Completely unsolicited, of course. In no particular order.

• Outliners
• Malian tô millet and sauce dish
• Chungking Express poetic movie
• Open-mindedness
• Lamb sandwich from l’Olivier at Jean-Talon Market
• Oregon, long-lived and eclectic Jazz band
• Passion
• Boris Vian
• Ripe Brillat-Savarin cheese from Atwater Market
• West Africa
• Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories
• Teaching
• Mussels marinère with Belgian beer
• Open Access policies for academic texts
• French Chanson
• Quality beer and all-you-can-eat ribs at Redbones
• Geeky conversations
• Beef banh mi from Nhu Lan on Saint-Zotique
• Napping
• Cultural awareness
• Flemish Red ales
• Geek culture
• Orval tart and bitter Belgian ale
• Hedonism
• Peter Sellers’s Being There
• Free/Libre Open Source Software movement
• Reblochon cheese from Migros
• Myst-like adventure games
• Lactancia My Country unsalted butter
• PalmOS (GarnetOS) devices
• Le Paltoquet French theater-like movie
• Mort Subite gueuze on tap at Pianissimo
• Mountainous regions
• Sleep
• RJ Coup de grisou buckwheat ale
• TuniZika Tunisian music podcast
• Pieces of dry beef («rebibes») from Migros
• Apple computers
• Hiking
• Ripe avocados from Atlantic Superstore in June 2003
• Calabash Music "fair-trade" music store
• Hunting Island, SC
• Freshly-baked bread rolls from Doré mie
• Well-Rounded Radio open-minded music podcast
• View of Lake Leman from the BFSH2 building
• Friendship
• Sea scallops