I'm a truth seeker, a non-conformist (or maybe a mindless sheeperson), a musician, an artist, a gamer, an actor, a philosopher and pretty much awesome guy. I am passionate about technology, philosophy, unconventional thinking (and thinkers) and science. I'm confident in my actions, I'm interested in learning for the sake of gaining knowledge. I like people who like themselves, who are driven, passionate, and who can hold their own. I essentially want a partner who can challenge me, inspire me and grow with me.

I'm silly, often absurd, and occasionally profound.

Online robots classify me as an ENTP. An inventor.

I pretty sure the universe obeys the laws of physics, and therefore one can determine any particle's behavior given the laws and its current state. I'm pretty sure morality (in the common sense of the word, as in arbitrary universal magic rules) is just an obsolete abstraction and religion is vestigial. So that makes me amoral, thus: legislated morality (actually just legislation) infuriates me endlessly (Some examples: seatbelts, helmets, drugs and prostitution).

I like objectivists when they're not idolizing Rand. I identify as an anarcho-capitalist, because minarchism is a contradiction. I'm kind of wordy, I use terms like "initiation of the use of force" every twenty seconds, even when it's not relevant to the conversation.

I'm impossible to offend: I posit that either something is true and one should never be offended by the truth, or something is false and then it doesn't matter. This simple idea has not betrayed me; no one has ever exploited my secret weakness (kittens) however.

I've lived in Maine, California, Georgia, and now Massachusetts.

Is it solipsist in here, or is it just me?

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I'm an insurance inspector when I'm not a collegeman. This impresses a lot of people (no one), but it's actually ridiculously easy.

I'm studying computer engineering at WPI and hoping to work on nanotechnology in the future. I want to live forever and intend to do so. I am currently sleeping whenever I feel tired. This means I'm awake at some pretty strange hours. I'm getting good grades, regardless of sleep cycles.

That last part about sleep cycles is there because I've experimented with ~polyphasic sleep~ in the past, and had some degree of success with it last year.

Maybe I'll go to Geneva and work on the LHC? That seems pretty cool. Recent interests include wireless power, memristors, sonic touch apparatus, subterranean neutrino location systems and fusion-powered flying cities.

Suddenly, I'm learning lojban.

------------OKCupid Now in lojban!--------------

mi mutce roda le xamgu
.i mi xenru lenu ciska bau la lojban fi la .OKCupid.

Video games, music, computer stuff, physics, and math. My second favorite thing ever is pretty much Euler's formula, I bet his head exploded when he saw that the taylor series for e^x had sine and cosine hiding in there. I would have freaked out, at least. When in possession of a writing implement, I inscribe the proof for Euler's formula in public bathrooms. I feel most human when doing calculus. My first favorite thing is Anna.

I spend most of my time working on my computer, composing music, building stuff and experimenting (like science, you know). In what is possibly the most cliche circumstance possible, I am teaching myself to play the guitar. I'm a notorious pirate and I sport three DMCA notices. My ISP claims they'll cancel my account, but I've seen no evidence of this.

I know how to do The Margaret Thatcher.

I'm pretty good at video games (actually, problem solving in general). I just bought a PSP and I am delighted with the bouquet of wonderful homebrew software available on the platform.

I've found that I'm completely incapable of writing anything but satire.

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My speech, mannerisms and my physique.

I like to pronounce things. I have fun with wordplay. I use exotic expletives.
I'm pretty skinny, at 6 feet and 125 lbs.

After that, I'll lay down some intensely descriptive psuedofantasy prose and they'll expose their glowing red weak spot. I will then proceed to hit them for massive damage and level up.

John Dies at the End, Authors: Orson Scott Card, Ayn Rand, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Pratchett. I read XCKD, Penny Arcade and Questionable Content.

Movies: Anchor Man, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Horrible, The Royal Tenenbaums.
Music: Lady GaGa. Everything below is obsolete.

MC Frontalot, mc chris, 3OH!3, Portishead, Silversun Pickups, Muse, Mindless Self Indulgence, Porcupine Tree, Linkin Park, A Perfect Circle, Rammstein, Imogen Heap, Pendulum, Bloodhound Gang, Mute Math, Emotional Joystick, Enter Shikari, Tool, System of a Down, some other stuff I can't remember. Shellfish core hiphop.
I don't like to be associated with people who like Linkin Park. Schism is probably my favorite song of all time. The song I'm on a Boat is a microcosm of my entire life.

My guilty pleasure is Panic! at the disco.

Food: Meatloaf, artichokes, hamburgers and tuna melts. Seriously, I'll eat just about anything but raw bananas. The artificial grape flavor induces me to vomit.

The internet - my homeland
Physics - when my philosophy professor asked me what my efficient cause was, I told him 'The electromagnetic force'
iPhone 3GS (the S is for steve) - internet, but everywhere!
The constant struggle between counterfactual definiteness and locality.
Creative expression - because the world isn't awesome enough
Competition - to improve.

The nature of societal values, morality, physics, and of course, cats. Awesome science, how to interpret ambiguous language in unexpected and hilarious ways. If a tree falls in a metaforest when no one's around, does it make any reference?

Also, making up awesome jokes: What do you call two ducks that are not ducks? A pair-a-ducks.

Why does everyone hate windows vista? I've never had a problem with it.

Fridays, I usually transform into a truck. More specifically, a techno pie truck. (which is like an ice-cream truck, but instead of selling ice-cream and playing shitty music, it sells pies and plays drum and bass). Why is this drum and bass?

Often I am discussing (arguing) philosophy, and sometimes even successfully. Social change starts with convincing people, after all.

Overusing italics, and at the same time wishing for deeper, even more potent second order italics. I want my letters to be lying on the floor...

And playing the Kraken theme on my guitar. Also, trying to summon the Kraken at all times.

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I have no regrets.
I am completely open about everything.

The winter defeats me.

I am the second and third search results on google for the term "Hoverocerous".

I wish wish wish wish wish Optimus Prime would narrate my life.

you share some of my qualities, think I'm irresistible, wish to be challenged intellectually, would like to argue about philosophy, are interesting, clever, or silly (or just a good liar). If you are a geeky science lady, you will have my heart forever. Objectivists, lulz.

AIM: xpyromuffinx
MSN: pyromuffin@gmail.com

Feel free to contact me by whichever means you deem most convenient. I'm always excited to meet new people.