I'm independent and smart, and I respect both traits as well. If you can outwit me you will earn my respect and admiration forever. Rules are my enemy, and by proxy often those that enforce them (read: police officers, bosses, bureaucrats) though I generally choose to follow the ones that make sense. I'm guided by my own moral compass, and don't much care about whether others think of my choices.

Arguing or debate is enjoyable, and I'm still naive enough to think I can change the world, or at least my little corner of it. I'm quick to make friends, but slow to let them get close. Everybody likes me, but few really seem to *know* me.

You won't find exceptional kindness in me. But I am a very decent person, and to me that is much more important. Few things disgust me more than people who are superfically "nice" but once you get to the bottom of them you find that they are, indeed, douchebags. I love to laugh and make others laugh, and though my sense of humor is rather off kilter, most people seem to enjoy it.

I've been single for a long time now, but recently have started serial dating, lol. Just looking for the right fit, I guess. I am looking for something serious, but won't just jump into it with anybody. You gotta earn it.

I can carry on a conversation about just about anything; you will never be bored talking with me, as I'm always looking for new insights, angles, and hilarities involved in any subject.

I graduated college a year ago with a degree in physics, and I've just started grad school at UW Madison in the medical physics department.

I have two kittens, Phobos and Deimos, that I just adopted when I moved to Madison. They are ridiculous and keep me entertained and laughing. I'm falling in love all over them.

I like: movies, video games, swimming, biking, hiking, disc golf, science, women, flirting, books, meeting "interesting" people on this site, and delusions of grandeur. I'm trying to teach myself the piano with limited results.

I don't like: reality TV, American Idol, oil, SUV's, NASCAR, rednecks, people who take themselves too seriously, religious fundamentalists, the kind of feminists who hate all men (you know who you are), nazis.

Confidence, conversation, insults, swimming, kissing, taking a joke, Soul Calibur 3, cribbage, keeping secrets, karaoke (maybe only marginally good at that), physics, math, writing, debate, sleeping, and flirting.

I have a great smile. Or a great smirk, depending on my mood. It's more often a smile these days.

Books: Stephen King, Stephen R. Donaldson, George R.R. Martin, Ambrose Bierce are my favorite authors.

Movies: I like so many.. but I'll just rattle off a few... Army of Darkness, Pan's Labrynth, Forrest Gump, Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (or any martial arts movie with some semblance of a plot), Heartbreak Ridge, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, most movies that don't have sequels. Sealab 2021 owns.

Music: mostly alternative, hard rock and lately a lot of metal. My favorite band is Finntroll. It's a painful orgasm of the ears.

Food: most non-metals work for me.

The printed word. The human tongue. A sense of entitlement. Cold logic. A warm heart. A rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle.

Politics. My family. The injustice of it all. Math and Physics (don't worry, only when "on the clock"). The future. Why I have to go to dating sites to not find good women when I do well enough not finding good women outside of dating sites.

About equal chances of working, going out for beer and song, or staying at home watching movies and tooling with my PC.

I dream about kissing more than I dream about sex.

You like what you see. I'm here to find a woman who is motivated, real, attractive, intelligent, clever, and most importantly, INTERESTED! If you think that might be you, I'd love to hear from you.

Oh, and if you'd rather watch "Friends" than "Frasier," you needn't apply :)