Geeky but adventurous? Philosophical but whimsical? Adjective but adjective?

I'm now in my 30s: this means that I've given up on pretending to be cool. I'll proudly declare that I saw DEVO live in '08 and had a ball.

I'm an INTP: this means that I'm like Carl Sagan or the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Take your pick.

I'm a film geek: I love both Mulholland Drive and Flash Gordon. Is that so strange?

I'm a music geek: I own too many CDs. I have vinyl as well. I love Pink Floyd. And Stravinsky. And Prince. And other stuff, too.

I score around 0 on the economic axis and -3.5 on the social axis of the political compass, so I'm what you might call an economically-centrist libertarian.

I'm a sceptic. I dig Joseph Campbell.

I once wore sunglasses, rattled a Coke can and shouted "Money for the blind" while in my wheelchair when I was about ten. I was in a shopping centre parking lot. Some would argue that I haven't grown up since.

My real name is not Miguel Sanchez. Just an FYI.

I'm currently doing my PhD in Computer Science, focusing on bioinformatics (particularly computational evolutionary biology) and other nerdy (but also genuinely interesting) stuff. I'll only bore you with the details if you ask.

Bizarre conversations, creative pursuits, remembering useless trivia, making a fool of myself.

1. My disability, obviously (Muscular Dystrophy)

2. My charming wit and stunning good looks

3. My humility

Books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, Dune by Frank Herbert, Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

Movies: Anything that's quirky without being too pretentious: Army of Darkness, The Big Lebowski, Brazil, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Dark Crystal, Ed Wood, Rushmore, Star Wars, Stop Making Sense, Superman, This is Spinal Tap and Tron. (In general, I'm a fan of Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam, Sam Raimi, George Lucas and The Coen Brothers).

Music: I'm a rock kind of guy. Having grown up on pop/rock, pub rock, soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, art rock and AOR, it's really no surprise that that's where my tastes lie. Some of my favourite artists are Fleetwood Mac, Peter Gabriel, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pink Floyd and Yes, to give you an idea.

TV: Breaking Bad, Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Dexter, Extras, Freaks and Geeks, Futurama, Shaun Micallef, The Office (the BBC version) and The Young Ones.

Foods: anything involving pasta, rice or potato. (I'm a carb freak, I guess.)

1. family: really, family is important to me, despite minor gripes.
2. friends: it goes without saying
3. music: I'm pretty much guaranteed to be listening to music at all hours
4. computer: I work in computer science, so...
5. books: mostly non-fiction, but anything geeky will do
6. movies: high-brow, low-brow, whatever.

Besides my study, I spend a lot of time thinking about life: its challenges, its rewards and how people often choose to hide from it instead of actively pursuing it.

I also think about the quickest path to becoming a supervillain. Alas, finding private funding for a doomsday device is not as easy as one would hope.

Relaxing by watching a movie or at a concert somewhere. Or talking someone's ear off.

Or out on a killing spree.

Actually, that last part is a joke. I do my killing on Thursdays.

I'm actually a pretty normal person.

...any of this profile made sense to you. In that case, we'll get along just fine.