Had I more time, I would have written a shorter profile.

A good female friend of mine refers to me as Mr. Darcy. I haven't read Pride and Prejudice, but I understand him to be arrogant, aloof and disdainful - until you get to know him. I'm actually very giving, trusting and kind, just like Mr. Darcy in the end. You've just got to get through my bravado, braggadocio and flippancy to see it; it can just be difficult to make it to that point.

I hash. Not the "but I didn't inhale" type, but the flour on trees, running around drunk in the woods, drinking club with a running problem, named after a crappy commissary; Hash House Harriers. I like to think that the group lacks pretense, but there's a good case to be made that there's a pretense of lack of pretense... I enjoy pondering this.

I approach life like it's a project requiring some planning, controlling and occasional re-work. This also happens to be what I get to do at work and I love my job.

I type on a Dvorak keyboard and enjoy abusing punctuation. Sometimes I say things just for the geek cred, even around people who won't give me any.

I believe that beer is good, and good beer is better!

I love to travel internationally. I've been to Costa Rica, Japan, China and England. I grew up in Buffalo, so Canada doesn't count. I'm trying to figure out the next trip... Iceland perhaps? Bermuda?

My idea of happiness in a relationship is like that of resonance - two different frequencies adding and amplifying, rather than combining two different people into a single entity.

I travel recreationally, but not often enough.

I'm considering grad school, but don't really know if it's going to be worth it for all the effort which will be required.

My job is pretty fantastic, but the full-time work schedule really doesn't give me enough time to travel. Sometimes I wish I was gainfully unemployed.

I've been dancing for almost a year now and really enjoy it: mostly salsa. It's too bad, outside of class, I severely lack any talent.

Computers, driving, analysis and reading people.

Apparently, I'm also smart. Quoth opalpoet "The best thing about this is....he does it without making you feel stupid. The least condescending person I know." (Aww... she's gone (married), but she did say that.)

I'm a partially disembodied smile.

Really... I think it's my smile or eyes. After spending a little bit of time with me, just about everyone will comment on how good I smell.

I'm a good conversationalist and try to practice chivalry at every chance I get; it's fun!

Books: 4-hour work week, 7 habits of highly effective people, Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter series, Dune series, My Ishmael. I've read about 300 books in the last 6 years, from all over the spectrum.

Movies: Pulp fiction, Waking life, Ferris Bueler's Day Off. While reading all those books, I also watched a ton of movies; I like foreign films, or at least films with subtitles, and romantic (or not) comedies. Trashy TV via Hulu has been a part of my media staple lately.

Music: EBM (KMFDM, VNV Nation), Techno (Carl Cox, Bad Boy Bill), Rock (Led Zeppelin), Alt Rock (Korn, Evanescence), Metal (Fear Factory, Nightwish), Americana (Johnny Cash, Will Kimbrough), Pop (Lilly Allen) &c.

Food: Grandma's meat stuffed shells, Crème brûlée, sushi, Kobe beef (I had it IN Kobe *drool*)

My kitties (2)
Good friends
Intellectual persuits/capacity for personal improvement
Good food
Open roads
Inductive logic

Life: the world itself is meaningless. Upon observation, our senses and mental framework assign a meaning to all sensory input.

Improving myself: I gotta come up with a marketing campaign and figure out what my "brand" is.

Half the time I'm on the road, headed to trouble in some nearby city or visiting family somewhere just slightly further away.

The other half is re-developing; it used to be at a bar or this place or that. I haven't done that in a good long while, but it hasn't been replaced by any kind of routine. For the most part, I've been recovering from a nonstop week, preparing for a nonstop weekend.

...you want a guy that's actually put together, understands how attraction works and isn't afraid to use it, but is affectionate and sometimes even low key.