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As the quote at the start of this web suggests, "The
most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be
perfectly accurate and perfectly useless." This cannot be a
complete map of my interests. Listing out everything, and finding
links that might point to that material would take up so much time, I
would never have the chance to enjoy any of them. So the following
is a less accurate, but perhaps more useful map for getting to
understand some of the things I like or ponder.
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Reading
- I like to read. I like to read a
lot. The house I live in has a wall 15 feet long floor
to ceiling filled with books. With many many boxes in
storage. Heaven (except for the hell of some of them
being in storage)
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E-Text -
Thankfully, I don't have to have a copy of every book I
would like to read...Many have been converted to a
machine readable form.
- Virtual Book Stores - How could I not list things
like:
- Cats - I have 7 currently. Yes seven.
I must like the little monsters
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My
Cats - Pictures Pictures Pictures. If
you hate looking at phones of other peoples children...
don't check out this link.
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Feral Cat
Spay/Neuter Project - a not-for-profit group
dedicated to providing free spay and neuter services to
help solve the feral cat crisis in the Puget Sound
region.
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Street Cat
Aid Team - My roommate started this organization to
facilitate all the work she does with ferals in the
Seattle metro area.
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Feline Diabetes Message Board - one of my children
has Diabetes...
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HomeBrewing - I've recently started Home brewing
beer. Fun! and I don't just mean the results...
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Computers - But not just the machines
themselves (though they are cool too...but the ways in which
communication, art, media, research,
publishing, storage, Law, even ritual and religions are effected
by the medium. Project Gutenberg
mentioned on my E-Text
Page is one
example of change in both publishing and access to material that I find fascinating.
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Free Software Foundation - Be sure to also see the
GPL.
Simple documents and ideals that crack the very
foundation of Western Capitalism. I could fill a
page with links to the numerous court cases (usually by
the
copyrights)
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Bitlaw - There is
even a whole new category of Technology Law...
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LiveJournal -
Used to be when one kept a diary, one kept it private.
Perhaps sharing it only with ones bestest of friends.
Livejournal lets one keep a type of online journal that
is shared more widely. I'm rather constantly.
See also:The Readers' List - "The
reader's list is a community designed to find and
collect the best Livejournal entries in one place."
and Blogger
- While sites like
Livejournal
tend to be communities of friends and connections, there
is also a dizzying number of communities of common
interest. Communities that span not only friends groups,
cities, or even regions, but can and often do have
members from all over the world. Lets also not forget
the Elder of the bunch
Usenet See:
Yahoo Groups |
Communities.com
|MSN Groups |
Open Directory |
Google | Since we started this section with
Livejournal, lets not forget their
long
list of communities
- There are those who find ways
of using the unique power of the internet to reach folks
in more personal ways that could be accomplished in
other ways. Even to the finding of an
organ donation.
Be sure to also see:
US Government Site
| Donate Life.net
| UNOS |
IAOD |
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Psychology - My Degree is in
Psychology. When I was younger I used to say that I
decided on Psychology over my other options because I was
puzzled by myself. My college years where thus spent
doing what every other college student does to some extent..
just in a more focused manner. Over the years since school,
I have come to appreciate how useful knowledge of human
interaction, motivation and thought process can be in weird
or unexpected places. It has certainly paid off in
various technology support positions.
- Astronomy & Space
Flight- When I
was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut. Seriously
enough that I briefly flirted with joining the Navy to
increase my chances through military
aviation.
Thankfully, my 4 hour Navy career ended when one of the
doctors at the entrance center in
Oakland detected
asthma.
- Classic and Current Video
Games - Three years ago I came across an old
Nintendo console with ten games at a thrift store.
Thus began a collection of consoles, old cartridges, a
closet full of game consoles connected to the TV, and
several selves in storage. It doesn't hurt that one of
my roomates used to work for Atari and and wrote games from
the 5200 (Xari
Arena) and Nintendo (John)
- I've got too many
links for classic and other video games. More
coming, but for now, play some of my java collection
I've pulled together from the web.
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JavaGames - Collection I pulled together from
various resources on the web. A great way to waste
time at work.
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