CURRENT MISSION

Founding the UW-Madison Centre for Porch Studies

ABOUT ME

Sum ergo cogito

PHILOSOPHY

Onwards. And so onwards along the path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence! However you may be, be your own source of experience! Throw off your discontent about your nature; forgive yourself your own self, for you have in yourself there is a ladder with a hundred rungs, on which you can climb to knowledge.....You have it in your power to achieve the absorption of all you experience - your experiments, errors, delusions, passions, your love and your hope-into your goal, without remainder.

-Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I mainly participate by staying on other couches as I am still getting in to couch surfing, but I am looking forward to getting more involved.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed on a lovely couch in Århus, Denmark and look forward to finding many more couches in the world.

兴趣

I generally think of music and philosophy as my main interests, but as it turns out I am interested in all sorts of things. I spend a lot of time cooking and finding new places to eat. I thoroughly enjoy spending time on my porch in the summer. In general I spend a lot of time outdoors and love backwoods and wilderness camping. I also enjoy the feeling of being in a country and not knowing the language. Lastly, but certainly not least I love maps.

• cooking
• music
• outdoor activities
• camping
• surfing
• cartography

音乐、电影和书籍

I don't think I've found a genre of music from which I haven't found something that I liked. However, my favorites are: Sonny Rollins: The Bridge, Wilco: A Ghost Is Born, Nels Cline: Draw Breath, Bob Dylan & The Band: Planet Waves, Ornette Coleman: Change of The Century, Loose Fur: Loose Fur, The Clash: Sandinista, Mahler's 9th Symphony, Nietzsche's Klavier Werker, The Roots: Organix, Sonic Youth: Murray Street....and on and on and on.

I spend my time reading a lot of philosophy books, rather than literature and fiction in general, but here are some favorites of mine; Edward Abbey: Desert Solitaire, Søren Kierkegaard: Repetition, Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science and On The Genealogy of Morals, August Strindberg: Lady Julie, Dag Solstad: Shyness and Dignity, Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake, Albert Camus: The Stranger

教，学，和分享

I can teach a few things pretty well.
-Computers: how to fix them and how to use them
-Cooking: I'm pretty familiar with the French, Italian, and German styles of cooking, but would be eager to learn more about different sorts of cookery.
-Bikes: how to repair them.
-Philosophy: I don't know why anyone would want to learn about philosophy from me, but as it happens I'm not bad at teaching it.

我游览过的国家

Germany, Sweden, Turkey

我居住过的国家

Denmark, United States

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