I find myself amusing. One thing that always manages to captivate my mind is the prevalence and diversity of life on Earth, which is why you'll always find me distracted by little things like bugs on the ground and birds in the air, and random plants, all despite the fact that I live in a metropolitan city. I find no need to invest the world with an all-powerful entity, as life is fascinating enough and easy enough to understand without such a postulate.

I am not dead, not shambling at you, and not going to eat you

Attempting to learn all I can about how life works, through studying both Biology and Anthropology. I am also an out-of-the-closet atheist, and I'm more than willing to help divest you of your superstitions.

Identifying zombie movies; engaging in conversations about biology, engaging in conversations about anthropology, engaging in conversations about things intellectual; being atheist; identifying age, sex and "race" from human skeletal remains; writing Japanese characters (i.e. Kanji, hiragana, katakana); playing video games; generally being a dork.

I'm unusually intense about certain subjects, and I usually act bizarre around people I first meet (in order to break them in).

A) Cosmos - Carl Sagan, The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins, The Stand - Stephen King, The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan, Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King, The Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan, Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement - John Brockman (ed.), Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation - Olivia Judson, Stiff - Mary Roach ....and so many more

B) Hudson Hawk, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Labyrinth, Mirrormask, The Dark Crystal, Back to the Future Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Star Wars 4-6 (the original trilogy), Harry Potter 1-4, MST3K...again, so many more

C) The Weakerthans, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, The Decemberists, The Mountain Goats, Ben Kweller, Joanna Newsom, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Minus the Bear, Michael Nyman, William Shatner...more exist, but I'm getting lazy.

D) Japanese Curry, and anything vegetarian, or which can be made vegetarian

1) Intellectual stimulation -- I would go crazy without something to tingle my brain a bit. Of course, I could probably survive forever just on the stimulation that comes from my own inquiries and research into those inquiries.

2) Friends -- Much as I want to be a loner, I know I need good people by my side...at least until my plans of world domination pull through.

3) Knowledge -- Ignorance is something to be defeated, not embraced.

4) Japanese curry -- Tastiest food around. I am a curry master, and can make the meanest curry this side of the Pacific.

5) Oxygen -- Necessary for ATP production. Can't do without it.

6) Vitamin D -- I would develop osteomalacia without it, and that just wouldn't do. Why else would my skin be adapted toward a lighter pigmentation? A relaxation of selection pressures? Preposterous!

How entirely rad the theory of evolution by means of natural selection truly is. It blows my mind how such a simple process has led to the (continuing) development of the vast biological diversity which has graced this planet.

At home, reading, playing video games, or sleeping.

I love helping people learn things, going far out of my way to explain stuff, especially with regards to sciences of all kinds.

You like science in any form (especially evolutionary biology) and you want to talk about how rad it is, or if you like zombie cinema, or if you want someone to formulate a plan about the zombie apocalypse (I have a plethora of ideas for that).