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Phraseognomy

30 / M / straight / Single

San Francisco, California

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I am omnipotent, infallible, and extremely modest.

My Self-Summary

I like to observe, think, talk. I will read the back of a toothpaste tube if that's all that's around (Chondrus crispus!).

Lately I've been trying to be more impulsive (it doesn't come so naturally - I'm more of a ponderer usually) and embark on projects. Internet dating probably counts as a project.

What I’m doing with my life

Wind power and plant nomenclature power.

I’m really good at

As a dilettante, I have many areas of inexpertise.

The first things people usually notice about me

My kidney.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Dhalgren, Oliver Sacks (anything of his, but I don't recommend you start with Migraine), The Tin Drum, Kurt Vonnegut, Stanisław Lem, Edward Tufte, Roald Dahl, All in the Timing, Chris Ware. I am a sucker for deaccessioned library books and am a bit worried that the latest batch might punch a hole in my floor.

Jim Jarmusch, (especially Dead Man), Brazil, Cane Toads, David Lynch, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Russian Ark (I like slow movies)

Deerhoof, Bulgarian accordion music, Otis Redding, David Bowie, Joan Baez singing Silver Dagger, the 365 Days Project, David Byrne, Caetano Veloso

Let's Paint TV

Dim sum and brunch in general, denver chocolate pudding. One of my old co-workers fed me some marinated ant heads he brought back from the Amazon. They were spicy. I don't want to think about this too much right now or I will not be able to write because I will be getting a snack.

The six things I could never do without

Horseplay
Monkeybusiness
Gooseflesh
Sloth

I spend a lot of time thinking about

Trying to figure out how to get my landlord to write me into his will - I want his moth collection.

Message me if you have suggestions.


Okay, so that was as many as ten apartments ago (oh man I need to settle down...) but the story is too good to leave untold.

When I was looking at an apartment in Cambridge, or maybe soon after I moved in, my landlord asked me what I did. When I told him I worked in a bio lab at Harvard, he said he used to also. He volunteered there for a while after college, and they "paid" him in unneeded duplicate specimens. He said he worked for "some guy named Nabokov."

Now you may not realize this, but Vladimir Nabokov had a serious thing for butterflies, and he had a brief stint as an entomology professor. My landlord was in his seventies, and the time period he was talking about lined up when I checked.

This guy pinned bugs for one of the most famous authors of the 20th century and had no fucking clue who he was.

On a typical Friday night I am

... chatting with mad scientists. Actually, that's Wednesday night, usually.

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

I've been told I smile in my sleep.

It took me like a year to realize that those faint blue blobs in OKCupid's “more desiring of sex” icon are pillows. Well that's pretty boring – I think I had subconsciously been interpreting it as an image of two people in bathing suits standing up, with icebergs on the horizon.

You should message me if

You have a sense of the humours and would like to talk about lymph.