*** My spring tour is over; I'm back home ion Maui. ***

OK, it's official.

This profile now sits unmodified waaay past it's freshness date. But I actually have a life. So I'll get to it when I can.

One new fun thing. I recently participated in two days Spencer Tunick installations. It was fun and thought provoking. There's more about this in my journal post.

having said that...

(QuickMatch browsers may wish to know that my user name is "MauiKeith")

I'm like no one else you've ever met: one of a kind and completely unforgettable. Seeing things from a perspective all my own; definitely cut from a bolt of seriously different cloth.

Born and raised in New York City; Maui has been my part-time home since 1995, and I moved here full time in 2001. As it happened, I was packing up my East Village apartment just two miles from the World Trade Center when all hell broke loose on 9/11.

I'm fairly knowledgeable about mathematics, computers, the sciences, world history and current affairs. Before the advent of Google and Wikipedia, people would often say "Keith would know." (c.f. "Eddie would go.") and call me, asking about some random, obscure topic. I love words and language. To me they're playthings, though I usually - yet evidently not at this particular moment - hate to write or read, as I have learning disabilities. An artist friend once described my speech patterns as "word darts".

My very closest friends often tell me they think I posess special insight in dealing with people, and that they feel fortunate to have my counsel in the thorny area of love relationships. They have yet to notice that I always give exactly the same advice: no matter what's going on do the most loving thing you can think of for yourself and those around you. Of course, if that trite maxim were all that easy to follow in real life, none of us would be out here on the 'nets looking for love in all the wrong dotted quads and colon iterposed sextuples.

I'm a political animal, and I believe we are all obliged to do what little thing we can do today to make the world a better place. I'm pro-peace, pro-environment, liberal on social issues. I have huge ambivalance on the momentous issues of abortion and the death penalty, probably because I see them as red herrings, dividing and distracting us from working together to bring forth a new reality where the norm is such a degree of love, truth and responsibility that these questions are rendered moot. Instead, we point fingers and perpetuate pain, all to the delight of our good ... err ... whatever... Uncle Screwtape. I will say that it always astonishes me whenever I hear someone say they are "pro-life" yet endorse war or capital punishment. To me it is all one seamless garment.

"o/~ You may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one... o/~"

I don't drink or take drugs except under the advice and supervision of my physician, and I really don't like people who drink excessively or use other drugs recreationally, even marijuana. Coffee, of course, is not a drug - it is a bona fide food group/sacrament which has been left out of the government's official food pyramid due to the sisnister influence of a nefarious, clandestine, pan-galactic anti-caffeine cabal.

I love hot, smart well-rounded geek chicks. To me there is nothing sexier in the known or imagined universe. What this means to me is that you have Mensa- (Intertel preferred) level intelligence, are enthusiastically knowledgeable as well as informed and articulate about the sciences, and also have non-technical passions. It's good if you have one or more linux boxes around, but please don't be a gamer. You have strong personal integrity and are deeply principled within whatever moral framework makes sense to you. And while you are decidedly not a saint, and hopefully something of an imp, as I am, you are nonetheless deeply spritual in some way, regardless of whether you are athiest, agnostic or a believer in one or more deities.

There's oh so much to know about me, that I don't even know half of it myself. Maybe you can teach me about myself as I learn about your own multifaceted self. It would be ever so much fun, don't you think!?

Oh, yeah: love. I want love. Lots. There's nothing I want more, yet at the same time there's nothing else that scares me shitless in quite the same, visceral way. Not even Stephen King novels, which I actually hate. I've already got a big enough fear factory between my ears without any help from elsewhere.

Editors

• Hamachi

Frittering my valuable time away on the internet, just like you.

This is especially disconcerting when one considers the fact that an hour constitutes well over than 0.0001% of an entire lifespan of 85 years, which itself numbers just over 31,000 days. Of course I know that my squandering of time is, at base, a desparate, defiant attempt to deny the inevitability of my eventual ultimately uneventful assimilation into the river of time. It may well be that resistance is futile, but I'm not going without at least filing a grievance.

Why are you here?

When I'm not so busy whistling in the dark, my favorite activities include bodysurfing, hiking in my beautiful island home of Maui, Hawai'i, snorkeling in coral reefs, and most of all sharing good timse with dear friends. I am also trying to teach myself to read, write and speak 'Olelo Hawai'i. I enjoy casual dining, museums, and lectures about matters of science and politics, when I can find them.

These things are scarce here.

Science. Math. Caring about people. Time Frittering-Away-ing. (that would, of course, look a lot more like "Timefritteringawaying" were this written in a language like German where one makes up compound words at will instead of English.) I used to be way too good with computers than is natural for a biological unit, but either they've evolved a lot or I've lost my bleeding edge in recent years.

My eyes. My intelligence. My exceptionally well-endowed ... vocabulary

Snorkeling:

I like snorkeling. A lot. OK, I know it's not a book, movie, music or food, but it is way better that all those things combined. At least I think so. For me it is exercise, meditation and wonder rolled into one.

Books:

If you're really nice to me I just might let you see my autographed copy of Richard P. Feynman's Quantum Electrodynamics. "Big deal!" you say? Well, Professor Feynman drew by hand one of his famous "silly pictures" as he was wont to call them (we call them "Feynman diagrams") on the title page as a puzzle to me when I enjoyed the good fortune of being one of his students.

Some of my very favorite writing is found in a novel called Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Helprin's descriptions are so sensually vivid that even now as I sit in my home on tropical Maui, I can taste and feel the ozone-sharpend crisp winter winds and hear the crackly crunch of men walking on virgin snow though I last read this book some 20 years ago.

Some of my other favorite books are "Centering and the Art of Intimacy" and "Conscious Loving" both by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks and "Fundamental Algorithms" and "Semi-Numerical Algorithms" by Donald E. Knuth. Yes, I am a dork. Also, invaluable: The Richest man in Babylon

Still reading N�n� i ke Kumu ("Look to the Source") - a work about Hawaiian language, culture and traditions intended for clinical practitioners, and E Kama'ili Hawai'i K�kou ("Let's Speak Hawaiian").

I also tremendously enjoy reading the Bible as well as the sacred literature of other traditions, not only for inspiration and as a treasury of wisdom, but also because many of these sTories are literary gems and some of the taller tales simply kick ass!

Movies:

I don't go often enough, and I don't like renting.

Classic favorites: THX1138, original Star Wars, Hitchcock's The Birds, Friends (1971), Them (giant ants with a taste for manflesh lurking in the sewer that is... I mean, the sewers under L.A.), Slacker

Cult Classics: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harold & Maude.

Favorites of the past few years: Aeon Flux, The Constant Gardiner, Blood Diamond, US vs John Lennon, Venus, I Heart Huckabees, Cave of the Yellow Dog, The Producers, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Motorcycle Diaries.

Most dreamily erotic love scene of all time: Flourescent cave scene in Gas, Food & Lodging, an otherwise completely tedious film.

Worst picture ever: Frogs. I'd challange you to a turkey shoot, but I'm not sure I'd survive another sitting.

Music:

I passionately enjoy many genres of music... British invasion, 60s rock, psychedelic movement, classic rock, punk, new wave, what used to be called alternative, 80s garage bands, surf sound, and own around 2000 CDs. Nonetheless I would be perfectly content were I were forced to spend the rest of my life listening to nothing but the Cocteau Twins.

Still, I will try to list particular favorites as they come to me:

The Clash; Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Before and after Science; TheGrateful Dead; Kraftwerk: Neon Lights; Richard Lloyd

Food:

I was both blessed and cursed with a mother who is a phenomenal cook. Nothing else on earth or in heaven quite measures up to Mom's arroz con gondules.

Having said that, I enjoy a wide variety of world cuisines, and I like to try new and exotic foods.

Ginger is definitely my favorite flavor. Mmmm. Yummy!

love, friends, Hawai'i, 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione­​, music, the ocean

The glass being twice as big as it needs to be.

Either reclusively frittering my life away, or squandering it in the company of my many friends, depending upon my mood.

a) My life is a frenzied, cluttered, A.D.D. nightmare.

b) My ultimate sexual fantazy would involve a tropical lagoon, a kilo of honey and a threesome with Catherine Willows and Sara Sidel, And yes, I mean the fictional characters, not the attractive actress who play them, Otherwise I could and would have made it a reality by now.

You are intelligent, have a pleasant temperament, and share some common interests.

You are intrigued.

You are bored, but not boring.

If you opened up Liz Phair's Whip-Smart CD and immediately recognized the nine black and white figures within, I would seriously consider a marriage proposal from you.