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 (in alphabetical order by title) include:
- Bitch, by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
- Citizen Tom Paine, by Howard Fast.
- Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, by Joe Bageant.
- Erotism: Death and Sensuality, by Georges Bataille.
- Evolutionary Witchcraft, by T. Thorn Coyle.
- The Final Reflection, by John M. Ford.
- Lies the Government Told You, by Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, J.S.C., ret..
- 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.
- Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't, by Stephen R. Prothero.
- Spiritual Literacy, by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
- Spock's World, by Diane Duane.
- Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein.
- Suicide and the Soul, by James Hillman.
- The Gift of Fear, by Gavin de Becker.
- The Nature of Happiness, by Desmond Morris.
- 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:
- The Serpent's Shadow, by Rick Riordan
- Betrayal, by Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de Sade
- The Hell Fire Club, by Daniel P. Mannix
- The Power of Negative Thinking, by Charles Preston
- The Heart of the Initiate, by Victor Anderson; Cora Anderson
- In Mari's Bower, by Cora Anderson
- Demigods and Monsters, by Leah Wilson; Rick Riordan
- On Truth, by Harry G. Frankfurt
- Angel Town, by Lilith Saintcrow
- Art of Living, by Epictetus
- Ceremonial Magic Unveiled, by Dion Fortune
- The Hollows Insider, by Kim Harrison
- Opening Pandora's Box : Phrases Borrowed From the Classics and the Stories Behind Them, by Ferdie Addis
- Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons
- The Sea Priestess, by Dion Fortune
- A Perfect Blood, by Kim Harrison
- Holidays are Hell, by Kim Harrison; Lynsay Sands; Marjorie M. Liu; Vicki Pettersson
- The Red King, by Andy Mangels; Michael A. Martin
- Sex in our Changing World, by John McPartland
- Why They Kill, by Richard Rhodes
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.
When the whim takes me, I write poetry and short pieces of prose, available here.
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.
Click here for my current Amazon wishlist.
Professional Affiliations:
- Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Association for Humanistic Psychology
- IEEE
- Institute of Noetic Studies
- Project Management Institute
- 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, April 20, 2012