The lists
Since I'm geek (anorak, nerd delete as appropriate), and geeks like sci-fi, here are my 10 favourite sci-fi films (in no particular order)
- 2001: A Space odyssey
- Rollerball (the original)
- Matrix
- Cube
- Dark City
- Ghost in the Shell
- The Empire Strikes Back
- eXistenZ
- Aliens
- Starship Troopers
I'm not only in to sci-fi, so in that sprit here are 10 of my favourite non sci-fi films
- The Untouchables
- Twister
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Dogma
- Saving Private Ryan
- Falling Down
- Jaws
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
- American Pie 2
- Ronin
I read as well, so here are my ten favourite books (of any kind)
- Eon, Gear Bear
- Escher: The complete graphic works
- The particle explosion, Frank Close, Micheal Marten & Christine Sutton
- Artificial Life, Steven Leavy
- The Eternal Golden Braid, Douglass R Hofstadter
- Star Trek: the next generation technical manual, Rick Sternach, Micheal Okuda
- Project Orion, George Dyson
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
- The code book, Simon Sing
- Guards, guards, Terry pratchet
While I'm working at my keyboard, music is pretty much essential, so here's some of my favourite albums
- Bat out of hell II, Meat loaf
- Bridge of spies, T'pau
- Life for rent, Dido
- Journeyman, Eric Clapton
- The Best of the Eagles
- Albedo 0.39, Vanglis
- Buffy the vampire slayer sound tack, vol 1
- Aliens soundtrack, James Horner
- Star Wars soundtrack, John Willams
- Fallen, Evancesance
I do watch a fair bit of of TV to, so hear are my ten all favourite programs
- Buffy the vampire slayer
- The Simpsons
- Doctor Who
- Blakes 7
- Star Gate SG-1
- Futurama
- Dead like me
- X files (up till season 5 anyway!)
- Babylon 5
- Fraser
Sayings that sum up what I feel about the world
- "I'm going to live forever or die trying", Vila
- "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8", Japanese proverb
- "There can be no thought of finishing 'aiming for the stars'. No matter how much progess you make, there is always the thrill of just beging", Robert Goddard
- "For we are luminous beings are we, not this crude matter", Yoda
- "Somewhere some thing incredible is waiting to be known", Carl Sagan
- "A straight line may the shortest route between two points but it's by no means the most interesting", The Doctor
- "Nobody said it had to be reel, but it's got to be something you can reach out and feel", Meat loaf
- "For every complex question, there is a simple answer-- and it's wrong", H.L. Mencken
- "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine", J.B.S Haldane
- "Do'h", Homer J Simpson
Since I'm male, even though I'm a geek, doesn't mean that I don't notice the fairer sex, in that vane here are (in my opion) the 10 best looking ladies in the world
- Alyson Hannigan
- Melissa Theuriau
- Cali Lewis
- Charisma Carpenter
- Sandra Bullock
- Amanda Pays
- Rachael Tcotin
- Ginny Buckley
- Natalie Imbruglia
- Fiona Bruce
Mmmm...food...garr. Since I do all of this hard work siting down at my computer, I need a healthy(!?) supply of food to keep my energy up. So here are my 10 favourite meals/foods
- Chocolate cheesecake
- Tuna and Mayonnaise
- Stake and chips
- Pizza (meaty kinds mostly)
- Cheese and apple sandwich
- Pancakes with maple syrup
- Apple crumble and custard
- Chocolate brownies
- Pancakes and lemon juice
- Just plain Chocolate!
Man's 10 greatest achievements (to date)
- The wheel
- Written language
- Powered flight
- Getting to the moon
- The Internet
- The Pyramids
- Clocks
- The number 0
- The ability to imagine far beyond our tiny mind's and bodies
- Having not destroyed him self by now
Okay so I ran out of ideas, so here's 10, number 11 from the other lists
- 11th favourite sci-fi film: Galaxy Quest
- 11th favourite non sci-fi film: Pleasantville
- 11th favourite book: The Dilbert Future, Scot Adams
- 11th favourite Album: I Giorni, Ludovico Einaudi
- 11th favourite TV program: Angel
- 11th saying that sums up my feelings about the world: "Never Guess. Unless you have to. There's enough uncertainty in the universe as it is", The Doctor
- 11th best looking lady in the world: Alexandra Paul
- 11th favourite food stuff: Cold beef and mashed potatoes
- mans 11th greatest achievement: The world telephone network
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