When not sitting in a freezing office (these Arizonans always WAY over-compensate for the ambient temperature), or staying up all night at a telescope, I build things like furniture, geometric models, and assorted electronic gadgetry. Another favourite thing to do is to read books on ancient cultures in an attempt to understand the evolution of this one. A while back, I was converted to Linux for PCs, which means I never ever have to touch another piece of software written by Microsoft, except to play mindless shoot-'em-up games.

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Pet peeves

• People who toss cigarette butts out of car windows. And they're probably also the same people who don't bother with turn signals...
• Having to walk through a department store's perfume department - they oughta issue RESPIRATORS!
• Seeing the Union Flag (no - it's NOT a jack) flown upside down. It goes THIS WAY:
  

Favourite things to do

Artistic woodworking

Building models of old planes. Visit the home page of the Spitfire Society


Working to end sexism, and violence against women and gay people


Eating vegetarian food, especially Indian and Thai


Drinking draught Guinness. Visit Guinness' home page


Building and using adaptive optics instruments


Playing with a menagerie of dogs and cats at home


Listening to the classical music of Europe, India, Egypt, Lebanon, Java, Japan, China, etc, etc, etc...

Michael Hart
email:      mhart at as dot arizona dot edu
snail mail: Steward Observatory
            University of Arizona
            Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone:      (520) 621-8353

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