUBA diving & snorkeling, tennis, hiking & trail-running, yoga, swimming, watching great film & TV; active member of Stanford Alumni Association and Stanford in Entertainment, Stanford Alumni Mentor, volunteer fundraiser for Caritas Ukraine

Wine & craft beer, the beach, shibari, D/s, reading fiction & non-fiction, indie music, classical, hip-hop, 80's music, punk & classic rock, opera, exploring new cities & countries, politics, history & current events

Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, RATM, Passion Pit, The Silversun Pickups, Pearl Jam, The Doors, The New Pornographers, Mumford & Suns, U2, Bon Jovi, The White Stripes, The Pixies, Nirvana, The Beastie Boys, Van Morrison, AC/DC, GNR, Weezer, Elliot Smith, Kings of Leon, Coldplay, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Social Distortion, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, The Strokes, Gorillaz, Aerosmith, Offspring

Unforgiven, Office Space, The Matrix (not the sequels), Goodfellas, No Country for Old Men, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Big Lebowski, District 9, Once, Secretary, Memento, The Edge, Old School, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Boogie Nights, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Constant Gardener, Fog of War, Blade Runner, Braveheart, Fight Club, True Romance, The Usual Suspects, Batman Begins

The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, the 'Song of Ice and Fire' series, Dune, Don Quixote, Fight Club, Story of O, A Perfect Spy, Old Man and the Sea, Heart of Darkness, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Fountainhead, What Men Live By, Little Drummer Girl, On Killing, What the Dog Saw, Blink, Ender's Game, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner, A Perfect Spy, The Design of Everyday Things, Biohazard, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, See No Evil, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Friday Night Lights, Rome, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad Men, Lost, Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Six Feet Under, Californication, Dexter, The Office (UK/Ricky Gervais version), South Park, The Wire, Generation Kill, Chappelle's Show, Enlightened, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." -Walt Whitman

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time." - TS Eliot"

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do." -Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement, 2005

There are probably aliens out there, and we shouldn't try to talk to them because they're probably total dicks. -Stephen Hawking (I'm paraphrasing)

"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." -Frederick Douglass

"Praise the god of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world. -Old French Saying

"You're born alone, you're going to die alone, and does anything else really matter? I mean, what is it exactly that you have to lose?" -Steve Jobs

"Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed." -Henry VIII

"A gentleman is someone who always does the kindest thing." -US President Ronald Reagan