Jed's Interests: Recreation & Hobbies

(Last update (minor): 22 November 1999.)

I'm a dabbleror, to put it nicely, a dilettante. I don't do serious research, but I'm at least mildly interested in almost everything.

Here are some particular interests at the moment:

• reading, especially science fiction and fantasy
• games of all sorts, but especially roleplaying games
• puns, light verse, and other forms of wordplay
• singing rounds (and no, I don't mean "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")
• situation puzzles
• writing fiction and occasionally poetrymy secondary longterm goal is to become a good and well-known author; toward that end, I've thus far made one professional fiction sale and one non-professional poetry "sale"
• virtual-world design (my tertiary longterm goal is to design worlds and VR adventures for a living)
• reading aloud, and listening to others do so
• juggling
• typography
• user interface design
• linguistics, particularly etymology and phonology
• artificial intelligence
• light physical activity such as bicycling, frisbee, and New Games (though I'm not terribly athletic)
• theatre tech (I haven't worked a show in years, but someday I hope to go back to it)
• radio drama and comedy (writing and listening to)
• Aikido, a Japanese quasi-martial art
• electronic books and online document viewers
• occasional dabbling in art (though I'm no artist)doodling and creating occasional computer-generated textures. (That one was created using Tom Davis' "swirl" program and cglue(6D); I have others but they're less interesting.)