In 1983, as a freeelance writer in a town that inspires
long-distance travel, I found the little RESET button nestled on
the back of my head, gave it a press, and abruptly escaped
midwestern suburbia on a computer-laden recumbent bicycle... not
realizing that in the process I was launching a whole career in
technomadics
after having falling into the "American Dream" (otherwise known as
doing things you no longer enjoy to pay for things you don't want
after all). Now, decades later, I'm still at it... preparing my
nautical escape pod (a 44-foot steel pilothouse cutter-rigged
sailboat) for
open-ended blue-water voyaging on a global scale. I've
written a few books over the years and am getting the itch to do so
again, and I'm addicted to learning curves.
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I am verbal, geeky, and technomadic
GeekAdventurer
56 / m / straight / Seeing Someone
Camano, Washington, United States
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Ethnicity White
Height 6' 4" (1.93m).
Looking For New friends, Activity partners, Long-distance penpals
Smokes No
Drinks Sometimes
Drugs Never
Religion
Sign Libra but it doesn't matter
Education Dropped out of college/university
Job Science / Tech / Engineering
Income Rather not say
Kids Likes children, but doesn't want any
Pets Likes dogs and Owns cats
Languages English (Fluently), Japanese (Poorly)
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My self-summary
What I'm doing with my life
Frolicking in the strange domain where technology and adventure
overlap... and occasionally writing about the process.
I'm really good at
Avoiding employment, conjuring gizmology, and turning the odd
phrase.
The first thing(s) people usually notice about me
The pun daemon -- an autonomous process in my brain that subjects
all input and output strings to a series of filters designed to
spot lexical or parsing ambiguities, then quickly packages them as
parenthetical inserts into conversation. Oh, and I'm 6'4" tall.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Lots, depending on context... impossible to answer this question
accurately in less than a few thousand words!
The six things I could never do without
A lab, a sailboat (or at least a kayak!), a spirited pal, a net-connected
Mac, music, and a sense of humor... not necessarily in that order.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Global sailing
adventures and the technological underpinnings of my escape pod. In
less-ambitious moments, I busy the ol' wetware with wordplay, geek
expressionism, and music (I've played the flute for 30 years and am
learning piano).
On a typical Friday night I am
Working on ship systems... reducing tonnage via eBay... perhaps
even playing the piano. But what is this "Friday" of which you
speak?
The most private thing I'm willing to admit here
The aforementioned pun daemon has an associated command-line
parameter. Just say "set punlev [x]" where x is a number between 0
and 9. The high extreme will reduce pun incidents to about one a
day (and they're really good). A value in the 0-2 range... which
you really don't want to do unless we're on our second glass of
wine... can result in a high noise level. A good compromise is 5,
which is the default value upon my exit from sleep state. The
punlev parameter does not linearly affect internal pun generation
as much as it regulates release into the output stream by applying
a subjective quality filter.
You should message me if
You have a yen for nautical adventure coupled with a musical nature
and an undercurrent of passion that is making you very, very
restless...
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