Nerds, geeks, freaks, weirdos, the mildly psychotic and the other fringe members of society who just don't fit into the above categories but don't fit in anywhere else either...er...click.. here... Yes. That doesn't sound at all lame.

One of my co-workers harassed me into taking a personality test and 'appreciates strangeness' was one of the attributes listed on the description for my type (intp in case anyone is curious).

Who, or what, I am:


I'm usually quiet and reserved - unelss I'm hyper or have been drinking - then I get talkative or, sometimes, a little obnoxious. I read. A lot. I'm usually motivated more by curiousity than anything else. I can be somewhat contradictory. I can usually find a dark side to anything positive and the light side of anything negative. This tends to frustrate people who have taken it upon themselves to cheer me up. Well, sometimes it frustrates them; most of my friends just find it amusing; I like to think they do, anyway. I like most animals, even the ones I'm allergic to (cats, rats, possibly badgers). I recently went to the Insectarium in New Orleans and I now want to set up an aquarium filled with nothing but various swimming beetles.

More specific things I like:

Books: Blaylock, Lovecraft, Terry Pratchett and Clive Barker are usually the first names I look for when I go into a bookstore -- this has changed - I now use Amazon more often than bookstores, although I do still like used book stores; although, I think I've read everything by Lovecraft, so I've kind of given up on that one. I also read about things like philosophy, mythology, neuro-biology, war, pirates, physics - whatever happens to catch my interest.

Movies: I like horror and comedy. And dark comedy. And science fiction. Good science fiction. Like, Primer good. I usually prefer the more cerebral type of horror movies, like the Ring, the Japanese version of Grudge, and Tale of Two Sisters (you would get bonus points for having seen this, but I don't have any kind of point system, so you don't).

Video games: Right. Like anyone is going to care what kind of videogames I like. Ok. Thief. Every other stealth game I see has to compete with Theif. They all fail.

Music: The short version is I like weird. I have one co-worker who refuses to listen to any mp3's I give him because the last one scared him. A lot of my friends are musicians and place a lot of value in what music people listen too. I don't really, but some of the bands I like:
1) Weird Al Yankovic (you will, eventually, have to deal with accordian music. I am warning you of this now, because it will become important if I found my own country and need to decide on some sort of national anthem.)
2-etc.) The Makers, Screeching Weasel, The Cure, The Clash, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, The Pillows, Teen-generate, Handsome Family, David Bowie, rock-a-billy, some Japanese stuff, a bunch of doo-wop, a bunch of 80's stuff, a bunch of 90's stuff, very little 2k stuff. I also listen to video game music. It's mostly music from games like Katamari Damashi, but it still pretty much lies in the domain of the nerd, as if the accordian thing wasn't warning enough.


Blah, blah, blah. Me, me, me.
That should be enough for now.

As far as who I'm looking for goes -
You probably shouldn't have kids and should at least be open to never having kids. I know every parent thinks their kids are great and some of them are actually right, but I just don't see children as something I will ever want as a permanent or semi-permanent part of my life.
Kind of crazy is ok; preferable, actually. If you're taking pills so you don't kill the rest of your family, then you're a little too hard-core for me. Drama, in moderation, is ok too. It makes people more interesting. I'm very much an individualist and it's important to me that whomever I date is really herself and not just a composite of what other people, including myself, might want her to be.

You should be somewhere in the vicinity of my age; use your own judgment.

Really, since we'd be meeting each other for the first time after nothing more than talking over the internet, and maybe over the phone, I don't think I'd call it a date. Bars seem to work well. There's liquor to help keep the conversation from suffocating under a glut of awkward moments, there are usually at least a few quieter areas where we could hear said conversation, and, depending on the bar, there might be a decent live show. It also represents a fairly small time commitment, so if one of us decides that she, or he, doesn't like the other it's not really a problem to leave after a short amount of time. Coffee houses also work pretty well. If those ideas don't appeal to you, I recently spent an hour or so looking for restaurants in the dc area that serve bugs; you may want to decide where we're going yourself.