One Sentence Summary: I am an extroverted, analytic and deeply curious little fucker who likes art, prizes* cleverness, and loves a good fight.

Slightly More Than One Sentence Summary: I'm the acutely rational architect of many a pillow fort, counsel to The Association for Sandbox and Playground Irresponsibility, and an uncompromising partisan for reasonableness. I am all about the drawing of dinosaurs, the thinking of big thoughts, wandering listless, spontaneous one-act plays, and the wearing of silly hats.

I like people who are clever, creative, confident and aggressive; I enjoy full-contact conversation, and I'd say I'm smart... but that doesn't really stop me from being loudly and frequently wrong. This means we'd get in a fight and it would be AWESOME.

So! As you're still reading, I can only conclude we're cool. If you're a dude, we can go engage in some sort of homoerotic competitive behavior to assert our masculinity. It would probably involve butt-touching. If you're a chick, we'd make out. We're THAT close now.

* As a note, I didn't forget a comma, though I do like prizes and you are very welcome to buy me some.

Three Words: I am Ozymandias, king of kings, look on my works ye mighty, and despair.

Whatever seems interesting.

As in, like: I've worked for the House of Representatives, designed logos, made websites, built a distributed database, and written code that's run by nearly ten thousand people per second. I studied philosophy in college, which is honestly a lot more useful than people might suspect (though I have yet to be hired to help decide which metaphysical framework best fits my client's deeply held epistemic and sociopolitical beliefs).

I worked for a startup as a software engineer for the past few years. Now I'm doing big data stuff for Wikipedia. It's pretty badass.

Finally, I know it's lame, but I really enjoy camping. Every year, I spend a week in the Blackrock desert, cut off from the trappings of modern civilization.

- Learning from success, failure, and learning.
- Recursion.
- Causing adventures, trouble, and/or a ruckus.
- Detecting lies, crafting compelling speech, and petting kitties. (They always purr for me!)
- Drawing expertly unflattering cartoons of my friends, usually doing things unsuited for respectable society. Dinosaurs.

My unbearable lightness of being. Maybe my mohawk, or that weird stuff is shaved into the side of it (currently some kind of circuit diagram).

oh oh oh, I know. How adorrrrable I am. *nodnod*

Oh yes our things do in fact define us.

Books. I regularly come back to Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Goedel, Escher, Bach, and Impro by Keith Johnstone. I like Hemingway and Fitzgerald an awful lot. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Hume's Treatise, Le Petit Prince, Parfit's Reasons and Persons, and Anarchy, the State, and Utopia were each world-changing the first time through.

Movies. Favorites: The Lion in Winter (imdb), Heat (imdb), The Dark Knight, Gattaca, There Will Be Blood, Children of Men. Also, good: Amelie, Pi, American Beauty, Fight Club, The Matrix. I tend to like films others term depressing.

Fond of: Braid, House M.D., Bubble Bobble, the Secret of Mana, Wii Tanks, Portal, Katamari Damacey, Rolando.

Music. I'm into glitch/glitch-hop and microhouse at the moment. Robag Wruhme, NastyNasty, Sugarpill, Gui Boratto, Ulrich Schnauss, Ellen Allien, Glitch Mob, Underworld, Plaid, Eskmo, Trentemøller, Andrew Bird, Zoe Keating, Soul Coughing, Imogen Heap, Animal Collective, Aesop Rock, Tool, Rufus Wainwright, and Nick Drake. See also: the unblinking eye, last.fm.

Food. I'm vaguely vegetarian for expected global utility, but I don't get uppity about it. (UPDATE: Taquerias have more or less invalidated this.)

(1) The cobalt sting of a Santa Ana wind, or the timid summer of the Bay; (2) someone cute to spar with, like characters out of West Wing; (3) small useful thinsg; (4) spellcheck; (5) the Economist; (6) a POSIX-compliant shell.

- "...What are you thinking?"
- What's more important, happiness or power?
- What's more important, drinking or homework?
- How to talk pretty.
- How to really, actually improve the world.

Ex parte excellence.

Coding with hackers; making art or music with hippies; reading; drinking unto solipsism. It takes all kinds.

- ENTJ and a terrible sucker for spritely and feisty.
- Centrists are hot. I will die happy in an orgy of elegantly constructed compromise.
- Accused of being "a bit fae around the edges".
- Apparently my green eyes turn blue when I am plotting evil and/or sinful things. :(
- "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Still more of an East Coast-type despite my locale.
- There is much hating of passive voice.

There are surely no bright-line rules for this sort of thing, so here are, perhaps, two waypoints on either end of the continuum.

DO message if you already show up in a search for some combination of "intense passionate playful feminist tomboy lawyer hacker". Or, like, can effectively convince me you should count anyway.

DO NOT message if you are not stricken helpless by parts of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.