I'm 75% Irish and 25% English, 190 lbs, and almost 6 feet tall. I used to be exactly 6 feet tall but being trapped at the bottom of this gravity well for so long has compressed my spine slightly, I think. I speak Esperanto, the artificial language, fluently, and although there are only about 2 million speakers on this planet, it's still a very good language if you want to travel the world, since there are esperanto speakers in every country and many of them will let you stay with them. I'm also trying to learn lojban, the logical language, but it won't stick unless I find a way to use it in real life. Other hobbies/interests are tv, movies, downloading, reading (mostly sci-fi and fantasy and postmodern. I used to be a joycean scholar...) videogames (I'm hoping to find someone who will play multiplayer with me), music (My favorite band was neutral milk hotel, not sure what my favorite is now), chess (I am ranked at around 1400-1500, which is just medium skill), juggling (I can juggle 3-4 balls, 3-4 rings, and do the diablo, a giant yo-yo. My most impressive 3 ball juggling is the Mills Mass, where you cross and uncross your arms while juggling), primatology, origami (I can only make 3 things (ball, frog, bird), but I'd like to learn more), singularitarianism, sign language, spanish (I tried learning languages alone and failed so I'm hoping to meet someone who wants to learn a language so I can learn with them), yo-yoing (my best yoyo is a superyo typhoon yoyo), cooking, food science, gardening, and bagpiping (I took lessons for a year. I own a polycarbonite ocarina from mountainocarinas.com. It seems like the perfect instrument).

David Duchovny and I are both the same height and weight and we received the same exact score on our SATs, 1360, but his nose is bigger than mine and my belly is bigger than his... :) I am INTJ. I have a BA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was on the Dean's List every semester that I was an English major. I started out as a Physics/Computer Science major for 2 years, but it was not going well, so I switched to an english degree. I got halfway to my Master's degree in Library Science at Drexel before I was struck down by chronic pain and dropped out. I used to have 200 digits of pi memorized, but now only 30. I keep about 500 digits of pi on a small piece of paper in my wallet, just in case I get stuck on an elevator for many hours or something.

I have many chronic pains that started 17 years ago that the doctors can't diagnose and am slowly healing from a mysterious foot injury from years ago that is healing preternaturally slowly, so I haven't been able to work for years. At the rate it's healing, I think I'll be able to work again in another year or two. I have chronic arm pain, so I don't like to type that much. I use Sxem or Sxemo as my name because sxem means shem in esperanto, one of the youngest languages, and shem means name in hebrew, one of the oldest languages. It is also the name of the main character in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce that I identify with. Also sXe m means straight edge male, and I do try to avoid drugs. Sxem also stands for south by east male, and I was raised in southeast pa, and have moved further south on the east coast to Washington, DC. Also, I like emo music. Also, it looks like sex, mmm... :-). Also the jewish informal name for god is Ha-Shem (The Name), which is kind of funny, which also connects to the other name I use, Skymonkey, which is a funny name for angels (and it's an Oz reference, sounds like a starship pilot, which is a fun thing to be, and it's fun to say). And it's a unique name that no one else usually has, yet only 4-5 letters. It's easy to type and you can call me sx for short, a unique combo of 2 letters close to eachother on a qwerty keyboard! Was that too many reasons for my name? :)

I've been trying my whole life to come up with a genius idea for my first novel, and once I have that, to spend many years crafting a sprawling masterpiece, but so far every idea I've had has seemed like a dud. I keep reading about a book every week or 2, and looking for inspiration. My current best idea for a novel is a story about the horrors of overpopulation. Aliens visit the Earth and have a standard policy of wiping out any species that has been breeding so out of control that they are destroying the planet. Planets able to support life are too rare, and any species that out of control could easily use up all the life supporting planets in the galaxy in just a few hundred thousand years. After the aliens leave, chimps eventually become sentient and develop time travel technology. Well, not really time travel. More like the mind traveling to a very similar parallel universe where time has moved more slowly and taking over someone's body. It's not an exact science, so they can't pick exactly when the person they send will arrive. Anyway, one of the chimps winds up in the distant past and becomes the lapedo child, which is a famous skeleton that seems to be half human and half neanderthal, and saves the neanderthals from extinction. The other chimp lands inside someone 50 years or so in our future, when the population reaches the critical 10 billion, and the Earth is almost ruined, but there's still time to get it down to a sustainable 3 billion before the aliens arrive, except in this universe there are now also 1 billion neanderthals. Neanderthals are peace-loving telepaths (neanderthals had bigger brains than humans), which explains why humans wanted to and were able to genocide neanderthals. Anyway, I want to write it in a postmodern style that makes it unclear whether it is sci fi or maybe these 2 people are schizophrenic. I just need a lot more before I can turn this bare outline into a book I could sell.

In the meantime, I am hoping my body will let me work enough to survive, maybe part time as a temp or something. If you make under 10 grand, you don't pay taxes, which would make me feel better about having to participate in the evil, planet-destroying, soul-killing capitalism thing. I would love to go back and finish my Master's in Library Science and become a librarian before libraries become extinct. Libraries seem like the least evil corporation to me. Or I might go back to being a temp and doing generic clerical work and living cheaply in a trailer park or something. I'd only need to work 10 days a month to survive on my own, or 2 days a month if someone was letting me live with them and I just had to pay for my food and whatnots. I could just not work when I have a bad pain flareup. The main problem with me working is that my right arm and leg are at about 75%, and my left arm and leg are at about 50%, which adds up to about 2.5 limbs. If I work too much, my chronic pains just get worse and worse. I would easily be able to do a work at home phone job, like tutoring high school kids or doing tech support or something like that. I could use a headset while reclining in my recliner. But I can't find a job like that. I am hoping to ideally find a woman who would eventually be willing to let me move in, so I don't have to move in with my parents or my sister or move further south so I can survive as a homeless person (I hate cold weather). I think I could keep my sanity as a homeless person so long as there are still free libraries, so I can escape into the world of books. :)

I can do at least 1-4 hours of chores per day, like cooking and cleaning. I'm very good with numbers and spending money wisely and proofreading and editing. I am also very good with children and much cheaper than daycare. I grew up as the 2nd oldest of 10 kids, so I did a lot of babysitting while growing up, and have had alot of experience since with children. I want to stay near Washington, DC, so I can see my daughter as much as possible. I know being a house husband is a lot more socially acceptable now, but it still seems like the vast majority of humans believe only women should be allowed to survive without working as a wage slave under capitalism. There's a big double standard there. So I doubt I will find anyone that wants me for a house husband, but you never know. Maybe my dream can come true... :) Some women spend more than I would need to survive on their dogs, and surely I am more useful than dogs. :) Anyway, I know I sound like a sad sack, but hopefully, I'll find at least a friendship with a woman who's not into head games, and will let me joke about any topic, and be as weird as I want to be: someone who I don't have to censor myself around. The most important thing to me in a relationship is good conversation.

- Dan

reading
conversation
writing
editing
proofreading
dry humor

I have no idea. No one's told me. Maybe my inability to censor what comes out of my mouth. People have historically told me that I "think too much."

Also, I have heard people say "TMI" to me way too many times...

My favorite author was most recently greg egan, then vinge for awhile. My favorite book is Infinite Jest by David Wallace. I bought it for $12 on amazon. 1104 pages, 2.5 lbs, and such a densely packed sprawling masterpiece it can be reread, which I usually never do. I only have time to read 2000 books in my whole life before I die of old age, and I've already read 1000 of them by age 40, so I have to carefully pick the last 1000 books I have time to read before I die. I'm really into Singularity's Ring by Melko right now. It has hive minds, which I like. I imagine hive minds being a cure for loneliness, so they're fun to think about. Also, it is someone's first novel, and I prefer to read authors in order from first to last.

My favorite tv show right now is The Big Bang Theory. It's always been my fantasy to have a circle of extremely nerdy friends, but it only happened in college for a few years. I like 30 Rock, Callifornication, Dexter, Family Guy, Louie, The Office, Parks & Recreation, The Simpsons, and plenty of other tv shows I can't think of off the top of my head.

My favorite music is hard to say, since it changes all the time. I sometimes go to allmusic to find new music to listen to. My favorite band is neutral milk hotel. I guess my favorite music would mostly be rock and dance, with as much experimental as I can stand. I want experimental music to be my favorite, but it's too much work to listen to too much. Lately I've been listening to scratch music. I also have a lot of mashups on my hard drive. I love to multitask, so when I discovered that you can listen to 2 or more songs at the same time, and they are masterfully blended into eachother, I was ecstatic. I have some software for making mashups but I've so far been too lazy to teach myself how to do it. I am tempted to list the top 50 music artists out of the 120 gig of music I have on my hard drive right now, but I don't want to seem too hyperfocused. If I do that, then shouldn't I also list the top 30 tv shows I watch? Where does it end? Well, I will pick out a bunch that I'm into right now. The Akira Soundtrack, The All American Rejects, Angels And Airwaves, Art of Noise, Björk, Kate Bush, Depeche Mode, The DJ Hero soundtrack, DJ Jeremy Mashups & Remixes, DJ Lobsterdust, DJ Rectangle, Don Caballero, Fatboy Slim, Girl Talk, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Korn, MIA, Modest Mouse, Negativland, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nine Inch Nails, OK Go, Pavement, Pedro the Lion, Red House Painters, Scratch Perverts, Snow Patrol, Tenacious D, Wheatus.

My favorite foods are bacon, ham, chocolate, mint ice cream and maraschino cherries.

I don't really have any favorite movies. I watch movies all the time, but usually I pay more attention to the book I'm reading in the background. Sci fi eye candy and comedy are my favorite movie genres. I really liked some movie involving time travel and comedy mixed together that I watched when it came out on dvd about a year ago, but I forget the title.

My favorite hair color is red. I wish I had red hair. I have some red facial hair. My beard has a bunch of colors that have appeared there naturally. I can apparently make many colors with my face. My favorite eye color is green. I wish my hazel eyes had more green in them. My favorite color is now purple. It used to be green. I go by what color I pick in videogames.

My favorite body type is BBW. For most of the 200,000 years of human history, BBWs were worshipped as fertility goddesses. They would carve little wooden BBWs called the Venus of Wallendorf and worship them. So I guess I'm old fashioned that way. :) It's just always seemed natural to me to see BBWs as being extra sexy and curvy and voluptuous.

My favorite word is monkey. I try to get people to work the word monkey into every conversation, but it never seems to work. My least favorite word is fart. I don't mind curse words, although I almost never use them myself, but I really can't stand this other f word. Even just writing it is disturbing.

Here is my list of books I want to read next (mostly sci fi with urban fantasy and some postmodern) http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4126927-dan-s?order=a&shelf=to-read&sort=author

I can't think of any interesting way to answer this. Too many people put food and water and shelter, which i think is a little too on the nose. I've seen some funny answers, but I just draw a blank. I guess my bare minimum luxuries would be a pc, dvds with a lifetime supply of books and games and video, my psp (I have a psp slim but I'd prefer a PSVita), my kindle, my tempurpedic memory foam rugged outdoor slippers, and I cant sleep without a 3 inch thick memory foam mattress overlay.

sci fi novels I'd like to write
chimps and primates in general
fantasies and day dreams
overpopulation
books I'm reading or want to read next
videogames I'm playing or want to play next
women

watching tv or movies while reading a downloaded book in the background and listening to music.

I don't get out much. I'm pretty much an indoorsy homebody. I'm not really interested in doing whatever most people do on Friday nights. That could easily change if I was with the right person or when I'm not in much pain.

I have a hard time performing social rituals for the umpteenth time, but I can be trained to do more social rituals.

I have no close friends... this seems like a very hostile, unfriendly planet.

I've never been in love. Between when I turned 18 and went to college, and when I hurt my foot, I had an average of 1 girlfriend per year. Since I stopped working, that has dropped off to nothing.

I have never been a big fan of french kissing. It makes my gums tingle in a disturbing way.

I would like to try a superior way of wiping my ass, like bidets or some new technology.

I don't have any gaps in my teeth, but both of my upper second molars are gold capped. I have my right wisdom teeth, but not my left.

My right eye is football-shaped and badly nearsighted. My left eye is slightly farsighted. So I can see pretty well without my glasses, but it strains my eyes and I lose depth perception.

I haven't started to go bald yet... :) I don't know how many years I have left... I cut my own hair to .75 inches every 13-16 weeks, depending on how long it takes to develop pom poms on either side of my head, or how ridiculous it looks as it starts to curl.

I grew a gorilla belly during freshman year in college, when I got drunk on beer every weekend. Since then, I starved myself down to 140 pounds and still, there was a gorilla belly. So I gave up on ever having a flat stomach again. I maintain my weight at 170-200 by eating 1.5 meals a day. That's a half meal lunch 3 hours after waking, and a full meal 6-7 hours before bed. Otherwise, I can't sleep due to hunger. This way I only feel hungry for half the day. It's easier to be hungry when I wake up for 3 hours because my body is in starvation mode. My weight goes up and down depending on how strict I am with this diet.

I have some symptoms of Asperger's syndrome.

Sometimes I cry a little during Gray's Anatomy. It's the one show that lets me easily access my emotions. I'm learning the Lojban attitudinals to get in better touch with my emotions. The attitudinals are 39 2-letter words for emotions and attitudes that can be combined to form millions of easily expressed emotions.

you like weirdos that are slightly less homogenized than the rest of the humans you know.