I'm a scuba diver, a software performance engineer, an extrovert, and an information sponge. I recently moved to San Francisco because I like noisy, pungent, crowded, and rainy cities. Okay, not the pungent part, but I do like walking in the rain without an umbrella.

I am a dad to an awesome 7 year old girl who is the world to me. I am cherishing the few years I have before I cease being the coolest person in the world.

I feed sharks, little ones with my hands and larger one with a sufficiently long stick. I wrangle Leopard sharks to pull them out for their physicals. And yes, this is an awesome experience that I'm likely to talk about with the enthusiasm of a 3 year old.

This about sums the largest priorities of my life. Besides that, I am very eclectic and won't hesitate to try new things and jump first then read the instruction later.

I have a job that I love, where I’m allowed to devote a substantial amount of time to drawing pretty graphs and coloring spreadsheet cells. In the few occasions when I'm not immersed in something challenging, I daydream of my next travel destination.

Once a week, I'm a volunteer diver at the Aquarium of the Bay at Fisherman's Wharf. It's really interesting to get a fish's perspective of mammals through the curved glass. It turns out homo sapiens are very awkward organisms, with our inefficient bipedalism and our inability to move unaided on all three dimensional planes.

* Wrangling Sharks.
* Board games.
* Burns & comebacks.
* Hindsight.

My Fez and monocle.

Books: The Greatest Show on Earth, The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, Letters to a Young Contrarian, Hitch-22, [pretty much anything by Hitchens, god rest his soul], Blink, Outliers, Freakonomics, 1491, Guns Germs and Steel, Demon Haunted World, Pale Blue Dot, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World

Television: Chappelle's Show, The Wire, Rome, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Battlestar Gallactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, SNL, Community, Portlandia, Archer, South Park

Music: Decemberists, Avalanches, Tom Waits, Juke Baritone, Jack White, Gogol Bordello, Pink Floyd/Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Joan Baez, Michael Jackson, Madonna, CAKE, Alabina, Kreayshawn, Delta Spirit, Flogging Molly

Movies: Agora, V for Vendetta, Chicago, The Shawshank Redemption, The Devil's Advocate, Office Space, Idiocracy, District 9, Moon, Inception, Mongol, Pirate Radio, Gattaca, American History X, The Sound of Music, Annie

Food: Very flexible. Mediterranean/Turkish, Asian fusion, and Mexican (but only in Mexico). I also enjoy sushi, Indian, Italian, most Asian and Latin cuisines. Pretty much anything except German and Scandinavian, and I say this out of direct personal experience.

*Reading material
*SCUBA diving
*Comfortable shoes
*Sour Ice Breakers
*A towel
*A challenge

How to appear as a guest on the Daily Show.

Exploring a new part of the city.

I don't own a car and I'm loving it

You are a Marine Biologist or good at impersonating one
You like scuba diving
You're willing to teach me how to make trifle
You haven't traveled the whole world yet but intent on doing so
Or you want to learn how to wrangle sharks