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Overview

  • 38 references 22 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Working for a research project of University of Naples (r...
  • Do not talk to unknown people, never accept candies. Neve...
  • From close to the mountains, in the inner part of Campania, Italy
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Conspiring against myself and failing (often).

ABOUT ME

My current description is: I'm really upset with CS becoming a for-profit company. Still I'm trying not to let all the fun I get from CS to be ruined by this bad bad trick.
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Here is what used to be my description:

in a not-so-few words...
I'm not open-minded (what does it mean, by the way?!?), I do not like people in general, and specially strangers. I hate to talk with people with funny accents, in languages different from the one spoken in my own little village, and above all I can not stand listening their personal stories and thoughts.
But it happens that culturally I am a masochist, so I really enjoy doing all that. So, you could be welcome, after all. If you are scared by the sarchiapone, like I really am, don't forget to state it when you contact me for surfing my couch: I prefer profile-reading sarchiapone-scared people.
After this, I add some more useless words, just to annoy hasty profile readers: I like calm people that take their time to do things.
Did you follow me till here? You deserve a clap on your back or a kiss or a bow, as you prefer.
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One last thing: all the CSers I've hosted were really nice and adjustable and too kind: don't trust what they say about me, I can not possibly be that good, all the time. Really. You've been warned.

PHILOSOPHY

Try to be happy -the easier way seems to be: by making people around you happy too-

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosted some very nice people, being hosted by even more nice people, and a lot of interesting vis-a-vis and by email conversations!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A wonderful job-related trip in Barcelona: I've met lots of nice CS (some very special ones) in two weeks.
And also in California: so many nice people!
Wherever I've been, with CS I did not feel a stranger, not even for a single day. Wonderful.

Interests

Science, martial arts, music (I can play piano -a bit-, guitar -longer-, air guitar and air cello -no stop- :D ), open source software (don't you know about it? ask me: free crash course in 20secs). I like short poems, usually about love (I'm a cold, rational and cynical romantic).
Tell me about your religion (or lack of it); I'm basically a Pastafarian, but I'm not a strict practitioner.

  • arts
  • poetry
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • surfing
  • martial arts
  • languages
  • religion
  • science
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Books. I love them.
I like science fiction, essays on religion, social sciences and physics (I've read just 4 books, but I enjoyed them).
Oh, I was forgetting "The scaring life of the sarchiapone", published by Whateverland&Elsewhere Press.

Music: Meshuggah, Tool, Gojira, but also Dire Straits, Gianfranco Marziano, Da'namaste, Battiato, Rammstein, De André, and many many more. Yes, I know, they're not homogeneous nor comparable. So am I.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was amazed seeing my home village mountain through my first eyeglasses: so green, so detailed, so massive and clearly far. I've been seeing it for ages, and suddenly it was new for me. Sometime you travel and when you came back you re-discover your own place, because your mind is wearing new eyes.
And now I'm about to leave again!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you some basic Shotokan Karate, basic guitar playing, an introduction to Computer Networks.
And I can make you graduate in my Master course on Procastination (maybe later).
What can you teach me? I'm curious.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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