cregox here. a nynphormartisct who enjoys summarizing unasked complex questions, even if we don’t really know any answer. :)

i've been a couchsurfing member since 2011 and never really crushed it anywhere outside of friends couches...

now as of 2018-07-10 i'm on a quest to try and do it for the next 5 days, in azores... and with very little faith it will work! https://www.reddit.com/r/azores/comments/8xq8bn/couchsurfing/

i also expect i may not even remember to update this "about me" before i feel the need to try again, perhaps in the next 7 years or so! :D

such a shame so many members here and we don't even get properly notified when people try to reach us. i mean, i never received a single "new message" email from the site that i can recall or find on my mailbox, other than replies i was already expecting.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Probably because I joined it once, a long time ago, thinking about surfing. Now I don't know.

I actually lived a lot in pensionate. For 2 years I was always bumping from one place to another, meeting new people and living in new places. I still have some friends from those years who I still talk to. Other than that my only experience with a more actual couch surfing, and outside the country, was on my brother's old house in New Jersey, where he lived with his ex-wife and her 2 entertaining kids, of whom I'd take care eventually.

Interests

computers, sports, games, movies, ice cream and boomerangs.

• technology
• trivia
• movies
• coding
• cycling
• sports
• mathematics
• tourism
• art
• nudist
• games
• water
• computers
• hypnosis
• icecream
• curiosity
• nude beaches
• informatics
• ice
• boomerangs
• ncase
• basiux
• informartisct
• nynphormartisct

Music, Movies, and Books

forrest gump, bedazzled, i heart huckabees, little prince, back to the future, pk, matrix, captain fantastic, spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring, and so many more! https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1256176/ratings

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

this once i chased a robber who had my bag, cell phone and a gun. plus i was lucky enough to retrieve my bag.

it was around 22h late night. i was walking up the street in the heart of sao paulo, 20m away from a huge crossroads with many subway entrances, a bit dark but mostly very well illuminated place, always paying attention to everything as we're used to walk there. but while chatting with a new friend.

he came from behind, showed the weapon, asked for all our stuff, a bit nervously. my friend, much smarter than i, had nothing on her. but i had an ipad and a $100 mobile phone i liked. so i kept doing everything as slow as possible, both to avoid conflict and buy time. nothing on the wallets, gave hime the phone and he wanted my bag, which also had more personal stuff he wouldn't care for. we kept arguing. after a few minutes a vagrant, or perhaps a gympsy, came in to the rescue. the robber became confused, and soon after a woman came running and screaming "that's him, get him". all by herself.

he ran.

i ran after him. i was between him and the crazy woman when he was turning a corner and pointed the gun at us. we stopped, looked for cover, he just continued on running.

he dropped my bag when i was getting close. the woman started to scream, "my stuff is in that bag". it obviously wasn't, but i stopped anyway, looked at it for her. he had already ran away into the subway.

i still tried to reach him but he was gone inside. there are cops inside, as they're usually there. they did nothing, they didn't notice or could help in anyway. they just said they saw a man running inside. when i went back the woman was there with a police car who was already there when i was robbed. that's why she was running so confident after him. they were on the other side of the big crossroad and didn't see anything that happened.

plus they couldn't help as well. she lost her stuff, i lost my mobile. thankfully nothing else happened.

in general it was a highly frustrating event, but also insane. i never even shot or touched a gun, and i still reacted like this, chasing that guy. of course, i didn't believe his gun worked at all, but maybe. i wouldn't know. it's both amazing and stupid, now, isn't it? :)

now this i just wrote from memory in 2018-07-10. below is a link with a fresher report from when it happened.

http://cregox.net/talk/t/let-us-all-love-sao-paulo-shall-we-a-robbery-tale-followed-by-an-inspiring-idea/67.html

Teach, Learn, Share

need to learn how to make money online... which is ironic, since i know so much about coding. :D

What I Can Share with Hosts

cheap life philosophy along with stories or simply a company to hang around. i'm very open to talk about myself, reality, science, tech, stories, comedy or just chill together doing nothing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Portugal, United States

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