"we are dreamers shapers singers and makers"

I'm a graduate student working on the design and development of interactive digital media (video games and other similar things). I'm learning to tell stories with the tools of the age.

I'm a cyclist and an activist and an enthusiast of the ten thousand things. It is in the ephemeral experiences of life that I find the greatest joys. I game whenever I can, be that computer or table top, pencil and paper or board. I'm poly because, well, that's how I'm wired.

Time marches on and I have recently shaved off almost all of my hair and started wearing a hat. My hat makes me happy. Recently I spend less time asleep than I should. The joys of grad school.

I believe in progress, that the world today is better than it has been over essentially all of humanity's tenure here and that more likely than not the next year and the thousand and million after that will better than this one.
I'd choose to live forever or till the stars all grow cold.
Middle of the night thunder storms make me want to cuddle with someone something fierce.

I'm in Grad School! In a program that lets me take anything, so long as I can justify it as part of an integrated program in new media! Eeeeeee!

I am currently designing video games.
http://mypage.iu.edu/~migphill/T361/spacetrader.html

I'm a dedicated year round cyclist, which is helped along by the small size of Bloomington and the area's relative flatness. I really get pissed off at both cyclists who ignore the rules of the road and drivers who ignore the fact that we are small and soft and squishy compared to their racing behemoths.

I am writing and knitting and doing table top game design in my free time as well as working on a couple of fairly large bonsai projects.

I'm doing some experimental cookery in my spare time, currently focusing on making the simple sublime.

I've recently started learning massage, and am getting reasonably good at it.

I'm a decent synthetic generalist with a knack (though not always training) for the sciences. I was at one point a decent DM. I am intuitive about electronics and math short of Calc. I'm a fairly good cook. I'm an avid grammatic descriptivist (and thus occasionally end up in knock down drag outs with grammatic proscriptivists.) I take to memetics like I was born to their era. I'm an intuitive mathematician. I'm good at strategy games. I can converse at length about nearly any subject, though to be really honest, if we count digressions, into account, I can use any subject as a springboard for a long and meandering discussion.

I'm often singing or dancing with bright blue headphones.

I now have varicolored hair.

My eyes are way awesome, but hard to see at a distance.

Books:
Elizabeth Bear: Blood and Iron, Whisky and Water, The Jacob's Ladder Trilogy , Heinlein, Zelazny The Amber Chronicles, Lord of Light, Dilvish the Dammed, etc, Jessica Valenti, Jane McGonagoll's Reality is Broken, Wil Wheaton's Games Matter, Cory Doctrow, Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden, Stephenson up through Cryptonomicon,

Movies
Serenity, Dune, Babylon 5, Buffy (Movie and TV, Armitage III OAV, Starwars 4,5, and 6, Shrek, The West Wing. Firefly, The Princess Bride, The Incredibles, The Three Musketeers steampunk edition, Blade Runner,

c) Pink, Max Raabe, Tori Amos, Natalie Merchant, Bare Naked Ladies, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, Jonathan Coulton, VNV Nation, Dead Alewives, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Regina Spektor, KT Tunstall, Sarah McLachlan, Nora Jones, Cascadia

d)Steamed Artichokes, A properly cooked medium rare steak, Asparagus Baked Chicken, Popcorn made on the stove top, Squeaky Cheddar Cheese Curds, Belgian Waffles, Buckeyes, Chicken Fried Rice, Hot Fresh Bread, Chicken Yakitori, Fresh Steamed Brocciflower, Fresh Tuna, Grilled Salmon

Favorite Web Comics
Schlock Mercenary.
Narbonic
Order of the Stick
Questionable Content
Something Positive
Gunnerkrigg Court
XKCD
Nukees
Girl Genius
Penny Arcade
Fans

Diet Coke
My Laptop
My RPG collection
A used book store or public Library
My Bike
My Bag of Holding.

Stories, world building, technologies and how to make the world to be be more like the world I want. How to make the shift to a post-industrial post-scarcity economy without requiring direct state oversight of everyone's lives. Now that I am studying one of the fields that has moved to completely depend on mobile labor, this is a more immediate question for me.

Preparing Dinner for my Pathfinder group and then running a Pathfinder (D&D) game till early Saturday night.

I am irrationally irritated when someone says "nothing, it is private" to this question. In context, privacy is not a binary state. It isn't asking for your deep dark secrets, but for the least public thing you are willing to share.
I don't grok the "no bi people" thing. No one who is going to cheat on me? That makes sense, but who cares who your partner is attracted to so long as they don't step outside of the nature of your relationship. I on't know, it just seems small minded and petty.
I don't really so much dance as flail about arhythmically to music and then fall down. On occasion, there is less flailing and more falling down, but almost never is there less falling down and more flailing.
I'm a switch and i'm poly, though it isn't central to my life. In my view, love is not such a sad small thing that it can't be shared multiply. It is a joy, and joy shared is joy increased.

You are a geek, a gamer, and concerned with social and environmental causes.
You want to be a test subject for one of my current new hobbies.
You want to help me Beta test my new software/game projects.
You have a very large cluebat. Seriously, I'm oblivious. A lot.
You would be willing to help me learn to dance.
You have things that you can focus on to the exclusion of everything else, you'll spend 36 hours playing a game, supporting a cause, otherwise obsessing/taking joy in life.
You don't smoke. (Or you don't mind that I keep a considerable distance away while you are smoking. I have pretty immediate respiratory distress around tobacco smoke.)
You love watching the night sky.
You can follow a saltatory line of reasoning, you like long and meandering conversations. You open a single wikipedia tab and four hours later you have a score of them open on a score of not-obviously-related subjects.
You believe that things are getting generally better.
You like to make up words.
You realize that the rules of English are better named "suggestions".
You aren't bothered by terminal prepositions, the singular they, or atro, attrc attrotio, really bad spelling.
You know the origin of "The Ultimate Capt'n Crunch Experience."
You have some favorite Geek TV that I haven't seen. (That would be mostly anything post Firefly. I'm bad at TV, but I can watch it with other people.)
Any other thing that springs to mind.