I am a passionate, pragmatic liberal; As of January 2013, I'm working in San Francisco again, after a handful of years spent at a successful start-up which had grown too large and bureaucratic. I'm living with my fantastic girlfriend and our respective cats. As a card carrying KQED/NPR, Sierra Club, and ACLU member, I try to put my money where my mouth is. I do my best to stay politically engaged and aware. I also strive to balance my desire to be outdoors and immersed in nature with the realities of my occupation, which I enjoy. While all of this keeps me quite busy, I'm always down for making new friends!

I enjoy hiking, photography, mountain biking, skiing, reading, casual video gaming with friends (I love my Wii!) and I really enjoy traveling. I love animals, and finally have a lovely female kitty named Adelaide to call my own. I'm looking for some people in my area who are interested in meeting, and seeing where things go from there. I'm an introspective, intellectual person, and while you certainly don't have to be, you get major brownie-points if you are.

When it comes to travel...I've always been afflicted with Wanderlust. In August of 2009, I spent two weeks in eastern Europe, visiting primarily Slovakia, but also bits of Hungary, including a day in Budapest, which is an amazing city. I spent a month in France (both Paris and Provence) during the spring of 2006, and it was an amazing experience which will always stick with me. In 1999, I was an exchange student in Skanderborg, Danmark. My first non-family trip abroad was in 1998, when I spent three weeks in The Netherlands at the age of fifteen. I've traveled somewhat extensively in Europe and Mexico, and would love to revisit new parts of Mexico, especially the Yucatan. Every time I've traveled, I've always learned something and had a blast! Other places within Europe I've not yet visited but would very much like to include Spain, Eastern Europe, Ireland, and Scotland.

I really enjoy photography, but don't do it as much as I used to.

I love many varieties of tea and coffee. I have an open mind, and not just when it comes to interacting with similarly-minded liberal types. I enjoy challenging the system. I'm a big-picture person as well as a dreamer, often thinking about how the world could be made to be a better place, and how to get there.

Cycling less than I should and want to :) I just picked up my first road bike, so riding it, taking photos, and wrking in the tech industry and traveling the world.

In the last few years, I've spent spent a couple of weeks on my own in eastern Europe, on Kauai, camping around the island. The Na Pali coast was amazing. I've spent a week rafting down the down the Gulkana river in central Alaska with ten people I'd never met prior to the journey. I'd love to go back, eventually!

In college, I studied anthropology, and found it to be a fascinating major. I was attracted to it because of its breadth. One day, I'll finish what I started, but in the meantime, I am enjoying most everything that life's been throwing at me.

I enjoy spending my weekends with friends, hiking, reading, biking, etc.

conversing, learning from my mistakes, having a near-infinite curiosity, listening, and observing (anything, really)

My Glasses, if I'm wearing them. I don't all of the time, though.

KQED/NPR: Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, Says You, Radiolab. All fantastic!

Books: American Gods, Neverwhere, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (I own a few signed first editions of both DNA's material as well as Gaiman's, these guys rock), Collapse by Jared Diamond, The Janson Directive & The Tristan Betrayal by Robert Ludlum, Ender's Game/Shadow by Orson Scott Card, West of Kabul, East of New York, by Tamim Ansary, The Kite Runner, American Autobahn by Mark Rask, Ishi - In Two Worlds, "One People, Two worlds", and a host of other books I'm certainly omitting.

Movies: Sneakers. Amelie. Happenstance. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. City of lost Children. Napoleon Dynamite. The Fifth Element. L.A Confidential. The Princess & The Warrior, Run Lola Run (aka Lola Rennt), The Big Lebowski. Batman Begins. Time Bandits, The Others. Shadow of the Vampire. Lon (AKA The Professional in the USA, however the American edit is quite inferior), Rush Hour. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The Hudsucker Proxy. Contact. Ronin. Brazil. The Vanishing. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Spirited Away. Star Wars. Traffic. Did I mention Sneakers? ;-) A host of others, as well, these titles are simply a very small and not necessarily representative portion of what I appreciate.

Television: Mad Men, Battlestar Galactica, Castle, House, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report

Music: A short list of artists would be: Air, Bjork, Cake, The Clash, Devo, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Emilianna Torini, Gary Numan, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Nelly Furtado, Pink Martini, Queen, Radiohead, Royksopp, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, and a lot of tribal ethnic music.

Food: Fresh fruits and vegetables. Avocado, Spinach, Tomatoes, Chiles. Genre-wise: Mexican, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, seeing a pattern here yet? Most ethnic food. I really enjoyed sampling a wide variety of authentic French food during my travels there.

Hugs, Friends, Music, Good books, (literal) Discovery, Travel

How we often settle for the mediocre and don't draw upon our imaginations to consider how much better things could be...I'm a dreamer at heart. This quote sums things up nicely:

"To the ambitious for whom neither the bounty of life nor the beauty of the world suffice to content, it comes as penance that life with them is squandered and that they posses neither the benefits nor the beauty of the world.

And if they are unable to perceive what is divine in Nature which is all around them, how will they be able to see their own divinity, which is sometimes hidden."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Either off at an eatery with friends, or happily enjoying a DVR'ed drama on the idiot-box, when I'm toast from a long week.

I pay my unemployed mother's mortgage. For reals.

I'd love to hear from you if you consider yourself thoughtful, enjoy sometimes being silly, are somewhat intellectual, and would like to meet someone who is capable of demonstrating sincere friendship.