I haunt book stores and rebound without jumping when I play basketball. Pretty artsy for an engineer, adventurous, awkward, and secretly goofy, once I thaw out among friends. Have lived for long stretches in Russia, India, and Israel. I like my shwarma spicy and my chocolate dark.

I get by on the same qualities I value in others: creativity, loyalty, vulnerability, emotional depth, kindness, curiosity, and passion. Wish I were more fearless, but don't we all?

Labels suck. We make them anyway. I'm a geek, I guess. I get my panties in a twist over basketball, science, history, chess, board games, making music, drawing, psychology, programming, puzzles, game theory, TED talks, good books, tasty food, and epic music scores.

Every week presents an adventure of some sort. Carving out a new career as a programmer is the main thread right now. Woven around it are basketball, hanging with friends, exploring the city by bike and foot, live music, board games, beer, street games, picnics, family-style dinners, jamming, afternoons with a sketchpad, and contemplating how lucky I am to finally make my home in SF.

Chess
Butchering the songs you love
(On piano and guitar!)
Evading foam bullets
Guzzling extremely spicy foods
Capturing flags
Posting up like Moses Malone
Puns (horrible, horrible puns)
Drawing
Singing off-key...valiantly
Other things not fit to be printed

Books:
Catch-22, Dune, Anna Karenina, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, Lolita, Candide, Flowers for Algernon, The Magus, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Sophie's Choice, and everything by Twain, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. I completely devoured the sci-fi section of the library as a kid.

Movies:
The Prestige, Inception, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, Office Space, Ghostbusters, Shaun of the Dead, Big Lebowski, Twelve Chairs, Being John Malkovich, The Princess Bride, Heathers, The Incredibles, Kill Bill, Life Is Beautiful, The Truman Show, Monsters Inc, Snatch

Shows:
Breaking Bad, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Adventure Time

MUSIC!:
Florence and the Machine, Emancipator, Mumford & Sons, Gotye, U2, Queen, The Police, Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Merritt, Jeff Buckley, Kaki King, Yes, Elizabeth & The Catapult, Just Off Turner, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, Passion Pit, Jose Padilla, Andrea Bocelli, Jesca Hoop, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Of Monsters and Men, Band of Horses, Nina Simone, Radiohead, Kimbra, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Rihanna, Adele, Lana Del Ray

Food:
Mediterranean, Persian, Indian, Thai, Mexican. Avocado in everything. Shwarma wraps. Hummus on pizza.

music
basketball
family
avocados
books
a good bike

Message me if you'd like to meet yet another person on this fine Earth. It's not rocket science. Less astrophysics; more chemistry.