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The Office Troll

Dance naked! Body modesty is a social disease!

About Me

I am a rather old-fashioned gentleman with a wonderfully incredible wife and an incredibly wonderful girlfriend.

I despise MySpace and only have one because so many of my friends wish to keep in contact with me this way.

If you really want to get to know me, please go to my Livejournal .

My Interests

alchemy, art, artificial intelligence, asterix & obelix, baron munchausen, beauty, board games, books, calvin & hobbes, candle-light, card games, cats, celtic pajamas, charles dodgeson, cheese, chess, children, cirque du soleil, city of lost children, clockwork, comparative religion, cooking, corrective phrenology, cryptozoology, cthulhu for president, cuddling, dancing barefoot, defragmentation, dirigibles, discworld, don quixote, dr seuss, dr who, etymology, eyes, faeries, fantasy, fedoras, fermat's last theorem, fibromyalgia, final fantasy, flowers, folklore, fractals, fraggles, freethinking, friendship, game design, games, garlic, gay rights, german, girl genius, going barefoot, gravity, gurps, gustav holst, happiness, holding hands, huckleberries, intelligence, kittens, l frank baum, jokes, laughter, learning, literature, love, mad science, mathematics, music, mythical creatures, mythology, nerds, obscure movies, NPR, oscar wilde, parks, philosophy, physics, pi, piano, plate-tectonics, polyamoury, public radio, puzzles, questionable content, quiet baths, reading, religion, roleplaying games, romance, roses, schlock mercenary, science, science fiction, science related memetic disorder, scotch, sergei rachmaninov, silent moments, simplicity, singing, smiling, spider robinson, spirituality, spokane, square-enix, srmd, steampunk, steve jackson games, super mario brothers, tanstaafl, tea, terry pratchett, the divine city, the fifth element, the flat earth society, the last unicorn, the prisoner, the scarlet pimpernel, theatre, they might be giants, time, top hats, trees, turkish coffee, typewriters, urban fantasy, vegetarianism, water, world domination, writing, zeppelins, zoot...

I'd like to meet:

I'm not here to meet people, but I enjoy spending time with intelligent, literate people who have a fair sense of humour.

Music:

A little bit of everything, but these days I focus primarily on classical symphonic, geek rock, and esoterica.

Movies:

The Dark Crystal; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; The Princess Bride; The City of Lost Children; Guys and Dolls; Les Triplettes du Belleville

Television:

Babylon 5; Dr Who; God, the Devil, & Bob; Firefly; The Muppet Show; The Prisoner; The Addams Family

Books:

A History of Mathematics; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Last Crusade; The Phantom Tollbooth; The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; The Last Unicorn; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Heroes:

Mycroft Holmes Sarumon the White The Scarlet Pimpernel

My Blog

Quote of the evening

'Every woman has it in her to be attractive, sexy, even downright fuckable, but it's a rare woman who can do those and still have moments of perfect cute innocence.' - me
Posted by The Office Troll on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:47:00 PST

Peace

You must understand that peace is an internal matter. It has to be a self-discipline for an individual or for an entire civilization. It must come from within. If you set up an outside power to enforc...
Posted by The Office Troll on Fri, 04 May 2007 07:26:00 PST

What I've been listening to

120 Minutes of Jick and SkullyA  question and answer and ramble session with the creators of Kingdom of Loathing (around 115 minutes, twice weekly)A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobego...
Posted by The Office Troll on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:48:00 PST

Regarding Men

Disclaimer: I have not studied psychology or anthropology in most of a decade and this is mostly from my own observation and analysis. I would be surprised if those reading this did not disagree with ...
Posted by The Office Troll on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:54:00 PST

Blog! You're it!

Here's the point of the game: you are supposed to post a blog containing a list of ten weird habits or random facts about yourself, then "tag" ten people who are expected to post a blog containing a s...
Posted by The Office Troll on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:38:00 PST

2006: The year that the webcomics died

Several webcomics I loved terminated this year.  A few picked back up, but several did not.Filthy Lies died in January and had an irregular heartbeat for most of the year before starting back up ...
Posted by The Office Troll on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST

In honour of my favourite Mad Scientist

Tomorrow marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla, the greatest and possibly least understood mad scientist to grace our world.Probably the most readily apparent mark he left on modern...
Posted by The Office Troll on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:09:00 PST

Top 8

Person one: Rachel 1. How long have you know this person? Almost 3 years (met face-to-face in April, 2003) 2. Did you go to the same school as him/her? No, but she is going to a college which I attend...
Posted by The Office Troll on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:38:00 PST