I think WAY too much. So what I'm interested in are ideas. Ideas about neurology, electric-eel guns, consciousness, zen koans, universal grammars, MBTI, why the duck-billed platypus, free will, psychology, how trees get sap all the way up there against gravity with no pumping mechanism, etiology, the morals of being vegetarian (morally, we should all be carnivores of carnivores!), entrepreneurship, sumerian, deontological ethics, international trade, metaphysics, how money works, anthropology, the human body is 60% water and Jesus is well known for his ability to turn water into wine, quantum mechanics, Wittgenstein's Ladder, the legitimacy of the Hanoverian succession, hedge funds, history, you name it! I do ideas like fish do water. So if YOU like ideas too, we've got to do something about this!

My profile is Leviscomte if you're on Quickmatch.

Still not good enough?

Good! Because I hope to drown you in a veritable deluge of verbiage. Aside from my chronic inability to take questions like this seriously, I am also moral, family oriented, and disgustingly responsible. In myers-briggs typology, I am an INTJ.

I take many things deadly serious, despite my irreverence and tendency to constantly find humor in all situations. I also see no contradiction in doing this.

Two goals that I consciously strive for and work towards every day are "making the world a better place" and "other people matter, so in all your interactions with other people, try to leave them better off for having met you".

I have given actual thought to the problem of making the world a better place, and actually have a plan in place regarding this end that I work towards every day.

I meditate daily, volunteer weekly, and spend 10 hours a week at the gym.

I agree with Antoine de Saint-Exupery when he says that "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but of gazing outward in the same direction."

I feel that love is two people, each complete and whole in themselves, coming together and making something greater than the sum of their parts with their union.

As to the rest of my profile? I'm not nearly this wacky in person. In fact, I am told that I am rather reserved and formal. I hear "You are not what I expected AT ALL....but it's great!" on a regular basis. Blame the reds, dammit. Blame the reds.

If you must know, I am actually a dour puritan disguised as a freewheeling man about town. Don't let appearances fool you! I am operating undercover, you see, and hope to blow this man-about-town ring wide open! No more will they pollute our fair city with their glib assurances, windswept hair, and casual bonhomie!

I tell you, it will make my reputation. I'll be promoted to captain for sure after this one.

Straddling the world like a colossus, crushing jeweled thrones beneath my feet, and driving my enemies before me.

I have on seven occasions been nominated for the prestigious "Most Talented Human Being on This Planet" award. Unfortunately, I had to turn it down each time, due to a pronunciational contretemps over the word "being". Enunciate, people!!

That I'm ten feet tall. And covered in gold. 14 KARAT GOLD!!!

Books

Anything by Charles Stross, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Neal Stephenson, Clifford Pickover, or Ken Macleod. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Shantaram. Most things by Jorge Luis Borges. Any Stephen Pinker books. Autobiography of a Yogi. Infinite Jest. House of Leaves. Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Brothers Karamazov. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. The Death of Kings. I Claudius. Claudius the God. The Dune books written by Frank Herbert. The Ender saga by Orson Scott Card. Jung's Modern Man in Search of A Soul. In fact, anything by Jung. Paul McAuley's books. Peter Watts' Behemoth books. A Clockwork Orange. Naked Lunch. Gravity's Rainbow. Zeitgeist. Beggars in Spain. Picture of Dorian Gray. Exploring Consciousness by Rita Carter. No Logo by Naomi Klein. Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson. Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. Almost any biographies, auto-biographies, or steganography. The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama. Zen Mind Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. Tranfigurations by Alex Gray. Blink and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Freakonomics by Dubner and Levitt. How to Argue and Win Every Time by Gerry Spence. Countless other How-to books. Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance by Janet Gleeson, Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat and his Hot Flat and Crowded...

Far too many to list, really. Let's just say that if you're thinking of a book right now, there is a 62% chance that I've read it, and a 76% chance that I enjoyed it.

Movies

Memento. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Prestige.

Music

Lovage, Swing music, Kittie, Count Basie, Devil Doll, Bach, Tool, and Richie Hawtin.

Food

Feh! Food. These "body" things are exceedingly ill-contrived. Feed me, water me, stick this bit of me in somebody ELSE'S body! Ridiculous!

My solid gold mansion, my Faberge Big Mac collection, and my Hummer H2 SUV carved from a single flawless diamond and powered by the combustion of endangered species and priceless manuscripts (Oy! We're late! Throw some more Siberian tigers on the fire!)

This question. Then I start thinking about thinking about this question. Then it's thinking about thinking about metacognition, and after that it's just turtles all the way down.

Working undercover to blow this man-about-town ring wide open. Oh sure, the chief tells me I'm crazy. "They're not actually breaking any laws!", he tells me. But I know better. They'll see. They'll all see!

Okay, I'm only 9 feet tall. And it's 10 karat gold.

If you've ever really thought about elbows. And not just in an "ouch, I just banged my elbow" kind of way either, I mean really got into it and considered such topics as elbow-osity and elbowness and what it MEANS to have an elbow and what IS Truth anyways. Elbows I mean, not Truth. Everyone knows what Truth is, they bang their elbows on it on a weekly basis!

Elbows, on the other hand, are quite more elusive.

Or if you're also 10 feet tall and covered with gold, you should message me.

If you know what you want in life, are passionate about it, and work every day towards your goals, you should message me.

Or if you match me well.