"inverarity1024 (aka silenttristero) is a warm blooded bipedal mammal native to the upper Midwest (Chicago), but in the past two years has been spotted in the San Francisco bay area. Its habits include staring into microscopes, playing with lasers, riding motorcycles, and hanggliding. The silenttristero is friendly, outgoing, and very laid back, but can be occasionally sarcastic and curmudgeonly, and should be approached with caution. Do not taunt silenttristero." --The Audubon Field Guide to North American Jewish Males

A few more items of note about me: I love good food, and love cooking, but hate cleaning up after myself. I make a lot of jokes, some appropriate, some not so much. It's never my goal to offend anybody, but I occasionally do. I love words, writing, talking, reading, and singing (especially singing). Physical attraction and sex are very important to me, and with respect to physical intimacy I'm very generous, attentive, creative, open minded, and kinky. My career is very important to me, it takes up a lot of physical and emotional energy. I have a doctoral degree in physics, and am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford. I am a HUGE nerd, in the best possible way. I'm inquisitve, goal-oriented, and I love to tinker and learn. But I do love fiction and film as well. I am a strange animal, but I'm worth getting to know. I will enrich your life if you let me, and hope you will do the same. And if you actually read all the way to the bottom of this thing, tell me "Colonel Custer sent me."

I'm a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at Stanford. I'm desperately trying to eke out enough data to publish something. It's an uphill struggle which consumes a lot of my intellectual and emotional energy, so I do like to cut loose when I get a chance. I took up hanggliding a few years ago, and in the summers I try to spend as much time as I can on the weekends out flying. I can always use a friend who wants to help out, since it helps to have someone drive my car back from the launch site to the landing site!

Single molecule biophysics, making you laugh so hard that milk comes out your nose, making awesome sandwiches, and oral sex.

I have a basso profondo voice that projects a lot (one of the dividends of studying singing for many years), and I am often caught not using my "indoor voice," so people hear me from across the room.

I'm terrible with naming favorites, and I think this question has almost no bearing on who I'd want to date, but a few things I enjoy from these categories include: The Blues Brothers, Warren Zevon, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, carciofi alla guidia, bananas, They Might Be Giants, Kavalier and Clay, Mozart (especially at the opera), Bubba Hotep, Everything and More: A Brief History of Infinity, and almost anything sweet. I love to cook, bake, and grill, and I have a huge sweet tooth. I make a mean sandwich (see above.)

I'm fairly resilient, and can make do with very little, but six things that are highly important (in no particular order):
- My leatherman multi tool (almost always on my person)
- My iPod touch (the only thing that prevents me from losing my mind at the gym is that I netflix movies, rip them to my iPod, and watch them on the stairmaster)
- My sense of humor
- A healthy sex life with a caring, open minded, and passionate partner
- My laptop, Uraniborg
- My platinum nipple clamps

Thermodynamics. Sex. Ethics. Optical trapping. Boobs. The failure of modern society to provide for all its citizens, and what can be done about it. Politics. Sex.

Plotting the destruction of western civilization, muahahahaha.

Recently, going to bed early so I can get up early to fly on Saturday, when the air is nice and glassy and you can glide foreeeeeeeeeeeever.

I'm not that enamored with the idea of sexual monogamy, but I'm not really interested in polyamory either. I think there's a lot of middle ground between the two, but I do want a long-term life partner that I can always come home to, and I'm open to discussing with a potential life partner what kinds of situations would make us both happy.

You are sexy, sassy, witty, curvy, kinky, open minded, like strange jokes, are smart, motivated, erudite, busty, smell nice, and can give me a run for my money at Scrabble. Those with some subset of the above qualities should feel free to get in touch as well.

If you're going to message me, you should probably have at least gone to college, or else have a really awesome story as to why you didn't (like you're a comic book artist, or you were in the Navy fixing nuclear aircraft carriers (and yes, those are both real reasons from real people that passed the awesome test.))

Also, always looking for somebody who wants to get up early on a weekend, drive my car up a big hill in San Jose, watch me jump off, and then drive my car back down. If that's you, get in touch.