Went to college, got my degree in computer science, got a job as an engineer at a large engineering company. Getting promoted up the company ladder. And to some extent, I love it. I am learning more then I have ever had in my life before, and I am getting paid to do it. The fact that there are literally millions of people enjoying what I make everyday is also simply awesome.

I like explaining things. Even the unexplainable, like how and why the springtime of nations broke out in 1848, or why city buses are always running slow no matter what people do to speed them up. I can even make people scared of fossils of space mold.

My favorite response from my friends so far:
(My name) is like an anti-zombie.

So far at least, efforts on my part to get him to explain this rather cryptic comment have been quite futile. Maybe you can help me figure out what he means?

Books:
A song of fire and ice
Marriage, a history
The Institutional Revolution
Packing for Mars
The Return (a book on modern Russian politics)

Movies:
Anything Pixar.
Thank You for Smoking
Inception
Groundhog Day.

Shows:
How I met your mother
Better off Ted
Downton Abbey

Music:
I have this habit where I just keep listening to the same song/artist until I get completely sick of it, and then moving on to something completely unrelated. That artist is currently five for fighting, but that changes on a daily basis.

Food:
I will eat anything. But in particular, I have a weakness for pho and dumplings.

Okay, I will be honest - most of the time, I will be thinking about memory management, caching/invalidation, threads and locks, data consistency and encapsulation, and stuff of that nature. Don't worry, I promise not to talk about all that unless if you ask.

During the writing of this profile, I have cleaned my room, racked up a few thousand points on fitocracy, and even wrote up a few TPS reports.

Instead of putting a long list of things that I am looking for here, I will instead give you a puzzle to chew on. (And don't worry if you can't solve it - almost no one can on their first try, but I really like this puzzle)

Suppose somewhere, there is a village of Dwarves living with an all powerful demon. Once a year, the demon go over to the village of dwarves and line all the dwarves up in increasing height order, such that each dwarf can only see the dwarves smaller than himself. The demon then place either a white or black hat on the head of each dwarf. Then, starting with the tallest dwarf (in the back of the line), the demon will ask each what color hat he is wearing. If the dwarf answers incorrectly, the demon kill him. (the other dwarves can hear his answer)

Now, suppose if you were on the dwarves and had to come up with a plan such that as many dwarves as possible will survive the ordeal, how would you go about doing it?

(Needless to say, the demon is very good at forbiding all other forms of communication once he have lined up all of the dwarves)