I
- am easy to get along with
- like intellectual topics, particularly science / politics / economics
- am very affectionate in a relationship
- am a straight shooter
- am financially secure: I'm debt-free, credit scores around 800, and in addition to retirement savings, I have well over a year's salary in low-risk investments, just in case of a rainy day
- love my work, but have a good social life outside of it
- am busy -- go to lots of activities in NYC, and organize some groups, a hiking group and a dinner discussion group
- am unconventional in my thinking

I was born in the Midwest, moved to Germany as a little kid where I attended an international school (still speak German badly). Moved to Australia where I finished high school, then went to California where I went to college at Caltech, majoring in computer science. Lived most of my adult life after that in Silicon Valley, except for when I went to the Philippines in 1993 and taught computer programming for a year at a university in Cebu. Moved to NYC in 2005 and love it here.

According to the "personality test", I'm EXTREMELY unartistic. I don't think that's entirely true. I don't produce art, but I have over 4000 songs in my iPod, and art on the walls at home. When I go to a friend's house and they have blank walls with no art on them, I think they're nuts.

I'm a computer programmer at a big, stable, successful company, where i've been working for seven years. My job is only 40 hours a week, and after work I go out to social activities, discussion groups, and lectures all over Manhattan. I've been having a ball ever since I got to NYC in 2005.
Since my job is stable and lucrative, I figure the next step is to get married.

- thinking about intense intellectual topics
- organizing activites. I lead a hiking group, 2 dinner discussion groups, and about twice a year throw a big party for all my friends
- investing
- snowboarding, except I don't catch air. I go to the Rockies every year

- people say it's obvious from the get go that I'm a really nice guy

Books: The Big Short (about the financial meltdown), The Blank Slate (about politics and psychology), Wired for War (about battlefield robots), Wealth of Nations (200 years old, about economics), The Undercover Economist
Subscribe to: The Economist, Scientific American, Discover, Technology Review
Music: I have a lot of music, over 4000 songs in my iPod. Lately I listen to a lot of Blue Man Group and Symphonic Rock, I particularly like music from the early eighties.
Movies: Gregory's Girl, Pulp Fiction, Interview with the Vampire, Ace Ventura, Foreign Films

- the internet
- friends
- work
- being debt-free

There're a lot of things I wish I could say I "could never do without", like love and affection, but I've been doing without them for some time, so I guess I've been able to make do.

A LOT of things.
- Science and Technology
- Politics (I'm a registered Democrat, though I classify myself as a "Tax and Spend Libertarian" -- long story)
- Economics
- Pretty much any problem that society has

Going to a social event or lecture somewhere.

I have size 15 feet.

- you have a photo up
- you are REALLY less than 6 years older than me
- if you have children, they're old enough to babysit themselves
- you have answered at least 75 questions
- you are at least a 65% match
- you have health insurance
- you are sure that humans are descended from apes
- you are NOT sure that Israel has a right to build civilian settlements on the West Bank (unsure is OK)
- you are turned on by honesty and kindness
- you are willing to tolerate being showered by affection and adoration