age: 33 (Oct 20, 1979)

MEMBER SINCE: September 2007

occupation: Mathematical biologist/theoretical biologist, marauding caffeine freak, Postmodern poet and member of the Gentry.

fantasy: A nice whipping after a night of arguing about the mysteries of theoretical biology.

gets me hot: An ex of mine once said: "There's two ways all girls like it: rough or ultra-rough."

makes me sad: Proletarian trolls, people with poor taste, bad scientists, philosophers who think people matter.

sign: Astrology, who cares?

body mods: Tattoo of baby Bulldog ant (Myrmecia desertorum) on left forearm. More to come!

most humbling moment: One day I discovered that some people are as smart as me. Not many, but still it is disturbing to run into them on those extremely rare occasions.

heroes: George Gordon, Lord Byron; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; William D. Hamilton; Alexander Grothendieck; Robert Trivers.

stats: 5'9", thin but not exceedingly so, though more so than the average man of my height, blue-green eyes, short hair, beard. "This is Math dawg, you gots to have a beard or NO one will take your seriously"-- said an older PhD student to me my first semester

makes me happy: A good classical record, like a genuine, vinyl Van Cliburn LP, and a big ol' mug of chai or a cappuccino. A good Japanese novel, writing research articles, solving really hard math problems.

crush: No one in particular; trying to get some more articles published, and devise a mathematical theory of biological competition.