Hi, my name's Thom.
I'm awesome.
I'm passionate about people in general, but especially women.
I'm interested in language, the future, and the brain.
Let's start an adventure.

I'm a Senior in college living with roomies in an apartment in Midtown.

For the last several years of my life, I have not lived in the same place. After growing up in St. Louis, I moved to New York City to go to school for a year. After that, I moved to Los Angeles where I worked for AmeriCorps in East L.A. The year after, I moved to the San Francisco bay area to work for a technology company before coming back home to go to school. So I've lived on both coasts, and now I'm back in the middle of the country.

I'm a full-time student and loving it, studying Computer Science at SLU.

dancing, I like swing and sometimes I breakdance.
"Dance is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music." - George Bernard Shaw
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." - Japanese Proverb

I'm very outgoing! I'll come right up and talk to you.

Poetry: E.E. Cummings, Shakespeare, Rumi
Fiction: Dune, Snow Crash, Ender's Game
Movies: The Departed, Requiem for a Dream, other Darren Aronofsky films
Disney: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King
Pixar: Up, Finding Nemo
Shows: Star Trek, Firefly, Stargate, Game of Thrones, Dollhouse
Music: Incubus, Elliot Smith, Dum Dum Girls, Nine Inch Nails
Food: Spicy, Curry, Quinoa
Nonfiction: Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Nicole Daedone's Slow Sex: the Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm

1.) My laptop
2.) My phone
3.) 88.1 KDHX
4.) My family
5.) My friends
6.) Metta or compersion

Computer Security. I like hacking, and someday I'd like to hack people professionally and find their vulnerabilities and tell them about them. I'am also interested in Statistical Machine Translation, that is, using computers to translate bodies of text based on a large parallel corpus of pre-translated work and it's statistical analysis. I think about this kind of stuff because in Star Trek there's a thing called a "Universal Translator", I think it's a fun thought experiment to ask what it would take to create one... I think Statistical Machine Translation could be one way. But of course, computers have difficulty understanding connotation and context, and cultural data is oft lost.

Dancing, going out for dinner or coffee with friends, or watching a movie.

I shave some of my body hair. My weaknesses are getting my neck bitten and girls with short hair. Also; I'm a bit kinky, an S&M Dominant. I'm pretty open. I'll tell you almost anything.

you're reading this right now. I'm better in conversation than profile description. (Aren't we all?)