I am	an aspiring underachiever. I’ve worked for NASA, planned and conducted my own research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; I founded, ran, and sold two separate software companies and one apparel company, and I have published peer-reviewed scholarship in leading journals across two separate academic disciplines. Other than the occasional unpredictable infusion of cash, lots of stress, and the ability to impress status-conscious morons with the preceding sentence, all that ambition and hard work got me nothing.
I am	pretty sure that Claiming to be "offended" is just a lazy way to tell another person to shut up without having to prove that what they said is false.
I am	a writer currently idly working on a novel set amidst the events before a wildly catastrophic accident at a particle accelerator. I pursue this project largely as an aesthetic exercise—a distraction from the indignities of embodied primate existence. Themes include evolutionary psychology, nihilism, Star Trek, contact among conscious beings, and waterfowl. I may or may not ever get around to a) finishing or b) publishing it; I'm cool with this.
I was	trained as a scientist specializing in the rigorously empirical and quantitative study of animal behavior, including that of humans.
I've lived	in London, New York, France, and presently on Beacon Hill in Boston.
I speak	English and French.
I code	C#, Ruby, PHP, VB, and BASIC. As far as Javascript is concerned, I am capable but a conscientious objector.
I am	Founder and President Emeritus of Norbauer Inc. A global web software consulting firm, acquired by another firm in 2008. We we were a team of over twenty software architects, engineers, and designers with offices in Boston, New York, and New Delhi. In my capacity as CEO, I was cited in Wired, Forbes, and many other venues. We built bespoke server software for the clients ranging from Yale, Microsoft, Harvard, and AMD to a wide variety of tech start-ups and international businesses.
I enjoy	yoga, mini vanilla cupcakes, French phonetics, fussy coffee and tea, world-weary pessimism, and pictures of hot guys without their shirts on.
I read	quite a lot of books. I'm especially attached to Michel Houellebecq, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Dawkins, HP Lovecraft, Steven Pinker, EM Cioran, Gene Roddenberry, Alain de Botton, Cyril Connolly, and Albert Camus.
I am	pretty sure that Not only are all religions manifestly false, but so too are all the secular narratives (humanism, positivism, liberalism, libertarianism) that, like religions, attempt to craft a system of positive values out of the epistemologically questionable notion that something can be transcendently and meaningfully true merely because it would be nice if that were the case. Reasoning by appeal to platitude or an implausible alternate-universe utopia is not reasoning at all. As Houellebecq puts it, "human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movement of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure 'Victorian fictions.' All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant." These facts may not delight us overmuch; they are still true.
I am	Founder of Lovetastic.com The first online community for gay men to challenge the tired tropes of gay culture, providing a more aesthetically palatable (and less vapid) alternative to the various "scenes" that previously existed for gay men to meet and form friendships—or fall in love. Founded in 2004, our offices moved to Manhattan in 2005 when we obtained investor funding. During that time, we won laudatory national press ranging from outlets like The San Francisco Chronicle to the Boston Globe. In 2010, Lovetastic became a part of OKCupid.
I was	born in West Virginia. I'm actually in overalls, chawing on a reed of hay as we speak.
I am	creator of RubyRags Maker of nerd apparel, acquired by the design firm LittleLines in 2010.
I am	pretty sure that Everything is fundamentally easy. Most of what passes for intelligence is just persistence and a high tolerance for boredom (both of which may technically be the same thing).