About steward

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.
• Citizen Tom Paine, by Howard Fast.
• 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:

• Worlds of Women, by Cecelia Tan
• Sex Magick, by Cecelia Tan
• The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, by Colin Woodard
• Priestess of Avalon, by Diana Paxson
• The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
• Christmas Watching, by Desmond Morris
• Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!, by Scott Adams
• Recovery, by J.M. Dilliard
• The Great Starship Race, by Diane Carey
• Flirt, by Laurell K. Hamilton
• No Humans Involved, by Kelley Armstrong
• A Seven Day Journey With Thomas Merton, by Esther de Waal
• Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos, by K. C. Cole
• Genius Squad, by Catherine Jinks
• Exit Strategy, by Kelley Armstrong
• The Good, The Bad, and the Mad, by E. Randall Floyd
• Sword of Avalon, by Diana L. Paxson
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (Popular Culture and Philosophy), by Various
• The Outlaw Demon Wails, by Kim Harrison
• Last Words, by George Carlin
• Hastur Lord, by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross
• Divine Misdemeanors, by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Flesh Circus, by Lilith Saintcrow
• The Adept Book Three: The Templar Treasure, by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
• Changing the World and Other Tales of Valdemar, by Mercedes Lackey
• Death Becomes Them, by Alix Strauss
• What To Do When Dreams Go Bad: A Practical Guide to Nightmares, by Anne Hill

Books I'm currently reading include:

Authors I particularly recommend 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.

Click here for my current Amazon wishlist.

Professional Affiliations:

• Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals
• Association for Computing Machinery
  • ACM SIG on Applied Computing
  • ACM SIG on Computers and Society
  • ACM SIG on Computer-Human Interaction
  • ACM SIG on Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web
  • ACM SIG on Software Engineering
• Association for Humanistic Psychology
• IEEE
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
• Institute of Noetic Studies
• Society for Organizational Learning

Miscellaneous Interests:

Reiki Master; ABMP Certified Massage Therapist; Reclaiming- and Feri- Trained Eclectic Witch; Minister, Universal Life Church.

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.

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Last updated: Sunday, September 6, 2009