My friends call me Nat. People who aren't my friends often call me "Hey you." or "That scary looking dude over there".

I'm pretty open, and by both disposition and effort of will an uncomplicated and straightforward person. Because of the social realities of being single in a University town, I typically hang with a younger crowd. It suits me fine most of the time, though the musical chairs nature of peer groups in an ever transient college population can sometimes get me down. But such is life.

Speaking of life... I think most people take it way too seriously.

I am a force for entropy in this world. My career as an IT professional, contractually obligated to a major state university to keep complicated systems working, is thus, an enormous and perpetual source of irony. I am entropy's "inside man".

Procrastination.

A more expansive list will be added... tomorrow.

I'm Huge, typically sweat soaked (if you catch me at a club dancing), and usually smiling.

Important section! Our Cultural choices are the secret handshakes of our non-local secret societies.

sharing some of these means we are co-conspirators that simply have yet to meet.

Books, Fiction: Dune, The Silmarillion, anything by Stephan R. Donaldson, Douglas Adams, or Robert Anton Wilson. I recently read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and am still mulling the imagery.

Books, Non-Fiction: The Selfish Gene. Gödel, Escher, Bach. Guns, Germs, and Steele. Pop anthropology and war history are two areas of recurring interest.

Movies: Blade Runner (theatrical cut, dammit!). Donnie Darko. Old Boy. Miller's Crossing.

Music: Most of what I listen to is Electronic in one way or another: Clubby Goth/Industrial/Synthpop (e.g. Covenant, Combichrist, LadyTron) Dark-sh Trance (e.g. Total Eclipse. Deepsky. Juno Reactor) Psytrance (e.g. Xenomorph, Dark Nebula). And something I call Desi-Chill (Hindi and Persian influenced Downtempo e.g. Zeb, DJ Shah, Adham Shaikh)

Music, Non-Electronic: some Classic Rock (Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin) Eastward leaning world music, like Kitka, and Niyaz. 70's singer/songwriters.

Food: Sushi. Thai. Beef in all its wondrous forms. NO TOMATOES. I'm not allergic... they just disgust me on multiple levels.

Aside from the inescapable requirements of life (food, water, shelter, sleep... which aren't the point of this question) There is really nothing that I can't do without. Everything in the universe is incidental, and can be discarded at need.

What goes on behind other people's faces.

Meeting friends at a local night-spot... or on the computer.

Sorry. No Freebies!

You're a former Olympic gymnast with stunning fashion model good looks, who has 3 PHD's and an oral fixation.... and your dad owns a liquor store.

... or anyone else who's cool.