When not hanging out as Anonymous on one of the chans, geeking out on Linux or catching up on webcomics, I enjoy single malt Scotch, shotguns, good movies and books. I read mostly non-fiction these days, am politically active and just bought a motorcycle.

I have one wonderful daughter who is even more difficult than me. I blame her mother. ;-)

I am analytical, unpredictable, and difficult.

I support Linux web hosts these days. I spent a year working in Murfreesboro and Nashville, TN (570 mi from Kalamazoo). I could get a better job if I left Michigan, but I really couldn't be that far, for that long, from my daughter. :-( Kids are a trip, and never let anyone tell you different.

I now own a Kawasaki EX250 Ninja. It's the best purchase I've made in a long time, excepting only my safety razor, perhaps.

Backrubs, politics, Linux, reading, carpentry, home and auto repair.

Tall. Or, as a friend put it, I "loom from afar."

Authors: Camille Paglia, Gore Vidal, Nancy Friday, William Manchester, The Whole Earth Catalog, Italo Calvino, Robert A. Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Henry David Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Thomas Sowell, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Samuel R. Delany, Lord Byron, Jorge Luis Borges, Hunter S. Thompson, J.G. Ballard, A.A. Milne, Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, Petronius Arbiter, Neal Stephenson, Daniel Keys Moran, Rudy Rucker, Harold Bloom, John Crowley, Greil Marcus, J.K. Rowling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Branch Cabell, Lao Tsu, Chuang Tsu, the Bible.

Television: House, Dexter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Robot Chicken, the first four years of M*A*S*H, Northern Exposure, the X-Files, Absolutely Fabulous, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, Star Trek: The Original Series, the Muppet Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, South Park, Bugs Bunny and all classic Warner Bros. cartoons, Ren & Stimpy, Spongebob Squarepants (I have a 5 year-old), and, um, the Powerpuff Girls (okay, that was before I had the 5 year-old).

Comics: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Music: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, King Crimson, Stephen Sondheim, the Velvet Underground, Beethoven, Mozart, They Might Be Giants, Lerner & Lowe, R.E.M., Jimi Hendrix, the Band, Liz Phair, Tom Waits, the Rolling Stones, the Violent Femmes, Ride, Kitchens of Distinction, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, the Dead Milkmen, Television, Foetus, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Béla Fleck, Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach, Negativland, the Magnetic Fields, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, the Grateful Dead, Little Feat, Jeff Beck, Placebo, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams.

Movies: Apocalypse Now, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Heavenly Creatures, Shakespeare in Love, Auntie Mame, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Godfather I & II, Prick Up Your Ears, Galaxy Quest, Jeffrey, My Fair Lady, The Witches of Eastwick, Dangerous Liaisons, Excalibur, The Cement Garden, The Lion in Winter, A Man for All Seasons, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, American Beauty, Harold & Maude, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, In & Out, Brazil, Memento, Iron Man, The Queen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Harvey, There's Something About Mary, 300, Sin City.

Almost all of the Marx Brothers (Duck Soup), Pixar (A Bug's Life), Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey), Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), Martin Scorcese (Casino), Roman Polanski (Chinatown).

Webcomics: El Goonish Shive, Dan & Mab's Furry Adventures, Schlock Mercenary, Sinfest, Misfile, Erfworld,Questionable Content, XKCD, Freefall, Penny Arcade!, Sam & Fuzzy, A Softer World.

The Internet, my daughter, freedom, friends, thoughts, country.

• Politically, I am a classical Liberal (conservative/libertarian), and that creates a lot of philosophical cross-talk.
• Being bisexual, I think about male and female identity, and enjoy trading sexual histories with new acquaintances (often more enlightening than titillating, hm).
• I think a lot about how Stephen Hillenburg owes John Kricfalusi royalties.
• On the trade-offs of operating systems, system libraries and various compilers and languages.

Home. I'm terribly boring. I used to hang at bars with good beer and live music (preferably Celtic or alternative, so you can dance or just listen) but lost the habit; perhaps I will get back into it.

I'm a Republican. ;-) Seriously, it freaks people out. It's like bisexuality: the Democrats hate you, the Libertarians hate you…

"And everybody hates the Jews!" — Tom Lehrer, "International Brotherhood Week"

You need an opinion that doesn't involve mushy socialism. Or, uh, a date. Or chat. ;-)