I like to say that I'm the least nerdy computer guy you'll meet. I'm a bit of an introvert, but I love to hang out with friends in small gatherings. Punctuation and spelling matter, so I'm a touch anal-retentive about such things. I love to laugh, and I love to make everybody else laugh, too.

I'm trying to get back to doing some of the things that I've been too apathetic or too injured to do; cycling, indoor rock climbing, and autocrossing are my big ones for this year. I'm happy with my job developing software for a company in downtown Portland, and I love living out in the woods.

Word games, inline hockey, and solving complicated problems.

I laugh a lot, and loudly.

Sci-fi, mostly; Asimov for the classics, Iain M. Banks is one of my new favorite authors. John Scalzi is good, too, and reminds me a lot of Heinlein, which is never a bad thing. For movies I'm a comedy/action/adventure fan, though I have a particular attraction to post-apocalyptic movies; end-of-the-world zombie movies take the cake. Music? Anything but country. Food? I'll eat most things.

Boy, was I tempted to be snarky here... (food, water, air...)

1) Cell phone
2) A fun car
3) Pets
4) Computers
5) Rural living
6) ...

How to simplify my life.
Politics - why is it that everything's turned into an us-vs.-them mentality?
Starting some new hobbies.

Home, relaxing with the pets.

... you want to. Who am I to say why you should send someone a message?