Leigh L. Noble

Selected Personal Info & Photos

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• Books I've read lately
• DVDs (Movies) I've watched lately
• Some photos
• Other random trivia

I enjoy reading and find I especially enjoy older (usually written prior to 1980's) science fiction. I also read non-fiction as you'll see from my list. If I liked a book a lot I'll mention it here.

• Selections from Newton's Principia by Dana Densmore (2004)
• Challenges by Serge Lang (1997)
• Feed by M. T. Anderson (2004) (a book for young adults)
• The Maker of Universes (Book 1 in World of Tiers series) by Philip Jose Farmer (1965)
• Understanding materials : a festchrift for Sir Peter Hirsch edited by C.J. Humphreys (2002) (currently reading excerpts)
• The Book of Gordon Dickson orange-covered DAW paperback published about 1970, but containing short stories by Gordon Dickson previously published in the 1950s. (Excellent)
• Captain Jack Zodiac by Michael Kandel (1991)
• The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1952-1964 ed by M. Greenberg (Excellent)
• Mathematics in Fun and in Earnest by Nathan Altshiller Court (Excellent)
• The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb
• Musings of the Masters: an anthology of mathematical reflections edited by Raymond G. Ayoub
• Angels & Devils by Dan Brown

I don't own a TV but I do watch way too many DVDs using my personal computer. Here's a selected list of my recent DVD selections -- don't hold them against me!

• 1900 (1976)
• Transformers (2007 version) and The Transformers: The Movie (1986 version)
• The Simpson's Movie
• The Outlaw (1943)
• The Producers (2005 version)
• Munich
• Stargate SG-1: Season 9
• Primer [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/]
• Dark Shadows (the 1966 soap opera about a vampire) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059978/] -- currently watching 1968 season
• Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 (the 2004 TV series)

Could this be your professor?

• I like to listen to Old Time Radio such as [http://radio.macinmind.com], but I also like electronica such as [http://www.philosomatika.com/] and the drone zone at [http://somafm.com/]. I've also recently taken to listening to HBR1 [ http://www.hbr1.com/ ].
• I enjoy jogging...for fun
• I use Ubuntu Linux on my work computer.