Hi, I'm Derek.

I'm a quiet person, but if you get me on the right subject, I'll talk your ear off. Any science-type stuff or history, although I'm not big on current events.

I am intelligent, introverted, and imaginative.

I'm in Navy right now. I'm from originally from Ohio.
After the Navy, I'm planning on getting a degree in Aerospace Engineering. My dream job would be to work at NASA, but I'm realistic and know that this may not happen. As long as I get a job I like, I'm okay.

Well, like I said, I'm somewhat intelligent, and I can certainly read... :)
I can longboard and I play a viola pretty well.
I'm really good at absorbing knowledge I'm interested in.
I've built my own computer, and I can generally figure out mechanical things like cars well enough to know if I can fix it myself (broken PCV valve) or take it to a mechanic.

Things I'm bad at (its only fair):
Going to bed before 11 o'clock
Stopping only halfway through a book
Waking up
Initiating conversations

I'm not sure what other people notice, but I'd like to think that people notice my intelligence, and also my quirkiness. I dress kinda like a hipster, but I promise I'm not. I wear glasses, and my friends claim that I'm balding. I just kinda noticed it myself, but I figure when I get older it will make me looked more distinguished.

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, J.R.R. Tolkein, Douglas Adams, Orson Scott Card, to name a few.
Good movies are: A Scanner Darkly, Donnie Darko, some sci-fi movies, comedy, and a lot more that I don't have room for here.
I like classical music, techno, trance, and other stuff. Don't ask me band names, for some reason I cant remember them. For classical music I like Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jocelyn Pook, Gabriel Faure, Modest Mussorgsky, Ludwig Beethoveen, Wolfgang Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Avison, and Antonio Vivaldi.
Most food is ok to me. I'm not exactly picky, so as long as it isnt overly spicy, I'm cool with it.

Music
Rain
Stars
Sleep
Dreams
Thought

That is, of course, besides the obvious food, water, air, etc.

The past, the future, and building things.

Where we're going as a species.

Things and stuff.

Roaming the internet, or doing some astronomy, depending on the weather.
If the weather is good, out at a parking lot running my RC cars.
I have a distaste of clubs, because I can't lip read, and the music is so damn loud I can't hear people talk. So, yeah, probably not there unless I'm making sure other people get home ok.

Maybe that I listen to Enya... not a normal guy thing, I guess.

Wow, you're still here? Have at it, I'm not going to tell you why, or why not, you're a grown person.

When you wake up, you want to vaporize every alarm clock in a 50 foot radius, and murder the individual that invented the damn things.

Btw, I am in the Navy, so I'm already housebroken. I put the seat down, I clean, do dishes, have a steady paycheck, don't feel the need to go out and get trashed every night, and in general have my shit together. So if you're still reading this, and either want to call bullshit or see if its true, you can also message me.