"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth!" -Alan Watts ...

Tall eccentric, decent-looking, never married/no kids, reclusive, fit, impractical, did I mention eccentric? How about reclusive?

Oh-- also. I'm completely free of contradictions. Complex, maybe, but as concentric and symmetrical as that Shri Yantra/mandala thing.

In objective measures:
Sex: Male
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown/Black
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 206#
Waist: 34", Inseam: 34", Neck: 16 1/2", Sleeve: 35"
IQ: 129
MBTI: INTP
Annual Income last 3 years mean: 25k/yr
Marrital Status: Single, never married
Children: None
Blood Type: O-
Words typed/min: 73 WPM
Degrees: BS CIS, 2nd Dan Taekwondo

I am erudite, inscrutable, and ignominious

"Resist that which resists in yourself; become yourself. -the Mahabharata

Tryin' to hold down a job and paying off my student loans. Wasting my time online, hanging out with my nieces, Tae Kwon Do, reading, writing, chatting, City of Heroes (an MMO), arguing politics, writing poetry, and generally being a derelict.

Scratch that. Fairly good at: Taekwondo (korean karate), third-wheel parenting, coding, ethics & philosophy, comparative mythology, eating, truth.

"What other people think of me is none of my business!" --my father

That statistically, I should exist, but I'm never seen in public!

BOOKS (Nonfiction): Masks of God series by Joseph Campbell, The Discoverers and The Explorers by Daniel Boorstein, Godel Escher Bach, and the Minds I, by Douglas Hofstadter, A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan, Lies my Teacher Told Me (James Loewen), The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks), The Language Instinct & The Blank Slate, by Stephen Pinker, Meeting the Shadow, edited Zweig & Abrams, The Reenchantmemt of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore, Tao: Watercourse Way, by Alan Watts.

(Fiction):Tales of Earthsea and original Earthsea trilogy (Ursula LeGuin), His Dark Materials Trilogy (Pullman), Ficciones (Borges), Parzifal (VonEschenbach), Magister Ludi (Herman Hesse), Dune Series (Frank Herbert), Watership Down (Adams), Diverse Paperbacks Unspeakable (Lovecraft), The Eternal Champion and The Warhound and the World's Pain (Moorcock), the Gormenghast trilogy (Mervyn Peake)

MOVIES: Strictly Ballroom, Run Lola Run, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Blade Runner, Brazil, Last Temptation of Christ, Pan's Labyrinth, Princess Mononoke, Hero, Tous Les Matins Du Monde, Aliens, Amadeus, Napoleon Dynamite, O Brother Where Art Thou, Ghost Dog, School of Rock, Enemy at the Gates, Whale Rider, American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke, Spirited Away, City of Lost Children, Shawshank Redemption, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, 2001.

MUSIC:Juno Reactor, Daft Punk, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Eurythmics, The Police, Queen, Led Zepplin, Journey, Heart, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Dead can Dance.

Oh, whatever:

Books. Caffeine. Imagination. Solitude. Writing. Self-deceptions.

How to make imaginary things coherent and vivid.

Writing, reading, thinking, playing, sleeping, alone.

There are moments when I'm not sure exactly what I want!

You:

1) are perfectly happy having nothing to do with alcohol, television, or "god,"
2) are reasonably ethical, sane, decent-looking, and smart, and
3) think you would find the sundry facets of my geekiness (see above) interesting enough to spend time with.

Hilarious true fact: I actually look better than my profile picture.