My family
\nImagination
\nResourceful Teachers
\nPeace wherever it can be found
\nOpen-Source
\nFree Speech
\nForgiveness
\nMortality
\nReeces peanut-butter cups
\nCoffee
\nThe Christmas Truce
\nWhat I know
\nWhat I have to learn
\nUnabashed enthusiasm
\nThe Apollo Program
\nFallen Astronauts, Cosmonauts, and Tychonauts
\nDedicated Engineers
\nMacgyver
\nMusicians with day jobs
\nArtists with soul
\nThe “Not on My Watch” Attitude
\nPurpose
\nSolitude
\nThe right tool for the job
\nThe tool that works anyway
\nOpposable thumbs
\nLight
\nRage against the dying of the light
\nHoney mustard
\nCreole mustard
\nFuturama
\nAlbert Einstein
\nSir Isaac Newton
\nTon Rosendaal
\nLudwig van Beethoven
\nJonas Sark
\nStomatopods, especially Peacock Mantis Shrimp
\nCaring Doctors and Nurses
\nLoyal Dogs
\nFriendly Ferrets
\nTireless Horses
\nDeadly and beautiful creatures
\nCameras with low f-stop telephoto Lenses
\nBrave but cautious nature photographers
\nMiester Eckhart
\nDreams
\nEmploying my demons for good
\nAnonymous gifts
\nSETI
\nUnselfish prayers
\nOriginality
\nLuigi Serafini and The Codex Seraphinianus
\nCopper heat-sinks
\nBalsa Planes
\nThe stone that missed my head when I was little
\nThe poor Lego-man that was crushed by that stone instead
\nModel Rockets
\nCannabis
\nRobert Heinlein
\nRay Bradbury
\nIsaac Asimov
\nDouglas Adams
\nFirefly
\nOrsen Scott Card
\nWhen truth and reconciliation defeat revenge
\nWhen right breaks with law
\nWhen reason prevails over violence
\nElegant solutions
\nUnapproachable enigmas
\nCommitment to quality
\nChiropractors
\nSelf-education
\nWikipedia
\nPublic Librarys
\nIEEE and ISO
\nThose sounds only I can hear
\nKnowing deep down where those sounds really come from
\nHistory
\nThe future
\nThis moment
\nProtecting something truly precious
\nThe certainty that I am alone, but that we are not
\nConsequences
\nElephants
\nLogos (The Word)
\nWishing for nothing
\nThe infinite, uncountable, and unquantifiable
\nUnknowable truths
\nCalculated defiance
\nThich Quang Duc
\nFalon Gong
\nTank Man
\nGeorge Washington
\nClair Cameron Patterson
\nJournalists with scruples
\nTerry Gilliam Films
\nTranscendence
\nKhentrul Lodr\u00f6 Thay\u00e9 Rinpoche
\nBeauty in all its forms
\nEspecially the female form
\nBernadette Peters
\nThat girl, whether or not we ever find each other
\nThe fact that the universe is witnessing itself through my eyes
\nThe true belief that vanity is not an inevitable cost of consciousness
\nThe undeserved gifts bestowed upon humanity by Gautama Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth and all those unknown souls that should be recognized as synonymous with those names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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