I can't recall how many times I've started trying to change this section before slamming head first into a brick wall of textual diarrhea. After cleaning up a bit, I'm back for more punishment apparently.

Probably the easiest place to start would be complete lies. Like, Rube Goldberg only designed machines to prevent me from taking over the world. Or I once challenged the pope to fisticuffs and got taken up on the offer (that pious fucker throws a hell of a right cross). Now that the lies are out of the way, we move onto more lies, bits of truth, random musings, and a turkey bacon avocado sandwich. But you only get the sandwich if you recite Pi backwards. Added degree of difficulty: While hopping on one foot.

You can learn everything about me by playing chicken soup anagrams with the raw html of this page. For the purposes of this, I must make a pledge to add some Zs into the textual content. ZZZZ. That should satisfy any kind of Z fetish that you folks might harbor. Look at it there. Sitting so coyly... Urm... moving on.

Qs. Nice solid letter there. Awfully useful too. One time, I think Mcguyver got out of being skull fucked by an Ewok using only a Q, a paperclip, and some white out.

I tend to bob and weave from topic to topic. I seek to synthesize and incorporate. (Ltd.) To associate and connect the dots. That's how the constellations were made of course. Someone connects the dots from hither and yon (what's a few million light years). Your Big Dipper can be my Ursa Major. And I mean that in a completely Plutonic way (hur hur).

If I were to choose between being a pirate or a rock star, I would almost assuredly be a pirate. Or possibly a Ninja Pirate(http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ninja/Types). I want to write a book. Or two. Or three. Possibly of doggerel. Or maybe catterel. Word play rocks my world.

I am quippy, unfocused, and villainous

I am quite soundly of the mindset that I work to live, as opposed to the opposite. In the short term, I keep reading, expanding, etc... as I get ready to head back to grad school for computer science (with an emphasis in AI, or possibly a Cognitive Science track). So to that effect, I've got a bookshelf full of philosophy, psychology, mathematics, linguistics, and other diverse bits and pieces (basically anything that makes contact) that continues to grow. Long term, travel and research seem to suit my fancy. Or hermitude. It's like attitude (or verisimilitude), but with winged sandals leading the way. As long as I've got space and time, I'm likely to be happy.

Making plans to do something and then promptly finding something more interesting to do.
Never getting stressed out.
Running. And Catching. (I play Ultimate Frisbee)
Remembering the most random (and worthless) facts. And as a result...
Trivia.
Also, operating on an amount of sleep that most would deem criminal.

The cape. Definitely has to be the cape. That or the congregating squirrels.

Lost in Translation, Fight Club, Snatch, Garden State, Elizabethtown, Almost Famous, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Apparently I'm becoming a huge fan of Rian Johnson. Brick and The Brothers Bloom were both amazing and I'd venture that I'll probably enjoy Looper when that comes out.

Scrubs, Lost, Firefly, The West Wing, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, 30 Rock, Chuck, House, How I Met Your Mother, Doctor Who,

Snow Crash, Ishmael, Skinny Legs and All, Enders Game, Fahrenheit 451, High Fidelity, Cryptonomicon, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, David Sedaris, David Eggers, Ernest Hemingway, Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Douglas Hofstadter, Stanislaw Lem

Aqualung, Regina Spektor, Elliott Smith, Bad Religion, Harvey Danger, The Long Winters, Old 97s, Rocky Votolato, Ted Leo, Tim Seely, Pete Krebs, Ben Folds, Death Cab for Cutie, Iron & Wine, Weezer, Matt Pond PA, Modest Mouse, Nada Surf, Operation Ivy, Damien Rice, Hot Hot Heat, The Black Keys, An Endless Sporadic, Minus The Bear, Simon and Garfunkel, Make Believe, Final Fantasy, The Clash, Plants and Animals, Ratatat, Oscar Peterson, The Mountain Goats, Feral Children, Sufjan Stevens, Matt Costa, Joanna Newsom, Isis, +/-, Mastodon, John Vanderslice, Tunng, Led Zeppelin,The Mr. T Experience

And how about a "Now Playing" section for things that have not fully established themselves in the firmament (i.e. getting a lot of playtime recently, but unsure how long they'll stick around):
Edward Sharpe and the Magnificent Zeros, Telekinesis, The Thermals, Hey Marseilles, Akimbo,

And as this seems to be a better place for such, quotes:

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." - Dylan Thomas

"Thought is the enemy of sleep. Sleep is the enemy of thought." -Hemingway

"Man is completely human only when he is playing" -Schiller

"Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears." -Jung

"being perishable sometimes makes a
man
strange
almost
unemployable" -Bukowski

"Memory is hunger." -Hemingway

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
-Thoreau

"this spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it" -Thoreau

"the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off." -Thoreau

"Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same." -Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Poised midway between the unvisualizable cosmic vastness of curved spacetime and the dubious, shadowy flickerings of charged quanta, we human beings, more like rainbows and mirages than like raindrops or boulders, are unpredictable self-writing poems - vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful." -Hofstadter

"But anyway, one thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they’re tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

So yes, I tell people to formulate a little gang. And, you know, you love each other." -Vonnegut

"Drunkenness is a state of how do you do that happens to coincide with how do you don't."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk." —Baudelaire

“Remember, Thursday, that scientific thought -- indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else -- is just like the fashions that we wear -- only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band."

"Scientific thought a boy band? How do you figure that?"

"Well, every now and then a boy band comes along. We like it, buy the records, posters, parade them on TV, idolise them right up until --"
...
"-- the next boy band?" I suggested.

"Precisely. Aristotle was a boy band. A very good one but only number six or seven. He was the best boy band until Isaac Newton, but even Newton was transplanted by an even newer boy band. Same haircuts -- but different moves."

"Einstein, right?"

"Right. Do you see what I'm saying?"

"I think so."

"Good. So try and think of maybe thirty or forty boy bands past Einstein. To where we would regard Einstein as someone who glimpsed a truth, played one good chord on seven forgettable albums."
-Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

Saturdays
Music
Something interesting to read
My computer
Bookshelves
disarray

Thought. Ontology, epistimology, cognitive science and all that jazz. I tend to branch off though. I'll hit a stride in one discipline, find a loose reference to something else and take off in a completely different direction. I'm easily distractible like that, but I've always been a breadth man. I'll let the pun stand as it's amusing. And did you catch that XKCD about interjecting "no pun intended" after random (non-punny) statements? Oooh.... shiny!

Apparently they grow asparagus in Washington. What the hell does an asparagus field look like? Probably less interesting then I'd hope. Is there a time lapse video of an asparagus field growing? Fo reals.

Starting things up at The Mandolin Cafe with some coffee and a book before heading into the night for random happenings with friends.

Tracing a meandering path from place to place. Finding myself nodding along at strangers while internally questioning how the hell I ended up in this situation. Making bad decisions with good people. Brokering peace between the fizzing time bomb that is a Gin and Tonic and my stomach (the fine people of Gintonica are quite peacable, we just revisit negotiations on occasion to cement our friendship). Although on that note, I do have to warn of the terrorist threat that is T+T. Tequila and Tonic. While appearing quite like a citizen of G+T or V+T, they harbor much darker motives. Also, they taste like ass.

A puzzle! Because I want to put it somewhere!

1) Transylvanian native tongue (9)
2) Related gourds (10)
3) Lovekraftian winter sport (2)
4) Fire-breathing Italian boater (3)
5) Near-sighted Egyptian jerky (7)
6) Gelded Falcon co-pilot (9)
7) Lycanthropic bracelets (3)
8) Name for a hellish tormentor? (8)
9) Fruit, wine, and snakes (6)
10) Non-stick swashbuckler (8)
11) Support for Mexican goat connoisseur (14)

Also, I have no fucking clue what song is playing on my mp3 player right now. How the fuck does that happen? Practice.

you want to banter. I'm unsure what (if any) actual intent I have for this profile, but I do enjoy making with the ripostes and such in verbal battle. I do warn in advance, I play dirty in wars of words. Dirty in that I typically find myself (slightly)intoxicated when responding, and flicker and dart from word to word with nary a care for where I end up. Nary.

Also, feel free to message if you have interesting bits of random knowledge to drop. Or want to play an impromptu game of settlers at http://games.asobrain.com.