Athletic, liberal arts educated - and therefore: disillusioned, cynical, and sarcastic, 30 year old seeks a similar person to go halvzies on fiddling lessons while the world burns.

Here are the 3 things that best sum me up:

Simplicity, it's important. Life these days can get way too overwhelming. Sometimes it's nice to just sit down on the front porch and have some lemonade.

Snark, as in snarky humor. If you're snarky, you'll know it. If you've ever been described as "innocent," you were probably insulted by this paragraph and should just give up now.

Geekyness, being a geek means that I'm really excited by the things that I am interested in. I can geek out about airplanes, sail-boats, constellations, and star trek, but mostly I just geek out about photography. You have been warned.

I'm a Network Engineer for a pay-check and I'm a photographer for backup money. I get jobs doing commercial photography. I make enough to pay for the habit. In between I write a weekly photo-comic that is unceremoniously slapped up on the web for all to consume.

Stealing images, rock climbing, riding motorcycles, snowboarding, solving complex problems with SCIENCE!, organizing events, coming up with trivia questions.

Probably my hair sticking up in some strange way.

Geez, I don't know. I used to read a lot of english-lit books. I read The Fountainhead just to see what all the hubbub was about. I also had a phase where I went back and read all the books that we were forced to read in highschool. Watership Down is much more interesting to me as an adult. For the last few years I've been on an entertaining-books-only kick. I'm currently reading His Dark Materials, and I plan to read stranger in a strange land when I'm done with this.

Teevee has been disappointing me lately. This year I watched Dr. Who, fringe and the doll house. I was only mildly impressed by the doll house. I've just finished watching the first season of Burn Notice - which was awesome. Next I'm thinking that it might be time to check out dead-wood. I hear it's something wonderful.

In the movie realm, I have to admit that I like the standard boy-movies. Recently I've been very entertained by J.J. Abrams' star trek. That isn't to say that I *only* like boy movies though. I really liked goodnight and good luck Grand Torino Secretary and The Golden Compass. The Shawshank Redemption is always a great choice, and I'm a big fan of classic movies. double indemnity, the day the earth stood still, M, The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance, etc etc etc.

Music and I have a weird relationship. I very much like music. I have a wonderful stereo at home that I sit in front of for hours and just listen. I don't spend enough time looking for new music though. Most of my free time goes into photography adventures so I am probably missing out on something. If you want to bring new music over to listen to on my couch, I'm down. If not, you're stuck listening to what I have: Amelia, Astronautalis, Owl City, playradioplay, Justice,flobots, jenny lewis, The Decemberists, Brand New, and iron and wine. The Builders and the Butchers are the best fucking band in the world to see live.

I really only need 4.

Camera,
bicycle,
Lemonade,
You. (That's specific without being definite)

I know I'm a network engineer, and I do spend a fair amount of time interacting with this stupid box, but If computers disappeared from the world I don't think I'd be all that sad, as long as I could still get film, dektol, stop, fix, hypoclear, a dark room, and a sink.

Focus, framing, light, location, contrast, symmetry, beauty and business software packages.

Lately I've been going to Ground Kontrol in the geek-blocks downtown. I'm the guy that gets the absurdity high scores on Missile Command, baby.

Enter Your Initials: Z A N

The other nights of the week are much more interesting.

Tuesdays I host a pub-quiz at the Morison Hotel Bar. If you want to stalk me, that would be a good place to start. Wednesdays tend to be all over the place - sometimes ballet (yes, I like ballet), Opera (yep, like that too), sometimes the art museum, sometimes table-top shuffleboard at the Green Dragon.

I'm actually a CIA agent working under-cover to expose a Russian cereal smuggling ring in Portland, Or.

If you have a lust for knowledge. If you listen to NPR. If you can beat me in a bike race. If you're confident. If you're not afraid to tell me that I'm full of shit (I often am). If you understand that while we're both looking for someone to be with - it takes some time to become friends first. If you want to start soon.