CURRENT MISSION

to experience ganesh and jesus simultaneously

ABOUT ME

I've been a student most of my life and finally got to the end of the road with a PhD student at the University of California, Davis in mechanical and aerospace engineering. I studied mostly bicycle and human powered technology (http://biosport.ucdavis.edu).
I live in a cooperative house in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and work as a researcher at Cleveland State University. You can scan through a lot of my life here: http://picasaweb.google.com/moorepants

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted tons of folks at the squat I lived in the Netherlands and in Davis, California. I use the couchsurf website to organize events and meetings. I couch surf when I am out and about.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's been great. There are so many wonderful and giving people around the world. If only countries could act towards each other like couchsurfers do.

Interests

bicycles
cooking
vegetarianism
thinking
guitar
welding
machining
dumpster diving: http://www.vimeo.com/3514257
appropriate technology
human powered machines
community
consensus
computing
sharing
open source
hacking

• design
• cooking
• technology
• tv
• dumpster diving
• guitar
• cycling
• scuba diving
• engineering
• mathematics
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

movie I made while traveling in Copenhagen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjni3dOwSBE

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i was sitting at a traffic light in Philadelphia in my dad's car staring out the window. i was 9. i witnessed a man being beat and robbed at the corner. it seemed like a tv show from inside my car bubble. people walked by the incident like nothing was happening. we left when the light turned green.

Teach, Learn, Share

i teach bike repair, wood/metal/composite fabrication (cutting, welding, etc), mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering topics (controls, dynamics, mechanics), guitar basics, worm composting, screen printing, trash diving, ice cream making, website design, programming,...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States

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