Ten Favorite Movies:
- Jurassic Park
- Avengers: Infinity Wars/Endgame
- Ghostbusters
- Forbidden Planet
- King Kong (1933)
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Big Lebowski
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Iron Man
- Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Ten Favorite Books:
- Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
- Shogun - James Clavell
- Chaos - James Gleick
- The Dinosaur Heresies - Robert Bakker
- Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods - Robert W. Smith
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Devil You Know - Mike Carey
- Storm Front (from Dresden Files) - Jim Butcher
- Shibumi - Trevanian
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Ten favorite TV Shows (including those I loved as a kid):
- Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
- What We Do in the Shadows
- The Walking Dead
- Prehistoric Planet
- Adventures of Superman
- The Simpsons
- Big Bang Theory
- Wandavision
- River Monsters
- Walking with Dinosaurs
Ten Favorite Joke Punch Lines:
- Make me one with everything
- So, why the long face?
- Does this taste funny to you?
- Hell, a pig that smart you don’t eat all at once.
- (Points to the sky) Shhh.
- I can’t believe it’s Thursday.
- I don't know but it tastes like peppermint.
- Hey, where's my oatmeal cookie?
- No, Tonto. I said posse.
- Small world, isn't it?
Ten Things I Like:
- Tiki bars on a beach, especially with live music
- Two-seater sports cars
- Hot and sour soup
- Extinct reptiles, and movies about them
- Apple computers
- Japanese gardens
- Ghost stories
- Pepsi
- First person shooters
- Chinese martial arts
Ten Things I Don't Like:
- Ice, Ice, Baby by Vanilla Ice
- In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry
- Monkeys
- Being cold
- Cucumbers, green peppers, beets, mushrooms or food with tentacles
- Wearing tuxedos
- Plastic eating utensils
- Spiders
- Loud neighbors
- Intolerance
Ten Favorite Places I've Been To:
- Waikiki Beach, Hawaii
- London, England
- Peninsula Lake, Ontario
- Clearwater Beach, Florida
- Monteverdi, Costa Rica
- Chur, Switzerland
- Heidelberg, Germany
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Tuba City, Arizona
Ten Useful Rules of Life:
- How we feel forms our opinions, not how we think
- Truth has many levels and complexities
- The key to life is not eliminating problems but dealing with them without circumstance
- Good things flow from learning to be relaxed
- Questions assumptions
- Unexpect the expected
- You can't think away emotion
- Two fundamental spiritual rules - respect others and spend time in quite contemplation
- Everybody leads a secret life and has secret pain
- Sometimes 51/49 is the best you can do
Ten Famous People I've Met:
- John Goodman
- Walter Cronkite
- Bob Costas
- Rachel Hunter
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Shamu (yes, not actually a person)
- Steve Allen
- Brooke Burke
- Hayley Atwell
- Elizabeth Henstridge