Lovetastic: dating for gay men who believe in love

I'm in grad school, getting my master's in blinkenlights from a land where plants and hats talk and everything is a game. I think when I'm done I want to spend my life making things that are indistinguishable from magic. Magic objects that help people play together. Playing games that change the world. So, yes, the plan is to save the world using magic toys. Do you have a better plan for a Saturday night?

I want to hack the city - this city, plus that other one over there - before it's too late.

Give a man a key, and he'll open the lock that it fits. Teach him to pick a lock, and no door will ever stand in his way.

I see design and shape in everything. While this sounds romantic in concept, it also means that I work incessantly, for the line between work and play is a fine one. To know me is to have me thrust new technologies on you, so be forewarned. I'm also a news hound - I love learning things, and it feels right to know what's going on in the world. I push my limits, always. I do my best work when I'm out of my element, so I tend to keep in motion.

This may be stretching the definition a bit, but in undergrad I had a philosophical hard-on for Carl Sagan. Lately my tastes tend toward Tor Norretranders and theorists like Malcom McLuhan. Of course, I'd argue that Neal Stephenson and Phillip Pullman should be included, in which case my list could go on forever. Does that make me a philosophical slut?

Absorbing every little scrap of new information I can find online. I love learning new obscure things, and I'm a data junkie, which makes me RSS's bitch.

Anglophile! While I have nothing against the French (love the food, revel in the art, adore the wine), and find visiting France perfectly wonderful (getting lost in Paris at 2am is one of my favorite memories), I love British culture, modern and historical. I'm especially taken with the BBC as a concept, lately, and I love what you can get away with in the streets of London.

"His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman
"White Noise" by Don DeLillo
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow
"The Hours" & "A Home At the End of the World" by Michael Cunningham
"To the Lighthouse" & "Orlando" by Virginia Woolfe
"Boy Meets Boy" by David Levithan
"Fool's Errand" & "Endangered Species" by Louis Bayard
"The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse" by Keith Hartman
"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin
"The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene
"We the Media" by Dan Gillmore
"Hackers and Painters" by Paul Graham
"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Rufus Wainwright, Jonathan Coulton, Pansy Division, Scissor Sisters, Liz Phair, The Killers, The Postal Service, Louis XIV, Air, Heather Headley, The Streets, The Gorillaz, They Might Be Giants, The Decemberists, Madonna, Goldfrapp, Sigur Ros, Peaches, Dan Fournier, Imperial Teen

Contact, Clue, 28 Days Later, Titus, Moulin Rouge, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Princess Bride, Gods and Monsters, Run Lola Run, Pleasantville, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, American Beauty, City of Lost Children, The Dark Crystal, Scream, Series 7, Down With Love, Nightmare on Elm Street, Big Fish, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Lilo & Stitch, V for Vendetta, Ed Wood, Nightwatch

U-Ram Choe, Danny Rozin

"We are adaptable creatures. It's the source of our earthly comfort and, I suppose, of our silent rage." - Michael Cunningham, _A Home At The End of the World_

"Sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore." - David Levithan, _Boy Meets Boy_