UPDATE 11.6.09: Family matters have intervened to keep me very busy and I will not be checking here often or at all until some things have been resolved. Thank you all you sweet women who have been so much fun to interact with in this way.

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Husky hairy beary man who knows who he is but takes breathing lessons nonetheless.

I can be just as comfortable in a tux at a diplomatic function as I would be puking in the parking lot outside Dirty Joe's Bar on Pensacola Beach.

Take note: if you were stranded on a desert island in a struggle for survival, the one thing you would be best off with is me. Same for postnuclear scenarios and natural disasters.

Too many projects to ever complete them all so must prioritize. Life sciences research and writing mostly, but also programming and business development. Family issues lately, switching parent/child roles. One day all obstacles will be overcome and all the pieces will come together (he said, delusionally).

A near death experience in early life was somewhat paradoxically the best thing that ever happened to me, giving me a spiritual perspective that I would probably never have had otherwise and guiding my interests in many ways. If you've been there, you understand already. If you haven't, I'll tell you about it if you're interested. You can't look God in the face and not be affected by it dramatically for the rest of your life.

I was born in Maine and grew up mostly in Florida but have lived in Maryland, Ohio, Massachusetts, Okinawa, Illinois, Mississipi, Texas, Italy, and most lately California. Attended Florida State University & UC Davis. Events seem to be transpiring to bring me back to Bradenton, where I have recently signed a six month lease.

No convictions or addictions, the only hard drug I ever touch is alcohol and that only occasionally.


Miscellaneous experience, skills, talents, honors, and awards:
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Can fly airplanes, special interest in gliders.
Can do surgery on animals.
Can operate a sailboat.
Can rebuild an engine.
Can fix almost anything.
Can work with radioactive materials.
Can tell you what's in the food you eat (M.S. in Nutrition).
Can tell you how your body works (Ph.D. in Physiology).
Can tell you what consciousness is made of and how it works (pretty sure anyway).
Can tell you the names of every cloud in the sky.
Caught a seagull with my bare hands one time, ducks are much easier.
Worked on an Etruscan archeological dig in Italy.
Laid in the tomb of a dead pharoah deep inside an Egyptian pyramid.
Smuggled money into Communist East Germany.
Once jumped off a moving train.
Flew in weightlessness 4 or 5 times on NASA's Vomit Comet.
Was Spelling Bee champion of my junior high.
Eagle Scout.
Speak Italian and French, a little German and Greek.
Certified SCUBA diver.
WSI & was a beach lifeguard.
Welder.
Photographer.
Beer brewer.
Glass blower.
World traveler.
Space Foundation Fellowship winner.
NIH Trainee.
NASA Trainee, Graduate Student Researchers Program.
National Research Council Research Associate.
Published scientist.
Single father of twin girls (over 18 & on their own now).
Web-database integration programmer.
Entrepreneur.
Avid gardener.
Enjoy cooking.
Bad chess player.
Recovering Catholic.
Missing the spectator sports gene so never kill time watching football, basketball, baseball, or any other grown men playing children's games.


About You
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You are seeking a friend and companion with a real sense of humor and adventure who lives comfortably in his own skin. You are a truly alive person, a lifelong learner with an inner desire to explore other cultures and the backroads of the world. You speak at least two languages and radiate positive energy and good karma everywhere you go. Even women turn their heads to look at you.

On the other hand you shouldn't take yourself too seriously either, you should have a sense of humor. To go with that you should be a supermodel with an identical twin sister who can take over whenever I've exhausted you. Net worth $100 million or more please. Bonus points if you own a microbrewery and grow your own pot.

Now that I've defined the perfect woman, who is probably nonexistent, I'll footnote here that I'm willing to compromise on four out of five of the above qualities. Prefer liberated confident nonconservative women and if you are a third degree taekwondo black belt you really owe it to yourself to meet me.


Turnoffs:
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No major disfiguring tattoos please, or a lot of self-mutilation piercings except of course for earlobes which are almost mandatory by today's aboriginal customs. However if you have scars or marks by accident and not intention those do not semaphore low self-esteem like tats and piercings and are instead badges of honor recognizing the suffering you have endured and the stronger person they have made you. I'm open minded though and willing to consider not all tats/piercings are low self-esteem flags on a case by case basis as a euro influence has recently demonstrated that it only takes a single white crow to prove that not all crows are black.

No dogslobbers please: if you have a little rat dog that you let lick your face and sleep in your bed, I don't care if you are a rich supermodel, I am not interested in a woman who doesn't get basic hygiene. If you are one of them, have you not noticed that your dog licks its anus routinely and connected the dots to realize he's smearing fecal bacteria all over you when you let him lick you? What parts of filthy and disgusting don't you understand? However it's a plus if you have a little rat dog that you aren't inappropriately intimate with, I love little rat dogs. Bigger dogs too as well as cats and horses and birds etc., animals always like me because I speak their language, and I hope you love animals too. You can ask my daughters about the time I tamed a small wild bird in 30 minutes or so and had him standing on my open palm, unafraid.

I'd like to skip the first date and start at the second, we'd both be much more comfortable that way. Besides, we must have known each other in a former life or you wouldn't have read all the way to the end of this text. So take a deep breath and chillax! What does it matter what we do exactly? The point is to get to know one another and discover if we get those magic jolts of dopamine and oxytocin in each other's presence. I favor sunsets and the beach at Anna Maria Island but almost any setting you prefer to feel comfortable in is going to be fine with me. Anyplace but Starbucks please.