Born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, GA. Moved to upstate NY for college, and then to the bay area in 2007 to work in tech. When I was still a teenager, I remember thinking to myself that if I ever had a place of my own, I'd help out people who didn't. Well... now I have a place! I hosted a few people off CS a few years ago, but I've ignored it for a while. I guess it's time to open my couch again.

More about me... I like studying personal finance, and I plan to stop working for other people before age 40. I can show you how to do this too! I like video games and movies (horror/obscure), but I don't have much time to play them. I committed to creating one video about personal finance every day in 2018. Today is video #192.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet interesting / different people. I've spent too much time in introvert mode for the past few years, so it's time to pull my moist, tender underbelly out of the shell and say "hello" more often.

Interests

- cats (I have 2)
- Burning Man
- Hiking
- Weird/new food
- Other people's obscure interests

• cats
• dancing
• politics
• reading
• music
• atheism
• law
• mathematics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Pride and Prejudice, Freakonomics, A Life Without Consequence, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, The Adderall Diaries, Infinite Jest, Broom of the System, Girl With Curious Hair, Braindead Megaphone, The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Happy Baby, Mailman, Castle, Sexual Personae, Gravity's Rainbow, In Persuasion Nation, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Belgariad & Mallorean, The Death Gate Cycle, The Foundation, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, God Bless Your Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, Predictably Irrational, Norwegian Wood, Against the Day, The 48 Laws of Power, Invisible Monsters, Drown, Exit Ghost, The Gunslinger, Joker One, Battlefield Earth, Sphere, Neuromancer, One Second After, Pygmy, Twiligiht, War and Peace

A/V:
Magnolia, Dawn of the Dead, Sean of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil (1, 2, & 3), X-Files, Millennium, Dexter, The Wire, Cops, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later (okay it was a little weak), Evil Dead (I & II)

Music: Elliott Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, Nora Jones, Weezer, Beatles, Broken Social Scene, Deathcab, Postal Service, techno, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking the Klahhane Ridge trail to Hidden Lake was the last thing that really blew my mind. Definitely going to do that again, maybe during the rainy spring season.

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/washington/klahhane-ridge-trail-to-lake-angeles

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a little about the bay area... software engineer, building wealth, and a bunch of other random things.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Well... what do you want to know? I like researching things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Philippines, Viet Nam