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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
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