Hobbies

http://hbiostat.org/audio/fhmusic/guitar/jazz Jazz Guitar

http://hbiostat.org/audio/fhmusic/guitar/classical Classical Guitar

Trumpet; goal is to be a decent player in 2022

Favorite Quotes

• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties - Francis Bacon, 1605
• You must be the change you wish to see - M. Ghandi
• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise - John W. Tukey, 1962

Reading

Some of My Favorite Novels

1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140239375 The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
2. http://www.ccel.org/d/dostoevsky/karamozov/karamozov.html The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671510053 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
4. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553208845/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Dec05)
5. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679432469 Straight Man by Richard Russo
6. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140077022/qid=1135657813/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 White Noise by Don DeLillo (Dec05)
7. http://bonigv.tripod.com Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
8. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394744209 The Assault by Harry Mulisch
9. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060512806 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
10. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375704779/qid=1122143479/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/104-7918214-9941556 Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
11. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345452003/qid=1126793643/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-8415192-5566369?v=glance&s=books The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
12. http://www.amazon.com/Job-Story-Simple-Joseph-Roth/dp/1585673749/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215108995&sr=1-12 Job: The Story of a Simple Man by Joseph Roth (Dec 07)
13. http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Falls-Richard-Russo/dp/0375726403/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215109070&sr=1-1 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Feb 08)
14. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=xj13KqqC3i&isbn=037575931X&itm=1 Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (Feb06)
15. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014100018X/qid=1135658282/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Dec05)
16. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451166892 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
17. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
18. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
19. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Other Recommended Novels

1. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Some of My Favorite Non-Fiction

1. http://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0684824906 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029117062 How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670031518 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
4. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345409469 Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
5. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070504776 The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making by Scott Plous
6. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192100246 Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
7. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809058405 Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
8. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465054803/ref=pd_sxp_f/104-1452008-8584762?v=glance&s=books A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos
9. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web/public.nsf/Documents/Risk Risk by John Adams (the geographer, not the president)
10. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743223136/qid=1126793537/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-8415192-5566369?v=glance&s=books John Adams by David McCullough
11. http://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316010669/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215108825&sr=1-1 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Jun 08)
12. http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Economist-Exposing-Poor-Decent/dp/0345494016/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215108865&sr=1-1 The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (Jun 08)
13. Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs

To Read List

1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559702362/qid=1122143836/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7918214-9941556?v=glance&s=books The Travnik Chronicle (also called the Bosnian Chronicle) by Ivo Andric (Yugoslav Nobel prize winner; recommended by Janez Stare of Slovenia)
2. http://www.amazon.com/Radetzky-March-Joseph-Roth/dp/1862075131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217355648&sr=1-1 The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Favorite CDs

• http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000C24KC/qid=1152325931/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-0421755-7200039?s=music&v=glance&n=5174 You Must Believe in Spring by http://www.billevanswebpages.com Bill Evans
• http://www.amazon.com/Heres-Life-Shirley-Horn/dp/B0000046KM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1215108409&sr=8-1 Here's to Life by Shirley Horn
• http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Morning-Tram-Stacey-Kent/dp/B000TEUCFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1215108476&sr=1-1 Breakfast on the Morning Tram by Stacey Kent