Relationship with Women, Friends

Jul 2003

Los Angeles

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programmer

science fiction, environmental politics, intellectual property, urban planning, cooking, board games, role-playing games, candlemaking, pottery, hiking, puzzles

(fiction) Lois Bujold, Curse of Chalion; Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity; Garth Nix, Sabriel et seq. (nonfiction) Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies. This box is too small.

I don't see movies much, but I loved Spirited Away and I have a soft spot for bad Hong Kong action movies.

all varieties of rock and its offspring (particularly fond of The Alarm, Big Country, Counting Crows, TMBG, Sisters of Mercy, Pink Floyd)

If I owned a TV I would be a huge fan of The West Wing and would probably watch Buffy for amusement value.

I'm the sort of person who, asked to describe himself,
stares at the blank screen for twenty minutes plus before
coming up with some silly meta-answer like this one.

Seriously, I can babble at length on just about any topic
you like, except sports. I'm told I'm good at listening,
too. I read compulsively; if you get to know me I'll
inevitably pile you down with book recommendations. I don't
want to repeat the interest list above so I'll just mention
that my idea of a fun day out includes parks or museums and
a good but not too expensive restaurant, and my idea of a
romantic night in includes cooking dinner, some sort of
board game, and backrubs (given and received both, ideally -
this is another thing I'm told I'm good at).

In the very abstract, people who aren't averse to the notion
of changing the world, but not all at once. People who know
what it's like to have a muse take over one's brain.

More concretely, I am pretty well supplied with friends, but
nonetheless delighted to meet new people, particularly if
they have interesting things to say. I am single, and
looking for a relationship, but I'm not interested in an
ambiguous maybe-she's-interested-maybe-not-how-can-I-tell
situation. Bluntness is appreciated.