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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Dont Panic.
ABOUT ME
I am a saffer moved to Cork in Ireland. Ended up here pretty randomly and looks like I will be here for another fair while.
Spent the last year living in Scotland while I studied at Edinburgh University.
I am very passionate about Linux, Open Source, Aikido and Vegan issues.
Looking to host people with similar interests.
PHILOSOPHY
Have fun, make the most and do not be afraid
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Cork has a very active CS group and I get to a few of the events. Some of my good friends are also involved in CS.
I host people with very similar interests. Very similar as in are vegan, open source developers, aikido etc.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Hosted a few people in Cork, tried to couch surf in Munich but failed!
Interests
Linux, Aikido, Vegan, Running, Weight Training, open source, politics, Powerlifting, Cooking, Travel, Punk, Pubs, Party, food not bombs, Random stuff.
- dining
- cooking
- beer
- vegan
- marathon
- running
- powerlifting
- partying
- pub crawls
- politics
- traveling
- coding
- track and field
Music, Movies, and Books
Top 5 Movies (in no order): Vanilla Sky, High Fidelity, Domino, About a Boy, Fight Club
Top 5 books: High Fidelity, The Trial, Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, Dangerous Parking, 7 minute idle
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
- Sandboarding in Namib Desert
- Driven around a race track
- Completed a Marathon
- Swam a mile in the atlantic ocean
- Written open source code that other people use.
- Just about got my MSc
- Drank Efes beer in Istanbul on a roof top
- Participated in a Spencer Tunick installation
Teach, Learn, Share
I am a keen Vegan cook so can teach to to make bread, green curry, sushi or just about anything you want to eat.
Open Source wise, I am a Linux admin so very clued up on Linux stuff. Programming wise PHP and C are my main thing.
I train for powerlifting, so could take you to my gym if you train.
If you do aikido we can train at a dojo in Cork.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malta, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom