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radish

Dance with us, Gir! Dance with us into oblivion!

About Me


I'm geeky. I honestly believe that I am a mutant radish; this fact logically explains why I do not behave like a normal girl.
I'm an intellectual, a social liberal, a realist (at least I'd like to think so). I'm rather silly and totally uncoordinated. And I have no sense of fashion. Some might call me a grammar nazi, but come on! normal people freak out about the improper use of "fewer" and "less," right?
I like (good) live music and I love swing dancing. Combine the two and I'm ecstatic. And yes, that includes good music that isn't normally associated with swing dancing. Like happy hardcore. If it's not a simple time signature, I can adapt.
If moderation could be accomplished by averaging extremes, I would never again have people use the phrase "moderation in all things" as a warning to me.
because i don't like using the blog on here, and i've had an lj for many a year: my lj

My Interests

physics, computer hardware, the metric system, duct tape, politics, air hockey, playing with power tools, puzzles, reading, music, civil wars of all kinds, simplicity, drawing, LEDs, Kingdom of Loathing, robots, pirates, devil duckies, monkeys, pianos and keyboards, lasers, untangling string/cables, cats

I'd like to meet:


look at me still talking, when there's science to do
when I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done
on the people who are still alive

Music:

Dream Theater, Rush, Yes, Son of Rust, Spock's Beard, Jethro Tull, Ella Fitzgerald, deprecate, VAST, Tori Amos, Led Zeppelin, The Cranberries, They Might be Giants, Empty Room, musicals, Queensryche, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, stuff. it changes.

Movies:

The Nightmare Before Christmas, March of the Penguins, Boondock Saints, Requiem for a Dream, Dead Poets Society, Medicine Man, Contact, Star Wars (the original three...Han shot first!), Munich...

Television:

Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Enterprise...but never ever Voyager), Law and Order: SVU, Heroes, MacGyver, Stargate SG1, Invader ZIM, Scrubs, the West Wing, LOST, Dexter

Books:

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ender's Game, many physics books, anything by Terry Pratchett, A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Catch 22, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

Heroes:

Lou Dobbs, Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver), Gir