Just updated my address to reflect our move from MA to CA, that's why I'm no longer verified. Just waiting for the postcard :).

CURRENT MISSION

Climate

ABOUT ME

I work for a start up in Pleasanton, CA and have a penchant for taking on long term socially and environmentally driven non-profit and entrepreneurial projects, though I've been too busy since getting this job.

Previously, these focused on using technology in education in semi-rural Nigeria and crowd-sourcing the design of the perfect re-usable water bottle. Take back the TAP! Now, I think that I'm going to take up Climate Action--seems pretty pressing.

PHILOSOPHY

It used to be 'Comfortable is dead, find your edge'

Oh, and things would be better if we all meditated (more)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Willing host when I'm in town, occasional surfer when on the road

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted a bunch of people in Boston, a few in Plymouth and on the Cape, officially surfed a few couches in Thailand in February 2008, visited the collective in Pai while there to visit an old friend and ended up making some new ones.

Also close friends with a number of other members here in the Boston area community

Interests

Bicycling
Rock Climbing
Climate Change
Believe that both pineapple and hot tubbing are highly under-rated
Give highly sought after back rubs

Want to believe in the potential of little green laptops www.laptop.org

• design
• education
• cocktails
• technology
• puzzles
• juggling
• music
• rock climbing
• table tennis
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Explosions in the Sky, TV on the Radio, RJD2, Portishead, Aesop Rock, Four Tet, Lovage, The Faint, Tool, Soundgarden, Roiyksopp, Jean Grae, Manitoba, The Notwist, The Coup, Radiohead, Kings of Convenience, Andrew Bird, Cannibal Ox, Atmosphere, Prefuse 73, Cinematic Orchestra, Magnetic Fields
Books: Too much non-fiction lately. Fury, Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Whitman, Bukowski, Susan Cooper, Shakespeare, Caro, Sklansky, and Malmuth, Palahniuk. Bill Hicks, H.S. Thompson R.I.P.
Movies: Kubrick, High Fidelity, Fight Club, Raise the Red Lantern, Go, Snatch, Lock Stock, The Professional, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Big Lebowski, The Shining, Usual Suspects, Princess Bride, Donnie Darko, Super Troopers, Zatoichi, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine, Chris Cunningham Videos

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunsets from Airplanes

The Dolomite Mountain Range in Italy/Austria

The Scottish Highlands

Florence from the surrounding hills

The water surrounding the US and British Virgin Islands is pretty amazing, as are the coral reefs within

My friends built a machine that turns people into Marbles, that was pretty awesome

Iceland is the most magical place in the universe--go there. Seriously, just go.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can juggle, play the jaw harp, ping pong, frisbee, discuss your music library, solve problems and puzzles of all kinds, ruin nearly any parlor game.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Camaraderie! Conversation! Cocktails anyone?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Nigeria, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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