I'm a software engineer who's into board games and bridge. I'm a bit of a geek. I love to travel.

I am shyly gregarious, sardonic, and laid back.

I'm a software engineer at Google. I play bridge competetively.

Proofreading. Coding. Wasting time. Filling in the details of theoretical statistical models of artificial intelligence (this skill is less useful than you might think).

Basically the beard.

(a) I'll list instead favorite authors: Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson (the king of digression), William Gibson, Charles Stross, Harper Lee, Simon Singh, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene Wolfe.

(b) Princess Bride, High Fidelity, Almost Famous, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

(c) The Wire, Arrested Development, Firefly, Doctor Who, Archer.

(d) Jonathan Coulton, The Postal Service, Daft Punk, MC Frontalot, The Glitch Mob, They Might Be Giants.

(e) Ciabatta with some olive oil, Pad Thai, this chicken my mom bakes with cornflake crumbs, really juicy nectarines, raw fish of several varieties.

The internet. Sarcasm. T-shirts? I don't know, I don't have a huge attachment to many things.

Bridge, I guess. My mind wanders a lot, and since I've left grad school I don't spend too much time thinking about any one thing in particular.

Eating/drinking/watching tivo/playing games/etc with a small group of close friends

I'm a boxers man. Not terribly private, but there you go.

You should message me if you're equally comfortable talking about politics, geeky things (in general or specific, your choice), or the seinfeldian nothing. Tell me something you're really into right now!