my favs

Updated on 18 Nov 2025.

music

I would describe my music taste as varied.

artists

My 5 current favorite artists:

• The 1975
• Daft Punk
• bbno$
• AJR
• Djo

songs

My 5 current favorite songs:

• Happiness - The 1975
• Basic Being Basic - Djo
• Back On You - Djo
• Club classics - Charli xcx
• Genghis Khan - Miike Snow

movies

Organized by year:

• Back To The Future (1985)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Rush Hour (1998)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (2002)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Inception (2010)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Penguins Of Madagascar (2014)
• No Time To Die (2021)
• The Holdovers (2023)

books

I tend to like sci-fi.

• The Martian - Andy Weir
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
• Death's End - Cixin Liu
• Legend - Marie Lu
• Prodigy - Marie Lu
• Champion - Marie Lu
• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
• Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
• Looking for Alaska - John Green
• The Stand - Stephen King
• The Long Walk - Stephen King
• The Running Man - Stephen King
• The Institute - Stephen King
• Never Flinch - Stephen King
• What If? - Randall Munroe
• Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe
• Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
• The Great Gatsby - J.D. Salinger
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
• How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Failure Is Not An Option - Gene Kranz
• The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield
• Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis

games

These are my favorites, but I'll play almost any game.

board games

• Chess
• Catan
• Azul
• Pandemic
• Ticket To Ride
• Ticket To Ride: Europe
• Avalon
• Root
• Splendor
• Villagers

video games

• Minecraft
• Tetris
• A Dark Room

quotes

I enjoy compiling quotes to live by:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. —Robert A. Heinlein

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. —Einstein

Comparison is the thief of joy. —Theodore Roosevelt

I'm playing the best hand I can with the cards I've been dealt. —Unknown

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. —Macbeth

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2 + 2 = 5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one. —Mikhail Tal