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"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...

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.
  • 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:

  • Beginnings, by Jay Faerber
  • Violent Cases, by Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean
  • For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Exploring the Unnamable, by Asenath Mason, ed.
  • The Alton Gift, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Deborah J. Ross
  • Lucifer Rising: A Book Of Sin, Devil Worship, and Rock'n'Roll, by Gavin Baddeley
  • From Death to Birth, by Tigunait
  • Flying With Shamans In Fairy Tales And Myths, by Nana Nauwald
  • There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale, by Sean Astin; Joe Layden
  • Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity, by Sharon Moalem; Jonathan Prince
  • A Monk's Alphabet: Moments of Stillness in a Turning World, by Jeremy Driscoll
  • The Way We Talk Now, by Geoffrey Nunberg
  • The Harlequin, by Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Life of Nelson (Classics of Naval Literature), by Robert Southey
  • Driving the Amish, by Jim Butterfield
  • Bushido: Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan, by Inazo Nitobe
  • The Yellow Wind, by David Grossman
  • Sword and Sorceress XIX, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • The Book of Elves and Fairies, by Frances Jenkins Olcott
  • The Outlaw Bible of American Essays, by Alan Kaufman, ed.
  • Entangled Minds : Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, by Dean Radin
  • The Anti-Death League, by Kingsley Amis
  • 20 Most Asked Questions About the Amish & Mennonites, by Merle Good
  • Meditations for Cats Who Do Too Much, by Michael Cader
  • Trill and Bajor, by Andy Mangels; Michael A. Martin; J. Noah Kym
  • The Instrumentality of Mankind, by Cordwainer Smith
  • Wales for Beginners, by Jeff Fallow
  • The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius, by R. U. Sirius
  • God's Debris: A Thought Experiment, by Scott Adams

Books I'm currently reading include:

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.

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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.

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Last updated: Friday, June 27, 2008