HOSTING AVAILABILITY (updated 01AUG2017):

*I'm booked through 20SEP2017*, feel free to message me for surfs thereafter.

If you just want to hang out: message me and we'll see if we can find a time

CURRENT MISSION

End world hunger, though I'll settle for just being a kind, helpful person

PHILOSOPHY

I appear to be the universe observing itself from a particular point of view

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfing sometimes while traveling, and hosting when I can;

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

so far I've hosted and surfed a few times - both were great!

Interests

Brief cross-section: meditation esp. tibetan buddhism, sustainability and renewable energy, surrealism, land and environmental art, puppies, mental flexibility, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Thomas Keating, backpacking, gluten free pastries, closed loop economies, meeting people with diverse backgrounds

activities: hiking and backpacking, meditation, coffee shops, sitting under trees, making gluten free pancakes, science writing and popular science, documentaries

terrible-at but interested-in: ultimate frisbee and basketball, lately salsa and swing dancing

academic-ish interests: synthetic biology and minimal life; biologically-inspired engineering and design (water-proofing from lotus leaves, , robotics from insects, city plans and economies inspired by ecosystems, etc); skeptical inquiry/free thought; debates about the utility of religion; closed loop economies; total-cost accounting, generative art & sculpture; sports analytics esp. basketball; scientific investigation of buddhism; lots of sustainability and energy systems stuff (future impacts of climate change, carbon taxes, etc)

• dogs
• insects
• arts
• writing
• design
• documentaries
• beauty
• dancing
• swing dancing
• coffee
• meditation
• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• backpacking
• canoeing
• surfing
• buddhist
• sports
• basketball
• biology
• chemistry
• engineering
• religion
• science
• sign language
• hitchhiking
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

books: anything by alan watts, kurt vonnegut, phillip ball, ken wilber or dennis bray; Tom Robbins; Samuel Beckett + Tom Stoppard; Henderson the Rain King; Nabokov (Lolita, Pale Fire); Grace and Grit; House of Leaves; Infinite Jest; The Fractal Geometry of Nature; Grendel (gardner); The Dharma Bums + On the Road; Salman Rushdie esp. Satanic Verses; Khalil Gibran; Emily Dickinson; William Blake; anything about Richard Feynman; Moral Tribes;

music: raindrops, thunderstorms, wind in the trees, waves, birds, any rhythmic patterns in nature; yo la tengo; helios; m83; mozart (mostly piano sonatas); sufjan stevens; the doors; the velvet underground; led zeppelin; moby; tycho; air; leonard cohen; simon & garfunkel; a tribe called quest;

I haven't seen many movies - please recommend me some if you know good ones!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

canoeing and portaging through the thousand lakes region of minnesota in the summer, and then went dog sledding over the same lakes when they froze over the following winter

Teach, Learn, Share

Currently want to learn about: spanish, hitchhiking, harmonica

Things to share: American Sign Language, science-y stuff (especially biology and chemistry, the beauty to be found in science, intuitive connections between science and art), tibetan buddhism

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States