I'm just a laid back guy. I tend to read a fair amount (although never enough) and I love to discuss\argue things with people after I get to know them. However, I am sometimes guilty of arguing just for the sake of it. If you bump into me, I'll usually listen for awhile before I reply. Some people tend to take this as showing a lack of interest, I swear I'm just quiet. I'm a moderate in most things, I tend to like change way too much to be hardcore. I'm a dual citizen so I figure I can switch nationality on countries as convenient. You know when it comes to drafts on wars I don't approve of until America and England go to war at which point I will become Canadian ;).

Hmm, reading the bottom of this paragraph, I should answer in each language I know. Well I know bits and pieces of each.

Yo hablo español un poco. Tuvo tres classes y también sigo aprendiendo ahora.

I am quirky, hard headed, and relaxed

I'm married to a wonderful woman and work up at the university as a computer programmer doing research. Its a good mixture of being able to explore and experiment while still paying the bills.

Well it seems the first time I try anything I have some unusual unnatural luck at it that lasts for oh, about 5 seconds and then I start sucking :).

The things my luck kept up with me so far are:

• Computers
• Card Games (Spades, Euchre, Swedish Bridge, Canasta)
• Pool (My grandfather was great at it)

It used to be the fact that I looked like Jesus (long blackish hair with a goatee). I'm now minus the goatee. I also tend to remind people of someone else they know when I run into somebody new. Elsewise, I tend to be kind of quiet at first, and I'm usually wearing some sort of geeky t-shirt.

Some people seem to notice my smile first. Not really the smile itself, but the way that it apparently seems genuine and causes my eyes to twinkle a bit.

• (a) 1984, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karmazov, a lot of Michael Crichton (Timeline, Sphere, Congo, Andromedia Strain), the Dune Series
• If you want my current list of books I've read+\-ing
• (b) Children of Men, Donnie Darko, Vanilla Sky, Terminator Series, Office Space, Clerks, Dogma, I am Legend
• (c) Techno (paul van dyke, armin van buren, paul oktenfold), depeche mode, frank zappa, snow patrol, adele, metalica, blue october(d) I used to really like cheese and most dairy products, but somehow my body decided it was time for me to quit my hedonistic dairy lifestyle and developed an allergy this year. So now I just get super excited when I can find a food I used to eat that's dairy free. Oriental has certainly moved to the top of the list.

My close friends, My cats Zumi and Nadia, the ability to walk late at night, a computer, soy, muzac

I enjoy politics and learning about new things. I went on a bit of economics kick for a little while after taking two econ courses. Trying to learn how to become a decent teacher. Keeping up with technology and new programming languages.

Usually hanging out with friends and my wife, playing go, or some kind of trick taking card game (spades, hearts, swedish bridge). I used to play pool fairly often, but don't really know a lot of people who like to play anymore. If anyone out there wants to play a game of pool from time to time, give me a shout.

I take a little while to warm up to people and sometimes come off as a little quiet at first. I'm going to work on that someday.

If you've read this far and you want to. I spend a lot of my time in Linux these days, in which the im feature doesn't like to work.

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