I am silly, sarcastic, smart, and quad-adjectived.
My Self-Summary
Do you enjoy having the most bizarre and random of conversations?
Say, building a tunnel through the center of the earth? (Turns out
you need some super-strong material, and to seal the thing in
vacuum). Plans for world domination? (I'll show you mine if you
show me yours). If you often get drawn into conversations like that
we'll probably get along famously.
What I’m doing with my life
I
work for OkCupid!
I'm the CTO.
I enjoy playing
pool,
and even used to play in a league for a few seasons, and am
thinking about finding a new team to get back in to that. I also
got my
SCUBA
certification a couple of summers ago.
I’m really good at
Coming up with bad puns and wise-ass responses to questions like
the ones here.
The first things people usually notice about me
Notice? I'm a member of an elite ninja clan, lurking in the
shadows, moving unseen. Any thing you think you see is simply your
mind playing tricks on you.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
- I tend to alternate between Sci-Fi/Fantasy and non-Fiction.
Favorite authors include Terry Pratchett (I once bought 34 books of
the discworld series in on Amazon.com order), Isaac Asimov, Neal
Stephenson, Douglas Adams (the Hitchhikers Guide to
the Galaxy is required reading for anyone dating me).
- I like movies and shows that have well developed characters,
and are clever in some way. Favorite movies include The Godfather,
Ocean's Eleven, Office Space. Favorite shows: The Wire, The Office,
Futurama, Firefly.
- Anything from Classical to Rock really. Right now, I have the
1940-style tracks from the video game Fallout 3 stuck in my head.
- I'll try anything once, really. Current favorites include
Ethiopian, sushi, pad thai, and an assortment of Indian food, many
of which you've probably never heard of. Can I cook some of those
for you, you ask? Well unfortunately the kitchen in my studio is
too tiny to do much real cooking. That's my excuse and I'm sticking
with it.
The six things I could never do without
The Internet, social contact, my favorite bars where many of said
social contact occurs, sources of humor and laughter, free time, a
spare spot on this list (for emergencies)
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Why, you, of course!
On a typical Friday night I am
A member of the species Homo sapiens. Come to think of it,
that part has never changed even though I've had some pretty
atypical Friday nights.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
An alarmingly large fraction of girls I've dated have been from
OkCupid, or friends of girls I've met on OkCupid. This is both
before and after I started working here.
You should message me if
Your profile contains zero or fewer of these clichés: "I'm too
complex to be summarized in a little box", "I could never do
without food, water, air...", "If I admitted it here it wouldn't be
private".
Note: You should especially
not message me to
complain about problems in the site. Those should go
here. We don't have the
resources to respond to every e-mail (we are a free site after
all), but do read every single one.