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Overview

  • 16 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Hebrew (modern)
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Product Manager / Game Designer
  • High School, College
  • From Chicago
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Explore like a visitor in my own city!

ABOUT ME

Come stay on our couch! We're pretty great.About me:I like to chill with people and swap travel stories over a beer or two.Depending on what I'm working on, I can be anywhere from completely hands off to all-inclusive with visitors.If you're looking for a really easy place to stay with people who prefer art and conversation to television then mi casa es su casa.

PHILOSOPHY

Life's a lot easier when you're not an asshole.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Here's a link to a guide I'm writing to SF: If you have any questions, let me know:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xGPuIhX2UL84kcTMOylMXMQdMP-dVa07TfRe6oRLgZQ/edit?hl=en_US

(It's a work in progress)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

See guide above

Interests

Reading, Free Styling, SCUBA diving, white water kayaking, travel (of course), meeting new people, adventuring etc.

  • arts
  • writing
  • dining
  • beer
  • electronics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • windsurfing
  • scuba diving
  • history
  • tourism
  • road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

T.V Shows: Californication, Flight of the Conchords, Lost, Entourage, Battlestar, Venture Brothers, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Weeds, Clone High, Undeclared, Firefly, Rocco's Modern Life, Cowboy Bebop, Scrubs

Movies: Gattaca, The Dark Knight, Dirty Work, Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Forest Gump, The Big Labowski, Wet Hot American Summer, Grandma's Boy, American Psycho, Equilibrium, Home Alone 1-2, SpaceBalls, Anything with Steven Seagall or Robert Downey Junior

Books: Catch-22.

Music: Porcupine Tree, Yes, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Circa Survive, The Glitch Mob, Pendulum, Passion Pit, Al Di Miola, Claude DeBussy, George Gershwin, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Frampton, Postal Service, Jean Luc Ponty, Explosions in the Sky, Bluetech, Sublime, Shpongle, Liquid Tension Experiment, Postal Service, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, The Who, Rage Against the Machine, Foreigner, Chick Corea, Richard Cheese, Massive Attack, Hybrid, IAM, Rattatat, Kanye West, Twista, Piglet, Russian Circles, Kid You'll Move Mountains, Lydia, Apocalyptica, Nick Drake, Jake Shimabukaro, Deftones, Team Sleep, Placebo, Sonic Mayhem, etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

After a fairly arduous hike to the summit, the view from the top of the monastery in Petra was superbly enlightening.

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I know a bit about:- Computers and Electronics- Formal English communication- Web SitesThings I want to learn:- The art of Carbeque for long road trips.- How to write a good script.- Everything about FOOD. History, composition, and location of good cuisine.- Hangliding- Windsurfing- Better HTML/CSS- How to Snot Rocket like a champ- How to shoot skeet

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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