I would rather be despised for who I am than loved for who I'm not (though to be frank, neither is what I would call "livin' the dream").

Serious about being silly, seek complex simplicity and dualistic without duplicity. (I'm of two minds about dualism, but they both agree that it's false).

I love words with friends and at times feel like I am friends with words. I'm stable and mercurial, a good listener and an excellent speaker.

I am really busy, but I do my best to make time for exciting people. I feel at times like I'm dancing on the line between the humanities and the sciences, but since dancing is a humanity, that is the side towards which I tilt, a whirling dervish twirling in a lab coat he doesn't deserve. I have an ecstatic relationship with the natural world and it's funniest monkeys, the Homophobic Sapien (really we're more closely related to apes, that was just a genetic jape).

My old profile also read: Please be kind, laid back, hot, smart. Could break a tooth on an icy uptight tart.

For better or worse, I am not lying about my height.

I take myself far less seriously than this may make me seem. I write far more formally than I speak. But boy, you should hear me sing.

Writing, being ambiguously musical, speaking into microphones, contemplating my own mortality.

Listening and responding honestly.
Communicating uncomfortable truths (being a dick without being a dick about it).
Arguing without fighting.
Thinking abstractly.

That I'm funny. Unless someone first tells them I am, on the odd occasion, paid to be funny, in which case that I'm not thaaaaaaaat funny. Jerks.

In retrospect I probably should not have mentioned this.

Lolita, Finite and Infinite Games, The Movie I was In, Music I Made, Food I Cooked. Also the show Arrested Development.

Self-expression, Music, The feeling of connecting with someone, Comedy, and Numeric Accuracy

What people spend their time thinking about.

Also recursion.

And, of course, recursion.

Still contemplating my own mortality, but in a fun, social kind of way.

Is that I value my privacy, even though I spend a lot of time telling people my secrets on stage.

Also, I just paid the $3 to increase my message storage to 5,000. That's kind of embarrassing. (note: I did this because I don't need another space in my life to monitor, virtual or otherwise, not because I'm a schmuck. That's totally incidental).

You're intellectually inclined, kind, clever, expressive, sexually self-confident, comfortable in your own skin and generally self-aware.

Bonus points: You "believe in" the scientific method (and can articulate why this isn't just another form of faith), understand the dangers of cognitive biases and anecdotal evidence, and in the event of a debate you are able to wield Occam's Razor.

I view sex as a form of communication (which is why I always request an ASL translator be present for the hearing impaired). If it's possible to say this without sounding like a braggart or a slut (I'd prefer to sound like both, but not not one or the other) I'm probably on the more sexually experienced side, but honestly just looking for meaningful companionship in the form of a smart, fun, self-possessed, expressive intellectual, artistic, kind-hearted, open-minded, statistically significant other. I am not just in it for the sex, though I'm a guy so of course I have some self-worth tied up in my prowess. Plenty of inadequacies (I used to be fat, asthmatic, last up at bat), but in the final measurement my sense of self-worth wins out (so my ego is fatter than my memory).

Play an instrument, teach me a new skill. Whatever. I hope I don't live to see a day I stop trying to learn something new or otherwise challenge myself. I've found that no matter how smart you might be there's always room to be dumb.

Jeez, all I want is a girl who is smarter than I am, hotter than I am, appreciates the value of the scientific method, has been outside the country at least once, is at least as intellectually curious as I am, expresses a creative drive, is in touch with herself as a sexual being, gets (and hopefully makes) jokes, has a passion for something (anything really), a little bit of musicality would be nice, and is also attracted to me. Is that really so much to ask for?!?

Oh it is? Well shit.
Then just be cool or something.

Ok, profile over. Nice to meet ya.