[Jan 2010] Apparently I haven't looked at my profile in a while; I can't even remember writing some of this, so it might be slightly out of date... /me reminds myself to update this sometime... (I think I last wrote stuff here in 2007! Gah!) The main thing I do these days is fly around the country entering dance competitions.

I'm just your typical fun-loving guy...

I guess this is where I braindump about me ... I like beaches and the night sky and learning about stuff and robots and maths and physics and computers and music and politics and clouds and educating people and camping and bushwalking and saving the world and long conversations about nothing in particular and you know, other interesting stuff...

I suffer from Peter Pan syndrome; I don't want to ever grow up. It seems, though, that while I wasn't paying attention Wendy and Michael grew up. If you are a Wendy or a Michael, and want to join the Lost Boys, please contact me via a note left in the Hangman's Tree. Alternately, you could message me using that little button on the right.

I love to drive ... I am most comfortable and relaxed when cruising somewhere in my car... And I love to travel...

I'm a professional student...

I'm a professional paranoid... And they ARE actually out to get me.

I signed up here to take the tests (actually, I accidentally signed up while taking the tests)... then I realised that there were other people here who were actually worth talking to, so I decided to fill out my profile so people could find out all about me.

I'm trying to make friends all over the world, so that I have an excuse to visit everywhere at some point in my life... If you think I should visit anywhere in particular, please tell me... Unless it's the place with demons, fire and brimstone - enough people tell me I should go there already! :)

Avoiding the real world, by remaining a student... I have just started a Masters program at Uni...

Trying to figure out how to remain a student for ever, while still being able to travel the world...

Coming up with ways to save the world...

Wasting time... as you can probably tell, because I have an account on here... I'm really good at procrastinating too...

Being interested in what other people are interested in... that is fairly easy for me as I have an interest in just about everything...

Listening to people... Giving advice to those who want it, and being a comfort to those who just want to talk...

Babysitting... Kids and animals seem to just take a liking to me, I don't know why. And I like looking after people, so I'm glad that they do!

Knowing where my towel is.

Math ... could you guess?

I'm not sure people really even notice me ... until I'm like the only person who knows something about their pet interest... This usually happens around the tenth time I've met them... And then they wonder just how long I've been hiding there.

Unless it's someone who sees me on a night out... then they probably notice my non-existant fashion sense, and my dance style to match...

Books: I usually read just about anything I can get my hands on, fiction or non-fiction... I like mystery, horror/thriller, sciency science-fiction (I don't mind the fantasy type, but I'm just more into the sciency type), and classics... Favourite fiction authors include Isaac Asimov, George Orwell and Steven King... Favourite non-fiction authors include Richard Dawkings, Ian Stewart, and Isaac Asimov... I also read a large variety of Self-help and How-to books...

Movies: I like to watch movies, but purely for short-term entertainment... I rarely remember a movie a week after I've seen it... The last movie I remember in great detail is probably "The Sound of Music" and that's only because I've seen it so many times... (at other people's request, I must point out!)

Music: I like almost all kinds of music. I am a big fan of "oldies" music - 60's 70's 80's kind of stuff,(like the Pina Colada song) but also appreciate everything from classical and jazz through country to electronica and hip-hop... About the only things in music which annoys me are bad remakes of old classics, and 12 year olds singing about total heartbreak...

Food: I am a foodie! I love food. All food. Even Brussel Sprouts! In a former life I was on a quest to eat my way around the world via Melbourne restaurants... Any other foodies out there who want to take part in this adventure, please let me know... (I still try lots of stuff, but the adventures are far less fun on your own!)

Thanks to this idea, I'm now compelled to confess that I'm addicted to xkcd...

This is an interesting question, because I don't think that any of my friends would agree with the things I list... If you ask them, they would probably say I could never do without things like:

My mobile phone, my laptop, my car, coffee, maths puzzles, and late nights...

Really, I can do without most of those things, though I normally tend to spend a lot of time on them. I guess I'd call them things that are a significant to my personality...

The things which are really important to me, which I would struggle without, are more like:

Family, friends, spontaneous random crazyness, learning about stuff (any stuff), feeling close to God. Oh, yeah, and I do love my car...

Quite a few things really... just about anything is worth mulling over from time to time...

Either

- Out having coffee with mates,

- dancing in a nightclub, bar, pub or anywhere else with music, or

- hiding out in a park somewhere, staring at the stars...

- bowling, pool or air-hockey with mates,

- "Same thing I'm doing every night, Pinky, trying to take over the world, Mwahahaha

This used to say "Just between you, me, and the WHOLE ENTIRE INTERNET, anything I admit here would not be private..."

But I've realised that the point here is to make some claim about the most private thing that you are, actually, willing to admit - which if you are anything like me, is not really private at all. But in case it interests anyone, I'm willing to admit that:

* I have no fashion sense. Other than that I never wear fur, because it doesn't come in my colour.

* I know the (average) prices at houses of ill repute I have never visited, and of drugs I haven't used.

* I've danced on bars. Sober. On multiple occassions.

* I have been awake for 80 hours straight, once. It was, shall we say, an "interesting" experience.

* I am a "nice guy". I finish last. I cope with it.

... you have a pulse?

Seriously, though, I'm pretty easy-going, and tend to get along with pretty much everybody, so feel free to contact me for any reason whatsoever... In fact, I'm so middle of the road, that I get 50% friend for almost everybody the moment they sign up!

You really should message me if you know anywhere I really HAVE to visit, or if you know a really great place to eat, or a really crazy activity that I just HAVE to try...

You can message me if you want to discuss something deep. Or something frivolous. I'll respond either way.

You probably don't want to message me if you have an aversion to people who write with heavy use of ellipses and parenthetical remarks... I do try to keep my writing formal (or at least, grammatically correct and without excessively repeated letters or overzealous abbreviations) but I have a habit of jumping between thoughts, or letting things trail off...

Oh, and if you signed up here to find your perfect match, and the computer told you that it's me, that's great. But I don't think I could be in a relationship with someone who I wasn't already friends with - so if you're going to write to me, please don't be offended if I write back as a friend. I'm here to find friends, any of whom might also proceed to also be partners.

Forget that last paragraph - replace it with "Dating is cool, but friends is better."