Techie with a heavy interest in History, S&SF, anime and other cultures.

I like my friends, food, drink, History, Physics, Evolution and everything about how the heck it all came to be. And friendly discussions on anything and everything ... But I warn you, I tend to play the contrarian just for fun.

I am friendly, geeky, and will not bite

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

To meet new people, both local and from abroad.

兴趣

Books: Too many, too fast. Not enough space and not enough time to read them all... A lot of History books, some Philosophy, some Physics, some Darwinism and an absolute majority of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

I also love anime and animation in general but hate those "will kill/defeat next enemy to get [whatever] and go up one level" type of anime. Dragonball and Saint Seya are the absolute worst of the kind.

Used to be a big comics fan and collector but it is now in the past. Still like some comics but outgrew superheroes and the like.

In no particular order, some favorite authors in:

Fantasy and science-fiction: Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, L.E. Modesitt, Joan D. Vinge, Poul Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guinn, Frederick Pohl, Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Arthur C. Clarke, Neil Gaimann, David Brinn, Alfred Bester, Isaac Asimov, Alexander Jablokov, Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Donaldson, S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Douglas Adams ...

Other fiction: John Irving, Tennyson, T.S.Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, William Blake, Robert Louis Stevenson, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Maurice Leblanc, Scott Adams ...

Ok, I confess, outside F&SF, I do not read much contemporary fiction. Or fiction at all.

Non fiction: Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Marc Ferro, George Duby, Lucien Febvre, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Nora (ok, so I like the Annales, so what?), Arnold Toynbee, Michael Rostovtzeff, Steven Runciman, Paul Johnson, Jared Diamond (and I also like people from other schools, so what, again?), Peter Burke, Umberto Eco, Stephen J. Gould, Richard Dawkins, James Lovelock, Paul Davies, Brian Greene, Noam Chomski, Karen Armstrong, Joseph Campbell ...

Movies: Worse than with books. One every week, many I like, many I hate and some should be burned for lack of any content, except I disagree with burning anything as a matter of principles.

Some favorites, mostly comedies:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Monty Python: Holy Grail, Life of Brian. Erik the Viking, A Fish Called Wanda, The Adventures of the Baron of Munchausen, X-Men (all, so far), 8-mile, The Day Earth Stood Still (both versions), Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Little Shop of Horrors, V for Vendetta, Inglorious Bastards ... too many (or maybe not).

TV Shows: House, Heroes, The Mentalist, Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Burn Notice and Two & a Half Men. Babylon V, Star Trek: Enterprise, West Wing, Friends, Logan's Run, Amazing Stories, Twilight Zone, Monty Python's Flying Circus...

Music: Rock, punk, Middle Ages, some progressive, some pop, some classic, some some...

• fish
• books
• dining
• running
• drinking
• flying
• shopping
• comics
• anime
• movies
• tv
• music
• fishing
• animation
• history
• physics
• science

音乐、电影和书籍

The list is too long to be complete.

The ones below are the ones that just popped up on my mind right now.

Music: Rush, Straycats, Clash, Greenday, My Chemical Romance, The Who, ...

Movies (and TV series): MASH, Blade Runner, Gross Pointe Blank, Back to the Future, Nausicaa, Grave of Fireflies, ...

Books: Starship troopers, Foundation series, Hotel New Hampshire, Arsène Lupin, The count of Monte Cristo

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Brazil, France, India, Maldives, Morocco, Mozambique, United Arab Emirates, United States