Online Dating in Portland, Oregon
I’m really good at Reading and understanding people, giving good advice, motivating others, being responsible, being energetic, outspoken, and thoughtful, doing the nice things for others. I'm a compulsive learner, and seem to devour lots of information, expounding into an almost encyclopedic breadth. I...
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food Good books: Animal Farm, Ender's Game, Brave New World, 1984, Hitchhiker's "trilogy," first couple of Red Dwarf books, I Am America (and so can you!), The Tao of Pooh, the whole damn Calvin and Hobbes collection, and so on Favorite movies: Braveheart, Spaceballs, Contact, The...
What I’m doing with my life Professionally, I'm a software engineer. In my personal life, I'm chasing after the flash of vividness and clarity that comes to me when it feels like teasing me. I'm fascinated by existence, but sometimes I lose sight of it. I just finished a Ph.D., and I'm now figuring out how to be...
I’m really good at I have a head full of math and a heart full of art. I believe that there's hope for a more meaningful experience for all of us, and that with hard work I can help bring that about in my lifetime. I believe that, in cases of mutual defection, someone has to go first to create trust. I don't curse at...
I’m really good at Playing the drums. Cooking. Listening. Almost anything involving any sort of computer, especially ones running Linux . Seeing inner beauty . Seeing natural outer beauty ... The kind that's never featured in fashion magazines... And capturing it with digital cameras. Calming people...
The six things I could never do without Sleep, internet connectivity/iphone, music, yoga, health, intimacy (Lisa put down "intimacy", because she thought if I said "sex" it would be pervy, but I disagree-that's a guilty hang up, although it is also based in legitimate and deeply entrenched genetic predispositions women may have about...
The most private thing I’m willing to admit This profile is out of date and I don't have any real intent to update any time soon. I mostly use this site for fantasy boyfriend shopping.
You should message me if You're a cartoon dinosaur, or other unlikely animal, who can talk, and has a knack for inadvertently stumbling into wacky adventures that end in the learning of an important moral lesson. Or if you'll let me pretend you are. Or if you'll let me pretend I am.
My self-summary i'm vegan. and a nerd. and i'm shy but i'm really not. so i'm a contradiction... and i am sooooo queer! haha (i have also been living in portlandia for almost 6 years! so as you read further you might be a touched confused, but i love this ancient profile of mine and i will not change...
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food A) Milan Kundera, Nikos Kazantzakis, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov. B) Akira Kurosawa, Francis Coppola, David Fincher, Lars Von Trier, Sergio Leone, Federico Fellini, Alfonso Cuaron, Caro/Jeunet. C) Breaking Bad, The Daily Show, The...