Honesty is a big one, without that, there is nothing else - but you need to actually talk to get that across, so I guess communication has to be first, but it cannot since honesty is already there. Sort of a chicken and an egg thing, isn't it?

I use this "-" a lot. Maybe it's a pause, maybe I am catching a breath, or maybe it's because Zim is forcing me to use it.

I have a dark and wacky sense of humor, which gets me into trouble a lot but ends up becoming a pretty good filter. Either you laugh because you are witty enough to understand the jokes or you are accommodating enough to laugh even when you don't - both of which are highly-desirable qualities in a partner.

I have been known to swing a pretty mean carving knife, my head swinging back in maniacal laughter as I rip the damp cold heart out of heads of lettuce and slice, with deadly precision, the eyes out of potatoes. My tortures continue for hours as my hapless victims are boiled in oil, skewered from rump to tip on stakes of stainless steel, pressed against a cast iron brand, flayed to ribbons, and sent to the furnace.

Safety Notice: the previous paragraph was not placed in the "I'm really good at." section.

I've got it together. I have a good career and try to keep in shape. (ok, maybe not so successful on the second part. I could use some inspiration.)

I walk to work each day to a small company (about 18 people) in a dusty old red brick building with uneven floors and wood beams larger than trees are even allowed to grow nowadays. We work on a project basis, so we are either extraordinarily busy or so dead it makes my teeth wiggle.

I have the super-unconscious ability to identify, hone in on, and fall in love with flakes, from social flakes to corn flakes. Couple that with the super-conscious inability to recognize all the aspects of my super-unconscious ability, then you have my life to date. I think it's time I switch to oatmeal or maybe shredded wheat (although wheat does give me the burpees and oats the farts. Rice maybe?).

Usually nothing. I am a chameleon, blending into the background. Once they notice me, people then swear that they have met me before or know me from some time in the distant past - which is perfect for a secret agent.

Then again, why did I admit this? You could be a secret double agent out to get me.

umm - my eyes, that is it! You notice my eyes. Look deep into my eyes. You are getting very sleepy. Let the weight of the world wash away. You don't think I am a secret agent. When I count to 10, you will awake free and happy.

I tend to get compliments about my ass - or are they saying that I am an ass. It is hard to tell the difference sometimes.

reading: I mostly enjoy fiction, stories about places and events far removed from everyday life - but my favorite genre is fabulism, go figure. Some of my favorite authors are: James P Blaylock, David Brin, George RR Martin, China Mieville, Timothy Zahn, Lemony Snicket, and Edward Gorey.

movies: Better Off Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Fifth Element, 300, anything by Miyazaki, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Pi, The Princess Bride, Buckaroo Bonzai, James Bond, Memento, Serenity, Delicatessen, Big Trouble in Little China, Dark City, Secretary, Lord of the Rings trilogy, A Knight's Tale (yea, I said it, deal), and Underworld

television: Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory, The Daily Show, Good Eats, Burn Notice, Battlestar Galactica, Invader Zim, Farscape, Buffy, Firefly, Samurai Champloo, Babylon5, and The Animaniacs.

music: EBM (Covenant, And One), Synthpop, Industrial, Electronica, 80's Alternative (Neworder, The Cure), New Wave (Depeche Mode), Young MC, Nerdcore (MC Frontalot, MC Chris), New Beat, and Acid Jazz

Geek & Sundry

podcasts: Real Synthetic Audio, Savage Love, This American Life, Radio Lab, 99% Invisible, Planet Money, TED, Freakonomics, Rachel Maddow

food: Balsamic Vinegar, Japanese, Barbecue, and Salmon are my favorites, but many items are good eats as well. I was a fussy eater when I was young, but I am finding that many of those hesitations are gone.

- brraaaains …
- imagination (probably would be dead already if I didn't have this)
- clean laundry (only way to prevent alien abduction while asleep; Gain is like acid to them)
- water (preferably warm and falling downwards onto me or cold and pouring into me)
- playfulness (didn't lose it, wish others hadn't)
- health (keep the HP bar full, newb)

How I can hybridize my flowers to release a stun gas when their flowers are stolen - just need to knock out the thieves long enough to kick them in the taint.

The default is sleep (oh beautiful sleep, how I long for your gentle caresses), but I would much rather do something either adventuresome or productive.

I am a very tactile person, meh words.

I was trying to think of a good zinger like so many people place in this section. That last comment that totally turns you off, something like "I like to have sex with dinosaur bones" but I couldn't think of any really big ones (ideas, not the bones).