I really like coloring outside of the lines. Or maybe I really like making my own lines and finding people to help color them in with me. I'm happy to help color in (or near) your lines, too.

I've spent about the last 15 years building a career out of organizing atheists, agnostics, humanists, rationalists, and other folk obsessed with checking society's work.

I'm still doing that, and now I'm also exploring ethical non-monogamy. I'm happily married to Czareleon and we're polyamorous.

I've dated several people over the last six months, but so far things have either petered out or morphed into cuddly friendships. I'm looking for a playful, caring, genuine, and hopefully quite romantic connection.

I am an intellectual with a secret alter ego as a gym-goer who drinks protein shakes on a regular basis.

I sometimes persist in laying in uncomfortable positions in my bed because I don’t want to disturb my adorable sleeping cat.

I have mastered crème brûlée, chicken piccata, and beer & Cheeto™ battered fried pickles.

I made a tiny painting mourning the repeal of Glass-Steagall. I hung it in my guest bathroom. I'm irrationally proud that two people have paid me to paint them copies.

In the tradition of Eddie Izzard, I’m an Executive Atheist. (no really, I get paid to be an atheist... well, kinda)

Unlike Eddie, and my Gaga profile picture notwithstanding, I typically dress in dude clothes. ;-)

Professionalizing organizations: I've been involved in taking four non-profits (three national, one local) from loose confederations of volunteers to organizations with staff.

Cooking: I make amazing vegan butternut squash alfredo and amazing pan-seared steak (depending on what you're into). Amazingness is my general cooking theme.

So I asked someone what the first thing she thinks people notice about me is and she said "well, this is cliché, but your smile—you should ask someone else."

So I found someone else. She also told me that it was my smile.

So clearly my smile is the first thing people usually notice about me. SCIENCE! (sample size? what's that? We're all Bayesians now, right?)

Music:
Cake, Lady Gaga, Alt-J, MC Frontalot, Ani Difranco, Utah Phillips, Johnny Cash, Nicki Minaj, Lana Del Ray, The White Stripes, Eat More Cake

Books:
Slaughterhouse-Five, The Botany of Desire, Persepolis, The World According to Garp, Maus, Hitchhikers Guide "trilogy", The Bell Jar, Demon Haunted World, A Brief History of Time, Contact, Ender's Game, The Berserker series (by Saberhagen), Calling Bernadette's Bluff, The Blind Watchmaker, Freedom Evolves (and basically anything by Daniel Dennett), 1984, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Nonbeliever Nation, Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk (and really pretty much anything by him), Lost Girls, I keep meaning to read Mary Roach books, but so far have just had people read me parts of them.

Shows & Movies (& Podcasts):
Ze Frank, Deadwood, Dan Savage (yay for ggg!), Six Feet Under, Star Trek of various types and kinds, Star Wars IV-VI, Shortbus, Louie, The Big Lebowski, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (anything by Joss, really), Fight Club, Election, Parks and Rec, The West Wing (and pretty much anything involving Aaron Sorkin), Weeds, Downton Abbey, The Wire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Cosmos, and I listen to NPR like it's my job (I'm a member of WOSU).

Food:
I like most food.
I'm especially fond of Indian food (especially especially dosa and tandoori).
About the only food that I have found I usually dislike is pho.

1) Making things
2) Making love
3) Making distinctions
4) The people with whom I make all those things
5) My library card (perhaps to soon be replaced by my kindle)
6) The empty hole in my soul where coffee used to go

How science is as much about constructing explanations that make sense to people as it is about the physical world.

That capitalism might not be what I want to buy.

As much fun as sex is, the best part might be the way it deepens emotional connections.

How love is not so different from what makes my liver cells not try to kill my kidney cells—and how this makes love feel more legitimate to me.

How calling something a miracle isn’t an explanation.

How to inspire and empower more people to think for themselves and make decisions together.

Lunch.

For the last couple of years on the first Friday of each month I've helped to organize a community board game night—so I’m often playing board games.

On other Fridays I can be found enjoying a beer on my balcony, playing Cards Against Humanity, or wandering the Short North.

I'm about a Kinsey 1.5.

You'd like to try my beer & Cheeto™ battered fried pickles.

You have hilarious food to make for me.

You think we might enjoy non-hilarious food, conversation, and maybe more together.