Favourite Game:
MajCom My Top Position: #2, Rank: Grand General, Score: 5476 Opponents Defeated: 2,104 Games: 781 Turns: 10,527 Longest win streak: 103 Date: 12-27-18

Longest Game in the History of MajCom by Rounds: A grueling 472 Rounds: Game 310695 a 24 singles, Europe Massive, Flat Rate, no way to know how long it lasted, but it seemed endless! ;)

Favourite 'Sideways' Landing by Jumbo Jet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ePtRpyyks
Totally awesome landing!

Favourite Dance Routine:
El Tiempo - Flamenco, Choreographer: Javier Latorre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzM9exh7x4
Simply stunning in every way & the music stays with me for days!

Favourite Billionaire Book:
Principles - Ray Dalio: "Truth is the Essential Foundation for Producing Good Outcomes."
"Principles are ways of successfully dealing with reality to get what you want out of life." I highly recommend it: www.principles.com

Favourite Musical Composition:
Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y
Hauntingly beautiful, just avoid the crazy conductor, but the orchestra is magnificent.

Favourite Book / Netflix Film:
Requiem for the American Dream - Noam Chomsky
The book is organized around the 10 principles of the concentration of wealth and power:
1. Reduce Democracy 2. Shape Ideology 3. Redesign the Economy 4. Shift the Burden 5. Attack Solidarity 6. Run the Regulators 7. Engineer Elections 8. Keep the Rabble in Line 9. Manufacture Consent 10. Marginalize the Population

The Netflix interview is well done and very thought provoking. The Netflix rating is because: a) it doesn't have any large-breasted Ninja's or b) the campaign to keep us ignorant is hard at work or c) all of the above.

Favourite Book / Audio Book:
Why Buddhism is True - Robert Wright
This is a brilliant and very interesting book. "...this is the first book to combine evolutionary psychology with cutting-edge neuroscience to defend the radical claims at the heart of Buddhist philosophy." However, it's much more readable than that description makes it sound! ;)

Favourite Cinematic Art:
Mountain, 2017. Narrated by Willem Dafoe
Stunning Scenery mixed with a couple of short vignettes on our human fascination with mountains from the past and now the odd queues to the summit of Everest?? And **a really cool variety of wicked 'extreme' sports - just breathtaking.

Favourite Naturalist:
Interview, 2013 - David Attenborough

“We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde.

Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.”

Closing message from The Life of Mammals, 2002:

"Three and a half million years separate the individual who left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left them on the moon. A mere blink in the eye of evolution.

Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever-increasing population. In spite of disasters when civilizations have over-reached themselves, that process has continued, indeed accelerated, even today. Now mankind is looking for food, not just on this planet but on others.

Perhaps the time has now come to put that process into reverse. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we control the population to allow the survival of the environment."

Closing message from State of the Planet, 2000:

"The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics.

I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer.

Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy; inhabitable by all species."

Favourite Oceanographer:
Quote - Jacques Yves Cousteau "Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."

Favourite Space Guy:
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan, Cornell University 1994
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot... That's home...

On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

...Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot... Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light...

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

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My Recipe for Freedom... and ending War:

I will always search out real facts and recognize fiction.

I will continue to educate myself from a worldly view throughout my life from many credible sources.

I will keep my mind, body and spirit free of Corporate sponsored toxins, dogma & propaganda, and...
under 'my' control.