CURRENT MISSION

Live long, live free, live well

PHILOSOPHY

We only have a short time on the earth. I'd like to experience as much as I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a newbie here! Though I have couchsurfed informally at friend's places (and vice versa).

Interests

voluntarism, alternative governments, seasteading, buddhism, psychology, selfhelp, travel, adventure, neoteny, burning man, adventure, alternative shelter, anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, anarchocapitalism, anti-aging, artificial intelligence, atheism, ayn rand, berke breathed, bill waterson, biodiesel, biotechnology, bloom county, blue man group, body building, calvin and hobbes, capitalism, cato, cirque de soleil, civil rights, clarence bass, computers, conation, cryobiology, cryogenics, cryonics, cryptography, cypherpunks, dave barry, david friedman, david meyers, dilbert, early retirement, economics, egoism, enya, epistemology, ethics, evolutionary psychology, extropianism, extropy, far side, film, filmmaking, financial independence, firearms, flow, free market environmentalism, free markets, free thinkers, freedom, freethinkers, futurism, gary larson, genetic engineering, george carlin, gerontology, guns, happiness, home schooling, houseboats, idea futures, immortality, independent film, independent institute, individual rights, individualism, influence, institute for justice, intj, investing, john holt, john lasseter, julian simon, laissez faire, learning, libertarian, libertarian party, libertarianism, libertarians, liberty, life extension, limerence, limited government, linux, living below your means, ljmaps_crasch, longevity, loreena mckennitt, lp, lysander spooner, machinema, math, memory, methodology, meyers briggs, mihalyi czsiksentmihalyi, milton friedman, mole man of fresno, money, montessori, monty python, mother earth news, mst3k, nanotechnology, neal stephenson, new road map foundation, objectivism, open book management, open immigration, open source, opus, pacific research institute, parasailing, penn and teller, permaculture, philosophy, pilobus, pixar, princess bride, privacy, programming, reason, robert cialdini, running, science, scott adams, social engineering, social policy bonds, social psychology, software completion bonds, space exploration, stand up comedy, steven wright, sudbury, susannah mccorkle, technology,transhumanism, unschooling, value, vandwelling, vitrification, warren buffett, weight training

• rabbits
• books
• film making
• civil rights
• ethics
• bodybuilding
• running
• partying
• technology
• news
• traveling
• investing
• buddhist
• economics
• engineering
• mathematics
• psychology
• science
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:

1984, The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman, The Boxcar Children, Mind Children, Engines of Creation, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Your Money Or Your Life, A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Amber Spyglass, The Selfish Gene, The Machinery of Freedom, Human Action, The Demon Haunted World, Reversing Human Aging, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Evolution of Cooperation, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, David Sedaris, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Milton Friedman, David Friedman

Movies:

Bladerunner, Witness, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Almost Famous, The Sound of Music, Star Wars, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, 40 Year Old Virgin, Memento, Watership Down, City of Lost Children, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, The Man in the White Suit, Sense and Sensibility, The City of Lost Children, Pan's Labyrinthe, Dark City, Shawshank Redemption, Hudsucker Proxy, Groundhog Day, Ferris Beuhler's Day Off, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Princess Bride, Young Frankenstein, Office Space, Little Miss Sunshine Monty Python's Holy Grail, The Silence of the Lambs, The Professional, Time Bandits, The Shining

TV:

Arrested Development, Firefly, Sopranos, Heroes, The Office, Deadwood, Family Guy, South Park, Simpsons, Daily Show, Newhart, Robot Chicken, Dexter, The Wire
Music:
Loreena McKennitt, Annie Lennox, Melissa Etheridge, Charlie Daniels Band, Enya, Les Miserables, Sixpence None the Richer, Amy Grant, Simon and Garfunkel, Middle English

Food:

chocolate pudding pie, french fries, root beer float, pizza, German chocolate cake, Thai, Souplantation, tater tots

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen: I went to Burning Man for the first time in 2008.

Done: kidney transplants in rabbits.

Countries I’ve Visited

France

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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