I think I was born to be a wide-eyed visionary poet anarchist, but I've adapted to my environment by becoming a pragmatic realist. I spent my 20s with too much career focus. My early 30s involved big moves and changes. Now I'm someone who has worked hard for stability and has a gut-level distrust of excessive order, who focuses most of his energy on job and security and consistently votes Libertarian in every election. I am a raging liberal in the real/classical sense of the word...the weirder things get, the happier I am...but I dress pretty square.

I also have a dry and irreverent sense of humor, a tendency to relentless logic, a love of adventures and travel, and a blithe disregard of my own comfort when pursuing my goals.

Oh, and I'm prone to verbose writing.

I am trying to travel more...went to Alaska last year which was awesome. Just bought an old fixer-upper (100+ year old) house which is going to take a bit of my time... my mom gave me a bunch of "heirloom" vegetable seeds for planting a garden, which is strange since I've never gardened. Maybe it is a hint of some sort. I learned to scuba dive recently and want to do more of that.

Software engineering :-)

OK, not job related...probably writing. I'm actually more of a generalist by nature though. I can play a guitar, cook a meal, photograph a landscape, sail a boat, build a bookcase, etc., all with good results, but I wouldn't say I'm really good at any of those things.

My shoes? At least when I wear my Vibram Five Fingers.

I'd like to think it's my ideas and how I communicate them. In reality it's probably my lack of fashion sense.

Books: A big swath of the sci-fi genre for books. Iain M. Banks' Culture and Gene Wolfe's New Sun books are great but I can be just as happy reading nominally young adult titles like Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass series. I also accumulate technical and specialized reference books.

TV: I'm not a regular TV watcher (as in I don't own one at the moment) but I've seen every episode of: Buffy, Futurama, South Park, The Simpsons up to about season 20, and Firefly. As a kid I watched hours and hours of NOVA and similar. I don't have anything against TV, per se, but I'd rather read or go out and do something.

Movies: I still like Fight Club but 12 Monkeys and Being John Malkovich are good runners up. I like horror-comedy more than outright horror.

Music...there isn't enough room on this page.

As for food I like it spicy and real (natural vegetables, natural meat). I'm on a big no-fake-food kick right now and it's amazing how much better life is this way (as in I'm losing weight/feeling better).

New experiences/adventures, challenges, a musical instrument (guitar for preference), some way of writing, something to read, and freedom.

Everything. Mainly how to make things better.

Stuck in traffic

You are an atheist or agnostic.
You think people should be able to do their own thing as long as they aren't hurting anyone.
You want to.