After college, I moved to San Francisco in a foolhardy attempt to start a guitar pedal company. Upon realizing I needed to get an actual job, I avoided it for a little while longer, finding work as a physics/math tutor and joining a Mongolian rock band instead. The free time was great (I finally got around to learning Joplin's lively Maple Leaf Rag and Chopin's beautiful Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2), but money was tight, so I found more full-time work in downtown San Francisco last June. Since then I've settled into a comfortable routine, but shaking things up may be on the horizon.

I've been playing guitar and piano for about seven years and running long distance for just under a decade. I enjoy playing sports (dunking basketballs, catching touchdown passes, and scoring goals), playing chess, programming solvers and formant filters, playing video games, and just, like, you know, chillin' :)

In short, I cannot be stopped.

I'm currently working in business intelligence and big data. It's not my main area of interest, but many of the problems are interesting and I like the people I work with, so it's been fun so far.

I can't stay away from studying music and science for too much longer, so I'll be moving away from the Bay Area in late June to go to grad school for mechanical engineering, where I'll be studying acoustics. That said, I'm down for whatever while I'm still around.

Guitar and piano; running, basketball, football, and soccer; math and physics; chess; driving stick shift on San Francisco hills.

At almost three standard deviations above the mean, my height is the first thing people notice about me.

Books: The Internet is a Playground, The Feynman Lectures

Movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Shawshank Redemption, L.A. Confidential, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Memento, Snatch, Office Space, Caddyshack, The Big Lebowski, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Shows: Futurama, Arrested Development, Firefly, Breaking Bad, Sherlock

Music: Instrumental Rock, Classic/Prog Rock, Jazz/Fusion, Classical

Food: Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Thai

1. Guitar
2. Running shorts
3. Linguistic ironies
4. Catch phrases
5. My ability to imitate irritating voices
6. My inability to be stopped

How I can improve myself. Getting better at anything exhilarating, especially when stumbling upon the opportunity to scoff at the law of diminishing returns.

Just, like, you know, chillin'.

I've never had a cup of coffee. I find this quite amusing considering its ubiquity, so my accidental streak of 23 years without it will continue to lengthen until a truly exceptional occasion.

That said, I'd be happy to meet for coffee. I'll just order tea or hot chocolate :)

You, too, cannot be stopped. Or if your height is significantly above average (a foot of height difference is a bit extreme).