Mike Huben
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== Entertainment == | == Entertainment == | ||
[[Image:hogfather.jpg|thumb|Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather".]] | [[Image:hogfather.jpg|thumb|Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather".]] | ||
| − | I read omnivorously in science, politics, and philosophy, but I've always read a LOT of SF and Fantasy. My favorite has long been comic fantasy, especially the [[Wikipedia:Discworld|Discworld]] and [[Wikipedia:Dresden Files|Dresden Files]] series. My favorite SF is [[wikipedia:Babylon 5|Babylon 5]], the most enormous and brilliant space opera in print or film: 120 episodes of one complex story. It makes Star Wars look like the overproduced pablum that it is. | + | I read omnivorously in science, politics, and philosophy, but I've always read a LOT of SF and Fantasy. My favorite has long been comic fantasy, especially the [[Wikipedia:Discworld|Discworld]] and [[Wikipedia:Dresden Files|Dresden Files]] series. My favorite SF is [[wikipedia:Babylon 5|Babylon 5]], the most enormous and brilliant space opera in print or film: 120 episodes of one complex story. It makes Star Wars look like the overproduced pablum that it is. I avoid almost all sports programs and events. I don't have a working TV: I tend to watch the rare interesting TV show on the internet. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are like unto gods. |
* [[Favorite Webcomics]] | * [[Favorite Webcomics]] | ||
| + | * [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/tastes.html Here is a short list of my favorite books, films, etc.] | ||
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== Daylily Breeding == | == Daylily Breeding == | ||
[[Image:Vanilla Stella.jpg|thumb|Vanilla Stella, one of my daylily introductions.]] | [[Image:Vanilla Stella.jpg|thumb|Vanilla Stella, one of my daylily introductions.]] | ||
| − | + | Daylilies are my major garden interest. While I refuse to be so smitten that I myopically class other perennials as "companion plants", I've built a medium size assortment (400) for garden pleasure and hybridizing. I've always wanted to hybridize again, and daylilies are such a no-care and simple group to work with that I could not resist. I currently have about 3000 seedlings, 1000 from each of the past 3 years. I am a modestly successful hybridizer with about 20 introduced varieties that sell widely in North America and Europe. | |
| − | I'm a member of both local daylily societies: the [http://www.nedaylily.org/ New England Daylily Society] and the [http://patriotdaylilysociety.org/ Patriot Daylily Society]. I regularly speak around the region about my hybridizing program and my gardening interests. | + | I'm a member of both local daylily societies: |
| + | * the [http://www.nedaylily.org/ New England Daylily Society] | ||
| + | * and the [http://patriotdaylilysociety.org/ Patriot Daylily Society]. | ||
| + | I regularly speak around the region about my hybridizing program and my gardening interests. | ||
| − | + | * My newest daylily website, on this wiki: [[Daylilies]]. | |
| + | * [http://hubendaylilies.blogspot.com My second daylily web site, a blog.] | ||
| + | * My first daylily web site, [http://world.std.com/~mhuben/garden.html Mike Huben's Garden Page]. | ||
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