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Just as a PSA, I am *really* burnt out on answering private messages lately, across all services. Like, I cringe when I contemplate my inbox. So expect delays, is what I'm saying. That, or maybe subsidize a typing monkey (those are a thing, yes? I'm not really clear on how monkeys work).

If it's super-urgent, e-mail me using PGP and correctly marking message precedence (SO HELP ME IF I GET ONE MORE 'FLASH') in the subject, and figure out how to do these things /on your own/*. The quality of my replies will benefit.

Thanks for your patience. ♥

* - Cheat codes:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_precedence
2. http://www.gnupg.org/faq/GnuPG-FAQ.html
3. Be funny! \(ツ)/¯
4. Be confident! \o/
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“You've met me at a very strange time in my life”
— Edward Norton, “Fight Club”

“Once-handsome ...”
— Rolling Stone, damning me with faint praise

I've been using that line in introductions since before Fight Club was a thing.

I really and genuinely detest retelling my life story. I have done so, many times, and so have many others, with varying degrees of accuracy. I would rather live it and let others describe it. If you don't understand why this might be (and why I often answer questions /w URL's & quotes,) this writing by a dear friend of mine encapsulates it very well:
http://lucidstranger.blogspot.com/2007/02/poem-experience.html

tl;dr: know me by my works.

No single source on me or anything is fully is objective or accurate, including myself. I can provide you with raw facts. How you interpret - or misinterpret them - is up to you. I'm just the messenger.

Or maybe we could just interact, without any particular burden of preconception. Each preconception withers the sense of wonder.

threat analyst, staple of [so-called] hacker top-10 lists & sexy wanted posters, psychonaut, ghost at the feast, [redacted], ∞, ♥

Find me elsewhere:
https://facebook.com/felon
https://twitter.com/6
http://warrantless.tumblr.com/

You'd be unlikely to believe me, and I'd be a pretentious git to cite sources*.

So, the thing I'm /3rd/ most good at - breaking laptops. Their shattered carcasses litter my wake. NOT SO TOUGH NOW, TOUGHBOOK! >:o

* - /me is pretentious, cites sources => http://klout.com/#/6

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO/LES

According to my FBI file, my engaging green/hazel eyes.

Totally serious, got that from an FD-302.

(if you meet me online [as is likely given that I'm writing this on OKCupid] probably the fact that I'm more wordy than I strictly need to be.)

Music: http://last.fm/user/adrianlamo

Everything else ... you can know me better by some of the quotes that are meaningful to me.

“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (unknown)

“Success is a relative thing — and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.”
— H.P. Lovecraft (unknown)

“If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.”
— Scoop Nisker; KFOG 104.5 San Francisco (radio)

“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”
— Spider Robinson; God Is An Iron (story)

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the caliber of his enemies.”
— Gustave Flaubert (quote)

(longer list & other blargh at my Facebook page, listed above. Yes, it's my public page. Get to know me for my personal one.)

a reusable way to reliably make fire (ideally magnesium, flint, steel, and a pocket blowtorch), a reasonably powerful light with some source of renewable power that can double as a blunt weapon, Leatherman multi-tool or equivalent, radio able to reach/monitor local emergency frequencies OR wireless data terminal able to access local data network, basic pharmacological contents of an ambulance, casual formal clothes suitable for my environment.

Oh, and also, the Interblags.

No one's the bad guy in their own mind. What people do makes sense. To them.

‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​‏​Being compared to Roy Cohn, denying conspiracy allegations, or some combination of the two.

I've recently started growing my facial hair out, and it's become apparent that it's a really light reddish shade totally unlike my actual on-the-head hair. So be advised, I am apparently a closet ginger.

Messaging me on the Internet has not always worked out well for people. You should message me if you can find your own reasons to.