(This is a work in progress, so check back tomorrow if there's not enough info on here for you.)

Random stuff about me in no particular order:

I moved here from North Carolina in '09. I figure it's probably time I met some people.

I try not to take myself or life too seriously. Sometimes I fail at this.

I grew up in WV, and have lived my entire life there and in "The South" so I have a rather heavy accent that people either love or hate.

I have a very schizophrenic sense of humor. Sometimes it's dorky, sometimes it's cheesy, sometimes it's dark and morbid, sometimes it's really sharp, sometimes it's almost normal, and sometimes it's nonexistent.

I'm partially deaf from going to too many shows without hearing protection. My favorite word is "huh?!?!?" I'm not even kidding.

I am a sucker for animals, especially big floofy cats with kicked-in faces.

Speaking of animals, I think that PETA, the "animal rights" organization, is a damn joke.

I have an 11 year old boy named Michael who lives with his mom in SC. He's my clone.

I can not stand passive-aggressive behavior.

I have an ex-girlfriend as a roommate. I know this sounds completely weird, and it probably is, but it works... at least most of the time.

I have four ferrets. If you ever come to my house and meet them, they will own you just like they own me. I don't have pet ferrets. My ferrets have pet people.

I am quite opinionated. Sometimes my opinions have a basis, sometimes they're baseless. Sometimes they seem to conflict with each other. It's all a part of being me, I guess.

I am a Scorpio. I have been told that I am "stereotypically" Scorpio and apparently this is a bad thing.

My ex (the one mentioned above) says that I should come with a warning label and instruction manual.

I am a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy. If you see me wearing a tie, then it's likely that somebody has died. If you see me wearing a kilt, don't ask me what's beneath it unless you want me to make a crude remark. ;)

I really don't like discussing politics, but if you must know, my leanings are more aligned with the Libertarian party than anything else.

Everybody seems to want to assume from my appearance that I smoke weed. I do not. Alcohol, particularly beer, is my poison of choice. However I do advocate legalizing weed.

I am a casual sports fan. In baseball, I like the Red Sox, the WVU Mountaineers in college football, the Vikings in pro football, and the Parramatta Eels in rugby league (Australian NRL).

I like Germanic paganism (although I am not a practicing pagan), beer, BDSM, metal shows, rare steak, guns, muscle cars, drums, old pick-up trucks, jeeps, Linux, NetBSD, UNIX, snakes, your mom, intelligent conversation, and sometimes even downright stupid conversation.

I do most of my work from home. Since the workplace seems to be the most common place for people to meet new people and make new friends, I'm kind of cheated in that regard. I'm sure that it probably contributes to my social awkwardness, as well.

I am stubborn, loyal, and a complete smartass.

I've been a system administrator ("tech guy") for the last decade. I am focused more on the network and the servers rather than the desktop, so please don't ask me advice on building your next gaming PC. I can build you one hell of a LAMP server, though, if you have the funds. ;).

One of these days I'll get a real job and be a chef or something sexy.

When I'm not doing the stuff that pays the bills, I'm busy going to lots of concerts, wrecking my liver, picking up bits and pieces of different languages that I will probably never learn well enough to amount to anything, and attempting to play drums.

Making chili, pissing people off, fixing routers and networks, introducing people to new music, headbanging, missing the point, staying out of jail, making an ass of myself, being lazy, making "your mom" jokes, jumping to conclusions, correcting peoples' spelling, and finding illegal stuff to download.

Clearly the first thing people notice about me is the two horns sprouting from my head, because I am the devil. Ha! j/k. Seriously it seems that the first thing people notice about me is my epic goatee or my bald head. They also seem to notice my eyes, which is probably my best physical trait.

Books:
I never seem to make time to read fiction, but I loved Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. For non-fiction I'm usually reading some O'Reilly book or other tech publication that somebody has written to explain the latest fad technology that my bosses have become infatuated with and wish for me to implement.

Movies:

Silence of the Lambs, Memento, Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Network, 11:14, Inglourious Basterds, Stay, The Machinist, Requiem For a Dream, Eyes Wide Shut, American Beauty, Se7en, Fight Club, and Hostel.

Music:

I'm a metalhead and have been since I was a teenager, and when I say "metal" I don't mean crap (in my opinion, obviously) like Slipknot, Godsmack, and Job For A Cowboy either. I listen to a lot of 70's progressive rock, mostly Pink Floyd (my favorite band ever), Jethro Tull, and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis. I absolutely love Scandinavian folk music, and Scandinavian folk influenced rock and metal. On top of this, I also enjoy small to moderate amounts of 70's funk, 70's R&B, reggae, rockabilly, punk, 80's pop, blues, Motown, old school American country & western, and even some rap. About the only music that I will dismiss solely on it's genre is probably smooth jazz.

It has been brought to my attention that while I mention heavy metal all over this profile, I don't list a lot of the metal bands that I listen to. So... let's fix that, shall we? This list is NOT all-inclusive, or in any particular order but it's a start:

Black Sabbath, (older) Judas Priest, Nightwish, Decrepit Birth, After Forever, ReVamp, Epica, Immolation, (Echo of) Dalriada, Obituary, Death, Eluveitie, Korpiklaani, Kivimetsän Druidi, Finntroll, Villieläin, Running Wild, Alestorm, Tyr, Cruachan, Månegarm, Nevermore, Warbringer, Volbeat, Therion, Exodus, Overkill, Metallica, Arkona, Vreid, Candlemass, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, and on and on and on.

Television:

House, The Shield, Over There, Cops, Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse, The International Sexy Ladies Show, Modern Marvels, NCIS, Pawn Stars, Justified

Food:

Steak, buffalo wings, gyros, shawerma, pizza, tex-mex, Chinese.

Music, meat, mountains, Levi jeans, coffee, and beer.

What we're doing to this poor planet and what we can do to fix it, about what I can do to like people a little bit more than what I do. I also sometimes wonder how in the HELL I ended up in Georgia, although I do love it here so far.

If I'm not at The Masquerade, the Drunken Unicorn, or Taco Mac, I'm at home being boring. Since I now live in a city where there's always something to do on the weekends, maybe I should change that.

I like to tie girls up for fun. While this is the only thing that I will admit publicly in this section, I am pretty much an open book, so if there's anything else you want to know, just ask.

You like my profile and might want to hang out sometime. Or maybe even if you don't like my profile you can message me and we can e-fight or something. Or, I'll let you touch my beard for a dollar.

To be honest I'm not really sure what I'm expecting to get out of this. I clearly need to expand my social circle and acquaint myself with more people who are interesting and who find me interesting. It would be nice to have somebody that I can call up and go "I'm bored, let's go do something." I'm not necessarily looking for a girlfriend, or a booty call, but whatever happens happens.