Hobbies and Interests

Running Links

  • Runner's World - Probably the best all-around resource for runners.
  • Hal Higdon's Web Site - A senior editor for Runner's World, his advice got me through my first marathon.
  • DC Road Runners - My local running club.
  • New Balance - I run on New Balance 856s, race in my 310s and hike in a battered pair of 851s.
  • Chicago Marathon - My favorite marathon.

    • LEGO Links

  • LUGNET - Probably the most useful LEGO site on the WWW.
  • The Official LEGO Page
  • Fibblesnork - Located on LUGNET, but important enough to merit its own entry on my list.
  • LEGO Pirate Stuff - Arrrrrhhhh!!!
  • My Pirate Page
  • Steve Jackson's Otaku Pirate Page - A useful guide to LEGO Pirates ships for all us Pirate LEGOManiacs
  • Austin David's Sailmaking Page
  • Steve Jackson's Sailmaking Page

    • Music Links - My favorite musicians

    (not in any particular order and by no means all of them. If I know of an official website, it's generally linked to from the artist's name.)

  • Steve Goodman - Chicago Folk at it's finest. We miss you Steve.
  • Rockapella - I almost cried when Sean Altman left the group.
  • The Rankin Family - Canadian Folk with a Celtic flavour.
  • Stan Rogers - Canadian Folk the way it was meant to be. I wish I could have heard him play.
  • Zachary Richard - Really cool Cajun, Zydeco, New Orleans Rhythm and Blues music.
  • Warren Zevon - Another Zevon Page -
  • The Kingston Trio - some of my fondest childhood memories are staying home from school "sick" and sitting in the living room wrapped in a blanket playing my parents Kingston Trio albums.
  • James Taylor - I skipped a mandatory meeting my first week of college to go see him in concert. Here's another site.
  • Livingston Taylor - James Taylor's younger brother. His music is a mixture of jazz and folk.
  • Bela Fleck - the world's greatest banjo player. If I had a tenth of the banjo playing talent he has in his left little finger, I'd be happy.
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • St. Louis Jesuits - these guys wrote some of my favorite liturgical music.
  • Sister Hazel -
  • Jethro Tull -
  • Tom Lehrer -
  • They Might Be Giants - the Unofficial TMBG page
  • Jackson Browne - Tom Jack's Jackson Browne Page - Russ Paris JB Page - Jackson Browne Bootleg Page - Spyder's JB Page
  • Crosby Stills Nash and Young -
  • Woody Guthrie - Guthrie fans take note: in 1998, Billy Bragg & Wilco released an album consisting of songs with lyrics by Woody & music by Billy & Wilco.
  • Pete Seeger -
  • Gordon Lightfoot -
  • Midnight Oil -
  • Artists who don't have sites on the WWW. If you know of any sites for them, let me know.
  • Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - More Chicago Folk. Running south on Lake Shore Drive.
  • Mark Rust - Upstate New York singer-songwriter.

    • Baseball Links

  • Go NATS! - and their AAA affiliate the Syracuse Chiefs (the PC police let them change their name back, but skychiefs is quicker to type)
  • Toronto Blue Jays

    Authors and Poets I Like

  • Orson Scott Card
  • Lois McMaster Bujold - the Official Website - and the beginning of her newest book is posted on Baen's web page
  • Edgar Allan Poe - I cribbed mercilessly from The Raven for the New Year's entry in SEAL Team FOUR's deck log.
  • Robert W. Service - poet who wrote my favorite poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other classics.

    • Other Stuff I'm interested in:

    Old Town Canoes - click here to see Old Town's catalog picture of my canoe. This is an overhead photo of it.

    National Motorists Association - Fight That Traffic Ticket

    Education Links - My alma maters

  • University of Chicago
  • Henderson House - They had a cool page a couple years back, but it's gone the way of the dinosaur.
  • 5700 Stony Island Avenue - Not much of a web page, but better than Hendu & Salisbury.
  • Salisbury House - When they make a page, you'll find a link to it here.
  • Oswego City School District - Where I spent my formative years.

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