-video games, movies, and books (mostly science fiction and fantasy)

-FOOD. I love cooking and dining out. I'm also a wine snob-in-training (thanks gary v.!)

-Technology. You'll see me messing around with Cisco routers and Linux and what not.

-Occasionally, I'll go outside and kayak the rivers and lakes of Wisconsin. Very relaxing (if you can avoid the bugs).

-I really want to travel more. Sadly, the farthest I've been out of the USA has been Toronto...

The Departed, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Bubba Ho-Tep, Army of Darkness, Anything by Christopher Nolan, Spiderman 2, Spaceballs, Anything by Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman, Ghostbusters, Unforgiven, Fight Club, The Seven Samurai, Gettysburg, Conan the Barbarian, Anything by Michael Mann, Apollo 13, all of the Harry Potter films, Yojimbo, Children of Men, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad and The Ugly,

Movie Scores (John Williams, Howard Shore, Brian Tyler, James Newton Howard, Michael Giacchino, Tan Dun, Alan Silvestri, Basil Poledouris), Grunge, Classic Rock, Ambient, Trance, Chill, downtempo, trip-hop, video game music (Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Ogre Battle, mostly old skool...)

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, John C. Wright's The Golden Age Trilogy, Animal Farm, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and the Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40 by William Trotter, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Lev Tolstoy, The Politics of Obedience by Etienne De La Boetie, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, Lord of the Rings, R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Lone Wolf and Cub, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Sean Russell's The Swan's War Trilogy, The Briar King and The Charnel Prince by Greg Keyes

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wine, black hair, pale/clear skin, patience, on buttons

smoking, beer, obesity, artificially tan skin (yuck... if I want roasted chicken, I'll go to KFC), impatience, off buttons

I'm a network security engineer for an IT firm here in Wisconsin. I also have an avoidant personality which led to me developing social anxiety and mild depression. Right now, I'm starting to work on these issues so I don't spend the rest of my life locked up in my apartment! ;-)

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