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Lists of favorite things, biased towards the recently discovered, listed in no particular order, and updated indiscriminately.

[Movies][Series][Non-Fiction][Fiction][Podcasts][Video Games][RSS Feeds][Songs][Albums][Movie Scores][Knots][Equations][Miscellaneous]

Movies

  • Dune (2021)
  • Empire Strikes Back
  • Interstellar
  • Inception
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Passengers
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • The Godfather
  • The Imitation Game
  • The Martian

Series

  • Band of Brothers
  • Firefly
  • Fleabag
  • For All Mankind
  • Foundation
  • Game of Thrones
  • House of Cards
  • iZombie
  • Sherlock
  • Silicon Valley
  • Stranger Things
  • Ted Lasso
  • The Blacklist
  • The Expanse
  • The Good Place
  • The Sopranos
  • The West Wing
  • Travelers
  • Veronica Mars

Non-Fiction

  • Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom
  • FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Method Ignite Innovation by Dan Ward
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
  • Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
  • On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins1
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  • Peopleware by Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister
  • Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
  • The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
  • The High Frontier by Gerard O’Neill
  • The High Frontier: An Easier Way by Tom Marotta & Al Globus
  • The Innovators’ Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
  • The Innovators’ Solution by Clayton M. Christensen
  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson

Fiction

  • A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  • Delta-V by Daniel Suarez
  • Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Liu Cixin:
    • The Three-Body Problem
    • The Dark Forest
    • Death’s End
  • Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
  • The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
  • The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett
    • Foundryside
    • Shorefall
    • Locklands
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

Podcasts

  • 99% Invisible: all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about
  • Accidental Tech Podcast: Marco, Casey, and John discuss tech and Apple
  • Cortex: CGP Grey and IMYKE
  • Dithering: three episodes per week, 15 minutes per episode; not a minute less, not a minute more
  • Exponent: about tech, society, and business strategy
  • The Incomparable: pop culture
  • Liftoff: space and related subjects
  • Mindscape: Sean Carroll hosts conversations with the world’s most interesting thinkers
  • MECO: space news and other hot drama
  • No Dumb Questions: two white guys talking
  • Off-Nominal: a few friends, a couple of drinks, and casual conversations about space
  • Planet Money: the economy explained
  • Robot or Not?: Jason Snell asks John Siracusa to rule on the meaning of various words and concepts. It’s not just about robots anymore.
  • Sharp Tech: How technology works, and the ways it is impacting the world
  • The Daily: from the NYT
  • The Talk Show: with host John Gruber of Daring Fireball
  • What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con[stitutional] Law

Video Games

  • Civilization
  • Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr.
  • Serf City (a.k.a. The Settlers)
  • Tecmo Super Bowl
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • TIE fighter

RSS Feeds

  • And now it’s all this
  • Ars Technica (by far the highest volume)
  • Daring Fireball
  • Main Engine Cut Off — Blog
  • Marginal Revolution
  • Selenian Boondocks
  • Slow Boring
  • stratechery
  • Wait But Why
  • What If?
  • xkcd.com (with mobile-friendly alt-text)

Songs

  • All Outta Angst by NOFX
  • Bend to Squares by Death Cab for Cutie
  • Come What May Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
  • Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band
  • In Circles by Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
  • Say it Ain’t So by Weezer
  • Strange by Celeste
  • Such Great Heights by The Postal Service
  • Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine
  • Well Enough Alone by Chevelle
  • Where is My Mind? by Pixies

Albums

  • Crash by Dave Matthews Band
  • Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Discovery by Daft Punk
  • Fashion Nugget by Cake
  • Flood by They Might Be Giants
  • Give Up by The Postal Service
  • Nevermind by Nirvana
  • Punk in Drublic by NOFX
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins
  • Something About Airplanes by Death Cab for Cutie
  • Straight Ahead by Pennywise
  • Sublime
  • The Bends by Radiohead
  • The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse
  • Undertow by Tool
  • Vena Sera by Chevelle
  • Weezer

Movie Scores

Mainly for listening to when I’m working.

  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Gone Girl
  • Journey (technically a video game)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Imitation Game
  • The Social Network
  • TRON Legacy

Knots

  • Square Knot
  • Bowline
  • Double Overhand Stopper
  • Tautline Hitch
  • Clove Hitch
  • Shoe
  • Full Windor

Equations

$$ \begin{equation} \label{eq:ln} \ln(a)=\int_1^a \frac{1}{x}\,dx \end{equation} $$
$$ \begin{equation} \label{eq:fourier} \hat{f}(\xi) = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} f(x)\ e^{- 2\pi i x \xi}\,dx \end{equation} $$
$$ \begin{equation} \label{eq:maxwell} d * F = J \end{equation} $$
$$ \begin{equation} dS \ge \frac{\partial Q}{T} \end{equation} $$
$$ \begin{equation} \label{eq:euler-lagrange} \frac{\partial L}{\partial f} = \frac{d}{dx}\frac{\partial L}{\partial f^\prime} \end{equation} $$
$$ \begin{equation} \label{eq:navier-stokes} \frac{\partial \mathbf{u}}{\partial t} + \mathbf{u} \cdot \nabla \mathbf{u}= -\frac 1 \rho \nabla \bar{p} + \nu \nabla^2 \mathbf u + \tfrac13 \, \nu \nabla (\nabla\cdot\mathbf{u}) + \mathbf{g} \end{equation} $$
$$ \begin{equation} \label{eq:quaternion} i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1 \end{equation} $$

Miscellaneous

  • Pilot Precise V5 RT (retractable tip)
  • Zojirushi Travel Mug

  1. Discussed on Systematic 210 and On Intelligence. ↩

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