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On a More Personal Note

Some of my favorite web sites:

Podcasts: The word nerds, This week in Tech (TWIT)
Things that make me laugh: The onion, Project Cartoon
Favorite language-related sites:
- egg corns
- Language Log
Favorite mashup: Shopping.com combines epinions product ratings with price comparison
Favorite Blog: Indexed
Favorite environmental news site: Tree Hugger

Some Authors who have been influential in my life:

Thich Nhat Hanh A buddist monk who writes beautifully about the joy of mindful living
Walker Percy A semiotician who writes fiction! Gotta love it.
Jerry Mander Shoot your TV
Ayn Rand She was empowerment before empowerment was cool
J.D. Salinger
Willa Cather

These are some of my favorite painters (Click the image to see a larger version)

Paintings scanned by Mark Harden.

Odillon Redon, "La coquille"	Wassily Kandinsky, "Composition VIII"	Robert Motherwell, "Elegy to the Spanish Republic LXX"

Don't you DARE go to Paris without seeing the Redon's at the Musee d'Orsay

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." -- Aldous Huxley

This is my previous dog Belle.
She was big and lovable.

My new dog is a farm collie named Bodi. She's also very pretty and smart.

Everybody's got their favorite quotes. Here are some of mine

I belong to the Organic Gardening Club of Central Ohio
Kent Byron drummer

Last modified: Sun Oct 14 EDT 2007 by dbyron