I am bilaterally symmetrical. Mostly anyway. I strive to be always learning and always doing. Some days I pull to the left like one of those grocery carts that nobody wants to use, but I don't squeak nearly as much.

I am a little unusual. Or a lot, depending on your standards. I
think this is a good thing. Being normal is boring.

I'm a firm believer in personal integrity, and I strive for honesty in all of my interactions with people. That's not much of a problem with my pets: Sadie-dog and Micha-cat (AKA Stoopikitty). Notice how suavely I made that transition? I'm very suave.

Divorced. Childfree. Remain friends with my ex. Taurus. Reformed Diet Coke drinker. Loves me some sugar-free Red Bull.

livejournal. magicmarmot. Silly, but endearing.

I get tagged as a nice guy a lot, mostly because I tend to be respectful and even-tempered. I try to treat other people the way I'd like to be treated, but it doesn't always work out that way. My roommate thinks that I should more properly be labeled as kind instead of nice because I'm more about actions than words, and makes that differentiation.

I have a distinct aesthetic that's reminiscent of the Haunted Mansion, but a little darker. Halloween is my favorite time of year, and I love (LOVE!) going to haunted houses around the area, or even visiting other places just to experience some really good haunts. I used to decorate the house fairly elaborately, but the past few years have been less than optimal for Halloween-time shenanigans in my life.

I usually host an annual Haunt Crawl around the Twin Cities to explore some of the better haunts, but this year I'm taking a break due to time, work, and money issues.

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Currently I'm heading down the path of becoming a filmmaker. I've had a couple of successful movies... well, "successful" may be a bit of an overstatement, but they were completed and shown in public. I work with a small film group called Stone Soup Films. We completed our first feature, Pray for Daylight, which actually had a theatrical debut in June of 2007. That was a small bit of awesome.

Currently I'm working on the crew of a web-based series called Transylvania Television, which is an adult-themed puppet show. I'm enjoying the experience quite a bit, as the cast and crew are phenomenally talented folks, and love what they're doing.

I also appear on the blu-ray release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in one of the extras featuring makeup effects for Klingon Hamlet. Geek cred, ahoy!

My current filmmaking trend is toward horror, though more the spooky atmospheric type like The Gift, Ringu, and the like. While I think that splatter and gore has its place, I'm much more excited about the buildup of suspense and believe that the best monster is the one you never see.

I'm also doing a metric buttload of work in remodeling and repairing an older house (1922 construction). It is both the boon and bane of my existence, having been bought as a "fixer-upper" when it may have been more truthfully marketed as a "tearer-downer". There is a huge amount of work that remains, but I'm managing it slowly. I'm also trying to define the exact volume of a metric buttload. So far it's somewhere between a pot of coffee and the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.

The day job tends to be as an embedded systems engineer, meaning that I write software for machines that go ping, or make things move, or cook your food. I can do other stuff too, but that's where I tend to specialize. I've also created a Mad Scientist Laboratory in my basement where I create fabulous contraptions made from scavenged parts from old computers, printers, fax machines, scanners, and other scrap materials. It tends to feed in well with another hobby of building horror- and sci-fi-themed props and animatronics.

Beyond that, I am on a never-ending quest to discover the deeper meanings of love, affection, desire, trust, sex, reality, and The Moose of Death.

In my spare time, I sleep. Oddly, I don't seem to sleep much.

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Fixing things and making new things. My friend Chris calls me a Jack of all trades, and a master of an annoying number of them. And I have a really strong MacGyver gene, but with a Bic pen, some chewing gum, and a used dartboard, I still can't escape handcuffs.

I have an eye for photography, lighting, and composition. This carries into filmmaking in a big way, which is where I express most of it these days. I also have a very good ear for sound, which splits between sound-for-visual and other audio work.

I give great massage.

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Laughter and wit, if I'm laughing and witty. My eternally-under-construction house if they see it. Physically, either my eyes or my hair, depending on how much of each I have at the moment, or how wild either is. Online, my writing. I use words like a painter uses a brush.

(a) Neuromancer, Anita Blake (the early ones, though now I've been enamored of the Kim Harrison books), technical manuals, Cryptonomicon, House of Leaves (b) Alien, North by Northwest, To Have and Have Not, Pray for Daylight, Return of the Living Dead (c) Massive Attack VAST, Rhea's Obsession, Beck, Pighead, NIN (d) Lately I've had a bizarre craving for cottage cheese, and I love raw vegetables. I am a carnivore, though I try to eat healthier cuts of beef and chicken over other meats, yet I can be sorely tempted by crisp bacon.

1.) Comfy bed 2.) Good friends 3.) Internet connection 4.) Music 5.) Touch. 6.) Sense of Humor.

6a.) Hot Tub.

mechanistry, reality, the future, career choices, beauty, making good movies, mechanical conundra. The higher concepts of what love entails. Integrity. hot tubbing. zombies, filmmaking, skeletons, horror movies, photography, synthetic consciousness, lazy weekend sex, <|>, dog magic and The Moose of
Death.

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There is no typical friday night for me.

Since I've moved back to the Big Broken Box™ (the house), I'm usually either working on it, or out prepping for film work. If I'm lucky, out with a group of friends enjoying each other's company. I'm not adverse to heading out to see a show or a movie, or just hanging out and talking, or playing reindeer games (hopefully without the reindeer, because they cheat).

As to what games reindeer play, you'll just have to ask.

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I once auditioned to be the voice of Barney the Dinosaur. I made the finals.

You are an intelligent, sexy woman who has a great sense of humor and finds the idea of skeletons and monsters exciting. Or if you're just curious and want to know more. Or if you read "message" as "massage".

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