I am an optimistic pessimist. Shit is going to happen, but if you're ready for it and can keep in stride things will be fine. Therefore, there's no reason to complain and gripe about it all.

I like rainy days, sodium lights, and concrete buildings. I get a little bit suspicious about people that always seem very happy.

Also, I would probably be a good thug. I'm a little too tall, a little too big, and have a little too much brute strength to operate perfectly in polite society.

I kind of have a compulsion to tinker with stuff and keep my hands busy, so I end up spending a good amount of free time making beer and small crafts. I made a huge batch of soap to use as Christmas presents and I'm planning on starting another batch soon. I also rock climb, but I'm not very good and I can't go as often as I would like.

I'm working on my heritage arts in preparation of the predicted economic apocalypse of 2030. That and video games.

I am capable of cooking, accidentally breaking things, and fixing broken things. I can brew beer, do calculations, and use the oxford comma. I have never broken a bone. I can also hold my own at sarcasm and claiming I could probably do better than that guy, although I really don't have the time right now.

With the end of beard season, probably the fact that I almost knocked over the table when sitting down.

Books: Accelerando, The Name of the Wind, The Foundation series, Scott Pilgrim, Ender's Game, Pride and Prejudice, and anything by H.P. Lovecraft.

Movies: Akira Kurosawa films, The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon, Snatch, The Fifth Element, Oldboy, Tokyo Drifter, Six String Samurai, Everything is Illuminated, Hackers, Demolition Man, Miyazaki films, Kaidan/Kaiwan, Office Space, and The Evil Dead.

Shows: 30 Rock, Dr. Who, The Venture Bros., Archer, Adventure Time, and MST3K twice.

Music: Man Man, The Flaming Lips, The White Stripes, The Belleville Outfit, Dirty Pretty Things, Beck, Gnarls Barkley (and Cee Lo in general), Richard Cheese, Jamie Lidell, Muse, Louis Armstrong, and Chet Baker.

On the subject of food: if I have not tried it, I have a reasonable expectation that it will be edible, and there is no sign it will make me ill, then I consider it my self made duty to eat it. The only foods that I have no desire to ever try again are sea urchin, blood sausage, and beef intestine.

The internet
Late night internet purchases
Caffeine
Showers
My glasses
Spontaneous fermentation

The nature of consciousness, how to build a moon nation, chaos, how to escape from angry bees, how to become more self sufficient in anticipation of the zombie/environmental/economic apocalypse, etc.

Traveling through time. On a really crazy night I might not even make it back home until last week. That, or I am/was/will be at work depending on your current subjective time of observation.

Ask away. I'm sure I could come up with lots of embarrassing things to say, but they are not particularly entertaining.

- If you have any impulse to, go ahead and do it. I like having conversations with new people.

- You have a fun fact you would like to share or quiz me on.

- You think you can beat me at pool (you probably can).

- You have a corgi, border collie, or similar dog I can play with. You can come too if you want.

- You would like to be regaled with tales of daring and interest over coffee, tea, burritos, sushi, or anything else. Other available tales include tales of disinterest, stories without a punch line, and bad retellings of television shows or video games. Or jokes. I have a good number of bad jokes.