I've got big ideas and a small wallet. I love my dog more than most people. I love most people more than they might think. Avid reader, tenor sax player, fencer, writer, philosopher, chef, (very) amateur artist.

I'm trying to make things work while figuring out some answers to some big questions. I am never mentally still - always thinking, always wondering, always coming up with new ideas and stories. This is perhaps to a fault; I need a lot of time to myself, and typically don't explain why unless I'm really sure what's bugging me, not because I dislike other people, but because I dislike making them share my experience of feeling like shit.

I'm keeping myself afloat while I work on returning to the realm of academia. I've a nice, if stressful, job that keeps me going.

Understanding wildly complicated concepts and making them work within a practical framework. I am obsessed with knowledge, and with making knowledge accessible. Completely subverting established rules without anyone being aware of my doing so.

Long, red hair. A silly hat of some kind. A spaced out look.

Books: Crime and Punishment, The Knight, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Foundation and Empire, Tao Te Ching, Thus Spake Zarathrustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Hobbit, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Stars My Destination, The Demolished Man, The Myst Reader, The Upanishads

Movies: Welcome to the Dollhouse, Killer Joe, Little Miss Sunshine, Bad Lieutenant, Full Metal Jacket, Descent (not the one about caves), Happiness, Man Bites Dog, The Fountain, STALKER, Solaris (the original), Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, Pi, Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Shows: Wilfred, The Walking Dead, Louie, Battlestar Galactica, Peep Show, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Trailer Park Boys, Adult Swim hits the spot every once in a while too.

Music: Phantogram, Empire of the Sun, ES Posthumus, Starfucker/STRFKR, Groove Armada, Tycho, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Red Sparowes, Slayer, Crystal Castles, Neon Indian, Daft Punk, Ravi Shankar, John Coltrane, The Mars Volta, Parliament, Pink Floyd, God is an Astronaut, Bonobo, Mastodon, Mono. That's what I'm listening to right now, at any rate. My tastes change often.

Food: Everything except salmon, and most kinds of fish sauce. I love tea.

I've never really liked this question, so I'm not answering it.

Who I am - What about me has changed, what seems to be changing, where I think I'm headed.

What exactly "the right thing" is, and whether I should do it.

The problems inherent in valuing things like productivity and efficiency in the same way one values ethical/moral decision-making processes. Why people seem to think happiness is at all related to possessing material goods and currency.

Out at a friend's place, or chillin' with my pup, Odessa. I do whatever, whenever.

I do a lot of randomly nice things for complete strangers, for no real reason other than because I can and I like seeing people be happy.

You like listening to amazing music.

You can appreciate the absurdity of everyday existence.

Your enjoyment of chatting about weird things with a weird guy is only surpassed by your enjoyment of such activities whilst in a very peculiar state of mind.

Also, like dogs.