I'm me. Rather irrepressibly so in fact. Even I can't make myself not be me, I've tried.

When I'm in a good mood, I'm bouncy and silly and make a lot of puns or spew intricate bits of knowledge semi-randomly about the landscape. When I'm in a bad mood, I'm solitary, and don't talk to others much.

I like intellectual puzzles, intellectual debates and clever wording. I like philosophy. I've been a Taoist since I was 20 or so. I dislike it when others dismiss people for not having some piece of knowledge. I like sharing knowledge. I like learning. I know something about a wide variety of topics, and a little more than something about quite a few topics.

I'm way too analytical for my own good.

A good description of my personality: http://typelogic.com/intp.html

I'm here looking for people who are way more intelligent than average, who would appreciate a silly geek who doesn't take himself too seriously, and who think conversations make for the best flirting.

I work with computers. Probably way more than I ought to. They are both my job, and my after work hobby. I most likely need more balance in my life.

I work at home on Open Source projects that I hope will change how people on the Internet communicate. I'm a fan of decentralization. I do not like centralized power, and I work to architect the things I create to discourage the formation of blocks of centralized power.

I would like to have children who are genetically related to me and raise a family someday, though my idea of family is perhaps a bit unusual and more encompassing than many might be used to.

Almost anything involving computers.

I used to be good at creating safe places for people to interact. I will be again. My life has been too unstable and hectic in the last few years for me to be able to put the energy into this that I would like. This will change.

I haven't gotten enough answers on this from unbiased observers to really know.

I read a lot. But I only see the occasional movie.

Books that have changed my opinions or the way I think:

• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Justee and Jules Feiffer
• Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
• The Mind's I - Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett (Yes, I've read Gödel, Escher, Bach too, but I read The Mind's I first)
• Octavia Butler's books in general
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
• The Cassini Division - Ken MacLeod
• Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol - I love the way this book plays with language and perception.

Movies I love:

• Blade Runner
• The Matrix
• Waking Life
• Memento
• I should see "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" again.
• Pan's Labyrinth - A demonstration by counterexample that most of the violence in American movies is essentially pornographic.

Bands I like:

• Delerium
• Dead Can Dance
• Tori Amos
• Switchblade Symphony
• Enigma
• Mozart *grin*

Foods I like:
A wide variety of different foods. I like sushi, I like Ethiopian food, I like Thai food. In February 2005, I was at a very nice sushi place in the most touristy part of San Francisco. Cheesy decorations and a silly theme (little boats holding sushi floating around in a little river around the bar), but excellent sushi.

This is a badly worded question as the obvious answers are the necessities of life. There are things I intensely dislike doing without:

• some way of programming something to do something
• the ability to form coherent sentences (When I was in the hospital for a broken arm, I found that I dislike morphine for this reason)
• some forum in which I can engage in discussion or debate
• lots of complicated things to think about (which often come from books)
• an authority to despise
• sex. :-)

Complex systems of all kinds and how they're related to each other. For example, the structure of the food chain (web really) and the structure of the brain have important things in common. Somewhere in all that, I think there is some fundamental law that might even govern all of physics. But, I'm not sure. These principles may even form some guiding principles of ethics, but I'm not sure of that either.

My work, which on good days is a subset of the above.

Thursday nights are more interesting. I'm typically dancing then.

Playing D&D. Or at a friend's house at one of those sorts of parties where people wear t-shirts, eat fancy cheese and talk about intellectual stuff. Or sometimes dancing.

I'm generally not very picky about what I do as long as I'm around people who's company I enjoy. There are few things that aren't fun with the right people, and few things that are fun with the wrong people.

One of my favorite things to do as a centering and calming thing is to take a ferry ride.

I'm very cluttered and disorganized.

I once got a woman I was going out with a very cute stuffed baby seal (she had a lot of stuffed animals) and a plastic baseball bat to club it with. She was both apalled, and vastly amused. She threatened me with the bat. To this day, she still has both. :-)

I'm polyamorous.

Also, since I seem to match fairly highly with a number of transgendered women, I would like to be clear about this up-front. I am not interested in dating transgendered women. I'm perfectly happy to be friends and to interact on that basis. I am not happy to interact on the basis of a prospective romantic relationship. I am straight, and my sexuality is not very gender fluid (though I do like tomboyish women).

I really like sex. This isn't because I want the next quick, disposable (*bleah* I never consider my partners disposable) lay and associated physical gratification. Instead it's because sex is a joyous and wonderful experience that at its best can be very connecting and intimate, and at its worse at least feels really good, is validating, and is a pleasant bonding experience. I know that sex can be ugly and brutal and be about the worst in us. In my own life I choose for that not to be the case, and for it to be about what's the best in us.

You enjoy having to work a bit to draw people out. You want an intellectual conversation. You like hearing bad and/or obscure puns. :-)

I've discovered that like the Tao, the person that is described is not the true person. Who someone is is more than any words you can put down that might describe them. One person can seem totally different to two other people. And it isn't because they're putting on a face or being fake, it's because people are not bound by their descriptions. They literally are interaction and interrelation. So when different components are brought to this mixture, different results are perceived.

This is very much my philosophy of the world in general. So if you're intrigued enough to figure out who we'd be together, and realize that your experience may differ from what you'd imagine from what's written here, try it and see.

As of 2008-10-15 I'm currently only really interested in someone who wants a playmate, or someone who thinks she wants children. My dance card is full for serious relationships that aren't of the variety in which children are a distinct possibility.