– Baseball was one of Dylan’s hobbies. He played as a kid & tried out for the Columbine High School baseball team but didn’t make it
– He was in a fantasy baseball league & his team was called “The Border Hoppers” – a reference to old Taco Bell commericals with the slogan “Make a run for the border.”
– Origami was another pastime, & in elementary school he led the class in making paper cranes that were mailed to Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park & laid beside Sadako Sasaki’s statue.
– Dylan was his father’s devoted chess partner & was in the chess club in elementary school.
– He played trumpet in the school band & the drums for Brooks’ Brown’s band in middle school.
– He considered Broadcasting as a possible career alternative if Computer Science didn’t work out. He also considered being a drummer.
– He liked to try new & different foods, like barbecued duck & calamari. It’s been said his favorite food was scrambled egg pizza.
– Uma Thurman was supposedly his dream girl.
– In addition to DOOM with Eric, he played Quake alot w/ Zack Heckler.
– He was as beta tester for Microsoft.
– Sue could sometimes hear him up in his room banging on his computer.
– He had a dark sense of humor, & made jokes about things people normally don’t joke about, like death & dark things.
– He was a fan of Trance music (i.e. Ceiba, Prana).
– But he wasn’t much of a fan of dogs, & was scared of Devon Adams’ Siberian Husky.
– He was more of a cat person & had a white cat named Rocky, who he’d gotten in the 3rd grade & still had at the time of his death
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