Achtung!:This profile is long and arduous (but perhaps interesting!), though I've done my best to streamline it... you can tell I'm not very good at that. You should read this profile IF you are one or more of the following: a) you find people with quirks interesting b) you are a geek c) you believe the world isn't always what it seems d) you don't mind spending an extra minute reading

If you are none of those, skip to the "My Favourite" section, as I'm not sure if you'll want to bother going through the rest of my verboseness.

Now, getting to myself... I'm... well, I'm me. While that's true, it doesn't really convey anything, so I'll elaborate.

I have a very serious side of myself, however it's speckled with my rather eccentric sense of humour. Calling my sense of humour weird, bizarre or strange may be an understatement. Things can get really silly depending on my mood and the people I'm with. I tend to have moments of utter clarity mixed with occasional confusion (can�t find a piece of paper because it�s UNDER my keyboard). I'm mostly logical, trying to view the world objectively as I can with an open mind, though that doesn�t mean I've never cried while watching a movie (lies, I deny everything!). With interests in science, philosophy, human behavior, etc... I wouldn't say I'm well rounded, more dimply like a golfball.

I'm inherently honest, I can't help myself. I hate lying and would prefer to be as straightforward as I can. This leads me to being blunt at times, but that doesn't mean I don't have tact. As I said before, I try to be open-minded. I'm certainly not perfect, but I try often to see both sides of the issues at hand.

Some extra stuff about me... Dan Savage (writer of Savage Love) is my personal hero. I've two tattoos, one on each shoulder. Plans are in the making on getting more. Occasionally go goth-clubbing, though haven't been able to recently.

I can be hideously scatterbrained at times, completely distracted and a bit of a space cadet. My memory leaves something to be desired, tending to be selective in a way that I do not control. Thus I tend to use my hand as a memory device (by writing all over it), and have a general paranoia about the location of my keys.

Concerning sexuality, I'm a 1 on the Kinsey scale. Boys can be cute and fun to play with, but I definitely have preferential leanings towards women. Personally, I find societies obsession with what a persons sexuality is a bit annoying. Whether you're bi/pan/omni/gay- - /lesbian/queer/straight... or even asexual... we're all just sexual, labeling seems less important (we don't fit into pidgeon-holes, we are not just black and white). I think I'm going to steal an idea I saw on a placard at a gay pride parade, and just say that my sexual preference is often.

I've a slow and burning hatred of reality TV, I find it boring, focused mostly on the worst parts of human nature and generally has shown that script-writers have run out of ideas (given how many old movies have been remade lately, this is no surprise). I'm waiting for the series Humiliation!", Redundant Dating Show!" and Kill, Betray, and Lose Your Dignity for Money!" so I know it's finally time to shut myself away from humanity and become a hermit. (I generally find TV a waste of time of late, and probably would forsake it entirely if it wasn't for my addiction to shows like Malcolm in the Middle, Buffy, old british comedies and music videos)

Philosophy/religion-wise: Over the years I have read a lot of books, websites and had many conversations about how the world works, how people work, about right and wrong and countless other things. My belief system is a dynamic and constantly changing mass, and when I learn something new that makes sense to me, I incorporate it into the whole (you could almost imagine this Akira-wise). I tend to lean towards Taoism over most other philosophies/religions. I'm a bit of an existentialist, and have gone down various lines of thought involving both subjectivism and objectivism. I've figured a few things out (or so I think...), but I'm far from being content with my present view of the world.

I tend to be a bit of a geek (translation: total geek). I play video games when I can, used to watch anime (less so now), enjoy board games, like watching cartoons (Scooby Doo, where are you?), I still like lego... yes, run, run far far away, before I devour your children and drop the property value of your house!

So I'm not just rambling about myself, here's something a good friend said about me recently. She said my disorganized nature was 'charming' and I asked her why she said that. This was her answer: "i don't know cause your not a total idiot but at the same time your completely clueless, it makes you less intimidating, very personnable, and lovable cause you don't judge anyone until you talk to them for at least ten horus and hug them a few times"

Update: Apparently I cannot claim geek status anymore, the fact that I don't live with my parents, no longer wear comic-book t-shirts and am sexually experienced has apparently deemed me unworthy of the title (or so say friends of mine). I'm fighting this but I may be losing the battle.

Trying to improve it.

Update(June 2007):I’ve been living in Columbus for almost a year now and work at the OSU Medical Center (you don’t know how hard it is not to write it ‘centre’). I’m learning the clinical side of my profession, though I’m not a doctor of any sort. I'm originally from British Columbia, Canada, so this is a bit of a shift. I haven't met a single person who's heard of my job unless they're directly involved in the field. To put it delicately, I work in cancer therapy, helping make sure people don't get overdosed on the x-rays. I really need to get back into yoga and tai chi, but work and my lack of time management skills makes this difficult. Going dancing and geeking out would be good too, both which don’t happen nearly enough.

More broadly, I'm trying to be happy, and work towards making myself better. I don't have to be perfect, but as long as I'm always going upwards and forwards, I'm content.

Did I say stay sane? I'm also trying to stay sane.

Sliding down banisters on my derriere, reading while walking (and not running into people), being a general disturbance... as my education background is in physics and mathematics, you could say I'm good at taking the real world and devolving it into a bunch of numbers, symbols and matrices.

I've been told I'm a decent cook (love cooking) and not bad at solving disputes between friends with sing-a-longs (providing there are appropriate props nearby).

One bizarre thing I'm good at is jamming peoples gaydar. It's kind of bizarre, but a fair chunk (maybe even more than half) of my friends and acquaintances have thought I was gay. Apparently I just emit waves of gayness. I blame aliens.

I'm also very talented at putting my foot in my mouth. Sometimes both feet, all the way up to my knees. It's quite amazing really.

OH!... and I'm good at wasting time!

I don't know. I'm not people. The book I'm holding?

If I’m out and about it might be my hat, which you can see in one of my photos.

None of these are in any particular order

a) (books) 'Cryptonomicon' (and other books by Neal Stephenson) 'A Prayer for Owen Meanie' (and most novels by John Irving), 'Stranger in a Strange Land', 'Silence of the Lambs', 'Illusions', 'Sho-Gun', 'Ender's Game', 'Good Omens', HG2TG series, 'Tao-te-Ching', 'High Fidelity', Alice in Wonderland (go figure), comics and novels written by Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis or Alan Moore, all children's books by Roald Dahl

b) (movies) 'Amelie', Last Night, 'The Hunt for Red October', 'Casablanca', 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert', most films directed by Tim Burton, some musicals including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. But I'm a Cheerleader, Alien and Aliens, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Dr. Strangelove, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Trainspotting, Memento, Whale Rider, Death to Smoochy, Clue, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, various foreign/indie films and documentaries. In general if the movie is well scripted, original (= non-hollywood'ish) and centered more around characters than special effects I'll probably like it. Especially if it has a good mind-fuck in it. I also have a penchant towards sci-fi.

c) (music) Radiohead, Pulp, The Pixies, Muse, The Talking Heads, Jimmy Eat World, Sublime, Blue Rodeo, Dresden Dolls, Le Tigre, OutKast, James Brown, Parliment Funkadelic (aka P-Funk), Ravel, Ben Folds (Five), Paul Oakenfold, Violent Femmes, Offspring, Manic Street Preachers, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Benny Goodman, They Might Be Giants, Bjork, NIN, Holst, Jamoraquai, Depeche Mode, KMFDM, Foo Fighters, ACDC, rinocerose, Faithless, Peter Gabriel, Elastica, The Cure, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, ... list goes on

d) (foods) Edible food... prepared well... preferably that won't make me sick/kill me. I do have a particular fondness for yoghurt (it's my comfort food). And cheese...mmm, gouda, wendsleydale, ... the whole Monty Python cheese sketch. And all-natural ice-cream... I like things other than dairy products, honest! I've a fondness for decent scotch, and a weakness for rootbeer (especially A&W, ice cold...mmm). I tend to like hidden, quaint little cafes, and 24-hour greasy spoons.

e) (quotes)

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. --Oscar Wilde

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. --David Bohm

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. --Mohandas K. Gandhi

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. --Frederick Douglass

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. --George Bernard Shaw

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. --Lao Tzu

The internet, my imagination, books, post-it notes, my bag, and hugs.

ALSO, I have to say I would be hard pressed to live without webcomics, as I'm mildly addicted...

Something Positive, Dominic Deegan, Two Lumps, Sam and Fuzzy, Questionable Content, Goats, The Devil's Panties,... and more.

Life... philosophy... relationships... sex... why the aliens always pester me...

Often I contemplate about the world in general, how subjective and relative things are or can be, whether there are absolute rules or if it's all just shades of grey. I like to take taboos and objectively look at them (nothing is sacred, boowahahahaha).

If I’m not working late, which unfortunately is the case more than I’d like to admit, I’m either reading, playing a video game, or spending time with friends. I’m absolutely not trying to take over the world, nope, not at all. *coughs*.

Do you really think I'm that naive to put something like that here?

You feel like it.

Or you lost a bet.

Or the voices in your head tell you to.

Final Note: My computer doesn't like the IM on OKCupid. You're better off writing me an e-mail. However, if you really want to talk to me on the IM, send me a message through it, then close it. I don't get notified that someone is IM'ing me, but I do get the e-mail that they failed, and then I can IM you back.