I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde

Who I'm looking for

She's intelligent enough to hold my attention, beautiful enough to hold my gaze, kind enough to hold my heart and patient enough to read the whole of my profile.

No psychos, desperate housewives, religous nuts, golddiggers or hawkers.

And the pics are from Christmas in Tenerife, in the 2nd my halo is falling off.

Currently laughing at-

Tom Cruise Scientology video and the spoof


Some odd facts about me

I'm allegic to PlayDoh.

My song is Shine on you crazy diamond by Pink Floyd.

I have been a rocket scientist.

I can Bhangra dance.

I have sailed to Holland in a thirty five foot yacht in a force 10 storm.

I have Bonsai.

I have a patent to my name.

I have climbed 12,000ft to the top of a mountain.

I have signed the Official Secrets Act.

People like to give me nicknames, mostly because I am so hard pin down, pigeon hole, and classify.

I have been to the Rocky Horror Picture Show in drag.

I have caught a shark.

I can sail, windsurf, canoe, row, punt and swim, I guess that makes me a water person.

I am a good cook, my favourate food is an Indian curry.

I am very good at picking out presents for people.

I have written a book and software, you can find it on Amazon.

My favourate book is Godel, Esher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid.

My favourate film is The Matrix.

Some favourate quotes

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding
another's treasure.-- The Devils Dictionary

I have become life, the creator of worlds -- my misquote of the Bhagavad-Gita

He saw too much -- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you. --Nim Chimpsky

Life is a game of Bridge -- and you've just been finessed. - anon

One good spy is worth 10000 soldiers. -- Sun Tzu

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -- Albert Einstein

If one does what God does enough times, one becomes as God is -- Dr. Hannibal Lector, Red Dragon

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. --Albert Einstein

I do not know what I am. I know I am not a noun, a thing. I appear to be a verb, an evolutionary process. -- Jean-Paul Sartre.

He who does not lose his soul will endure. -- Lao-Tse

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] -- Ovid

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell

Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light. -- Spike Milligan

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are more often influenced by things that seem than by things that are.-- Niccolo Machiavelli

Weapons should be hardy rather than decorative -- Miyamoto Musashi

Blessed is he who learns to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions, but perceives the order of immortal and ageless nature, how it is structured. -- Euripides

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried -- Lucrece

Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.---Aldous Huxley.

Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet, Impossible means not yet done. -- Julia Ecklar

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes -- Juvenal Satire VI

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. --John Cage

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. -- Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mohandas Gandhi