Things I love

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Some things I love, presented without context.

• The Asimov Foundation series
• All things written by Michael Crichton
• how Lisp treats code as data
• PG's Hackers and Painters
• All of Robert Caro's books. And I now own a Electra 210
• Sachin Tendulkar's retirement speech
• The Undertaker vs Shawnmichaels Wrestlemania 25 and 26 matches
• Custom Winamp skins
• Marc Andreessen's old blog
• The "I'm no man" scene from LOTR:ROTK.
• Trying to set up a new .emacs
• A well written memo (also see my memos collection)
• The opening sequence from Casino Royale
• Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
• Buying a domain as soon as I have an idea. Also: I have hundreds of unused domains.
• when you speed up reading the last section of a book because you are excited for the ending
• The volume of Brandon Sanderson's output
• the feel of a fresh clean OS install.
• getting something to compile with no errors
• The opening montage sequence from Pixar's "Up"
• the Paxos algorithm for dealing with the Byzantine general problem