CURRENT MISSION

Grow personally, indefinitely.

ABOUT ME

shy but extrovert, honest but enigmatic, inscrutable but predictable, deep but shallow, ernie but bert, heavy but light, simple but complicated, easy-going but tough-minded, funny but boring, romantic but aloof, slim but fat, either but or, playfully-metro but hetero, high but on-values, capitalist but hippie-bohemian,
'egotist' but 'philanthropist', friend but rival, androgynous but male, who-cares but i-do

PHILOSOPHY

Creation, action, thoughts, jokes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet. I wanna try this out from the giving rather than the receiving end first.

Interests

thinking ... [reading-talking-humming-working-cycling-smiling-coffee-showering-laughing-smoking-gettingsomewhere-gettinglost-dancing-achieving-failing-succeeding-creating-destroying-living-dreaming-hoping-singing] ... doing

• singing
• dancing
• coffee
• reading
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
Mad Professor, Lee Scratch Perry, Captain Beefheart, Birthday Party, Joy Division, Essential Logic, Delta 5, Public Image Ltd, The Smiths, X-Ray Spex, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Raincoats, The Slits, Au Pairs, Talking Heads, Stooges, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Lene Lovich
Favorite Movies:
Being John Malkovich, Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten, Jalla! Jalla!, Butterfly Effect, Back to the Future, Planet of the Apes (the original ones, not the remake)
Favorite Books:
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, I am a Strange Loop, Jitterbug Perfume, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Unconsoled, The Fabric of Reality, Ending Aging, The Monk & the Riddle, The Society of Mind, Hackers & Painters, Founders at Work, How to Think Straight, Gödel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Emergence, Dreaming in Code, almost everything by: Murray Rothbard, Claude Frederic Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, David Deutsch, Richard Feynman, Stella Black, Georges Perec, Donald Knuth... and a thousand more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The little things. What a cliche but oh-so-tru.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn Arabic and could teach you, um, computer programming. Both are not easy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom