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Tiara

Current Mission: " ... does oOo .... not ... compute ... oOo ... must ... oOo ... destroy MCP ... @#>>><"

Personal Designations

Couch available Not verified Vouched for8
Canada
Quebec
Montreal
Lat: 45.54507, Lon: -73.6393
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General Information

Tiara has been vouched for
Couch availableYes
CouchSurf requests replied to95%
member sinceOctober 31st, 2005
profile views3364
age33
genderMale
membernametiara23
occupation50% bits&bytes, 30% sleep, 10% travel, 6% food, 4% grooming (values rounded for convenience)
educationwatn... bildunk? uff de strassn von Bärlin, alta ey!
grew up inBerlin
ethnicityhuman
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Languages

  • German (Germany)Expert
  • English (New Zealand)Expert
  • French (France)Intermediate
  • MaoriBeginner
  • CzechBeginner

Groups I Belong To

Activités sportives à Montréal - Sports activities in Montreal 68:203
Why: coz i got rackets for table tennis & badminton now
Soirée jeux (plateau, cartes...) 26:76
Why: coz i play a mean Funghi deck
dumpster diving 596:291
Why: coz trash makes my day
Active in 2 more groups.
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Couch Information


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Couch Available: Yes
Preferred Gender: Any
Max Surfers Per Night: 2

Shared Sleeping Surface: No
Shared Room: Yes

i can provide an inflatable mattress and a small pillow. there is a couch in the living room, situated between sleeping rooms and kitchen. you can also crash on my room's floor and presumably also on my flatmate's.

please request the couch at least 3 days in advance and you can stay for about 2 nights.

Friends (52)

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PictureSandra Hegglin
27, Female
Sachseln, Obwalden
Switzerland
Friends since September 2006
"this lovely guy hosted me in windy welly"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Surfed2   Traveled10  
PictureKasper Souren
32, Male
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
Netherlands
Friends since April 2005
"Sebastian was my colleague when working for Geekcorps in Mali. He's an interesting, friendly anarcho-geek!"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
I vouched for Tiara
Met in person   Hosted30+   Surfed30+   Traveled30+  
PictureSid Carter
30, Male
Wellington, Wellington
New Zealand
Friends since August 2006
"I've surfed his couch while I was in Wellington."
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Met in person   Surfed2  
PictureQUICHE POIREAU
29, Male
Brighton, England
United Kingdom
Friends since October 2006
"wellington Kick ass team, and when i surfed his couh, he thought i look so good on it, he gave me his place :D"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
Met in person   Surfed2  
PictureBRAZILIANGIRL
26, Female
Camaqua, Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
Friends since August 2006
"We met because of Hospitality Club. We had a coffee and climbed. He is a nice friend!"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person  
PictureJenny Wenz
26, Female
Norrent-Fontes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
France
Friends since 2005
"I got to know him at as the ugly monster Steve at the Winter Camp in Riga where we spent some time together"
PictureJuliane Boll
19, Female
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Canada
Friends since August 2008
"I have met him at the Painted Turtle Guesthouse in Nanaimo and we travelled together for two days."
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Traveled3  
PictureANU*
29, Female
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
Netherlands
Friends since February 2007
"Various sightings at the tech room table @ CSC-NZ"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
I vouched for Tiara
Met in person  
PictureKuna Rasmussen
21, Female
Otterup, Funen (Fyn)
Denmark
Friends since April 2007
"I found Sebastian through CS and stayed at his place in Wellington for a week."
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
Met in person   Surfed7  
PictureJENBELL
28, Female
Wellington, Wellington
New Zealand
Friends since July 2006
"We work together in an internet cafe collective and socialise too :)"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
I vouched for Tiara
Met in person  
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Tiara
masta of tableminton
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Personal Description

analytic, reflective, quiet, calculating, gentle

How I Participate in CS2

hosting/surfing; few bug reporting; script for exporting profile data -> ridesurf

Interests

computers, anarchy, cycling, badminton, hiphop

Philosophy

- perhaps the buddhists are right when they say that your sole reason for existence is helping others.
- free associations of free people
- question authority ... and hack
- don't panic

Music, Movies, Books

- das schwarze auge, shadowrun, discworld, the art of programming, tron, snowcrash, hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
- hiphop, ska, dancehall, irish folk, klezmer
- when nietzsche wept, a scanner darkly, pi, le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, la science des rêves, elementarteilchen, auf der anderen seite

Types of People I enjoy

sometimes i like being with active people, sometimes i prefer being reclusive. soft and peaceful people, with convictions, preferred.

Teach, Learn, Share

free software + computers in general

One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

taking the Greyhound from Tofino to Halifax and not getting the throat slit.

Opinion on the CouchSurfing.com Project

sweet as! you get accommodation for free (as in beer) and get to know the locals, what they do, how they live. spread the commons!

Locations Traveled

TRAVELED: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cook Islands, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland (Republic of), Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States
LIVED: Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Mali, New Zealand
WANTS TO GO: Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Venezuela

References

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From CHANPAB
 Montreal, Canada
 Sep 26
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 6 days  
Positive

Sebastian is an open and respectful guest. we enjoyed dinner and good conversations together. hope he enjoys Montreal even winter is starting soon... keep in touch!

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From Juliane Boll
 Nanaimo, Canada
 Sep 8
Met in person Friend, Traveled 3 days 
Positive

I met him in Nanaimo at the Painted Turtle Guesthouse and we spend two days in Nanaimo - walking around. Then we decided to travel together for 3 days and he is a really perfect guy!
Travel with him if you have the possiblity and you will never forget it.
Thanks for everything! We have to meet again!!!

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From Christiane Moessner
 Nanaimo, Canada
 Aug 19
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 1 days 
Positive

After meeting at the PTG, we went cycling to the Nanaimo River (accidentally :D) and had some good conversation there! He is open and easy going, it was great to get to know you!

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From Don Chong
 Singapore, Singapore
 Jul 5
Met in person Friend, Surfed 4 days  
Positive

Tiara is a good and friendly host. He is a guru in computer open-source knowledge. But unforunately that he is also moving in 2 months time to Toronto or Halifax otherwise I would think that any couchsurfers would enjoy downtown Vancouver when surfing his couch!

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From Helena Karhu
 Copenhagen, Denmark
 Apr 29
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 4 days  
Positive


What can I say? :) Certainly a memorable stay in a real community appartment, so Berlin. Tiara is a perfect host for independent couchsurfers, and it was great to spend the last evening together visiting a puppet show and a culture centre. Hoping to see you again!

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From ANU*
 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Jun 2, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Tiara totally rocked the Tech Room table & helping out with unfortunate consequences of Ubuntu on my laptop...

Then it was quite natural to ask to be hosted by him up in Wellington on my way up - the "lounge" was occupied by others but floorsurfing was fine, as well as Oblong and dinner and all that.. 2 days was too short so better get your ass back up to Europe someday :)

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From Leonardo Bassani da Silveira
 Vila Velha, Brazil
 May 9, 2007
Met in person Friend, Surfed 30 days  
Positive

I did not talk much with you man, but I am living a reference b/c I had a good feeling about ya. You remind me of a Ninja.....smooth, stealth. Just wanted to share what I felt, with the unusual thinking. Cheers to you man and enjoy life.

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From Kuna Rasmussen
 Otterup, Denmark
 Apr 9, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 7 days  
Positive

Sebastian is a very nice and easy going smart guy, and I really enjoyed staying a his place and helping out making a compost bin...! He's a very calm person and I enjoyed our conversations. Though not super handy with a hammer, he definately outsmarts the most when it comes to computers! If still in Wellington he'll take you to 128, which is a great place where you'll meet even more cool people!

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From Kristen W
 Auckland, New Zealand
 Mar 3, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

liked talking the night we met. i like his relaxed easy going manner. smart and very easy to converse with. good person to be around.

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From STAMP
 Hunker, United States
 Feb 28, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 14 days  
Positive

I had a good conversation with him. All in all a good guy and hard worker. He helped out considerably here at the collective. A pleasure to be around.

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From Richard Jeong
 Washington, United States
 Feb 28, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Sebastian a good fool, if a quiet one. Never got to talk to him till Anu decided ubuntu was a good idea on her new laptop. Fun was had by all working with partitions, funky new hardware, and external drives... righttt. :)

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From Joe Edelman
 Northampton, United States
 Feb 28, 2007
Met in person Friend, Traveled 15 days 
Positive

Tiara is a co-worker, an inspiration, and a very good guy. He travels the world giving his time to worthy causes, and he's outrageously competent. Plus, he knows that { BIRD + HAT = BIRDHAT }.

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From Christopher Ayling
 Vancouver, Canada
 Feb 26, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 5 days  
Positive

Sebastian rocks! He's easygoing and brings a genuine warmth with him. Great to talk to and he makes a damb fine meal! Thanks for the Zuzu! We shall meet again!

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From ShAi
 Mumbai, India
 Feb 25, 2007
Met in person Good Friend, Surfed 18 days  
Positive

I really enjoyed meeting Sebastian. He's quiet, but deep and amazingly focussed. He and I had some fantastic conversations, and made me realise that he is interested in so many things and is pretty cool...he has a silent manner, but its pretty efficient and gets things done :)
I think he is a wonderful person to work around, I learnt so much of how not to get distracted from him, and he cooks some really good veggie food!!

I think he would make a wonderful and non obstrusive host and pretty much someone you can talk to anything about, and have some wonderful chats and learn quite a bit. His calmness is definitely soothing and immediately makes you feel relaxed around him...he is helpful and kind and considerate :-)
Definitely recommended!

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From Vicki Spiers
 Takaka, New Zealand
 Feb 23, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

we met Tiara at the collective in Nelson. It was nice that he took time out from his projects to play pool with Karlin.

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From Henry Van Campa
 Nelson, New Zealand
 Feb 23, 2007
Met in person Acquaintance,  
Positive

Sebastian is a nice geek with cool looking van with personalised paintings. We had some interesting chats at the Collective in Nelson.

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From DIGS
 Portland, United States
 Feb 19, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Everywhere I go, it seems Tiara precedes me. I wish I'd surfed his van. It would just sync up an otherwise joyously eerie phenomena. It was good to actually meet him. I feel like my immanent future's in good hands.

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From ALORND
 Bayreuth, Germany
 Jan 22, 2007
Met in person Good Friend, Traveled 2 days 
Positive

very nice guy. helpful, intersting, fun.

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From Sandra Hegglin
 Sachseln, Switzerland
 Dec 30, 2006
Met in person Friend, Surfed 2 days Traveled 10 days 
Positive

after a good weekend in wellington we decided to travel together with homie (his beautiful van) throughout the south island - which was a good decision! :-)

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From Kasper Souren
 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Dec 17, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 30 days Surfed 30 days Traveled 30 days 
Positive

Sebastian was my colleague in Mali, working for Geekcorps. He's a great geek, socially engaged and has firm principles. We spent a lot of great time in Bamako, hanging out at street restaurants. N'ka a te bamanankan me...

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From QUICHE POIREAU
 Brighton, United Kingdom
 Oct 10, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 2 days  
Positive

He made me sleep on the floor on my futur appartement when i was ready to sleep in my car.

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From Sid Carter
 Wellington, New Zealand
 Aug 19, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Surfed 2 days  
Positive

Sebastian was a wonderful host, for my first couchsurfing experience. And I have been invited for two more days stay at his place before I leave Wellington. Isn't he awesome or what ? :)

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From Josh Borts
 Hong Kong Island, China
 Aug 5, 2006
Met in person Friend, Traveled 30 days 
Positive

Colleague/roomate @ GeekCorps Mali. I lived and worked with Sebastian for around a month in Bamako. We often spent our time at the local food spots trying to communicate with the women behind the table. He is certainly a chill guy who is quite spontaneous (shaving his very nice goatee).

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From Dale Rogers
 Canberra, Australia
 Jul 19, 2006
Met in person  

Sebastian is a friendly and polite guest. Sebastian stayed with my girlfriend and I in our home in Canberra. He was friendly and polite. He was an interesting person with some interesting experiences and stories to tell. We would gladly host Sebastian again. Good luck in NZ Seb.

Dale and Kat

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