I'm a thinker and a secular humanist. I have eclectic interests: language, history, politics, science, you name it. If you can teach me something new, I'm ecstatic.

I'm a theoretical neuroscientist.

bragging.

Maybe that I'm missing a couple of fingers on my left hand, but usually only children notice that first. Otherwise, probably that I ask a lot of questions.

Lots of books: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz; Bulgakov's Master and Margerita (so good!); Borges' Collected Fictions; Stephen Dixon's Gould; David Foster Wallace's essays (still haven't gotten to Infinite Jest); Haruki Murakami; Spring Snow by Mishima; Open City by Teju Cole; Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner; John D'Agata's About a Mountain; David Graeber's Debt; Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles; Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science.

Movies: Werner Herzog films; Blue Planet; Metropolis; Delicatessen; Los Cronocrimenes (Timecrimes).

TV: Arrested Development; Daily Show; Portlandia.

Shows: Dug Yayoi Kusama's retrospective at the Whitney.

Music: Balinese Gamelan; Bob Dylan; Velvet Underground; Stephane Wrembel; Gnarls Barkley; Pavement; Regina Spektor; Billy Bragg and Wilco; Ulrich Schnauss; Boards of Canada; Stereolab.

Food: Ethiopian injera platters; French panini stands; Burritos in San Francisco (or anywhere south of there); A molting/molten pumpernickel bagel.

There are about six friends of mine I could never do without...or hope not to have to.

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...not very routinized about Friday nights. I might be seeing friends or attending a party. Or maybe I'm doing some work, reading, watching a movie, going for a swim, or playing squash.

you think we'd get along.