CURRENT MISSION

It sounds hippy-dippy, but it's difficult & important. My current mission is to "be present".

PHILOSOPHY

"Everything is in flux" -Heraclitus

I have gone thru tons of personal philosophies, but this is the only one that seems to stick, in a self-fulfilling kind of way I guess!

Interests

Weird subcultures, art, science, amazing nature, music, new places.

Stage diving in foreign countries.
Sailing small boats & flying small planes.
Building things. Shooting films.
Beer, wine, vegan food.

• arts
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• vegan
• flying
• gardening
• politics
• movies
• music
• hunting
• scuba diving
• sailing
• biology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC

Gaslight Anthem, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Menomena, Decemberists, Dresden Dolls, Vampire Weekend, ...

I like seeing small local bands I've never heard of at punk houses and community spaces, it's always a good time!

BOOKS
Recently: Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Daniel Handler

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Alone at the helm of a historic schooner for some hours in the middle of a freezing, raining night, staring at the red and green channel markers and the black starless sky.

Slapped by a Parisian drug dealer in the streets of the Vingtieme in the late afternoon, and was surrounded by his angry gang while I had to show him all the pictures on my camera (mostly shots of a talking parrot and a chihuahua).

Teach, Learn, Share

Vegan cooking, molecular biology, microcontrollers, robotics, JavaScript, sailing, wine and beer-making, stained glass, gardening. I'm sort of a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.