I've lived in the Bay Area since 2009. I split my time between Santa Cruz, where I live with my primary partner, badass science babe Kudzuvines, and Oakland, where I do fun stuff with steel tube and binary arithmetic.

I'm an INTP and a 5 on the enneagram, if the rest of this profile doesn't make that abundantly evident. Also, I have a gender identity! It's shiny and complicated.

I angle grind! I code! Stick a porta-band in my hands and I won't quit 'til dawn! Ask me what I think about the use of the RGB color space in LED art. I DARE YOU.

I pitch in with Flux Foundation's interactive sculpture projects, and am currently hatching schemes for Burning Man 2013.

Sex. Premature optimization. Intellectual hedonism.

I am made of knives.

Comics: Craig Thompson, Allison Bechdel, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, Kazu Kabuishi, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen.

Slow-paced movies with sumptuous cinematography that aren't about what they're about. Wong Kar Wai. Terrence Malick. The crisp, syncopated violence of Takeshi Kitano. German Expressionism, Italian Neoralism, French New Wave. Tarkovsky, not Kubrick. P.T. Anderson, the Coen Brothers, Gilliam. Early Disney. Termite Terrace. Pixar. Scorsese for a good time.

Sigur Ros. Explosions in the Sky. Beats Antique. Amon Tobin. Lesbians with guitars. Canadian indie pop. Neutral Milk Hotel. Flogging Molly.

Food
Water
Air
Sex
Knowledge
Art

The presentation of information: Graphic design, color theory, proportion, typefaces. Robert Bringhurst. Donald Knuth. Edward Tufte. Swiss modernism. Graphical User Interface design.

The uses and abuses of language.

Religion, why some people believe in it and why I don't. The Gospel of John, Ecclesiastes, Rumi. Ridiculous theological debates in early Christianity, Sumerian literature, the difference between stories and myths, Advaita Vedanta.

Net neutrality and copyright reform. Civil liberties, term limits, instant runnoff voting, initiative and referendum. Why our government is fucked and what to do about it.

The development of the RNA world, Archaea, the evolution of Eukaryotes, and multicellularity. Photosynthesis and the Oxygen Catastrophe. Evolutionary dead-ends. Slime molds. Trilobites. The Vendian Biota. Diatoms. Biofuels. Stem Cells.

Marcel Duchamp, Jorge Louis Borges, and jokes nobody gets tired of telling.

I've actually dropped out of two Ph.D. programs.

My politics are not as bleeding heart as my demographics would tend to indicate. Is it because my science brain makes me predisposed to favor utilitarian cost-benefit analysis? Was I raised by wolves? Am I just an astonishingly privileged little shit? Inquire within!

You are an experienced dominant - preferably, taller, older, maler - who already has a primary and is looking for a low-stakes side dish. You have a firm grip. You know what you want in a physical relationship and you aren't scared to take it. You appreciate unconventional anatomies. You are available on Sunday evenings. It would be pretty fun if you were good with a camera, too.

AND/OR

You want to hang out with me in Oakland making big art!