I am adaptive, grounded, and iconoclassy. I study philematology and philogyny.

I live as well as I can wherever I am. I believe that laughter is the best medicine, that dancing makes everything better, and that we are all temporary and ecstatic facets of the ineffable divine. I tend to reflect aspects sometimes named Pan, Loki, Athena, Budai, or Coyote. My spirit animal is a unicorn.

I like to build. I build video games with a tribe at work. I build costumes with a tribe at play. I try to build a community wherever I stand.

I try to make a difference from behind the scenes with subtlety and forethought. But I also crave the spotlight, reveling in good cheer, surprises, and passionate abandon.

I like camping and getting dirty. I like wandering the city looking fabulous. I'm an owl and my clock runs late.

I believe if you fall in love, you should jump right in.

I have three big dreams in my life.

Number 1: I want to entertain, to brighten people's lives. I am currently living this dream by day as a video game programmer. I enjoy solving problems, learning how things work, and helping people shine, and this field covers all those personal preferences with the end result of giving random people fun times. I love to be on stage, but these days that only happens at karaoke. I should find time to audition for something again.

Number 2: I want to live in an autonomous, self-sufficient, intentional community. This is a work in progress. I spend a lot of time with an ever-expanding tribe of miscreants slash do-gooders. We play hard and seek the path.

Number 3: I want to have eaten my twin in the womb. Some people try to convince me that if I don't know by now, I'll probably never know. But I remain convinced that someday I will have eaten my twin in the womb and gained his powers.

Other things:
I have & love 2 cats. I picked Valhalla up at the humane society as a kitten; we were both kittens. He remains as ever full of Vikings. Now he has become the master to young apprentice Gidit. I live near a little pocket of wilderness so that they can bring me delicious presents, which I do not eat. Instead I pass them along in a bucket to men riding a big truck.

Traveling is awesome. I have been across this country several times, summering in Portland and schooling in Pennsylvania. I've been out of the country only twice: once to BC in a torrential downpour camping trip with my atomic family; once to Thailand. Thailand was a new world opened, explosive, merry, relaxing, and terrible, a rejuvenating thrill, a super fantastic experience. I will return there and elsewhere for more exciting adventures, as soon as circumstances permit. I long to visit Peru and Ireland.

I have a robot slave!

My super powers include accelerated learning, high dynamic range, the voice of an angel, and strong bladder control. I tend to fuse the absurd with the pragmatic. I have skill in abstract thought; hand drums, body music, singing and whistling; costumery and low budget engineering; massage and makeouts. I can stand still in a strong storm. I build bridges and fill in gaps.

Head accessories. My sunglasses collection is way too epic for Seattle. My horns grew back in on Rapture Day 2011. I probably have done something odd with the hair on my head and/or face. Music moves me almost without fail, though sometimes not very far.

The collected works of Alan Watts, Daniel Quinn, Robert M. Pirsig, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Robert Anton Wilson, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Robbins. Books that teach.
In particular:
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

American Astronaut, Boondock Saints, Fido, Joshua, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Harvey, The Fall, Dr. Horrible, anything by the Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam or Stephen Chow, anything with Tony Jaa, Bruce Willis, or Anne Ramsey. Sequels that are better than the original.

Live music. Play it like you mean it. Guster, The Lonely Island, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bjork, Muse, Blackalicious, Twirl, Vince Mira, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Post Harbor, Bob Schneider, Radiohead, Passion Pit, Jonathan Coulton, Girl Talk.

Thai; Indian; really good tomato basil soup or clam chowder; peaches; pizza; eggs; pit roasted turkey and other woodfire recipes. Food grown and prepared near me. My front yard vegetable garden produces with experimental-stage success.

Spectacle
Love
Laughter
Back roads
Puzzles
Firepit

I used to have pragmatic necessities here, but that is boring. I can't survive without water; I can't live without laughter.

Better ways to get things done. The nature of reality; the inherent and necessary paradoxes and connections between multiplicity and unity, chaos and structure, logic and laughter. The way in which observer, observed, and observation - subject, object, and quality - arise together and mutually create themselves from a formless ground possessing a creative emergent drive.

Zoom Enhance.

Hidden gifts.

Ritual is important for the mind, but we must not confuse dogma and cultural convention with truth.

As a man or maybe just as a human, it goes without saying that I spend a lot of time thinking about

It goes without saying.

Awake.

Maybe I'm out at a concert; maybe I'm hanging around having some drinks with good friends; maybe I'm decompressing with a game or a movie; on some rare occasions I'm still at work. But whatever it is, for sure I am enjoying the experience.

On a typical Saturday night, I am in costume. Recent themes include Heroes & Villains, Robots, Dinosaurs, Crazy Hats, Aprons & Tutus, "Oh Shit", On A Boat, This Party is Brought to You by the Letter P, Oz, Bikini Hot Tub Madness, Zombie Camping, Ninjas, Vikings, Carnival, Alice, My Favorite Things, and So Many variations on Mustaches. Also we've played as the Orange, Red, Green, Purple, and Gold teams.

My strongest unrequited fantasy involves angel wings. The moon and a mild allergy to feathers lend the scene a little extra lunacy.

I am mildly anatidaephobic.

* you have interest in Tantric methods.
* you like camping and the outdoors as much as you like city life.
* you are a crafter.
* you have a plan in case of zombie apocalypse.
* you are willing to let the tickle monster get you from time to time.
* you are a forest sprite who loves to laugh and prance in sunbeams.
* cuddle puddles!