Some of my favorite things:

Food, volleyball, foreign languages, snowboarding, hiking, scuba diving, travel, math, physics, ping pong, sleeping in, UNIX, Perl, freeshell.org, Linux, mutt (email program), smoothies, stargazing, full-body massages, innovation, Ayn Rand, techno music (happy hardocre, trance & house), foreign films, interesting people, liberal-minded people, smart people, Aikido, columns by Ted Rall, ZNet News, Effexor-XR, high speed internet, waterskiing, rollerblading, empty beaches, Thai iced teas, great sex, 80's music, dark beers, honors students, good friends, my parents, incense, daydreaming, camping, indoor rock climbing, dancing (as long as I know what I'm doing), *good* novels, clean clothes & clean sheets.

Some of my less-than favorite things:

George W. Bush, US Foreign Policy, stomach aches, stupid americans (as opposed to those who realize that the US is NOT the only country in the world that matters), Microsoft, AOL, Hotmail, McDonald's, violence, stupidity, people with no spine (aka those that hate their jobs but don't quit), SUVs, TV (except for Discovery channel, PBS, TLC, and "Friends"), religious fanatics (see the first in this list), people that are always trying to sell me stuff while I'm traveling, engineering majors that aren't smart, dumb engineers, dumb managers, MIS majors, business majors, people that put American Flags on their cars after September 11.