Jeffrey S. Rosenthal's Non-Work Page

Fun Stuff:

Java Applets (including games)

Music Performing (including sound files)

Dr. J Cartoon Series

Comedy Videos

Interactive Fiction including Galactic Peace

List of Famous Canadians

Serial Diners Agenda and Rules

(See also my book Struck by Lightning.)

Other Hobbies, Activities, and Interests:

Comedy Performing (including a player profile and article about improv music)

Writings (including an article about laser eye surgery and media articles which mention me)

Hand Drawings (including samples)

Social Dancing

Camping and Canoeing

Watching Plays

Watching Star Trek

Colonizing the Galaxy

See also my Computing Page

Miscellaneous:

• Photos of my wonderful nephews.
• My mother Helen Rosenthal (1942-2017): obituary/txt / photos/with me / U of T Remembers/txt / lyrics / tribute / wedding
• My father Peter Rosenthal (1941-2024): notice/legacy/pdf / photo/more / article1 / article2 / article3 / article4 / GlobeObit/pdf / HoC/jpg / UofT / CV / memorial/photo / web / medium / tweet / blog / Dim / CJN / Sh / wiki
• Genealogical information about my grandparents Ruth Schwartz, Joseph Black, Esther Posner, and Harold Rosenthal (see Irving video), collected by my wife Margaret Fulford.
• I have collected a list of philosophical quotes (not to be confused with Steven Wright jokes).
• I believe in the Secular Humanist philosophy that our life choices and understanding should be guided by human reason and compassion, not by belief in supernatural deities. I support the Centre for Inquiry Canada (I'm an "advisory fellow"), Humanist Canada, the Humanist Association of Toronto, and the Canadian Secular Alliance.
• I believe in sharing with the less fortunate, and each year make significant financial donations to organisations such as the Daily Bread Food Bank and Oxfam Canada.
• Though not a serious athlete, I do enjoy recreational sports, including basketball (pick-up, plus my high-school team and various intramural teams in times gone by), tennis (I'm a member of the Trinity College Tennis Club), softball (most notably with the "Supermartingales" feisty intramural team in the 1995-2001 period), soccer (including great pick-up games organised by Mark Fruman; see my official player profile and a game write-up #1 and game write-up #2 that mentions me), and even occasionally an indoor-soccer team (Skewed Banana and later Buttercups).
• Sincere thanks to Henry Chan for taking a series of photos of me in 2013.
• Special thanks to Krys Latuszynski's family for commissioning Shiro Muriithi to make this awesome poster of me.
• I have occasionally tried my hand at downhill skiing.
• I am a member of the Senior Common Room of University College (my alma mater).
• I'm a member of the U of T Faculty Club, Athletic Centre, and Hart House, and also the Outing Club.
• I have gotten somewhat active in MeetUp (see photo1, photo2), and even ran one group (see photo) plus other events (see photo1, photo2, photo3).
• To follow modern social trends, I joined YouTube and MySpace and FaceBook and MeetIn and LinkedIn and WordPress and Twitter (which a former Prime Minister noticed!) and Mastodon and Google Plus and Instagram.
• See my favourite Canadian TV shows, and favourite Canadian movies.
• Years ago, I was once briefly a slightly handsome guy.
• I have been known to play Monopoly.
• I once juggled fruit in front of 500 people at a talk by Marla Shapiro.
• See my 50th birthday quiz and answers.
• I once ate an Inka sandwich.