Interests (In no particular order)

• Backpacking - get out and hike

but first check out Wisdom of the Week from Backpacker magazine.

• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - intrigued by his Noosphere
• John Wesley Powell  - what a guy
• Astronomy   - eclipses, comets, astrophotography
• Music - Sounds good
  • Guitar - acoustic folk/rock
    • Larivee Guitars  (I love my D-03)
    • See the 'Stella' below.
  • Songs, Songwriters, etc.

• Internet - here we are
• Bolivia - traveled there for the '94 eclipse
• Baja   - traveled there for the '91 eclipse
• Big Bend National Park - been going there for 25 years
• Sierra Nevada   - love the granite
• San Francisco - the city
• Truth - One truth vs. Multiple truths
• Skepticism   - yes everyone could be wrong
• Programming
  • Visual FoxPro ,
  • OLE automation, COM/DCOM ,
  • OOP, UI design  
• Literary Criticism - New field for Chris
• Native American History - love to follow their footpaths
• Road Trips - the highway, truck stops and diners
• Photography - mostly slides
• Mind - the brain and it's function
• Cults   - beware cult mind control
• Rocks - look down for an adventure
• Identity - Am I that name?
• American West - the opening of the west
• Water Rights   - Phoenix probably should not exist
• The Rio Grande - links to sites about clean water...
• Religion - comparative studies
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library

• Maps   - where am I

Oh yes, we like to camp with our axes (or hatchets)... Carson-Iceberg Wilderness group shot, 1995: (L to R) Chris (holding 'Stella', the guitar named Desire), Aurora, John, Jacque, Dan.

• Some favorite books:
  • The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
  • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian - Wallace Stegner
  • Virgin Land - Henry Nash Smith
  • Portable Jung
  • The Portable Nietzsche
  • Pragmatism - William James
  • Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
  • The American West as Living Space - Wallace Stegner
  • The Exploration of the Colorado River - John Wesley Harding
  • The Phenomenon of Man - Teilhard de Chardin
  • Computers as Theatre - Brenda Laurel
  • Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
  • Combating Cult Mind Control - Steven Hassan
  • Trance-formations - John Grinder/Richard Bandler
  • The Nature of Hypnosis - Milton H. Erickson
  • The Guru Papers - Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad
  • Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
  • The Art of the Long View - Peter Schwartz
  • The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman
  • The Mind's Eye - Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennet
    

• Some books to read (or finish):
  • Gender on Ice - Lisa Bloom
  • Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
  • Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner
  • Rivers of Empire - Donald Worster
  • Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada - Clarence King
  • The Course of Empire - Bernard DeVoto
  • Endurance - Alfred Lansing
  • Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire - Hans Eysenck
  • Poetry, Language, Thought - Martin Heidegger
  • Clarence King - Biography - Thurman Wilkins