Hi, I'm Colin.

I am an unabashed nerd, a tech geek, an occasional actor and athlete, a frequent gentleman wastrel, a "cross between the 10th Doctor [David Tennant] and Neil Patrick Harris", energetic, optimistic, and a pretty swell guy to know.

Some of my favorite things in life are ghost towns, thunderstorms, olive skewers shaped like little swords, books with pages yellowed by age, foreign films with subtitles, and perfectly-chilled pickles.

Politically I'm all sorts of liberal - but I'll bet you already figured that out from our match percentage.

I just moved to Cap Hill (in July 2012) to take advantage of the 'new urbanism' concept of which I'm always extolling the virtues. Next, I just have to snag a job in Denver proper so I can do away with my daily commute down to the DTC. Now that I'm here I'm excited to make some new friends in the area.

I received my B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder in '08 and I'm currently managing litigation for a bank. My side project is an organizational culture consultancy helping employers to understand the demands and desires of the Millenial generation regarding the workplace, work/life balance, corporate ethical conduct, etc.

I've got a list of things I'd like to get to in the next few years including going skydiving and traveling to Germany for Oktoberfest (I'm actually more of a wine guy than a connoisseur of beers but it remains a festival not to be missed). I'd also like to get into urban spelunking and geocaching.

I really enjoy running, and I'd also like to find a casual soccer league in Denver.

In short, I'm looking for meaning in all the best places - wanna come?

Wine pairings.

Fitting in comfortably anywhere - from a rockabilly show at a dive bar to a black tie charity dinner and everything in between.

Tact, etiquette, accents, raising one eyebrow, spelling & grammar, simultaneously jumping in the air and giving high fives.

That a police officer is reminding me the 'jaws of life' are a powerful and important lifesaving apparatus - not a toy.

Books: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Catch-22, Tortilla Flat, Othello, Arabian Nights (Burton's translation), I, Robot, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, 1984, Plato's Republic and his Symposium, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Moon Is Down, The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Two Million, Utopia, On Liberty, The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, Poe's Ligeia, anything by H.P. Lovecraft, the poems of Catullus, Freakonomics, The Golden Ass, Faust (Goethe and Marlowe's), The Great Gatsby

Movies: Star Wars (the original trilogy), The Matrix, The Big Lebowski, Equilibrium, Wall-E, Jurassic Park, Star Trek (the series reboot film), Amélie, The Fifth Element, Memento, Othello (Kenneth Branagh), Iron Man, Captain America, The Dark Knight trilogy, The Avengers

T.V. Shows: Firefly, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, 30 Rock, Mad Men, Carnivale, Doctor Who, Parks and Recreation, Breaking Bad, Community, Star Trek (all the series, really), Portlandia, Archer

Music: Ladytron, The Flobots, Daft Punk, Eric Clapton, Freezepop, Jonathan Coulton, Ich + Ich, Lady Gaga, Metric, Lily Allen, R.E.M., Silbermond, Simon & Garfunkel, Wir Sind Helden, Yelle, Tegan & Sara, The Sounds, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Flogging Molly, Client, Portishead, Regina Spektor, The Lumineers, fun.

I'm not someone who claims to "like pretty much everything" when it comes to music but I do have a smattering of favorites in most genres and I'll give anything a shot (except Nepalese Yak-Shouting, it had its chance).

Food: According to Foursquare my top checkins are in the following categories; American, Asian, Mexican, Bars, Bakeries.

Webcomics: Achewood, xkcd, Penny Arcade, The Perry Bible Fellowship, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Dinosaur Comics, A Softer World, Subnormality!, Daisy Owl, Oglaf, Married to the Sea.

Tabletop Games: Cards Against Humanity, Munchkin, Carcassonne, Dominion, Settlers of Catan, Thunderstone, The Star Trek Deckbuilding Game (creatively named that one, didn't they?)

Video Games: Half Life, Deus Ex, Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Need For Speed, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect, Dance Central, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, Grand Theft Auto, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion & Skyrim, Saints Row, Assassin's Creed, (historically) various MMO's (WoW, EQ 1, DAoC, Anarchy Online)

intellectual stimulation, physical pleasure, amazing friends, fantastic food, excellent wine.

Whether the character of Jayne Cobb from the t.v. show Firefly (and the movie Serenity) is a 'bad' person.

How Bertrand Russell managed to channel such large amounts of win.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Cyberpunk - goggles!

Transhumanism

At dinner, at a bar, at a pub, at a show, at a movie, on someone's couch, on my couch, occasionally inside an aeroplane.

I don't have opinions about sports teams.

You'd like a running partner in the Cap Hill area.

You need another person for your board game/card game/tabletop game night.

You want to meet up for drinks and see if we hit it off.