I'm a computer programmer by trade. I swing swords for fun in a theatrical combat troupe (usually not on the streets randomly, jail sucks). I listen to music all the time, the heart-beat of life. I play a little guitar (badly). I also make mead, since all music sounds better with a glass of delicious nectar in hand. I also watch movies, a lot of 'em, the stranger the better. I have a wit and can use it, sometimes, and a great thirst for folks who have well-developed senses of humor. Life is far too important to take too seriously all the time. I love travelling to Europe, and Ireland in particular. I have yet to fall off the Cliffs of Moher. I like to game, and play music trivia at Conor O'Neills.

I am witty, easy-going, and geeky

Writing code, playing guitar, writing more code. I'm developing the mead-making craft, and will be getting back into general tomfoolery with sharp pointy things as soon as the Fest season is over.

I'm a good software developer. I can usually elicit at least a smile when someone needs one. I used to be good at stunt combat, but have gotten rusty over the years.

How its always the quiet ones...

are fucking awesome. Seriously, they are great. Among them I count Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, GRRM Song Of Fire And Ice, Kafka's collected works, Poe's collected works, Borge's Collected Fictions, Stephenson's Snowcrash, Clavell's Shogun.

Moving Pictures - Old Boy, Samurai Trilogy, Yojimbo, The Proposition, Aliens, Pulp Fiction, Children Of Men, Death Proof, Pale Rider, The Seven Samurai, Goodfellas, Raiders of The Lost Ark, Dr. Stangelove, Usual Suspects, The Killer, Seventh Seal, Miller's Crossing, The Sting, Braveheart, Bladerunner, Ghostbusters, Gremlins I&II, FMJ, Life Of Brian, The Big Lebowski, Snatch, The Thing, Trainspotting, The General, 28 Days Later, Drunken Master 2, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaun of The Dead, Dangerous Liasions, R&G Are Dead, The Descent

Musics - Flogging Molly, The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, The Skels, Neck, The Popes, Amon Amarth, Cradle Of Filth, Manowar, Metal Church, Guns N' Roses, Black Mountain, Acid Bath, Nick Cave, Slayer, Agalloch, Iron Maiden, Sisters Of Mercy, The Decemberists, The Tossers, Alien Sex Fiend, Alabama 3, :wumpscut:, Opeth, Current 93, Christian Death, Swans, Pantera, Covenant, Psyclon 9, Motley Crue, Portishead, The Damned, The Doors, Theater Of Tragedy, Korpiklaani, Theater Of Hate, Motorhead, Murder City Devils...

last.fm

1. good company
2. music
3. books
4. fine meads
5. bright moons in the fog
6. Ireland

I think about the splashing of a creek and how it relates to early music. I think about colors, and what it would be to be blind. I think about steadying my thoughts and riding out the storm. I think about how relaxing a slight breeze across an open field can be.

going to a concert in Detroit or a pub in Ann Arbor, maybe a film down town or a small fire in Ypsi.

Well, it is the internet. so...

you think we can have something to talk about. I almost guarantee we can, of course, since these things are impossible to full flesh out. Self-selection guarantees that the most interesting aspects are probably hidden until a conversational doorway opens and let's them in to hang up their coat, grab a pipe, and warm their feet by the fire.

Or you have a good recipe for using mead.