CURRENT MISSION

Go everywhere, see everything, meet everyone, or die trying

ABOUT ME

I'm an occasional software engineer, but a constant adventurer. I've been out of school and working for 6 years, but in early 2010 I left my job to travel to Australia and Indonesia, after which my wife and I bought a sailboat and went to Mexico and back. Now we're once again living and working in Seattle, WA.

PHILOSOPHY

Hakuna matata, live life one day at a time, take some risks, make the most of every experience, drink life to the lees.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host the occasional surfer, surf the occasional couch.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have hosted many surfers in Berkeley. Also surfed in Jakarta and Chicago. Want to do more of both. All have been good experiences.

Interests

travelling, surfing, hiking, rock climbing, sailing, cycling, brewing/drinking beer, making sourdough, music, movies, reading (classics, historic fiction, and serious sci-fi), and billiards

• humanities
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• poker
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• adventure races
• surfing
• sailing
• rock climbing
• engineering
• science
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
Band of Horses, Throw Me the Statue, Ghost Buffalo, The Mountain Goats, Belle & Sebastian, Tegan and Sara, French Kicks, Sparklehorse, The Raveonettes, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths, Gallaxy 500, Joy Division, The New Pornographers, Flaming Lips, The Shins, The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Nada Surf, Rogue Wave, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, The Trashcan Sinatras, Mike Doughty, Twin A, Snow Patrol, Yellowcard, The Delays, Rock Kills Kid, Ben Lee, OK Go, Jet, Guided By Voices, Great Big Sea, The Postal Service, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Pretenders, High Fidelity Soundtrack, Velvet Underground, Love (Aurthur Lee), The Kinks, The Clash, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cake, Barenaked Ladies, Bob Dylan, Ben Folds, Stereolab, 311, They Might Be Giants, Moxy Fruvous, Mighty Mighty Bostones, Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish, Bela Fleck, Phish, Spearhead, Citizen COPE, 13th Floor Elevators, Steely Dan, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Pink Floyd, Doors, The Sundays, The Tragically Hip, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay, Steve Miller Band, Grateful Dead, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Joan Jet, Van Morrison, The Guess Who, Steppenwolf

Favorite Movies:
High Fidelity, Rounders, The Cincinatti Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine, Finding Neverland, PI, The Professional, Life is Beautiful, Boondock Saints, Sneakers, The Great Escape, The Sting, Ghost in the Shell, The Usual Suspects, I Heart Huckabees, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Hackers, Seven Samurai, The Tao of Steve, Sixteen Candles, Better Off Dead, Grosse Point Blank, Serendipity, School of Rock, Garden State, Donnie Darko, V for Vendetta, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket

Favorite Books:
Currently Reading:
Quicksilver
Recently Finished:
20 Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
Favorites:
Thus Spoke Zaratustra, Nietzsche; Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson; Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson; Neuromancer, William Gibson; Enders Game, Orson Scott Card; The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein; Complexity, Mitchell Waldrop; High Fidelity, Nick Hornby; The Carpet People, Terry Pratchett; The Count of Monte Christo, Alexander Dumas; Code, Charles Petzold; The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Free-soloed the steep side of Ragged Peak in the Sierras.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach surfing (waves not couches), rock climbing (including setting protection), how to rig & sail a sloop, how to brew beer, how to bake bread, computer programming, poker, how to make sushi, how to install a light fixture/switch, and how to drive a stick-shift. I'd like to learn more Bahasa Indonesia and French, plus just about anything science, outdoors, cooking, or music related.

Countries I’ve Visited

Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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