Self-summary: I was born a long time ago. I had lots of experiences. Sometimes it's hard to believe that I'm the same person that did all those things and lived in all those places.

I am a nice guy. But not too nice. Also, I am not boring. Well, not to me, anyway.

Too much. I'm trying to figure out how to focus on the things that are really good.

I work as a professor at a local university, in the physical sciences. Heck, why be so vague? You can find me easily enough and figure out who I really am.

I am probably one of the most artistically-inclined physical scientists that I know of.

adapting. Being patient. Looking at all sides of an issue. Being skeptical. Paying attention to detail. Getting lost in something difficult. Forgetting people's names, even though I remember details of conversations we had months or years ago. Singing extemporaneous songs about stuff.

My hair. I think. I mean, I think they notice my hair. But maybe they notice that I think. Under all that hair.

I like a lot of stuff. I like Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler, Arthur Ransome and C.S. Forrester. I also like nonfiction, when I'm in the mood for it. Paleolithic stuff, lately. Also music stuff. And paleolithic music stuff. I used to read The New Yorker all the time. Now I read Harpers'.It doesn't pile up in my house as quickly.

I like most Soderbergh movies, lots of foreign films (Blue, White, Red, Tous les Matins du Monde, etc.), old stuff. I actually haven't seen many movies lately. You are welcome to help me change that. Although I did recently see, on DVD, U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha, Bizet's "Carmen" in Xhosa, which I liked.

I grew up with a lot of classical music but lately I've felt most inspired by more recent popular music, like Grizzly Bear. But. alas, Grizzly Bear hasn't done anything since Veckatimest so I'm sorta waiting for some new inspiration. The Portland band Dirty Martini has been in my iTunes rotation a lot lately. Talking Heads was a previous favorite. On the side of "serious music," my taste runs from Palestrina through Beethoven and Brahms, to Martinu, Poulenc, and Rautavaara. Lately I've been working a lot on Villa-Lobos (I play oboe) and he's sorta taken over my brain. And since my brain has been taken over by Villa-Lobos, I've necessarily gotten more interested in Bach.

I like food. Food is good. I especially like soups, and I'm pretty good at making them. I'm veggie-ish, but not real strict. I also love tea, Golden Monkey of Yunnan Province being a favorite.

I give up trying to answer this question. If you take it literally, everyone's list would be the same. If you don't take it literally, you end up sounding rather inflexible and needy. "Oh, I can't do without my Starbucks!" Grow up. Hominins have done just fine for a quarter of a million years before they invented Starbucks.

Nature, economics, politics, life in the paleolithic, chemistry, physics, music, language, philosophical sorts of things.

the same person I was on Thursday night, only one day older.

I once had boxer shorts with little baseball players on them.

you are bored, you are intrigued, or you found my wallet.