Like most people, I'm a study in opposites:
I tend to be cerebral, but I exercise frequently;
I can be deadly serious, but I often make people laugh (and enjoy doing so);
I am an artist, but I am deeply involved with science and technology;
I am deeply involved with science and technology, but I hate my cell phone;
I am thoughtful and sensitive, but I'm sometimes logical to a fault;
I'm a lean guy, but I love to eat and cook.

I like quiet pastimes, mostly: juggling explosives and frozen nuns, reading, cooking, forging art, museums, strange disturbing movies, full-contact golf. I currently think the coolest phrase in the English language is "Chinese Repeating Crossbow", and I'm trying to build one from plans I found on the internet.

Oh, and I liking making shit up. Some call this creativity.

Acquiring new skills in visual communication. Digital drawing, painting, animating. Sculpting. Taking care of my home, my doggies, helping out my family and friends where I can. Rebuilding myself and my social network.

Recently, I've written a couple children's books, titled "Horton Hires a Ho" and "Bi-Curious George", but no one seems to want to publish them.

At work, turning other people's VI needs into workable, elegant solutions.

I take good care of Winston and Cookie, who I refer to alternatively as my children from a past relationship, and the Beasts. (They are dogs, not children, so don't bother calling DSS) CLICK HERE to see them when they wuz behbays. Also, the whole doggy family (NOT ALL MINE!): CLICK HERE.

I also like sculpting - see some of them here. The unpainted ones are less than an inch high, the FFW/FWC ones are ~11".

I exercise about 5 times a week; weights, yoga and cardio. CLICK HERE ONLY if you want to see what I've done with myself - No naughty bits, I PROMISE! I am proud of what I, a bookish sorta-nerd with a sedentary job, have been able to do with myself. I have strength, health and stamina.

Here are some of my older animations/simulations from work: CLICK ME.

Here are some of my stone wall/masonry projects here.. All by hand (mine), all dry-stack (no mortar). Some of them are 7 years without a stone falling out.

I have a wide range of interests and talents. I like to keep them a secret so I can spring them on people at the most opportune moments.

My iliac furrow? Nah... ;-)

My head is shaved and I look annoyed. I'm really not, but what they don't know...

Favorite artists are Dali, Klimt, Brueghel, Rackham, Albrecht Durer, Giger.

Favorite writers are Dan Simmons, Gene Wolfe, and Jack Vance.

Favorite Film-Makers: Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Akira Kurosawa, Mel Brooks, David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Hayao Miyazaki, David Lynch, Christopher Guest.

Movies: City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, anything with Zatoichi in it, anything with Toshiro Mifune in it. Castle in the Sky. Fight Club, Se7en, Brazil, 12 Monkeys. 2001. Blue Velvet. Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles. Silence of the Lambs, one of the (unintentionally) funniest movies ever made. Donnie Darko and Jacob's Ladder, too. The Jacket is on the short list, espeially for the closing credits.

Oh, and the Aeon Flux cartoon series. Brilliant absurdity, every frame. I also just purchased the first two seasons of Venture Brothers. And House and Lost. Also, The Soup] and all its previous incarnations.

Music: NIN, Roxxy Music, Echo & the Bunnymen, XTC, Yes, Pink Floyd, (old) Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Tool/Perfect Circle, KMFDM, Beck, Sex Pistols, (Eno-produced) U2, David Bowie. Um, who else...English Beat and Cure.

How about six things I could always do without?
1) Meetings with admin or HR
2) The last minute of "House" - you know, the weepy music video bit?
3) Hypocrisy
4) Freezing rain
5) Kendra from "Girls Next Door" - ugh
6) Mandatory lists of arbitrary length

All right, cop-out. So here goes:

1) Rocks. I love rocks - boulders, stones, pebbles, whatever
2) Lucid dreams: I can fly & shoot lightning bolts - what can beat THAT?
3) Something to make "drawrings" with/of
4) Desire
5) The last 5 minutes of "House", minus the aforementioned weepy crappy bit
6) Sarcasm

I think dyslexic dominatrixes could form a pretty formidable political party, if only they could learn to untie.

In an alternate univers there is a healthy cereal product called "Special KKK" that is marketed to mentally-challenged racists (probably an oxymoron). Maybe somewhere else it's a healthy cereal for people who stutter instead?

If the Little Mermaid caught an STD, it wouldn't necessarily be crabs (that's waaay to easy) - it could be Hydrosyphilis.

Is it wrong that I can say "Thank You" in eight languages when I can swear at you in nine?

Why are driving skills water soluble?

Why are boy's bikes designed with a crotch-crushing horizontal support bar, whereas girl's bikes are of a gentle, non-crotchcrushing design?

If knowledge is power, and power corrupts, doesn't that imply that knowledge corrupts? And if THAT is true, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, doesn't that mean that ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY? What does that say about God, huh? Wait, I hear thunder...

Does "Spooky Behavior at a Distance" mean that electron pairs are monogamous?

Can the universe experience schadenfreude?

Is the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually Cthulhu, and when enough Pastafarians worship him, will he walk the earth?

Did General Tsao ever fight Colonel Sanders?

Who DID shoot the frickin' Deputy? I suspect the Sheriff.

Should you live "in the moment", even if it's only a Planck Moment?

Does Ginko Viagra help you remember what the F you were JUST going to do?

Poker night with the geeks, hangin' out with the Mastiffs, putting some piece of furniture together for someone, helping a friend move a body or clean blood off a clown suit (My trick? Seltzer!). Booty call, maybe? :P

It's all very random right now...

I blush very easily, and very frequently.

Here I am - rock me like a hurricane.

Well. It seems to me, after quite a while of doing this dating thing, that until you meet someone face-to-face, you don't know anything. If there is no chemistry, no clever thing I said in my profile is going to make F-all difference. And if there IS chemistry, ditto.

What do you think?