Technophile/nomad/free spirit type here, just arrived in SF and learning my way around.... could use a tour guide/partner in crime to help point me in the right direction. Prefer open minded, outgoing, and nerdy. Intellectual connection is a must, so let's start with chat and go from there.

Specific activities that I'm interested in..

Making / Crafts / Fabricating / Hacking / Building - I'm enamored of the Maker community and have been wanting to resurrect all the "Home Depot" skills that I accumulated as a kid. I plan to find a place to work and need to get access to tools to get up and running again. If you have any suggestions on how I could get back to some hands-on creativity, I'd love to hear from you.

Exercise and Outdoors - Biking, Soccer, Snowboarding, Hiking, Camping, Martial Arts... I'm a southern boy (born in Atlanta) and grew up wandering the woods. Been missing that lately and would love to get back to it.

Gaming and Game Design - I love to play games and analyze them. Not just video games - board games, tabletop RPGs, CCGs. I'll even confess to LARPing as a teen. Playing games is cool, but points for anybody who's keen on making them as well.

Technology - as mentioned, I'm a gadget geek. I frequently attend conferences like GDC, E3, Siggraph, and others. Of course, SF is a boon for such events - the hard part is the signal-to-noise ratio. Very interested in finding techy events in the city.

Travel - I love to travel, and try to get out of the US at least once a year. Always looking to make contacts in other countries. If you're not local, but still think we match up, feel free to contact me. You never know when I might show up in your town for the weekend.

Clubs - I used to spend too much time in the electronic music scene, and actually lived as a Pro VJ for five years in the southeast. Although I'm not into the late nights and the drugs anymore, I still miss the beats. Would love to check out some breaks, drum and bass, jungle, or electro. If you've got tips on where I might find my lost groove, ping me. Please, no dubstep... just not my flavor.

Concerts - Another relic of my teens and twenties, I miss seeing live bands. Check out my list of music influences below.

Looking for friends mainly, and possibly friends with benefits if the chemistry is right. Not looking for instant hook-up, friendship comes first.

I'm poly, and in an open relationship, if you don't know what that means, just ask and I'd be glad to explain.

Enjoying every single moment of it while it lasts. I live for experiences, not possessions. Love to travel, love new experiences, love the sensual (tastes, touches, sounds, visuals, etc). I need progression, the only thing I can't handle is monotony. Like to set goals and see them accomplished. Love to learn, and generally appreciate people who feel the same way.

Oh, and I love my job. I'm a video game designer. You know you're in the right place when you're surrounded buy like-minded people, and my coworkers are some of the most awesome freaks around.

Putting a smile on your face (provided you can handle a bit of crude, sometimes dry, often dark humor).

Foot massages. Though I'll warn you, they frequently evolve into full-body massages.

Generating smart-ass comments to just about any subject. Some would call it bullshitting, but I've elevated it to an art form that calls for a change of nomenclature. Also, I like to use three-syllable words every chance I get. Onomatopoeia. Vivisection. Monosodium Glutamate. Mmmm....

At first: Blue eyes. Long hair. Cute smile.

Eventually: Southern manners. Mellow disposition. Unconventional outlook on life.

Books: Heinlein (love Stranger in a Strange Land), Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert (Dune series), Age of Spiritual Machines, William Gibson (Neuromancer), Neil Stephenson (Snow Crash, Diamond Age), George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Douglas Adams (if you don't know, I'm not telling you), the classics, lots of nonfiction.

Movies: Terry Gilliam movies, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Paul Verhoeven. Also love indies like Pi, Brick, Man Bites Dog, Reservoir Dogs. City of Lost Children, Dark City, Amelie, Delicatessen, Appleseed, Ghost in the Shell, Fist of the North Star, Vampire Hunter D, crap... the list goes on. I give up.

Music: Industrial/EBM/Darkwave, Downtempo/Trip Hop/Jungle/DnB, Rock/Punk/Ska, Funk/Groove/Jam, Freakbeat/Nerdcore/IDM, Classical, hell - even some country music (nothing twangy or "young"). Favorite bands include Ween, Faith No More, Frontline Assembly, Ministry, Primus, Mastodon, Mudvayne, Gwar, Pink Floyd, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Ashes Divide, Covenant, anything Dan the Automator touches, Deltron, MC 900 Ft Jesus, the Dead Milkmen, Bassnectar, ah crap... this could take a while....,

1) great friends
2) great sex
3) a career that I love
4) my freedom
5) new experiences
6) the courage to follow my dreams
7) my prankster mentality of breaking any rules put in front of me.

stuff. Really deep stuff. You should ask me about all the deep stuff I'm thinking about.

Typical Friday does not exist. If typical Friday tries to exist, we destroy it. There is no typical Friday. This is heresy.

is that I have an alter ego. And i'm schizo. And so is he.

I don't remember writing that.

- you have similar interests and you're looking for an activity partner, drinking buddy, verbal sparring challenger, exercise buddy, or partner in crime.

- if "techy", "geek", "nerd", "freak", "mutant" or "edgy" are positive terms in your lexicon.

- you know your way around SF and would be willing to provide your tour guide services. promise i'll find a way to pay you back.

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(hrm.... I can expand my profile to 95% if I break 1k words, so here's an excerpt from one of my favorite Monty Python skits, "Crunchy Frog":

Praline: (to camera) Hello. (he walks in followed by Superintendent Parrot and goes to desk) Mr Milton? You are sole proprietor and owner of the Whizzo Chocolate Company?

Milton: I am.

Praline: Superintendent Parrot and I are from the hygiene squad.We want to have a word with you about your box of chocolates entitled the Whizzo Quality Assortment.

Milton: Ah, yes.

Praline: (producing box of chocolate) If I may begin at the beginning. First there is the Cherry Fondue. This is extremely nasty, but we can't prosecute you for that.

Milton: Agreed.

Praline: Next we have number four, 'Crunchy Frog'.

Milton: An, yes.

Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?

Milton: Yes. A little one.

Praline: What sort of frog?

Milton: A dead frog.

Praline: Is it cooked?

Milton: No.

Praline: What, a raw frog?

(Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.)

Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Praline: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!

Milton: What else?

Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?

Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?

Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.

Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)

Praline: Well, the Superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some sort of mock frog.

Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend, 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog' if you want to avoid prosecution.

Milton: What about our sales?

Praline: I'm not interested in your sales! I have to protect the general public! Now what about this one. (superintendent enters) It was number five, wasn't it? (superintendent nods) Number five Ram's Bladder Cup. (exit superintendent) What sort of confection is this?

Milton: We use choicest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue and garnished with lark's vomit.

Praline: Larks vomit?

Milton: Correct.

Praline: Well it don't say nothing about that here.

Milton: Oh yes it does, on the bottom of the box, after monosodium glutamate.

Praline: (looking) Wel I hardly think this is good enough. I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label warning lark's vomit.

Milton: Our sales would plummet!

Praline: Well why don't you move into more conventional areas of confectionary, like praline or lime cream; a very popular flavor, I'm lead to understand. (superintendent enters) I mean look at this one 'cockroach cluster', (superintendent exits) anthrax ripple! What's this one: 'spring surprise'?

Milton: Ah - now, that's our speciality - covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it into your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks.

Praline: Well where's the pleasure in that? If people place a nice chocky in their mouth, they don't want their cheeks pierced. In any case this is an inadequate description of the sweetmeat. I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.

Milton: (getting up from the desk and being led away) It's a fair cop.

Praline: Stop talking to the camera.

Milton: I'm sorry.