My interests include board and card games, crosswords, MathOverflow, and the outdoors. I also like cooking, baking, and eating -- especially sweets of any kind. To try to balance this out, I do Ashtanga & vinyasa yoga, teach BollyX dance fitness, and run. I live in Somerville, MA with my wife, Laura. Some of my favorites (and many of hers) are listed below.

Favorite board/card games: Dominion, Puerto Rico, Caverna, Kingdom Builder, Power Grid, Le Havre, Through the Desert.

Favorite music: Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Pink Martini, rane, Guster, Ben Folds, Clifford Brown, Don Ellis.

Favorite authors: Jacqueline Carey, Tom Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Feynman.

Favorite TV shows: Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Good Eats, Arrested Development, The Daily Show.

Favorite movies: Juno, Saved!, Kevin Smith's New Jersey trilogy, The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption, most by Stanley Kubrick.