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Thank you for coming. Glad to meet you. This is my personal page. You know, some of the usual stuff...philosophy, favorites, personal and business history, other blah, blah, blah...merely click on the links...take care, Jeff |
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This page is just a fun page to
kind of see how much we have in common. Here are
listed some of my favorite things to do, to eat, to listen to, et cetera, et
cetera, et cetera.
It is of absolutely no importance whatsoever. There is no way that I have done
or read
or seen everything and this is not what I think are the best of anything, simply
my favorites.
The individual items may or may not be listed in actual favorite order.
Places & Activities
/ Musical Groups / Albums
Etc. / Songs / Musicians
/
Literary Works / Sports
/ Movies / TV Shows
/ Comedians / Miscellaneous
| Jethro Tull | The Doors | X | The Who |
| REM | Jimi Hendrix | Cream/Clapton | The Moody Blues |
| The Beatles | The Clash | Bob Dylan | The Animals |
| Pink Floyd | Bruce Springsteen | Santana | Wishbone Ash |
| Los Lobos | The Blasters | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Traffic |
| Queen | Joe Jackson | Jefferson Airplane | Rush |
| Elvis Costello | The Kinks | Alice Cooper | Deep Purple |
| Southside Johnny & Asbury Jukes | Graham Parker & the Rumour | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
| The Beach Boys | The Go-Gos | Husker Dü | Uriah Heep |
| The Allman Brothers | Simon & Garfunkel | Steppenwolf | Black Sabbath |
| Frank Zappa & the Mothers | Green Day |
| Atlas Shrugged | King Lear | Hamlet |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Great Expectations | The Source |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Lord of the Rings (Hobbit etc.) | The Decameron |
| Les Miserables | Hamilton's Mythology | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Animal Farm/1984 |
| A Clockwork Orange | Childhood's End (et al) | Catch-22 |
| Johnny Got His Gun |
| Baseball Team (AL) | New York Yankees |
| Baseball Team (NL) | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| Baseball Player (all-time) | Mickey Mantle |
| Baseball Player (current) | Derek Jeter |
| Football Team (NFL) | Green Bay Packers (since 1967) |
| Football Team (college) | Notre Dame |
| Football Player (all-time) | Bart Starr / Joe Montana |
| Basketball Team | Los Angeles Lakers |
| Basketball Player (all-time) | Wilt Chamberlain |
| Favorite Team Sport to Play | Softball |
| Favorite Individual Sport to Play | Racquetball |
| Favorite Sports Activity | Snow Skiing |
| Favorite Team Sport to Watch | Pro Football |
| Favorite Individual Sport to Watch | MMA/UFC |
| Summer Olympic Event | Track and Field |
| Winter Olympic Event | Ice Hockey |
| Wizard of Oz | Aliens | Alice in Wonderland |
| Rocky Horror Picture Show | The Ten Commandments | Braveheart |
| The Time Machine | Rocky | Easy Rider |
| Damn Yankees | Games | The Princess Bride |
| The Old Man and the Sea | The Cincinnati Kid | Forrest Gump |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Animal House | The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| Star Trek (all incarnations) | Kung Fu | MASH |
| Man from UNCLE | Twilight Zone | Outer Limits |
| Mission Impossible | Jeopardy | The Tonight Show |
| Robin Williams | George Carlin | Steve Martin |
| Steven Wright | Jay Leno | Johnny Carson |
| Jonathan Winters | Monty Python | Marx Brothers |
| Gallagher | Rodney Dangerfield | Cheech & Chong |
| Tom Lehrer | Don Rickles | The Three Stooges |
| Richard Pryor | Dan Ackroyd | Phil Hartman |
| Pizza Topping | Mushrooms & Extra Cheese |
| Software Program | Photoshop |
| Coffee | Yuban |
| Car | Corvette |
| Classical Author(s) | Shakespeare, Dickens, Aristophanes, J. S. Mill |
| Modern Author(s) | Rand, Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, Pickover, Clarke |
| Booze | Chivas Regal, Jack Daniels, Frangelico |
| Actor | Jack Nicholson |
| Classical Artist(s) | Rembrandt, Bosch |
| Modern Artist(s) | Dali, Escher |
| Beer | Cold MGD |
| Game | Chess, Poker, Monopoly |
| RPGs | Witcher Series, Might & Magic (and Heroes of), Bard's Tales, Ultima, Wizardry and most of the genre in general |
| Beverage | Ice Tea, Lemonade |
| Comic Book Hero | Element Lad, Metal Men |
| Scientists | Einstein, Tesla, Bearden |
| Comedy Routine | Who's On First (Abbott & Costello), Baseball vs. Football (G. Carlin) |
| Favorite Class to Teach | Chemistry |
| Favorite Class to Take | Physics |
| Book | The Bible, Atlas Shrugged |
Allow me to say I am most grateful to everyone
who purchased my fractal
products. My professional life has finally come to a close as I retired from
teaching on my 65th birthday in June, 2020. After spending forty years
in the classroom and over 10,000 students taught, it is about time to
enjoy some retirement time.
And though I continue to research new art forms,
my time in the classroom is all done.
Thus whatever products remain in my stock
will be used as samples or gifts in
order to continue licensing my imagery for commercial advantage and for
the general dissemination of mathematical art in general.
It is unfortunate, however, that many of
the fractal "artists" who have followed
me decided that making a commercial venture from one's work was not acceptable
to them, that this venture was sacrosanct in a sort of way...in truth, the past
commercial success of my fractal art has certainly laid the foundation for all
those who wish to continue in my stead...but such is the nature of human beings...
In any case, if your firm wishes to license
my imagery for whatever commercial
venture you have in mind, please understand that I am, by far, the most
successful and experienced fractal artist in America and represent well over
$15 million worth of licensed fractal art products just in America alone.
I would be most helpful to your staff and am efficient and knowledgeable
and have worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies in the past. You will
profit by your association with me, my company, and employment of my art.
Please review the artwork and contact me at your convenience.
Sincerely yours,
Jeff Berkeley, M.S.
Fractalier/Owner
Lifesmith Classic Fractals
(661) 316-7359 (cell and text)
Personal
History (in 3rd person)
Jeff Berkeley (aka Berkowitz), M.S., was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June
12, 1955, to a
low-to-middle economic class stock brokerage clerk and his wife, both second
generation Americans
of European descent.
After moving to southern California in 1961, Jeff distinguished himself by winning
awards for
mathematical excellence and becoming chess champion of his school. He majored
in math/science
in high school, graduating in 1972 with high honors, just before turning age
17.
He joined the U.S. Army shortly thereafter and served a tour of duty in Frankfurt,
Germany. After
returning home, he started at California State University, Northridge, where
he, thru 31 semesters,
earned a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in physical education, and
finally a master's degree
in physics in 1990. It is during this last period (1988-90) he began producing
fractals at the
CSU Northridge workstation laboratory.
He has taught high school and college chemistry, physics and mathematics in
the general LA and
Portland
metro areas, both private and public, for about forty years, teaching AP Calculus, AP and regular
physics, AP and regular chemistry,
AP statistics, physical
science, Earth science, computer graphics, yearbook
and general mathematics, top to bottom. He retired in June, 2020.
He unfortunately divorced his first wife but raised five children, Zachary
William, 31, Erol Rochelle, 26,
Montana Pearl, 25, Xenon Alexander, 23, and Antimony Rose, twenty-one years old. He just got remarried
to
his high school
sweetheart six years ago this past June.
He enjoys spending much of his free time playing music and currently plays bass guitar
for a local LA rock
and roll cover band, The Rockdown, and has years of experience with other local bands Out
of Order and
The
Go Katz (thegokatz.com). He is very happy to be playing out again and lucky to have revived
his playing career with a new project of fun geezers in the southern California area, though he and his and
his wife moved to Bullhead City, AZ, in August, 2021, just two miles from the Colorado River.
Retired from playing softball (after a long career), he enjoys skiing, racquetball, stringed instruments, science, computer
role-playing games, graphics/fractals, Shakespeare, Jethro Tull, Bible study,
ice cream and puzzles of all kinds.
He can be reached at either fractali@www.lifesmith.com or at fractalier@aol.com
or by writing to him
at the Lifesmith address listed on the home page of this website. His is no longer on Facebook or Twitter
but can be found at gab.com as Jeff Berkeley.
Favorite
Fictional Literary Works