silenttristero is a warm blooded bipedal mammal native to the upper Midwest (Chicago), but in the past two years has been spotted in the San Francisco bay area. Its habits include staring into microscopes, playing with lasers, riding motorcycles, and hanggliding. The silenttristero is friendly, outgoing, and very laid back, but can be occasionally sarcastic and curmudgeonly, and should be approached with caution. Do not taunt silenttristero." --The Audubon Field Guide to North American Jewish Males

A few more items of note about me: I love good food, and love cooking, but hate cleaning up after myself. I make a lot of jokes, some appropriate, some not so much. It's never my goal to offend anybody, but I occasionally do. I love words, writing, talking, reading, and singing (especially singing). Physical attraction and sex are very important to me, and with respect to physical intimacy I'm very generous, attentive, creative, open minded, and kinky. My career is very important to me, it takes up a lot of physical and emotional energy. I have a doctoral degree in physics, and am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford. I am a HUGE nerd, in the best possible way. I'm inquisitve, goal-oriented, and I love to tinker and learn. But I do love fiction and film as well. I am a strange animal, but I'm worth getting to know. I will enrich your life if you let me, and hope you will do the same. And if you actually read all the way to the bottom of this thing, tell me "Colonel Custer sent me."

First dates suck. They're awkward, tense, and frequently expensive. Can we just skip to like the third or fourth date or something, where we're at ease, I don't have to worry about whether you're going to get my jokes, and we get to kiss passionately? No? d*mn.