To date or not to date, that is the question,
Whether tis wiser for the heart to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous judgement
Or to take Arms against a sea of twerps,
And by ignoring end them; to stop, to sleep
No more; and by by ignoring we say end
The hearth-ache and the thousand silly jocks
That Flesh is heir to? To a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To stop, to quit.
To sleep, perchance to Dream;

And so. Yes, I'm looking to date but also for new friends. How well people get on is very hard to work out.

I'm an ex-Canberran who has returned after years away in the Europe, the US and later in Melbourne and have now been back in Canberra for about a year.

Being back in the Can has actually gone well. It's good to be in a city where you can be in the bush so quickly. Riding a mountain bike on a trail near your house is grouse. The coast isn't that much further than a good beach from Melbourne and the mountains are all around us. So I've been getting out and about a bit too.

There are things like MIFF, the Comedy Festival and Fringe Festival that I miss, but Canberra has good stuff too.

I'm fairly active, play volleyball and soccer when I can and actually really read about a book a week. I'm on Goodreads if you're really curious about my literary habit.

I'm a programmer. It's alright y'know, making interesting stuff, has a creative aspect to it and it gives you a view of lots of different things.

Getting on with most people. Solving some puzzles. Typing, I'm fast dagnamit.

Height, smirk. The enormous magic bear that keeps following me.

Books: Most of Julian Barnes, The Blank Slate, The Signal and the Noise, Brideshead Revisited, Catch-22, Hitchhiker's Guide, Expert Political Judgement, The Stranger, This Time is Different. I'm on Goodreads if you really want to check.

Movies: Naked, Blade Runner, The City of God, Star Wars, The Lives of Others, Raiders, The Blues Brothers.

TV: Treme, Louie, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Yes Minister

Music: Galactic, The Smiths, MBV, Miles Davis, Andrew Bird more around.

Food: Most Asian food, Mexican is fun at the moment now that reasonable Mexican has appeared here.

Food, Fun, Transport, Free time, information access, music.

Code, current affairs, what's for lunch?

Dressed up in my grey ninja trousers, fighting crime and saving innocents, oh wait, that's Thursday.

I'm dentally retarded. Do not mock me. It's the tooth.

You want to message someone who's literate, active and fun.