INTJ/P, left-handed, only child, observant, non-neurotic,
constantly curious, logical yet artistic, quiet but not shy, and
not a freak but definitely a geek.

Talk to me about:
computer graphics, fractals, graphics arts, typography, drawing/painting, amateur photography, linguistics, writing systems, phonetics, facial anthropology, scientific discoveries/new technology, scifi, psychology, retro game emulation, music theory and notation, piano playing, psytrance/goa/d&b, LEGO's, origami, hiking.

The Spiel...
Slow Danċer seeks a Sonnet to make music with, or at least more fine folk in the area for the band. Even the scientists/engineers can't play it solo forever, despite their superior powers of resistance over such distracting forces. I'd love to find a fellow knowledge sponge and inquisitive explorer with a good balance of curiosity with creativity/inventiveness/imagination. If you too enjoy people with more than half a brain and a placid but optimistic view of life, then keep reading.

So... you like dark or white chocolate? Both you say? Great, we
already have something in common. You like loud guys likely to win the next Darwin Award? No? Cool, even more common ground. How about geeky guys who are considerate, artistically/musically talented, and have a black belt in the martial arts? Again, yes? Well, if you can live without the black belt, I know one (a few actually, but ericrk, bitshiftr, theholyhermit, PlanningToFail, and OSUFlatland have their own profiles, so back to me). Meet one who is continually curious, perpetually pensive, artistically apt, and ... [hmm, thesaurus.com is failing me here] looking out for that last lost puzzle piece.

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I'm in the beautiful Northwest, working full time yet playing all
day, on the complex script analysis and text layout of DirectX
Typography (telling computers how to render text of various
languages).

Things I've seen since moving here from Oregon...

Nearby: Pike Place, Space Needle, Seattle Art Museum, the crazy but cool library, Underground of Seattle, the Pacific Science Center (for both the IMAX and the actual science), Woodland Park Zoo, Trampoline dodgeball at Sky High Sports, Sounders game, Luminata Lantern Parade, Gasworks July 4th fireworks, Final Fantasy concert at the Seattle Symphony, Folklife Festival, Burke-Gilman Trail (bicycling Seattle to Redmond), PLAY videogame symphony, Video Games Live, Whose Live Anyway, Cavalia, BrickCon LEGO convention, PAX, Comicon, Sakura-con.

Further: Deception Pass, Skagit Tulip Festival, Puyallup
State Fair, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Granville Island, some hiking at (not "outdoorsey", but definitely not afraid of it) Rattlesnake Ledger Trail/Tiger Mountain Trail/Wallace Falls/Twin Falls/Snoqualmie Falls/Rattlesnake Ledge Trail, Olympic National Park, Wenatchee River rafting with friends, San Juan islands to sea kayak, Snoqualmie pass to try skiing.

Much further: Week in Spain (Madrid, Pamplona, Barcelona), week in Italy (Rome, Sorrento, Pompeii, Capri, Florence), week in Washington D.C. (still didn't see it all).

Future:
- See the Golden Garden or Ballard Locks or Washington Park
Arboretum Japanese Garden.
- See Teatro Zinzani / Cirque de Solei.
- Paragliding from Tiger Mountain.
- Movies: Hunger Games, Brave, Snow White and the Huntsman, John Carter, Avengers, Dark Knight Rises.
- Learn fire poi swinging (or at least find people who can *update: Think I found some).
- Visit the UK, Japan, and Australia (sigh, my passport is truly
underutilized).

Distant future:
Marry my full time friend and lover. Contribute modest but notable advances to my career field. Start the cycle over for the next generation.

- Adding great matches to my favorites, then forgetting to send a
message, until after they disappear -_-.
- Drawing (pencil, pen, conté crayon, chalk)
- Playing piano (started age 9, but rusty now - my Roland must feel neglected).
- Figuring out how things work, especially spatial puzzles.
- Telling computers what to do, 1 line of C++ at a time.
- Handwriting (others are always surprised when they see my signature on a restaurant receipt).

My guess, I'm more a listener than a talker.

☑books = {Origami for the Enthusiast, good old Star Trek encyclopedia, The Five Love Languages, Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus}; // if Wikipedia is a book, then that one too.

❏magazines = {Discover, Scientific American, Psychology Today, Popular Science};

✍favored art style = {art nouveau, isometric pixel art, ⓐⓢⓒⓘⓘ art, Hyung Tae Kim's style, Michael Parkes' lithographs, Range Murata, J Scott Campbell+Nei Ruffino, Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias, Alphonse Mucha, and most things with vibrant colors/refined line/touch of HDR, intricate geometry};
/* and NOT Jackson Pollock, and thus far nothing Craig
McCracken */

☽movies = {mainly scifi/adventure/fantasy, rarely horror, and an appreciation of most others... Stardust, Mummy Returns, How To Train Your Dragon, Gattaca, 13th Floor, Equilibrium, Spirited Away, Inception, Jurassic Park, Star Trek (4 & 11), Moulin Rouge, Liar Liar, Bolt, Despicable Me, Amélie};

♫music = {most anything with complex harmonies/lively rhythm and without twangy vocals/foul lyrics/death growling, be it Western European Classical to modern Psytrance to video game OSTs to movie soundtracks, but I'm not immune to super saccharine pop either - Loreena McKennitt, Juno Reactor, Infected Mushroom, Enigma, Bond, David Garrett, E.S. Posthumus, Yanni, Tiësto, Delerium, Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, Hiroki Kikuta, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, d&b, chiptunes, some industrial, some symphonic metal};
/* recent finds/favorites: Zack Hemsey's Mind Heist (epic),
Helena Paparizou's Mambo (catchy), Jessy Matador's Allez Olla Ole (lively), Kamaya Painter's Endless Wave, Lena Meyer-Landrut's Satellite, Ievan Polka by Holly Dolly, Sole Signal's He's a Pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean remix); Can't forget the silly stuff like 'Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man)' a cappella tribute medley or Friends by Flight of the Conchords or We No Speak Americano hand clapping ft. Cleary & Harding */

♘games = {those with exploration, good art, and puzzle solving, like Zelda Twilight Princess and the rest of that series, Tales of Symphonia, Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Mischief Makers, Mario RPG; or just fun, like Mario Kart.};
/* I'm more the console fan (NES/SNES/N64/PS2/GC/Wii/NDS) than PC, as it's where the memories lie. I'm a few years behind on games, but there are still plenty of good old ones. FPS/RTS/Racer occasionally appeal to me, but MMRPGs require too much time investment. */

☆shows = {particularly scifi/fantasy/witty comedy: "bazinga!", (Nikki Heat), "spies, a bunch of bitchy little girls", "flash Bartowski", (NCC-1701-D), (River vs Reavers), "You are the fifth race", "fracking Cylons", "There is a hole in your mind", "I'm the last of the Time Lords", "Veridian Dynamics - we make your life better... usually", Gargoyles, Mushishi, Monster, Kino's Journey, (Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV), (Lina Inverse), +Lost/Heroes/Smallville in the early seasons}
/* answer key: ʎɹoǝɥʇ buɐq bıq, ǝןʇsɐɔ, ǝɔıʇou uɹnq, ʞɔnɥɔ,
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ʎoqʍoɔ, sɹǝʎɐןs. If you like these, let's talk. If not, well then
you are missing out I say. While I rarely watch much live TV, I
have a habit of burning through a series on DVD. When I do happen to watch live TV, it's no doubt Discovery, SciFi (silly SyFy), CT, or History */

☺favored humor = {the paraprosdokian, antanaclasis kind, and occasional homophonic pun - that is, misdirection and word play}
/* Listen to yourself (xkcd) or Importance of Trapped Antimatter (smbc) ♦ "Silence is golden, duct tape is silver." ♦ "Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." ♦ "If the early bird gets the worm (ick), I'd rather sleep in, for the second mouse gets the cheese." ♦ "She got her good looks from her father; he's a plastic surgeon." ♦ "Immanuel doesn't pun; he Kant." ♦ "Dogs like a bone; Cats like a mouse; Fruit flies like a banana; and Time flies like an arrow. (mmm, tasty arrow)" ♦ "Atheism is a non-prophet institution" ♦ "A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip." ♦ "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." ♦ "The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but it's still on the list." ♦ "Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." ♦ "The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!" */

✇os = {Win XP/7, BeOS/Haiku, Linux+KDE - in that order}

☛websites = {Wikipedia, DeviantArt, Omniglot, Engadget, Piken's Pursuits, ANN, TED talks, YouTube, Overclocked Remixes, The Music Notation Project, and Etsy for some of it's geek catering creations}

♨food = {equal opportunity omnivore who doesn't each much meat, but isn't vegetarian. I'll avoid: anything too spicy and squishy/rubbery (e.g. most non-fish seafood), pork, soda/coffee/alcohol, avocado, and black licorice. I'll like anything containing: white chocolate, vanilla, or coconut};
/* Got milk? Say cheese. Alas, tofu just doesn't taste like chicken. Though, I hear Veridian Dynamics is working on test tube meat which would remedy the mass inefficiency to just grow a cow. */

☠non-favorites = {insincere smiles, superficial status, cigarette smoke, confined places for more than a day (car, RV, small boat), crowded loud places, speaking every little meandering thought aloud};

• warmth - sun/hot chocolate on a cold day/coats
• interesting people - show me new things
• little creations I've made - past drawings/programs
• some form of static media - my books and magazines
• some form of interactive media - games and shows
• internet - how else are you supposed to answer your burning random questions such as the world record for number of leaves on a clover?

Why is it that people who are "out-of-phase" in all those scifi episodes don't fall through the floor? (among other unsettled plot holes) Add to that dozens of topics that pique piken's interest over time. Why google advertises liposuction to me of all people when there are plenty of Inuits in need of good ice cubes?

Which is really more natural, pi or tau? Why do many Americans still use ridiculous and ambiguous MM/DD/YY order? Why does Fahrenheit still exist, along with those silly units of volume? Why does the legacy of the diatonic scale still infect our modern music notation? Aaaah. Why don't know more people look at things and just one day realize, "you know Fred... this is just dumb. Let's do it better.", to which Fred replies, "but this is how it's always been done..." (This is Broken)

Sometimes wondering whether "user friendliness" of computer is a good thing. How can so many people manage to successfully use a computer yet emit utterances like "lolwut" or "u hawt"? I'm a person of few rants, but I want slap the little trolls, or at least force them to read aloud their tangential negative irrelevant boasting before they submit it. We need an anti-virus for memetically transmitted diseases. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming (and mood).

Why so many girls on this website who match 95%+ live in Canada instead of Washington — sigh, spacetime -_-. Well, there is no perfect match, just shades of gray within acceptable tolerance. I usually search long and carefully for things, and usually find them, fully satisfied. So I have high hopes on the return on investment...

Often enjoying a new movie with others, watching a show, playing a game, eating with my social circle, or even reading some technical article (yes, didn't that last one make me sound real interesting). I don't frequent danċe clubs or bars because of the volume and crowds, though I like the music and would like to have coordination to coherently match feet with rhythm.

"Nothing, for it's the big vewy scewy internet" ... Oi, show you have a sense of levity, and tell the world something completely true yet completely harmless, such as...

- Let's see, as most people are pretty good hearted (you are, right?), my DOB is 1981-02-29, and SSN is 987-65-4321.
- Was red-haired as infant, until it darkened. Still sinister as ever though (left-handed).
- My oldest known ancestor is Jonathan Andrew Tierce, born ~1745 in Ireland, and my initials are that of an American President (the dead one).
- Never too old for cartoons (series or movies).
- Don't play with them anymore, but I've still have every one of my LEGO's.
- Hates hypodermic needles. Circus clowns are pretty scary too. Though, the number 13 is quite lucky.
- I danċe to the lively music when no one else is looking (care to sing to Haiducii Dragostea din tei with me? It's seriously happier than any song should be).
- M&M's are eaten as follows: brown, orange, red, yellow, green, blue.
- I do not have IED, LFT, Münchausen syndrome, OCPD, Self-Abasement, or Asperger's Syndrome, but I have this terrible case of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Why, it even took all my courage just to finish typing that last word!

*Well, mostly true anyway, as two of these bullets are false. If you're bright enough to figure out which, I welcome a message (appreciate the two girls who advised me to be more careful for the sake of identify theft, but check the numbers closely :)

you think I can bring a smile to your day, teach you something new, or help you capture a memory for your camera.

You're...
- generally optimistic (don't whine/stay bitter/depressed)
- curious (still looking at the world with wonder, learning, exploring)
- creative (draw/paint/play a musical instrument/sing/compose).
- mostly mature (responsible but a little child-like)
- full of thoughts and opinions (while not opinionated).
- generally calm (but prone to occasional bouts of excitability and tempered competition)
- serious only when needed (able to given in to silliness without embarrassment)
- a little geeky (passionate about your interests regardless of social stigma)

Openings include:
- Random activity idea contributer
- Shared hobby enthusiast
- Silly hat expert (already filled by Luhtakanta 2010-04)
- Full time confidant and mate (one slot)

You're not...
- drug/frequent alcohol user, or cigarette/marijuana smoker (terrible smell).
- cynical and contemptuous (quota filled)
- getting your daily dose of humor from other's misfortune or stupidity (yes, I realize people of Walmart are amusing, so sometimes is okay, but aim above lowbrow please).
- quick to anger (e.g. rioters).
- rude/disrespectful (you use these in your daily lexicon {"Just saying ... my two cents", "Not to be rude or anything...", "To be honest..." , "Seriously?"} because your two cents aren't worth hearing if you need to preface it with that, you're about to be rude, it calls into question whether you are usually honest if you need to clarify that this particular time you are being honest, and yes, seriously)
(source)

If so, don't delay - send your resume today!

Bonus points if you:
(some of these I've done; some my friends have done; others I'd like to find new friends have who have done)
- aim to improve the signal to noise ratio on the Internet. For example, you know what a TED talk is ... and like them.
- learned a non-existent language.
- made polyhedra out of food.
- sung a song with lyrics of chemicals/protein names.
- memorized all the countries of the world ... not because you had to.
- collected one of every state's quarters.
- created papercraft/cross stitch/perler beads to anything show/game/book related.
- were part of band camp/chess/debate club.
- attended a scifi/medieval/steampunk/anime convention to see all the merchandise and people dressed up.
- know that C++ is not a passing report card grade.
- could be a recreational mathemusician!
- find Ferengi bar owners strangely charming (or even if you don't, but you actually get this reference).
- have nostalgia for certain catchy Ocarina-based melodies.
- naturally think "data dog" when you see a Welsh Corgi.
- like pumpkin sqrt(sum(1/n^2, n=1..inf)*6).
- hear IPA and think of something linguistic, rather than beer.
- you're a lean caucasian girl with reddish hair, green/blue/gray/amber/hazel eyes, cheilion dimples, slight positive endocanthion to exocanthion angle, corneal limbus iris rings.
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