About me

Gender	Male
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Interests	technology, biology, life extension, languages, history, politics, travel, sexuality, eastern Europe, the Roman Empire, the great apes, contemporary fiction & movies
Favorite movies	Pleasantville, King Kong (Peter Jackson version), the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Contact, Blade Runner, Galaxy Quest, The Matrix, the Alien series, Strange Days, The Wicker Man, Amelie, The Andromeda Strain, Death and the Maiden, Lair of the White Worm, Kaze no Tani no Naushika, Team America
Favorite books	The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil, Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, God Is Not Great by Christiopher Hitchens, Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal, Reflections of Eden by Birute Galdikas, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild, Household Gods by Judith Tarr & Harry Turtledove, the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley, The Damnation Game by Clive Barker