I'm a gamer and a geek. Not a hardcore gamer, not a hardcore geek either, but I do use Linux at work and run an RPG most weeks. I tend to be quiet, I'm a bit shy, but sometimes I cover that up with rambling tales intended ( sometimes even successfully ) to amuse...

Mere words cannot contain all the facets of a single being, but I'll give it a shot anyway. I'm a programmer with a tinge of goth, a dash of hippie, a few dollops of gamer, two teaspoons of punk, a quarter cup of metal, two packets of mad hatter, and a pint of responsible father.

I'm spending all of my formerly free time with an absolutely wonderful woman.

Other than that, I'm programming, spending time with my son and daughter, running an RPG, reading, chatting, exercising, going to shows, and building stuff.

Trying new things!

Archery, leather working, cooking, millinery, fire eating are a few of the hobbies I've picked up, some of which I even still practice. ( Not so much with the fire eating, it tends to disagree with facial hair... )

Odds are, its the Big Black Hat.

If the hat is not doffed, then its either the waist length hair, or the ever decreasing belly. ( Yay! for gym time well spent! )

The strange and unusual stories and films are the ones I keep coming back to. Fantasy, speculative fiction, space opera, horror, and anything really weird. Some of my favorite authors are H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaimen, China Mieville, and William Gibson.

Some specific films in the wide range I'm awfully fond of are Pi, Labyrinth, Legend, Donnie Darko, Freeway, the Cube, Blade Runner, Mirror Mask, Goonies, Nightmare Before Christmas, Casablanca, Dune, The Secret of Nimh, Big Trouble in Little China, Dark City, When Harry Met Sally, The Wall, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, and the Yellow Submarine.

I listen to all kinds of music, though Metal, Punk Cabaret, and other oddities predominate recently. I'm also getting more into electronica like glitch and dubstep. Specific favorites include Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Nightwish, Bal-Sagoth, Tiger Lillies, Gogol Bordello, Band of Orcs, Ministry, NIN, Therion, Emilie Autumn, The Dresden Dolls, Vex'd, Die Form, Pink Floyd, VNV Nation and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

I'm not terribly picky about food. I like trying new things, I like the standards. Sushi, Tandoori, Vietnamese, Mexican, whatever. Its all good. I'm not vegetarian, but am perfectly happy eating vegetarian most of the time. Lately I've been sticking to the lighter side of what's available.

My rugrats, my friends, music, kitteh!, coffee, dreams.

... what would occupy the evenings of a super-strong zombie, a kabbalist, a sentient emotion, and a Dr. Orpheus knock off.

Mystic superhero games are weird.

But seriously, I think about an awful lot of things. I think about the design of my next mask, ways to improve the queries in whatever program I was last working on, the wonderful colors the clouds have turned this evening, when am I going to find time to make some new arrows, and how beautiful you are with the sunlight glittering in your hair.

... sitting around a table with between 3 to 5 other geeks describing the impossible as if it required only the roll of the dice... which, conveniently, it does.

Other nights vary vastly more.

Wibble.

I am looking for someone who can appreciate the odd, enjoy the strange, question authority, question reality, follow her dreams, follow the white rabbit, follow the right of way, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road, lead a nation, quash a rebellion, share a story, keep a secret, brew a mean pot of coffee, enjoy a midnight tea party, travel through time, look to the past, or enjoy an evening curled up on the couch with a few good books.

If any two of the above sound like you, lets talk.