Gender	Male
Industry	Technology
Occupation	mad scientist
Location	Denver, Colorado, United States
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	About Me: Former Cold Warrior (Missile Warning). Former Mad Scientist. Possible reincarnation of Tom Sawyer. Pajama welder. Fake machinist. Ersatz engineer. Pretend *nix sysadmin. "That wizard's just a crazy old man." Too broke to be 'eccentric'. Co-inventor of robotic combat competitions, circa 1989. My signature burned up in Venus's atmosphere - really. I wore latex before latex was cool. Known associate of writers, artists, mathematicians, musicians, drummers, and other persons of ill repute. Mostly harmless unless provoked. I live in Colorado with my wife and an acute lack of cats.
Interests	aikido, audiophiles, bats, bdsm, Bettie Page, body art, body modification, bondage, books, cats, cheese, chocolate, cigars, coffee, computers, controlled substances, corset-training, corsetry, corsets, cryptology, cryptography, cyberculture, cyberpunk, cypherpunk, DeMask, dressing for pleasure, electronics, engineering, Ernest Glitch, erotica, fandom, fetish fashion, fetish sex, fetishes, freaks, fulgurites, gadgets, H. R. Giger, good food, good wine, gothic rock, HiFi, high end audio, high fidelity, high voltage, home improvement, home theater, industrial rock, kilts, Kutna Hora, latex, latex clothing, latex sex, libertarianism, Lichtenberg figures, lightning, literature, Macintosh, Mac OS, mad science, mad scientists, Magnepan, Marcus Gray, Michael Manning, Nikola Tesla, paraphilias, piercing, piercings, psychedelics, qi gong, railguns, reading, rubber clothing, sci-fi, science fiction, The Sedlec Ossuary, sex, shaolin, sorayama, sushi, tattoos, techno, Tesla coils, Thierry Mugler, thunderstorms, tightlacing, tinkering, Too Much Coffee Man, total enclosure, utilikilts, vac beds, vacuum beds, waist training, your mom.
Favorite movies	Blade Runner, The Cat With Hands, The City of Lost Children, Fritz Lang, Jean Cocteau, Hayao Miyazaki, Jan Svankmajer,The Brothers Quay, Tsui Hark, Tarantino, the Coen brothers, the Wachowskis...
Favorite music	Alan Hovhaness, Antonin Dvorak, Art of Noise, Bauhaus, Beethoven, Bernard Herrmann, big band jazz, Wagner, Dead Can Dance, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Dropkick Murphys, Einsturzende Neubauten, electronica, Erasure, Front Line Assembly, Funker Vogt, Fiction 8, Gustav Holst, Gustav Mahler, Jurassic 5, Samuel Barber, Gorillaz, Igor Stravinski, Delerium, Laibach, Ozric Tentacles, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, techno (mostly house, acid house, goa/psy/trance); Tool, Velvet Acid Christ, Yello, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, The Hu, Steve'n'Seagulls...
Favorite books	Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Beat writers, Hackers (Steven Levy), Alastair Reynolds, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, The CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, Edward Gorey, E. A. Poe, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Charles Addams, Machinery's Handbook...

You've successfully slain the dragon! How will you toast your marshmallows?

When I was a kid, I knew more woodscraft than a Scoutmaster; I'll just start a fire.