Soon to be out of college, I'm a real geek, always plodding away finding new stuff on the internet and sharing it with my friends and family. I'm into technology, science, philisophic pondering, the internet, 3D printing, open source softwareand gadgets. It takes a little while to get me to open up, but once I do, I'm very affectionate.

Essay time!

I define myself by the thoughts that go spinning through my head in the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes I catch myself trying to imagine what people from previous decades or centuries would thing if they hopped across an Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge to the current era, or what some interesting geometry would look like from a different scale, or what it would feel like to be some other kind of creature.

I'm a singularitarian, fervently devoted to the ever hastening march of technology. If you don't know what that means, I can recommend some reading that will make your head spin.

I'm more easily described as shy than gregarious. An introvert, always with his nose buried in slashdot comments or the minutiae of a proposed project. It takes a little bit of effort to get to know me and bring me out of my shell, but I've been trying my best to be a little bit friendlier.

Physically, I'm not in the best shape either. A bit overweight, and not exactly the most muscular of people. That's another thing I've been working on. It's a singularitarian effort, always seeking self-improvement somewhere.

I've been known to engage in flights of fancy when the mood strikes, and it often does. If I catch an adventuresome hair I'll wander miles out of my way chasing the object of my curiosity. I've been caught in the basements of libraries amused by the dusty collections of reference material and climbing trees just because they're there. My favorite wanderings are devoted to cityscapes. Places are as alive as people, in some ways. There's always something new out there to discover, and I want to see it all!

I'm stretching now, trying to find something else about myself that I can make seem interesting in order to reach the word count for the extra 5% on my profile. That's another of my curious neuroses, but seeing the number of people relentlessly grinding achievements in their lives, perhaps it's not too uncommon. Maybe I just like my goals to be a little bit more concrete? I don't even know myself, but life is just one of those processes of gradual awareness.

Graduating college, Getting a good job, and keeping up with the times! The world is changing faster every day, and if you don't keep up, you'll get lost!

Writing, English, New tech and basic science. I'm pretty good at learning how to fake proficiency in any number of fields, but mastery takes practice I don't have time for!

I'm shy, but really trying my best to meet new people. I'm also rather clueless, perhaps even going so far as to say gullible at times.

I like books by Charles Stross or Warren Ellis, the classics of science fiction, and the stiff right out there on the bleeding edge. Near-future sci-fi and anything that addresses the topic of the singularity is also a plus.

As for movies, I like Scifi.. obviously. But more than that, I like movies with thinky plotlines or interesting cosmologies.

In music, I don't have much taste. I know a few kinds I don't like, and lots of kinds I do. Lots of kinds of electronic music, nerdcore, and the occasional pop song get stuck in my playlist.

I like ethnic foods. Americana is almost as bland as english food, the good stuff comes from other places. Mediterranian, Mexican, Asian. Those are the good stuff.

Outside of the standard hierarchy of needs;

Computer things - Internet access, a home server, my cell phone, Google services, and a good keyboard.

Personal things - comfortable clothing, regular showers, a good desk chair, and a nice stiff toothbrush.

Edible things - Cheap (bad) Lo Mein, Ramen, Enchiladas.

Nostalgic things - My small but personal library, and my slowly growing collection of knickknacks.

Philisophical things - the concept of accelerating returns, the questions regarding separation of body and mind, and the implications of the universe as a simulation.

Random things - the sensation of fog condensing on my skin at three in the morning, the listlessness of having accomplished a project and not wanting to get started on another, and links shared by people I don't know but found interesting on twitter.

The impending technological singularity and what the effects of the rapid expansion of the internet will be in hindsight.

At home, browsing the web and catching up on everything that happened the last week.

My roommates are also my boyfriends!

You don't mind getting to know me /and/ my boyfriends.