My Favorite
My favorite artist of all time - Salvador Dali.
My favorite binge - kilo of bananas in one sitting.
My even more favorite binge - 2 kilos of apples in one sitting.
My favorite new word - blazar.
My favorite movie - Perfect Days.
My favorite production design for a recent movie - Dune 2.
My favorite production design for a recent series - Shogun.
My favorite recent series - Halo.
My favorite little TV show - A Cat's-Eye View of Japan.
My favorite sushi - Unagi hand roll.
My favorite art gallery - the New York City sidewalk.
My favorite way to drink coffee - in the morning with lots of milk and sugar.
My favorite elders book - Everyday Saints and Other Stories.
My favorite language that I do not speak - Japanese.
My favorite quote - The beautiful is as useful as the useful…Perhaps more so (Hugo).
My favorite egg-throwing targets - men with crowns.
My favorite delinquents - men throwing eggs at men with crowns.
My favorite random social place - the corner laundromat.
My favorite corner laundromat random question - is this your underwear?
My favorite line from a song - dynamite with a laser beam.
My favorite subreddit - r/whatstheword.
My favorite human right - free speech.
My favorite fact about the human body - 10 percent of our atoms are as old as the Universe.
My favorite weird feeling about the above fact - I feel it.
My favorite speculation about the above fact - we are older than the universe.
My favorite line from a book I read - since there is only one electron field, only one up quark field, and only one down quark field, you and I, dear reader, are connected to each other. Each of our atoms is a ripple in the same cosmic ocean. We are one with each other, and with all of creation (Harry Cliff).
My favorite obsession - space.
My favorite ability from science fiction - folding space.
My favorite rule - never optimize a part that shouldn’t exist in the first place (Elon Musk).
My favorite thought on return on investment - you have to estimate total cash generated from now to eternity, and discount it back to today (Buffett).
Favorite word pronunciation - basiliscine bas·i·lis·cine [bas-uh-lis-in].
My favorite meta place in NYC - the NYC subway.
My favorite quote from a movie director - I shoot my movie on paper before I even begin (Ridley Scott).
My favorite movie quote - Every weapon has a manual (The Fifth Element).
My favorite website - gutenberg.org.
My favorite NYC institution - NYPL.
My favorite place in NYC - Central Park.
My favorite US institution - NASA.
My favorite draftsman of all time - Leonardo da Vinci.
My favorite planet outside of Earth - Mars.
My favorite colors - Red, Blue and Yellow, Orange too.
My favorite period in history - The Renaissance.
My favorite Renaissance artist - Michelangelo.
My favorite city outside of New York City - Rome.
My favorite food - fish, salad, apples.
My favorite seaside - Costa Brava.
My favorite mythologist - Joseph Campbell.
My favorite dream of the future - interstellar travel.
My favorite science fiction writer - Arthur C Clarke.
My favorite painter from history - Rembrandt.
My favorite contemporary artists - Christo Yavashev and Jean Claude.
My favorite public appliance - water fountain.
My favorite philosopher - Henry David Thoreau.
My favorite activity outside of art - walking.
My favorite thing to do while walking - thinking.
My favorite movies person - David Attenborough.
My favorite contemporary scientist - Carl Sagan.
My favorite science fiction book not written by Arthur C Clarke - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
My favorite spaceship - Rama.
My favorite movie growing up - Star Wars.
My favorite obsession that I know nothing about - quantum physics.
My favorite contemporary non-fiction writer - Walter Isaacson.
My favorite aesthetics - Kyoto Zen Gardens.
My favorite crappy food in NYC - dollar pizza.
My favorite technologist - Elon Musk.
My favorite event in history - The French Revolution.
My favorite art making - drawing.
My favorite art style from history - Surrealism.
My favorite creative discipline I stalk on the internet other than cats - engineering.
My favorite subjects outside of art - science, astrophysics.
My favorite occupation other than artist - astronaut.
My favorite Egyptologist - Bob Brier.
My favorite countries from history - Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt.
My favorite comfort food - Korean food.
My favorite landmark in the US - Golden Gate Bridge.
My favorite road to drive in the US - Highway 1.
My favorite church - St Peters in Rome.
My favorite museums in the world - Vatican Museums, Uffizi.
My favorite house - Salvador Dali house in Port Ligat.
My favorite seaside town - Cadaqués.
My favorite planet with rings - Saturn.
My favorite thing to read and watch youtube videos about - space.
My favorite mystery - the multiverse, whether we are a simulation.
My favorite secret comfort - re-watching sci-fi and action movies.
My favorite bad behavior - pirating.
My favorite art medium - pen and ink.
My favorite physical activity - hiking in nature.
My favorite living things - trees.
My favorite idle activity - looking.
My favorite construction object - ladder.
My favorite commercial activity - construction.
My favorite machines - robots.
My favorite character from Star Wars - R2D2.
My favorite actor that never got an Oscar - R2D2.
My favorite vehicle from Star Wars - AT-AT.
My favorite joke - The Higgs boson walks into a church, and the priest says, “I’m sorry we don't allow particles in here.” And the Higgs says, “Good luck having mass without me.”
My favorite time of day to wake up is no longer 11 am.
My favorite season - summer.
My favorite fruit snack - bananas.
My favorite vehicles to ride - boats.
My favorite place to swim - shallow water.
My favorite place to watch the sunset in NYC - Chelsea Piers.
My favorite discussions where I am completely ignorant of the subject - philosophy.
My favorite underrated museum in NYC - Rubin Museum of Art, The Morgan Library.
My favorite way to kill my own food - fishing.
My favorite vegetable - tomato.
My favorite way to get to places - speed walking.
My favorite window shopping activity - trying perfume.
My favorite things to hate - handbags and diamonds.
My favorite thing in my room - the floor.
My favorite appliance - my mac.
My favorite video on youtube - Pale Blue Dot.
My favorite non-fiction book - The Power of Myth.
My favorite speculation - aliens.
My favorite documentaries - Baraka, Planet Earth series of BBC.
My favorite TV show growing up - Cosmos.
My favorite way to spend an evening - party.
My favorite party - gallery openings, art shows.
My favorite way to spend a day - in nature.
My favorite alcoholic drink - beer.
My favorite sport from the last Olympics - skateboarding.
My favorite ancient philosopher - Diogenes.
My favorite three-letter word - yes.
My favorite top three three-letter words - yes, you can.
My favorite adventure in NYC - people watching.
My favorite adventure I have been on - Camino de Santiago.
My favorite crappy outfit - worn out T-shirt.
My favorite outfit - my painted shoes.
My favorite ideologist of the 20th century - Buckminster Fuller.
My favorite idea by Buckminster Fuller - Spaceship Earth.
My favorite website on the internet that I donate to - is no longer Wikipedia.
My favorite stories to read - ancient mythology.
My favorite letter - The Letter from Chief Seattle to the President.
My favorite sci-fi short story - They’re Made Out of Meat.
My favorite superpower - teleportation.
My favorite kind of action movies - are no longer kung fu movies.