I'm a nerd that grew up in NJ, lived in Socorro, NM for ten years and then moved to Bellevue in 2008. Cooking and eating are my favorite hobby, but I also knit and enjoy Jeep and home-maintenance crafts.

I'm a Taoist who gets a little more riled up about some things than is really in character for a Taoist. I'm very pro civil-liberties. I'm antitheist, very anti-neocon, and left-leaning. I like hyphenated-words.

I have a livejournal that I used to write stuff in often, but my posting frequency has tapered off considerably. My username over there is "jaberwockynmt". I use twitter very (too?) often; I'm "jaberwocky" over there. I write reviews (mostly restaurants) on yelp very often: http://jarrodlombardo.yelp.com/

Right now, I'm developing software prototypes contracting at Microsoft and running a small temporary help service I started.

I really enjoy having conversations about lots of stuff, politics, sociology and religion being big topics with me.

I'm in one poly "network" relationship currently and have had others. I've been with my unmarried spouse for almost 4 years. lalabob11 supports me having other partners and I support her similarly (she's got 2 other boys currently); we are open and honest with each other.

I've also got something intense going on with ladyfelakura, but we're both not really sure what it is or where it's going.

I'm involved with some of the area swinger community, but nothing serious has happened with anyone from there. Polyamory and swinging turns a lot of people off, so I want to be open with you all about it.

I'm interested in making more friends generally, but also in finding a steady second girlfriend. lalabob11 is child-free, but I'd like to have children eventually, so finding a partner interested in having children as part of a cohabitating poly family is a long-term goal.

I have great fun cooking, and people say I'm good at it. I don't really think I'm good; I'm just better than many people I encounter. I never really learned to cook; it just kinda happened naturally. I'm not afraid to try the sometimes crazy recipe ideas that come to me.

I'm great at fast-thinking problem solving. I like to go to fan conventions to work on the troubleshooting staffs so I can run around the whole con fixing things.

I am really good at figuring out relatively complicated topology involved in some knitting.

I turn out to be pretty objective and open to others' opinions, but at first most people think I am kind of closed and stubborn. People probably notice my especially silly beard more that that though.

This is such a broad category. Listing things here would limit me far more than not listing them as my tastes are all over the place.

To be self-contradictory, now I'm gonna list some things:
My favorite movies are Blade Runner, Ikiru, and Heat. I've seen easily over 1000 movies in my lifetime, but most of them are pre-2000; I haven't had as much time to watch new stuff since then.

I haven't had television service (cable, satellite, or antenna) since 2005, and I really like it this way. I do like to watch a few shows though (Dr. Who universe, Battlestar Galactica, Top Gear).

I am the only intelligent person I know that dislikes the act of reading. I love gaining information. I love learning stories. I just can't stand the interface of reading; it's so frustratingly slow compared to thinking. I mostly read non-fiction; my favorite non-fiction book is probably Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier. There's fiction I've liked too though: Kurt Vonnegut (I've read 90+% of his work), Douglas Adams, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett (I'm in the process of reading all of DiscWorld), Steven King, some but not most Asimov.

I really like prog rock (the Hammond organ is my favorite rock instrument) and also turntablism. That said, my favorite bands are The Who and Underworld, which fall in neither of those genres.

I eat everything. I like to try everything twice (it might have been "off" the first time). My tastes lean toward Asian foods, but I really enjoy the European, American, and African stuff I've had too.

1. Snuggling. (I've lived without, but I was quite depressed during those periods.) 2. My glasses. I really like to see things. 3. Comfortable sneakers. I like to walk a lot, and comfortable sneakers are a must. 4. Semicolons; they are an integral part of my writing style. 5. Listing things is hard....

How to survive.

Ethics and how so few people seem to really strive to be ethical.

Before I left NM it was "Hosting a party/watching movies with about 15 other people." Now it's more catch as catch can, with some nights quiet at home and some out doing something with lots of people.

I don't really have private things, so I don't know what to put here. I am really open, and will honestly answer any question posed to me.

You have any questions and want to discuss them, or are very silly and want to do strange things.