CURRENT MISSION

To keep my stick on the ice.

ABOUT ME

I'm a Calgary-born graduate student, currently working as an Algorithm Engineet in Media Signal Processing in Toronto, Canada.

I live with my wife in California. For more info, please look me up on www.facebook.com: Ryan James Cassidy in the Stanford network.

Favorite Quotes: "I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive." -Kurt Cobain

PHILOSOPHY

Live long and prosper :). (This is a difficult question... I'll think about writing more soon.)

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to the CS2 project. Interested in checking it out!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No couch surfing yet... hopefully soon!

Intereses

Folk/rock guitar, foosball, racquet sports, late nights, skiing, hiking, hot tubs (after the skiing and the hiking, for example :).

• writing
• acting
• guitar
• hiking
• surfing
• skiing
• sports
• communications
• mathematics

Música, películas y libros

Favorite Music: folk/rock/alternative: the arctic monkeys, beck, radiohead, gordon lightfoot, neil young, bob dylan, u2, r.e.m., johnny cash, jimi hendrix, tom waits, the strokes, paul simon, simon & garfunkel, blind melon, blue rodeo, cake, james taylor, leonard cohen, the stone roses, the rolling stones, the watchmen, the arcade fire, the postal service, the killers, gillian welch, allison kraus, the tragically hip, tom petty, the beatles, creedence clearwater revival, elliot smith. (Check out my recent listening habits at http://www.last.fm/user/dafty4/.)

Favorite Movies: "lock, stock, and two smoking barrels", wonder boys, clockwork orange, american beauty, kids in the hall: brain candy, quiz show, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fight club, the usual suspects, "the godfather, part ii", three kings, go, amelie, being john malkovich, road trip, snow falling on cedars, blow, brick, fubar, the deer hunter, billy madison, the departed, rushmore, one flew over the cuckoo's nest. (Check out my recent movie-watching activity at http://www.flixster.com/user/boldfusion.)

Favorite Books: choke (by chuck palahniuk), rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (play by tom stoppard), i really should do more recreational reading.

Algo increíble que he hecho

The Grand Canyon was a total trip. It was like looking at a Martian landscape.

Also amazing was my first trip (and only trip so far) to Hawaii. I couldn't believe that the sun, sky, and sea could ever be so beautiful. And this was in December!

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I'd be happy to give whatever lessons I can muster on the guitar. (See musical interests above.)

I can teach math, I think. But guitar is more fun.