CURRENT MISSION

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" - Buddha

ABOUT ME

Most people I know would classify me as an information junkie (I constantly consume information on the internet and via books). I love learning new things and trying new experiences from skydiving, Running of the Bulls in Spain, a new language, how to cook a new dish, or how hedge funds work.

The world around us is extremely fascinating to me.
Almost everyday I feel like a child in candy store, but the candy in the store is life, people, different cultures, information, etc.

I would also describe myself as a software engineer at heart who looks at C++/Perl/XQuery/Java/C# code all day, loves philosophy (Aristotle, Nietzsche, Kant), loves to find out how things work (from singularities in a black hole to chemistry to fashion to fine art to electron microscopes ).I also like wine tastings, politics, and sculpture and much more.

I am very laid back, and my general attitude/philosophy in life, is to go with the flow. I really cant think of almost anything in this world that would ever upset me. Life to me is a gift, and I try to enjoy every moment of it to its fullest extent.

PHILOSOPHY

The only absolute, is that there is no absolute.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Lending a couch, advice, an ear, and much more.

兴趣

Art, DJ'ing, wine, artificial intelligence, bar-hopping, genetics, quantum physics, partying, chemical engineering, logic, physics, politics, psychology, music, and going to massive parties.

• arts
• culture
• books
• fashion
• running of the bulls
• cooking
• wine
• wine tasting
• running
• partying
• politics
• coding
• music
• skydiving
• sports
• chemistry
• teaching
• engineering
• genealogy
• logic
• physics
• psychology
• software

音乐、电影和书籍

Favorite Books: Selfish Gene, Cosmos, Logic Book, Society of the Mind,Brief History of Time, Conceptual Spaces, Parallel Universes, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Congo, anything by Nietzsche

Movies: Into the Wild, Vanilly Sky, Donnie Darko, Shawshank Redemption, The Beach, Walk Hard : Dewey Cox, Apocolyspe Now, Fight Club

Music: I truly love all types of music (from Morrissey to Sneakerpimps to Meat Katie) and listen to Breaks , electronic, Drum & bass, Trance, Techno, Downtempo, mashup (bastard pop -> bootiesf.com), rock, country, alternative, the unclassifiable (i.e:Sigur Ros) etc.. In short, I love almost all types of music.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Swam with dolphins, running with the bulls in Pamplona Spain, skydived, driven across the US with people I met 3 days prior to leaving, roughed it in Costa Rica for fun. Life isnt a spectator sport if you ask me (unless you're a sheep).

Also, I've gone to Burning Man in Nevada every year since 2004 and it is one of things I look forward to the most every year.

教，学，和分享

Things I could teach you (if you have a curious mental disposition) that I know:

Software engineering knowledge (I can start from the most basic level : one(1) and zero(0) and teach you everything up to how the internet routes packets of data to how to create a webpage to how a CPU works.

Philosophy - Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Socrates, etc.

Quantum Physics - Quarks, Leptons, Bosons, atomic configurations, force carrier particles ... lets discuss

Politics - Campaign finance reform, capital gains loopholes, war machine, healthcare, political figures, etc. I love it all

Art - Sculpture, pencil, oil paintings, etc - Had a scholarship for my art skills (though I didnt take it), but I still have a big place in my heart for it.

Pop culture - Sadly, my mental fishnet retains most of the information flowing through it.

Music - I played the saxaphone for 6 years, but currently I am a huge lover of all types of music. I especially like to attempt to discern why certain songs are "good" or pleasing to ones ear.

Other topics I could share: Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, biological consciousness, time in our universe (from a picosecond to a terasecond (wiki that if you're curious)), and much more ...

我游览过的国家

Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

United States

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