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LJ Interests meme results

1. astronomy:
   The Moon and The Stars At Night.
   (And Stephen Hawking and james Gleick by day)
2. biotech:
   The Next Big Thing. Hacking the source code to life itself - what could be cooler?
   The biotech revolution will make the computer revolution look like nothing.
   
3. civilian space program:
   From Scaled composites to Liftport, these are the guys who are going to take humanity to the stars, continuuing the work originally started by civilians, then continued by governments.
4. geekdom:
   From going to SF conventions, to discussing theoretical astrophysics in cafes, it's a lifestyle, baby.
5. marketing:
   Jedi mind trick writ large.
6. mythology:
   What do people believe, and why.
7. physics:
   Yay! Science! God doesn't play dice with the universe, rather it is the dice that play god with the universe.
8. role-playing games:
   Speaking of geekdom :)
   Every culture has its stories. These are mine. It's not just sitting around in your mother's basement pretending to be an elf. (Though it is that, too :)
9. secret societies:
   From the Masons to the Priory of Sion to the Discordians to the Project for a New American Century, the hidden movers behind events, great and small, have always fascinated me.
10. thelema:
    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
    All else is commentary.

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Kitty!

Sick, so home from work (but, strangely, still working, as I've had to log in to work twice today to fix problems, and answer email...)

Anyway, I did a bit of web surfing and found some pictures of Nakobi, a lion that belongs to an old co-worker from my tech support days. I have no idea how or where Sean originally got Nakobi. When he was a kitten he used to have to be bottle-fed every two hours, so he brought him in to work in a cage. Cutest thing ever. He used to like to nibble on people's fingers. Hopefully, he's stopped that by now :)

Anyway, he used to have his own web site that had all his baby pictures, and his couch that got a little clawed up (you know how cats like to scratch on furniture - yeah, big cats do that too.) Unfortunately, I can't find the original site, just a couple of broken links, but I did manage to find a couple more recent photos:

Publicity shot from his new home at the Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation: http://www.kirshner.org/animals/nakobi.php

Sean and Nakobi on his second birthday: http://www.phoenixexotics.org/pages/LionNakobi.htm

A couple of other photos from the Foundation: http://www.kirshner.org/animals/photo.php?picked=Nakobi

And, if you're interested, an article about the Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation, where Sean now volunteers: http://orion.csuchico.edu/Pages/Vol44issue15/jour60/tigers.html