2013-05-18 BL: "Good quote! Your profile was great, very detailed. I saw a lot of points of interest..."
2013-05-20 Sorry, BL no longer has an account.

Gah, stop doing that already! -_- Sigh, the 4th time recently. I seriously want to punch all the rude guys who keep repelling the wonderful matches, except I'm really not violent, so I won't; but I still want to. ):-( Okay, I'll remove the above rant in a few days.

(enjoy some very brief word-play humor here)

I've met a dozen interesting and intelligent girls via OKC, one who's a really good friend (at 97%, the matching numbers aren't completely bogus). So, there's definitely hope to find a more-than-a-friend. Thus, without further ado, I've never been to Teatro Zinzanni or Japan. Want to go? Granted, the latter is maybe a bit much for a first date, but it would be fun, no?

Synopsis: constantly curious, perpetually pensive, artistically apt, often optimistic, rarely rude, calmly collected, INTJ/P, left-handed, only child, part Oregonian, part Texan, and not a freak (though definitely a geek, minus the social awkwardness and overly opinionated nature) friend's description of me...

Love: scientific discoveries, new technology, graphics arts, typography, drawing/painting, amateur photography, computer graphics, fractals, linguistics/phonetics, writing systems, facial anthropology, psychology, retro game emulation, music theory and notation, psytrance/goa/d&b, LEGO's, origami.

Spiel: Slow Danċer seeks a Sonnet to make music with, or at least more fine folk in the area for the band. Even the scientists/engineers can't play it solo forever, despite their superior powers of resistance over such distracting forces. I'd love to find the last puzzle piece, a fellow knowledge sponge and inquisitive explorer with a good balance of curiosity with creativity/inventiveness/imagination. If you too enjoy people with a placid but optimistic view of life who are unlikely to win the next Darwin award, then keep reading. Though, if you want a geeky guy who is considerate, artistically/musically talented, and has a black belt in the martial arts, well I just can't help you there; but if you can live without the black belt, I know one (a few actually, but my friends ericrk, theholyhermit, PlanningToFail, OSUFlatland, and dingjaleco have their own profiles).

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I'm in the beautiful PNW, working full time yet playing all day, on DirectX Typography (font rendering/complex script analysis/text layout).

Things I've been: teaching assistant, house secretary (full of 60 people), Boy Scout, webpage designer for Salem 911, coder.

Things I've done/seen: played piano in front of 700 people, camped 10 days in a tent, seen Cherenkov radiation of a nuclear reactor, and ...

Nearby*: Chihuly Glass Garden, Pike Place, Space Needle, Seattle Art Museum, the crazy but cool library, Underground of Seattle, the Pacific Science Center (for both the IMAX and the actual science), Woodland Park Zoo, Trampoline dodgeball at Sky High Sports, Sounders game, Luminata Lantern Parade, Gasworks July 4th fireworks, Final Fantasy concert at the Seattle Symphony, Folklife Festival, Burke-Gilman Trail (bicycling Seattle to Redmond), PLAY videogame symphony, Video Games Live, Whose Live Anyway, Cavalia, SeaCompression, BrickCon LEGO convention, PAX, Comicon, Sakura-con.

Further: Deception Pass, Skagit Tulip Festival, Puyallup
State Fair, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Granville Island, some hiking at (not "outdoorsey", but definitely not afraid of it) Rattlesnake Ledge Trail/Tiger Mountain Trail/Wallace Falls/Twin Falls/Snoqualmie Falls, Olympic National Park, Paragliding off Poo Poo Point, Wenatchee River rafting with friends, San Juan islands to sea kayak, Snoqualmie pass to try skiing (and snowboarding which I learned I suck at; oh well, it looked fun anyway).

Much further: Week in Spain (Madrid, Pamplona, Barcelona), week in Italy (Rome, Sorrento, Pompeii, Capri, Florence), week in Washington D.C. (still didn't see it all), week camping in Yellowstone.

*disclaimer: Now I don't want to misrepresent that I'm someone who's always doing things or always full of plans. Many of these were my friend's ideas, but I've readily joined them. Also, I don't want you to get the idea that I'm actually interesting or something, because really, that brick sitting over there is pretty stiff competition.

Future:
- See the Golden Garden, Ballard Locks, or Washington Park
Arboretum Japanese Garden.
- Try glass blowing and an Emerald City Trapeze lesson.
- See Teatro Zinzani / Cirque de Solei.
- Movies: Oblivion, ST Into Darkness, After Earth, Oz, The Prototype, The Great Gatsby (*just saw Jack the Giant Slayer, The Hobbit, The Life of Pi, Jack Reacher, Hansel and Gretel).
- Learn fire poi swinging (or at least find people who can).
- Visit the UK, Japan, and Australia (sigh, my passport is truly
underutilized).
- Finish my backlog of books and old video games (yes, I like to stay inside too).

Distant future:
Marry my full time friend and lover. Contribute modest but notable advances to my career field. Start the cycle over for the next generation.

• Adding great matches to my favorites, then forgetting to send a
message, until after they disappear -_-.
• Drawing (pencil, pen, conté crayon, chalk)
• Playing piano (started age 9, but rusty now - my Roland must feel neglected).
• Figuring out how things work, especially spatial puzzles.
• Telling computers what to do, 1 line of C++ at a time.
• Handwriting (others are always surprised when they see my signature on a restaurant receipt).

More a writer than a loudmouth (more a listener than a talker).

∑synopsis = {Scientific American, art nouveau, StarDust, Zelda, psytrance, white chocolate, 13, royal blue, Ailurus fulgens}

☑books = {Origami for the Enthusiast, good old Star Trek encyclopedia, The Five Love Languages, Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus}; // if Wikipedia is a book, then that one too.

❏magazines = {Discover, Scientific American, Psychology Today, Popular Science};

✍favored art style = {art nouveau, isometric pixel art, ⓐⓢⓒⓘⓘ art, Hyung Tae Kim's style, Michael Parkes' lithographs, Range Murata, J Scott Campbell+Nei Ruffino, Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias, Alphonse Mucha, and most things with vibrant colors/refined line/touch of HDR, intricate geometry};

☽movies = {mainly scifi/adventure/fantasy, rarely horror, and an appreciation of most others... Stardust, Mummy Returns, How To Train Your Dragon, Gattaca, 13th Floor, Equilibrium, Spirited Away, Inception, Jurassic Park, Star Trek (4 & 11), Moulin Rouge, Hitch, Liar Liar, Bolt, Despicable Me, Wreck-It Ralph, Amélie};

♫music = {enjoy this! Most anything with complex harmonies/lively rhythm/sweeping emotion and without twangy vocals/foul lyrics/death growling, be it: epic movie and video game soundtracks, western European classical, psytrance, jazzy electroswing, d&b, happy hardcore, chiptunes, some electro-industrial, some symphonic metal, ethereal celtic/folk music, darkwave, and even some super saccharine pop - Loreena McKennitt, Lindsey Stirling, Juno Reactor, Shpongle, Infected Mushroom, Enigma, Bond, David Garrett, E.S. Posthumus, Yanni, Tiësto, Delerium, Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, Hiroki Kikuta, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer};
More...

☆shows = {particularly scifi/fantasy/witty comedy: Big Bang Theory, Castle, Burn Notice, Chuck, Star Trek TNG, FireFly, Stargate SG-1, BSG, Babylon 5, Doctor Who, Better Off Ted, Gargoyles, Mushishi, Monster, Kino's Journey, Bebop, +Lost/Heroes/Smallville in the early seasons};
"Veridian Dynamics - we make your life better... usually"
/* I almost never watch live TV, but I will burn through a series on DVD. If I do watch live TV, it's no doubt Discovery, SciFi ('SyFy'), TLC, or History */

☺favored humor = {"Silence is golden, duct tape is silver." ♦ "She got her good looks from her father; he's a plastic surgeon." ♦ "Immanuel doesn't pun; he Kant." ♦ Listen to yourself (xkcd) ♦ Importance of Trapped Antimatter (smbc) ♦ "I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?" -Pinky ♦ clean over vulgar, prefer complex, and either light or dark; so misdirection and word play (paraprosdokian, antanaclasis, catachresis, occasional homophonic pun), but rarely simplistic slapstick/schadenfreude of fails. Though seeing a cat trying to walk across recently waxed linoleum? Yeah ; )}
More...

♘games = {those with exploration, good art, and puzzle solving, like Zelda Twilight Princess and the rest of that series, Tales of Symphonia, Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Mischief Makers, Mario RPG; or just fun, like Mario Kart.};
/* more a console fan (NES/SNES/N64/PS2/GC/Wii/NDS) than PC, as it's where the memories lie. */

✇os = {Win XP/7, BeOS/Haiku, Linux+KDE - in that order};

☛websites = {Wikipedia, DeviantArt, TED talks, io9, Engadget, Piken's Pursuits, ANN, Omniglot, YouTube, Overclocked Remixes, The Music Notation Project, and Etsy for some of it's geek catering creations}

♨food = {equal opportunity omnivore who doesn't each much meat, but isn't vegetarian. I'll avoid: anything too spicy and squishy/rubbery (e.g. most non-fish seafood), pork, soda/coffee/alcohol, avocado, and black licorice. I'll like anything containing: white chocolate, vanilla, or coconut};
/* Got milk? Say cheese. Alas, tofu just doesn't taste like chicken. Though, I hear Veridian Dynamics is working on test tube meat which would remedy the mass inefficiency to just grow a cow. */

☀sports = {afraid the only plebian sports (short of Olympic events) that isn't mind numbingly boring to watch is soccer};

☠non-favorites = {insincere smiles, superficial status, cigarette smoke, confined places for more than a day (car, RV, small boat), loud places, speaking every little meandering thought aloud};

• warmth - sun/hot chocolate on a cold day/coats
• interesting people - show me new things
• little creations I've made - past drawings/programs
• some form of static media - my books and magazines
• some form of interactive media - games and shows
• internet - how else are you supposed to answer your burning random questions such as the world record for the longest hair or biggest collection of Daleks?

"The more swiss cheese you have, the more holes you have. The more holes you have, the less swiss cheese you have. Therefore, the more swiss cheese you have, the less swiss cheese you have."

Why is it that people who are "out-of-phase" in all those scifi episodes don't fall through the floor? (among other unsettled plot holes) Why google advertises liposuction to me of all people when there are plenty of Inuits in need of good ice cubes? Add to that dozens of topics that pique my interest over time.

Which is really more natural, pi or tau? Why do many Americans still use ridiculous and ambiguous MM/DD/YY order? Why does Fahrenheit still exist, along with those silly units of volume? Why does the legacy of the diatonic scale still infect our modern music notation? Aaaah. Maybe one day more people will look at things and realize, "you know Fred... this is just dumb. Let's do it better.", to which Fred replies, "but this is how it's always been done..." (This is Broken TED talk)

And also...

Often enjoying a new movie with others, watching a show, playing a game, eating with my social circle, or even reading some technical article (yes, didn't that last one make me sound real interesting). I don't frequent danċe clubs or bars because of the volume and crowds, though I like the music and would like to have coordination to coherently match feet with rhythm.

"Nothing, for it's the big vewy scewy internet" ... Oi, show you have a sense of levity, and tell the world something completely completely harmless, such as...

• Hates hypodermic needles. Circus clowns are pretty scary too. Though, the number 13 is quite lucky.
• Was red-haired as infant until it darkened. Still sinister as ever though (left-handed).
• M&M's are eaten as follows: brown, orange, red, yellow, green, blue.
• My oldest known ancestor is Jonathan Andrew Tierce, born ~1745 in Ireland, and my initials are that of an American President (Yes, the dead one. No, the other dead one).
• Never too old for cartoons (series or movies).
• Don't play with them anymore, but I still have every one of my LEGO's.
• Nearly all my friends are younger.
• I danċe to the lively music when no one else is looking (care to sing to Haiducii Dragostea din tei with me? It's seriously happier than any song should be).
• I do not have IED, LFT, Münchausen syndrome, OCPD, Self-Abasement, or Asperger's Syndrome, and I definitely don't have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, or else it would have taken all my courage just to finish typing that last word!
• I won't waste my time or yours with lies that you'd find out anyway - plus the truth is a heck of a lot easier to remember! Though, I may have rounded up on my height (depending on the time of day measured).

you've thought about the top ten things that are important to you, and I appear to have them. Though, if you send the first message for a change, my reaction will look something like this.

Attractants: curiosity, academic nerdiness, creativity/artistic talent, optimism, balance of maturity and silliness, well-rationalized opinions, musical talent, occasional excitability, quirkiness (and any of these bonuses).

Detractants: drugs/frequent drinking/smoking, cynicism, schadenfreude, quickness to anger, rudeness/disrespect, loudness, opinionated demeanor, learned helplessness, vapidity, fashion trends, white lies.

Openings include:
- Random activity idea contributer
- Shared hobby enthusiast
- Full time confidant and mate (one slot)
Don't delay - send your resume today!