Basically, I’m a happy, intellectually-stimulating person. Leading a healthy life is critically important to me. When I’m not at my job or working out at the gym, I use my time to read books—many books… I’m new to Columbus: I arrived on April 3, 2010. Previously, I was living in Austin, Texas. The transition was not particularly hard because I had the good fortune of having several acquaintances in town that have helped me—and still do—a great deal with my settling down here. That said, I’m always looking to expand my inchoate circle of friends. Definitively I’m not cliquish: I love to interact with people from all sorts of backgrounds, beliefs, and lifestyles. Age is just a number to me; no person is too old or too young for me to befriend. About aging, my favorite quote belongs to the late Jorge Luis Borges who once said: “It is not that we stop playing because we grow older; rather, it is we grow older because stop playing.’’ Also, I place far more importance on personality and intelligence than looks. Finally, like so many other persevering souls who have valiantly joined this dating site, I’m still looking for that elusive, especial one.

I am laid-back, introverted, and cerebral

Apart from my job, I’m working on my first book. Already I’ve penned more than three hundred pages. I could be done by the end of this year. In addition, I also write short stories. One of my goals is to publish them either collectively or individually in the not-so-distant-future.

Learning new things. Discovering new things. Mastering foreign languages. Writing. Rewriting. Editing other people’s work. Making good, interesting conversion. Keeping up to date with new scientific discoveries. At doing more with less at work.

I don’t look bookish at all. Most people think I work with my hands. When I wear my hair real short, some people assume I’m with the military.

Movies: The Godfather Iⅈ The Usual Suspects; Goodfellas; Snatch; Being There; The Fall; The Life of Others; Das Boot; The Three Colors: Blue, White, Red; El secreto de sus ojos; Cidade de Deus; The Seven Samurai; Rashomon; Yoshimbo; Nicholas and Alexandra; Doctor Zhivago; Cinema Paradiso; Life is Beautiful; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Fargo; No Country for Old Men; numerous less known films.

Books: Yukio Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility; Jersy Kosinki’s Being There; Tim O’Brian’s Going After Cacciato; Jorge Luis Borges’ Obras Completas; Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s A Hundred Years of Solitude; Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch; Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News; Larry McMurtry’s Lovesome Dove; Humberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose; Gunther Grass’ The Tin Drum. Plus lots of sci-fi and fantasy books —J.J.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings; Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the Long Sun; George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire; Patrick Susskind’s Perfume; Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash; Kim Stanley Robinson’s Antarctica; William Gibson’s Neuromancer; Arthur C. Clarke’s The Songs of a Distant Earth; Isaac Isimov’s Foundation series, and so forth.

Music: Oasis; Smashing Pumpkins; Pink Floyd; Genesis; Led Zeppelin; Nirvana; several other music genres.

TV. I’m kind of partial towards British television: MI5/Spooks; Wire in the Blood; Horatio Hornblower; Prime Suspect; Foyle’s War; The New Doctor Who (either w/ Christopher Eccleston or w/ David Tennant); Life on Mars UK and Survivors. Also, House, MD; Boston Legal; Boston Public; The Wire; Firefly; Dollhouse; Mad Men; Breaking Bad.

Food. Italian, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Thai.

Books. Computers. High Speed Internet . Gym. Love. Friends and Family.

Many things

It varies according to my schedule —or lack of it.

I’m one lousy singer . . . a karaoke bar owner’s worst nightmare.

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