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Links I Like and Pages I Wrote

Bay Area Backcountry - Places to Hike and Camp in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Flora and Fauna - Plants and Animals in the San Francisco Bay Area
Where to Walk Your Pets - Take Your Dog for a Walk on the Wild Side
Waves World - Generate Realistic Waves for Rendering
Some of my Photographs and Drawings
What Have I Done?!?

Collective Terms for Animals

A Collection of Quotes
Meanderings of a Crank - A Little About Me

Meanderings of a Crank

Oh, sure, we can do the obvious stuff here - lists of favorite things:

Favorite writers:

Milorad Pavic
Umberto Eco
Barbara Kingsolver
Douglas Adams
Stanislaw Lem
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Neil Gaiman
Dr. Seuss

Favorite musicians:

Beethoven
Suzanne Vega
Indigo Girls
Paul Simon
Henryk Gorecki
Alexander Borodin
Lorenna McKennit
Sarah McLachlan
Happy Rhodes

Favorite artists (non-musical):

Andy Goldwsorthy
Patricia Wyatt
Renoir
Stacey Miller
Kimberly Cook
Matisse

Favorite monastery:

The monastery at Delski, Walasia

Favorite person I have never met:

Kathy Sykes

But where does that get us? Nowhere. Think about a photograph of a person - it shows us what the person looked like during one-sixtieth of a second of that person's life. One-sixtieth of a second? Insignificant.

Look around the web at all the homepages. In each you get a small glimpse into the mind of an incredibly complex person. You will never get the complete picture.

This page is no different in that respect, so here is the snapshot version of me: I am a thirtySomething mathematician/geographer. Some days I am an artist, although not often enough. I play the piano and guitar very badly, and sing even worse. I am learning to play a flute.

Created by Mark L. Hessenflow
E-Mail: bab@hknot.com

San José, California
8. March 1999