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  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Battery researcher
  • mid-grad school
  • From Fairfax Station, Virginia, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Getting my PhD and meeting cool people along the way!

ABOUT ME

I just moved to Austin recently, and am settling into this city but it seems pretty nice so far. I do research on lithium ion batteries and have blacklight danceparties with my friends while drawing on each other with hilighter. Generally not at the same time. I have a minor in puppetry.

PHILOSOPHY

"Life's like a horse wearing a suit and smoking a cigar: Hard to explain."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I couchsurfed along europe a few months ago, and now that I'm back in Austin I'm ready to start hosting!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met a bunch of couchsurfers in Singapore, and they were really fun people to hang out with, so I wanted to get into the community. I recently travelled across europe and had an amazing time.

Interests

Into puppetry, science, yoga, reddit, cooking, music, and travel

  • cooking
  • yoga
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • mathematics
  • physics
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Kurt Vonnegut and Haruki Murakami are my faves fiction-wise, though I read a lot of non-fiction.

Movies: Amelie, Fargo, Little Miss Sunshine are my top 3. Troll 2 or The Room if I'm in a bad movie night mood.

Music: Used to be really into electronic music, lately I've been getting into Peggy Lee.
Air, Amanda Palmer, Au Revoir Simone, Blonde Redhead, Brazilian Girls, Elysian Fields, Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic, Joanna Newsom, The Knife , Ladytron, Lovage, Metric, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Of Montreal, Regina Spektor, Röyksopp, Stars, Psapp, Ratatat, Sigur Rós, Venus hum, Yelle

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I took a course in ultraviolet/blacklight puppetry at my college. Our final exam was to do an interpretation of "Acid Queen" by the Who, and make it really trippy. We all dressed in black except for one girl who wore hot pink fishnets that glowed under the blacklight, and we held up things that glowed and made it look like everything was floating.

Teach, Learn, Share

English, math/physics, puppetry, yoga.

I spent a summer working on a scanning tunneling microscope, which lets you take images that are zoomed in so far that you can see actual atoms, like this http://www.nanotec.es/applications/gallery/miscelaneous//3/current_stm_hopg.jpg .

Scanning Tunneling Microscopes work by using something called "quantum tunneling", which basically means electrons can teleport from one point to another, without ever being anywhere in the middle. The number of electrons that teleport is based on how close the points are to each other. So what we do is put a lot of electrons on a sharp microscope tip, then see how many of them jump to the sample that we want to take an image of. This lets us see how far away the sample is. We keep moving the tip, and it lets us see how far away different points are, letting us take an image of the whole sample. Quantum Mechanics is cool stuff!

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Israel, Malaysia, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Singapore, United States

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