The sense of humour alternates between cutting-edge sarcasm and just dumb dorkiness. The manner is pretty laid-back and non-judgemental. The job is mostly computer-related (but see below...). The hobbies are photography, urban exploration, gaming, painting, sketching, and other geeky activities... although I haven't painted or sketched for a while so I'm not sure they count...

I exercise somewhat but probably insufficiently (jogging, some P90x, some swimming and biking and rollerblading...) , and on the weekends I'm going to brunch or drinks with friends on Queen Street, indy music concerts, and, er, so on. I also like travel.

I am also somewhat tall.

Occasionally, I work with my laptop out by a tree in High Park or the Toronto Islands.

I'm taking a break from a corporate software career to spend some time pursuing my own more creative stuff for a while. It felt like something I had to do. I'm not sure whether this path is leading somewhere, or whether I'll head back to a day job after burning through enough money and doing some travelling.

So, at this point, I'm mostly experimenting in software and photography. Given enough time, something ambitious will hopefully emerge. Maybe it'll even pay the rent...

I'm also part of Rotaract, a charitable organization, but it's mostly about friends, I'm not hard-core about it.

Lots of things (for an undefined amount of "really good")

I seem to get a lot of comments about tall, glasses, and left-handedness. Also recently got "you remind me of Michael Cera" which I'll take as a complement...

BOOKS: Recently I've liked Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Haruki Murakami, Dave Eggers, Anne Rice... although to be honest fiction doesn't grab me as much as it used to, I tend to devour non-fiction a lot more now, on topics like society, history, design, science: The Omnivor's Dilemna, The World is Flat, About Face, Here Comes Everybody, The World Without Us, The Assault on Reason, The Wisdom of Crowds, A Short History Progress, The Selfish Gene

MOVIES: Movies that fit my particular flavour of "good" include... Star Wars (the old ones of course), Koyaanisqatsi, Life of Brian, Run Lola Run, Maverick, Sneakers, Toy Story 2, Waking Life, Ratatouille. I also seem like to maligned sequels more than their predecessors (the 2nd Batman, the 2nd Matrix, the 3rd Pirates of the Carribean...). Movies I've enjoyed this year include Man on Wire, Religulous, Frost Nixon, Synecdoche New York

Also, recently... G.I. Joe was a great movie (well, maybe not "great" but my inner 10-year-old enjoyed the hell out of it). Transformers was terrible. I'm not sure what that says, but read from that what you will.

MUSIC: Bands in my collection include... Franz Ferdinand, Ladytron, New Pornographers, Berlioz, Beethoven, Assemblage 23, ATB, The Beatles, Bloc Party, Cheb Mami, Coldplay, LCD Soundsystem, The Lonely Island, Metric, Moby, Muse, DJ Champion et ses G-Strings, Art Brut, Neko Case, Orchestra Baobab, Spice Girls, The Strokes, Art Brut, Cansei de ser Sexy, Cake, Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, The Editors, Elvis' gospel music, Flight of the Concords, Ella Fitzgerald, Fischerspooner. Er, etc.

I like to think I've got a fairly broad musical taste, although lately I've gotten perhaps more lazy and find myself enjoying miscellaneous compilations of what I affectionately call "dance crap."

FOOD: Sushi... Thai... Indian (mmmm butter chicken)... Italian... French.... and, of course, a really good steak.

Friends. The interwebs. The Daily Show. Good, convenient food (I like 'slow food' but have difficulty making it a lifestyle...). Long walks and/or jogs. Travel.

(I could probably do without most of those. In fact, I have at one time or another been without most of them. And, now that I think about, I've been kinda skipping the Daily Show lately since those insane Fox News clips get pretty aggravating. So you can replace some of those with food, water, oxygen, ozone, that sort of thing...)

A lot of stuff. Most of which just kind of rattles around in there without ever seeing the light of day.

Possibly that's what Twitter is for.

Usually enjoying some normalcy with my friends. Saturdays may or may not be more adventurous...

Sometimes I wonder if I should be getting a bit freaked out about how old I've apparently become.

I mean, I don't have any "not a kid anymore"-type issues... but a lot of people around me have reached a stage where dating is increasingly goal-driven, where the plan is to get married and have kids after dating a year. Whereas I'm still big on the idea that long term relationships and marriage are what happens when someone you're dating becomes your best friend... and I'm still more than happy to let the journey to that destination takes as long as it needs to, and hopefully have some fun and meet some good people along the way...

So, basically, I'm not really on any sort of deadline. Hmmm. Not sure if any of that is helpful, but there ya go...

You want to give me vast quantities of money and are ridiculously cute and/or hot.

Or dorky. Dorky's good too.

Or any other valid reason. If you're up for going for a coffee or wandering around taking pictures somewhere, that's a plus.