CURRENT MISSION

We're gonna run, run, run, to the cities of the future!

ABOUT ME

Please see: http://peerprod.blogspot.com

I love travelling and share about it so I'd be happy to hear your stories around a tea or a beer!

PHILOSOPHY

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." &
"That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications."
--John Gilmore

"Anything that is worth copying is worth sharing." &
"The more we give away, the richer we become."
--Eben Moglen

"Instead of worrying about what somebody else is going to do, which is not under your control, the important thing is, what are you going to decide about what is under your control?"
--Richard Stallman

"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place." &
"A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity; "what everyone knows" is the line between us and them." &
"Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies." &
"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. " &
"Code is law"
--Lawrence Lessig

"Cyberlaw is global law."
--Nicholas Negroponte

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
--Jimmy Wales

"P2P nets kick all kinds of ass. Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever."
--Cory Doctorow

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."
--William Gibson

"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet.
Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where
were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
-- John Perry Barlow

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."
"Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable."
--John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

"What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions."
--Steve Mann

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll be good to my guest and share my little piece of the world with them!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Besides friends on couchsurfer and couchsurfing parties, i didn't have much, will you come and visit? :-)

Interests

music, philosophy, movies, friends, walking, reading, partying, the world, travels, information, power, communication, ...

• arts
• books
• beer
• vegetarian
• vegan
• running
• modeling
• walking
• partying
• pub crawls
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• coding
• music
• world music
• skiing
• communications
• law
• mathematics
• physics
• software
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, One point O, Tuvalu, Delicatessen, Battle Royale, auberge espagnole, kin dza dza, Full metal jacket, clockwork orange, dr strangelove, memento, gattaca, pi, underground, white cat black cat, reservoir dogs, hackers, suicide club, brazil, quest for the holy grail, the meaning of life, ...

READINGS: Orwell, Huxley, Stephenson, Baudelaire, wikipedia.org, :P ...

MUSIC: goa, breakbeat, jazz, funky beats, world beats, rock, ambiant, classic, whatever :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The "Gouffre de Padirac" in France is a amazing place to visit. The Angkor temples in Cambodia is also a crazy place or maybe the rockies?!

Otherwise, all my trips were amazing to me... Though big mountains in Nagano were a fun place to ski with an incredible landscape and Normandy is a good place to relax with the cows and the sea. ;-)

Nice cities were Barcelona and Berlin for their atmosphere and laissez-faire attitude... Though i really love Montreal and will stay here for now!

(But I'd like to get out for a while to learn Czech, Spanish and whatnot...)

I hope i can help you discover the city through the eyes of someone who has already traveled a bit. :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you the best pubs for specialty beer lovers, the nice neighborhood of Montreal and the cool parks... Guiding you through the city or maybe figure out which party are in in town right now...

I can also suggest good places to eat for vegan, vegetarian and meat lovers... ;-)

If you have any questions about Montreal i can probably help you out, just write me.

I also love movies, electronic/rhythmic/reggae/world music and new beverages and/or anything strange or new from around the world!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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