2004: Communications geek, often more fascinated with the tech than the message it carries. Message? Content? Intro? Trusting I can edit that later I'll press submit (again) now.

2006: Roughly two years later the text remains substantially the same. I press it again.

2008: I should add that I've been browsing OK-Cupid less, recently. Site revisions have made it a browser-killer and when I leave a profile open for a few days my OS spends more time swapping than running anything. Combine that with my habit of sprinkling new tabs like playing cards and OK-C just doesn't work on my machine. Replies will be slow.

2009: The following paragraph was lifted from grandaddy, whose listed city is about 90 minutes from here at a brisk walk.

I dislike dating people who want to run away to places all over the map for months at a time. I don't have any money to go with you. Wanderlust completes some but I find it unsustainable. I like adventures close to home. If you need to travel, I'll probably be scared away.

Odd question. The things I enjoy are not necessarily the ones I'm best at doing. The things I do well are not necessarily the ones I enjoy most. Yes, there are a few at the positive end of both scales.

I'm good at soldering surface mount components by hand, recycling leftovers, giving a massage, troubleshooting electronics, tickling software bugs, amusing myself, getting distracted, laying out circuit boards, organizing data, accepting loss of control and at recognizing and reproducing sounds.

On this pitch test I scored 0.9 Hz (at 500 Hz, 0.18%) on the first try.

When I'm happy I sing, usually following the bassline or the melody.

In this forum? People notice that I've just changed something or posted something.

I noticed tonight, for instance, that profiles only appear in the results of an unchanged search if they include the words okcupid and search. And you noticed me noticing that. Exciting, no? Now scroll up and try better keywords.

One might notice that I'm always shown as online. That seems to be the case whether I'm at th keyboard or asleep or even out visiting. Barring an OS crash, messages received should still be on-screen when I return.

Male people here tend to remark that I'm pretty or wearing a dress and then get bent out of shape when I won't send them a cock shot. Female people tend to notice that I welcome touch or that I sing.

In person it's often far from accurate, being entirely up to the individual and the setting.

air, shelter, water, food and a sense of purpose. A WC and a shower are pretty damned helpful too. Look up Maslow for the rest of the list.

After that it's all about human contact and enabling the same. Income, financial conduits, the Internet and transportation are just tools to feed my loves of music and touch.

Hysteresis in financial confidence. The news programs report the relative overall cash flow, calling it consumer confidence. The same applies on an individual level. Confidence influences spending more than availability of funds. Dollars represent options and, when enough options are present, some will be exercised. Exercising them may or may not bring more. If not, the need to preserve remaining options kicks in, inhibiting money based problem solving for a while. I find changes in spending behavior lag quite a bit behind changes in purchasing power.

Secure packing. Does this thing I just put in the truck have a way to fall to the left, right, front or back? If the driver jumps a curb will it survive the bounce? What if he slams on the brakes or parks with the nose facing up a San Francisco grade?

Simplifying life by cutting loose various things. I've had too many projects on the workbench for too many years and, right now, don't even have a workbench.

Motives and how so many people take action without thinking, often working against their stated and intended goals.

Wireless IP networking. Connectivity is important.

Miscommunication, both how to avoid it and how to recognize it.

human. Friday is like any other day ending in 'y'.

is on a public profile on a server not managed by me.

you have something (even a little something) to say.

Maybe we share an interest or two: (in no particular order) circuitry, cuddling, sword swallowing, consensual nonmonogamy, CMOS, touch, massage, pretty clothes, hygiene, fellatio, cunnilingus, singing (karaoke, choir, in the shower, in storm drains, in the car), photography, IP networking, petite women, rhps, lust.

Maybe you share my distaste for the use of 'message' as a verb in the header above.

cribbed from erosindelicate:
I have to confess, I’m not a big fan of a prolonged email communication phase. If after exchanging a few emails we both seem intrigued, I would hope we can meet in person fairly soon to find out whether there’s any chemistry before we invest too much time and energy.

I do reply to most messages, though not always quickly.

[Edit 2009-July] After a bit of software poking on my end I can now accept OkCupid instant messages without sending my browser out to lunch. OkC IMs are now welcome. (If you don't get an answer within a few seconds I'm probably away from the keyboard.)

[Edit 2009-October] A changes to the site's login process has broken my IM client. Expect to see me marked as unavailable until the next version is released. (And 20 minutes later it's working again. Magic.)