About steward
"steward has...(a) technical style,
focused on the facts as he sees them and the explicit details
of agreements, a style that often provokes conflicts with those
who have less detail-oriented styles." - Evelyn Wright |
Ah, the dreaded Personal Information Page... or in this case Personal Information subsite!
Well, a lot of things are in those links on the left. As for the rest:
Here are some web applets/widgets I find particularly useful.
I read a lot. Here's a list of the magazines that I read.
Books I particularly recommend include:
- Bitch, by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
- Evolutionary Witchcraft, by T. Thorn Coyle.
- The Final Reflection, by John M. Ford.
- Looking Forward, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- Making Contact, by Virginia Satir.
- Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, by Richard Selzer.
- Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter.
- Spiritual Literacy, by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
- Spock's World, by Diane Duane.
- Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Summoning the Fates, by Z. Budapest.
- Suicide and the Soul, by James Hillman.
- The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff.
- The Way We Talk Now, by Geoffrey Nunberg.
- What Every Person Should Know About War, by Chris Hedges.
Books I've recently read include:
- Spin the Bottle, by Elizabeth Scott
- Immortality, Inc., by Robert Sheckley
- Return to Avalon, by Various
- Coming of the Fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Behind Enemy Lines: The Dominion War, Book 1, by John Vornholt
- A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow
- Out of this World Volume 1, by Perrott Phillips
- Cheap Psychological Tricks, by Perry W. Buffington
- Death's Daughter, by Amber Benson
- Personal Demon, by Kelley Armstrong
- Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes, by David Helvarg
- Skin Trade, by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Reiki Master Manual, by William Lee Rand
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach
- Escape from Hell, by Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle
- The Ultimate Guide to Good Clean Humor: Your Resource for Good Clean Fun, by Bernard Brunsting
- Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, by S. G. Browne
- Unity, by S.D. Perry
- Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories, by Peter Canning
- The Dominion and Ferenginar, by David R. George III; Keith R.A. DeCandido
- Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein
- Banned: Classical Erotica : Forty Sensual and Erotic Excepts from Aristophanes to Whitman-Uncensored, by Victor Gulotta
- A Circus of Hells, by Poul Anderson
- Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing, by Sam Hamill, tr.
- Meditation in Action, by Chogyam Trungpa
Books I'm currently reading include:
Authors I particularly recommend include:
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My favorite musical pieces include:
- The Ninth Enigma Variation ("Nimrod") by Elgar;
- The Fifth Movement of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony;
- Squire Wood's Lamentation on the Refusal of his Halfpence by O'Carolan;
- The Water is Wide; and
- The Main Theme from Star Trek: First Contact.
The Q-Link Contact and Memories site, which I am webspinner of, was featured in an article in USA Today. (On Q-Link, I was known as JohnD39, and I still use that ID in some places on the web such as Yahoo!Groups.)
Click here for an explanation of the name "steward" itself.
Click here for my virtual certificate wall of degrees, certifications, and so forth.
My thesis for my Masters of Arts degree in Professional Studies consisted of a Media Guide for a small non-profit organization, with notes appended so that any NPO of similar size and needs can readily adapt the Guide to their use. Click here for more information and to download the Guide and notes.
Professional Affiliations:
- Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Association for Humanistic Psychology
- IEEE
- Institute of Noetic Studies
- Society for Organizational Learning
Miscellaneous Interests:
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I am employed as a procedures and systems analyst by the State of New Jersey. Previously, I've worked as a systems analyst/programmer in the field of medical equipment billing software.
Click here for the obligatory photos page.
Page created and maintained by steward
Last updated: Friday, June 12, 2009