Movies you like:
The Sheltering Sky.

Music you listen to;
Natalie Imbruglia, Sheryl Crow, various other whining hippies.

Favorite web link:
www.edge.org

What doesn't matter in life?
Anything that wastes time.

Who do you admire?
Steven Weinberg

Who would you expire?
Stephen Hawking.

Are you (were you as a grad student) (in any way like) a fish?
Yes, like the fish, I avoided immersion in the Charles River.

Are you cool?
Fighter pilots are cool - the rest of us are just posturing.

What do you always leave for tomorrow?
Getting organized.

What is cutting edge?
Artificial life - except everybody is approaching it the wrong way.

What is obsolete?
The Standard Model.

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A forest ranger.

With which role of a play or a movie do you identify?
Steve Buscemi in Fargo.

What poisons you?
Cleaning up messy details.

What brings you back?
Exploring something completely new (which doesn't happen very often, unfortunately).

What do(did) you think you will(would) be doing 10 years after your Ph.D graduation?
Building warp drive engines.

What do(did) you want to be doing 10 years after your Ph.D graduation?
But I discovered that the future takes a little longer to arrive than the popular media had led me to believe.

What is the goofiest mistake you ever made?
Wasting months working on problems that nobody, including me, was really interested in.

What is your personal quote?
"It's not obvious, but it might be trivial."

When do you think the next physics revolution will happen?
Within 5 years.

What is your arch nemesis?
The huge stacks of papers piled around in my office.

If you could rate the wellness of life between 1-100 what grade would you give yourself now?
100. I have no complaints.

Where do you spend your money?
Toys R Us.

What can you not afford?
To drink good wine every day.

How many bets that you can remember have you won?
A lot, including some big ones.

How many of them were on physics?
As a postdoc, every choice of a problem to work on was also a gamble upon which my future career would rise or fall. Betting your livelihood on the vagaries of nature is dangerous but also highly motivating.