Netninja Information

I was goth, now I wear colors. I was industrial, now I have short hair. I used to play piano, now I type. But with each of these lifestyles and changes comes a bit of learning, a bit of experience, an ever-increasing pool of knowledge to pull from. I still listen to goth and industrial music frequently, I just no longer look like either stereotype. I like to believe that I have an analytical mind with an appreciation for art, music, and philosophy; an enjoyment of both going out and being social as well as quiet time to myself; a balance between science and magic; a mature and organized life interspersed with spontaneous outbursts of childlike curiosity and glee. I like science. I like puzzles mainly solving and discussing, though I have designed a few for the Perplex City collectible card game: Catcher , Circular , Confounding Cube , NAND , and Primer . I was into the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) scene for many, many years, but stepped back and took a break from it a few years ago. In the meantime, I have been trying out more local puzzle events such as DASH and Puzzled Pint . I have been living in Portland for about ten years, but was born and raised in The OC (with a short span between the two in Boston.) The people and attitudes in Orange County was just a little too plastic for me both in the physical sense, as in surgery, and the social sense. People in the Pacific Northwest are much more real and dont go around with fake bodies or fake attitudes. I love it so much around here that I bought a house in southeast PDX a few years ago. You might call me a geek, but often that implies that one has never been bathed by the warm glow of the sun in recent years. Quite the contrary! While, admittedly, I have not gone on a proper camping trip in a great many years, I enjoy afternoons out in the wilderness (generally walking/hiking, with the rare bouldering trip thrown in to spice things up). My email address is brian at this domain name. For those interested in stalking my online presence, I have compiled a few ...