Playing and recording music - guitar, bass, percussion, vocals. Drawing and art. Long distance bicycling. Mountain Biking. Long distance hiking and camping. Playing professional level poker and high stakes blackjack. Travel, high end casino-hotel life, nightlife, fine dining (4-5 star), fashion, gold prospecting, skiing, mountain living, kayaking, Lake Tahoe lifestyle, San Francisco, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, raising a son to be a good man.

Science, technology, psychology, statistics/probability, music, women and dating, relationships and romance, clothes, guitars, bicycles, sports gear, lake gear and boating, travel, poker strategy, blackjack strategy, game theory, art, drawing, child rearing.

I love all music - but certain misogynistic or misanthropic lyrics I don't like

Star Wars series, James Bond series, old classics, new movies coming out, comedies, fun movies, things to watch with my child

Science books, how-to books, world philosophy and religion, math books, computer books, and psychology books

Lie to Me, Strike Back, House, old classics, all science and tech shows, documentaries

“All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion”

- Stephen Hawking

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Stephen Hawking

"With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultraverbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything."

- John McPhee

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

- Stephen Hawking

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

- Buddha (Siddartha Guatama)

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

- Buddha (Siddartha Guatama)

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

"I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life. And the name of that design is evolution."

~ Kenneth Miller