HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING The most efficient thing done so far is introducing the CS concept to my employees, most of whom are school or university students. It is the best to teach by example, so I just try to be a good host. Since the hosting location is part of my office, I inevitably have to answer the question "Who are those funny dudes who've come to live here?" COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE It's funny that I have used a similar method for getting a free couch (sometimes even conditionally-free helicopter flights) in pre-Internet era while travelling as a freelance photojournalist in places like Turkmenia, Tuwa, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, etc.

I absolutely adore "Object-Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway!