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Ross M

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

When I was little, I went on several long car rides with my family. We listened to Huey Lewis, Electric Light Orchestra, JOhn Cougar Mellencamp, that guy who did the edmund fitzgerald aka gordon lightfoot, and the eagles. My parents bought me an edited version of Puff Daddy once, I was pleased, but in retrospect, I like commas, so I'll continue this a little further for commas' sake...in retrospect, I'm a tool. I listen to all that pretentious music and I like everything but country, blah blah blah blah. I play the highland bagpipes and am (updated: was) a member of the Atlanta Pipe Band. I'm also for hire as a performer at all things depressing i.e. funerals, memorial services, weddings. I really enjoy scotch. I also enjoy someone who can slip an Anchorman quotation into a conversation. "The human torch was denied a bank loan." I go road biking a bit, although it's disheartening when my 50ish year old dad outpaces me, but that's only until his heart gives...it's only a matter of time. I try to eat food that puts hair on my chest, but I've probably got a good year and a half before I can consider looking like harrison ford when he did Raiders of the Lost Ark. Apparently I'm a hell of an engineer. I also found out recently that I've been using the word prolific incorrectly all my life. Que pena.I love beer.And for all those people interested in Microsphere-Mediated Delivery of Differentiation Factors to Embryonic Stem CElls within Embryoid Bodies, I'm your man.Moved to Philly a couple weeks ago and have utterly fallen in love with the City of Brotherly Love. PhD pursuit begins in the fall and continues for a good five years.And if you're still confused AIM=jumpupthegumyam

My Interests

Postapocalypticdisenfranchismentarianism, mouse embryonic stem cells and those cute little embryoid bodies they form, stem cell engineering, hemocytometers, bagpipes, good tone, John MacColl tunes, March/Strathspey/Reels, Chondrocytes, Perfusion Bioreactors, card-swiping access to buildings, harmonies, Low G, birls, motorcycles, cars, trucks, bicycles, road biking, falling in North Avenue during rush hour while clipped into my bike pedals and not getting run over by everyone who has large SUVs in the city, long profiles, going to the movie theatre alone, movies, Clint Eastwood, Georgia Tech Sports, riding MARTA, using the word "prolific" incorrectly, Vitamin D, sunglasses, the sun, flow hoods, autoclaves, autoclave tape, autoclave bags, sterilized stuff, ethanol, "alcohol", methanol, propanol, butanol, Pat's Famous Cheesesteaks and NOT geno's

I'd like to meet:

Beautiful, enigmatic females. Although both of those are flexible in that I'll settle for anything.

Music:

Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Heart, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band, Victoria Police Pipe Band (disbanded, a damn shame), City of Washington Pipe Band, 78th Fraser Highlanders, Gordon Duncan, Alasdair Gillies, Mike Cusack, Bill Livingston, Jack Lee, Premier Piping in general, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spiritualized, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, The Decemberists, Spoon, Built to Spill, Les Savy Fav, Do Make Say Think, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Beck, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A Silver Mt. Zion, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, The Who, The Eagles, The Dead Meadow, Gang of Four, The Pixies, PAVEMENT, and, most importantly, Simon and Garfunkel

Movies:

Sin City, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol I and II, Pulp Fiction, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, Stripes, Sideways, Dune, Closer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wet Hot American Summer, On the Waterfront, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Shawshank Redemption, Anchorman, Back to the Future Trilogy, Morris the Midget Moose, Asterix the Gaul, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

Television:

Arrested Development mainly Adult Swim features-Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, Daily Show, and the Tour De France, Dexter is also one of the best shows I've ever seen

Books:

Lord of the Rings, Confederacy of Dunces, Heart of Darkness, King Lear, In the Lake of the Woods, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Mechanobiology: Cartilage and Chondrocytes, Piobaireachd Volume 2,

Heroes:

Bob Wickman