CURRENT MISSION

To claw through the obstacles to my next goal with the same tenacity with which I did it last time

ABOUT ME

Although I'm often afraid to undertake things alone, it seems that's how I've always ended up doing things, and it's allowed me to make lots of friends along the way.

PHILOSOPHY

Drat it, I feel like if I could easily fill this in, my life would be SO much easier.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Biked from the Atlantic to the Pacific, couchsurfing a LOT on the way. Been couchsurfing since.

Interests

black and white photography, philosophy, hiking, open-source software, cross-country skiing, Haydn, trains, 20th-century Russian literature, languages, cognitive neuropsychology, Christianity, history, astrophysics, geology, Saint-Saëns, neutron stars, pulsars, linguistics, business, Bach, finance, Russian bards, shell scripting, astronomy, Dagö, steak, GPS, akitas, Vivaldi, Islam, sociology, ejectors, Linux, Israel, books on tape, bicycles, paradoxes, physics, magnetohydrodynamics, Chopin, Judaism, etymology, British literature, geography, topographic maps, religion, piano, meteorology, economics, Afric Simone, artificial intelligence, ethics, electronic circuits, number theory

I considered the fact that disorganized information seems to the human mind like more information, and decided to jumble up my interests so it looks like I have more of them; this probably says something about me. I spent a minute writing a 4-line program to put these in a random order, which probably says something about me, too. I was concerned that the program wasn't optimally efficient, which probably says something about me as well.

(If you are a geek: it was a bash program and I used vi to write it, and that probably tells you more about me than the entire previous paragraph.)

• writing
• books
• literature
• photography
• ethics
• piano
• hiking
• skiing
• christian
• muslim
• astronomy
• business
• cartography
• economics
• etymology
• geography
• geology
• history
• languages
• physics
• religion
• sociology
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Thomas Hardy was my favorite author for many years, but I've gotten a little bored with him. I can't stand pretty much anything that comes out of Hollywood; not out of principle, just because I need a good script and that's not what they concentrate on.

Almost everything I've liked has been non-fiction lately, but I'm working my way slowly through Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Virgil, et. al.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Oh, crap, these are all LONG stories. You'll just have to let me surf your couch or something. ;-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to do all sorts of random things. And I'm constantly learning. As I think of specific stuff, I'll put it here. Maybe.

Countries I’ve Visited

Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Poland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Italy, Russian Federation, United States

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