CURRENT MISSION

Preventing Istanbul from getting completely gentrified

ABOUT ME

Have the best job in the world - Am amazed that someone pays me to do research in mathematics, when I would gladly do it for free. Write fiction in my spare time, though the quality of my output leaves a lot to be desired, to put it mildly. "Won" Nanowrimo this year.

PHILOSOPHY

Show me a person who says he or she has seen enough of the world and I will show you someone who is speaking through their hat.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Plan to host guests and suggest offbeat experiences

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very pleasant stays in Beijing, London and Chicago.

Interests

Literary fiction and on a more mundane level, week long hikes. On a still more mundane, (or should that be sublime), flying custom made kites.

• cooking
• flying
• cycling
• hiking
• swimming
• mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: LA style noir, Italian realism, French new wave
Music: Old blues, reinterpreted folk, Baroque classical
Books: High modernism - Love Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Gombrowicz. Also love formless monsters - Anything in the vein of Rabelais or Sterne.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Northern lights, January 2012, Tromso.
Kumbh Mela, 2001, Allahabad
Lake Kanas, 2004, Xinjiang
Machu Pichu, 2013 fall(planned)
Cycling around lake Baikal, Someday

Teach, Learn, Share

Great swimmer. Good collection of jokes. Average cook. Bad violinist.