Stuff about me that all women like: I'm healthy, reliable, playful after we get to know each other, a good cook, financially self-sufficient, and willing to learn.

Stuff about me that not all women like: I was the only cheerful person in a documentary about the collapse of civilization. I have rubber pedals on my bike so I can ride barefoot. I have a truck but hate driving, except that it's the best time to sing. I make lots of fermented food. I believe in practical clutter. I like to slide in my socks across floors. I focus intensely and shift focus often. I'm analytical and go with the flow. I have arrived at a hippie value system through a totally non-hippie personality. I like deep conversation and not chit-chat. I try to err on the side of being too honest. I generally prefer staying home to going out. I play video games in moderation. I live on around $10,000 a year. Literally and metaphorically, I prefer to go off the trail.

Stuff I like about women that all guys like: open to experience, dependable, at least healthy enough to ride a bicycle, and no sulking.

Stuff I like that not all guys like: blistering intellect, authentic dorkiness, sex every day.

Stuff I'm shallowly attracted to that you might not expect: messy hair, freckles, long pointy nose, small mouth, moderate brattiness.

Stuff I don't care about: introversion and extroversion are both wonderful, emotional monotone and storminess are each good in their own way, any level of personal grooming is fine except the extremes, and nobody really knows what they're doing with their life.

Stuff I can't afford to care about because it would narrow the field too much: your weight, antidepressants, college debt, and smoking as long as you intend to quit.

Have you noticed that how much you enjoy what you do is inversely proportional to how much you enjoy answering the question "What do you do?"

I don't like doing stuff for money. It makes me feel like I'm on a spectrum between enslaved and evil. Ideally I'd like to get money for doing nothing, and then turn around and do what I love for no money. That's pretty much what I've done, but it took years of careful living and some luck. A few years back I bought ten primitive acres where I was going to homestead, but trust me, it's too much work. I still go up there in the summer, but now I'm focusing on my house in the city, where I've just planted a bunch of fruit trees and berry bushes. Also I have a slightly famous website (ranprieur.com) with lots of stuff you can read to know me better.

Improvisational cooking, editing, deep thinking, learning, and doing something a different way, even if it doesn't work.

That I'm barefoot or wearing barefoot shoes.

Books: I enjoy fiction about the messy distant future, especially Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, and the Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou comics. I also like trippy reality sci-fi, especially Dick and Zelazny. For non-fiction, I read about practical skills, permaculture, and advanced woo-woo stuff.

Movies: The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Brazil, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Metropolitan, Wages of Fear, The Third Man, The Conversation, The President's Analyst, Cutter's Way, Point Break, Man Bites Dog, Two Lane Blacktop, Fight Club/The Matrix, Ms.45, Meet the Feebles, Desperate Living, Safe, Hard Boiled, Repo Man.

Music: I'm just now getting into Carissa's Wierd and Weinland. Before that I got into instrumental "post-rock", especially Godspeed You Black Emperor and Mono. Other favorites include Hawkwind, Camper Van Beethoven, Gordon Lightfoot, Beat Happening, R.E.M., Neutral Milk Hotel, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Galaxie 500, Rush, The Muffs, Blue Oyster Cult, early Genesis, Yo La Tengo, Big Star, Husker Du, and The Ramones.

Food: my diet is between Weston Price and Paleo: pasture-raised meat, fruits and vegetables, fermented food, limited grains, and lots of animal fat. I munch edible weeds and sometimes eat bugs. For eating out, Ethiopian food is perfect: it's on sourdough bread, spicy, buttery, and you eat it with your hands.

Great blocks of time where there's nothing I'm supposed to be doing, my imagination, good food, the internet unless nobody has it, human company in moderation, and openings to explore.

...everything, all the time. Right now I'm thinking that quantum functions never really collapse, but that we all just agree to see them the same way, and what would it take for us to split into two groups that see them differently? The only time I'm not thinking is when I'm practicing meditation. I haven't done it yet, only practiced.

like most nights, reading/writing stuff and making/eating food.

you can beat me at Scrabble, or you dream of riding horses on the ruined freeways.