I am warmth, water, and direct sunlight.
My Self-Summary
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Lawyer, scientist, musician, dogcatcher.
Now in French
L'oiseau de feu
What I’m doing with my life
I live a monastic life and spend most of the year in the library.
When summer breaks, I usually work with environmental non-profits
or political campaigns. In what precious free time I preserve, I
cook, bike, drink, read, garden, and generally pursue good times.
I’m really good at
Making
breakfast, calculating
risks, remaining calm, truing
wheels,
playing pretend,
dinner parties,
charts and
graphs,
eating, concerts
for kittens, calling sail progressions, high stakes guessing,
listening,
daydreaming,
witty responses,
celestial navigation, and
forgetting names.
The first things people usually notice about me
In the early spring I'm prematurely wearing shorts when it's still
cold out. In the summer I'm still wearing black socks. Autumn means
argyle. And throughout the winter my poofy hair cannot be tamed.
Now in French
Je ne parle pas du francais.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
The Federalist Papers, The Iliad, Catch 22, On the Road, Life on
the Mississippi, The Book of Five Rings, A Pattern Language, Dune,
The Silmarillion, The Joy of Cooking, Mastering the Art of French
Cooking, Heat of Darkness, The Sun Also Rises, If on a Winter's
Night a Traveler, Ficciones, A Wizard of Earthsea, White
Noise
Citizen Kane, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Pi, Ran, The
Godfather, Jurassic Park, Amelie, Delicatessen, Pan's Labyrinth,
Science of Sleep, The Life Aquatic, the Darjeeling Limited,
Children of Men, National Treasure
//Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Ravel, Debussy,
Stockhausen, Varese, Stravinsky, Ligeti, Xenakis, Kagel, Cage,
Lucier, Feldman, Rattle, Bernstein, Gould, Stern, Casals,
Drouet
//The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Band, The
Pixies, Rage Against the Machine, Neutral Milk Hotel, The White
Stripes, Deerhoof, Regina Spektor, Marnie Stern, Broadcast, Thao
Nguyen, Hella, the Arcade Fire
//Led Belly, Hampton, Davis, Coltrane, Gordon, Jackson, Mingus,
Monk, Bill Evans, Pastorius, Blanchard, Mehldau, Medeski, Martin,
and Wood, Blackalicious, Lupe Fiasco, Lauren Hill
//Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Zap Mama, Laura Veirs, Laura Gibson,
CocoRosie, Joanna Newsom, Andrew Bird
flour, eggs, butter, milk, eggplant, mozzarella, Gruyere, cheddar,
Gorgonzola, green tea, chocolate, olive oil, spinach, bananas,
avocados, tomatoes, mango, honey, pasta, potatoes, bagels, scones,
pancakes, crepes, horseradish, habaneros, wasabi, tuna, salmon,
roast beef, brownies, whiskey, etc.
The six things I could never do without
H, O, N, C, Na, Cl, K, etc.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Steel bicycles, water, partisan bickering, agriculture in America /
buying land, Justice Douglas Dissenting, new music, and the world
of futures.
Now in French
liberte, egalite, fraternite // le poulet et l'oeuf
On a typical Friday night I am
...cooking pizza with the housemates and slipping into a home-brew
tinged food coma.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
As a young man I unabashedly sought global domination.
Now in French
Je lis Sartre quand j'étais trop jeune.
You should message me if
...you've read this far;
...you just happen to have extra cheesecloth;
...you are connected to farmers, farms, or farm/garden/raise
animals/make food products yourself;
...you need a percussionist;
...you brew beer or have lab experience with S. cerevisiae.