CURRENT MISSION

Traveling the world and making short computer games about the places I visit.

ABOUT ME

I am a tall person. Tall enough that I probably see the world from a slightly different vantage point than you do: I interact with the tops of refrigerators, high corner cabinets, and too-low ceilings. My heritage is Scandinavian, so I suppose that’s where I get my height, along with my pale skin, blue eyes, and red beard. I fit in well in Minnesota where I attended college, but I always feel that I shouldn’t, because my insides are filled with North African chili peppers: my father is an anthropologist, so I grew up in the rolling sand dunes of Tunisia and Egypt. My body is addicted to spicy hot food, which makes me happy, and high.

In college I studied writing and philosophy, math and computer science, drawing and art history, film and Celtic spirituality. I love the Celts: their marriage to the earth, their acceptance of mystery. In the end—through fate or some deep magic—I received a degree in physics, though I rarely spent any time in the lab. I do enjoy problem solving though, and understanding how the world works, so I live happily enough with my degree; occasionally we go out to dinner and scribble equations on napkins and giggle like middle school girls.

After graduating I spent some time freelancing as a web designer, power selling on eBay, and running a used bookstore. From 2008-2010 I lived in South Korea where I taught English to middle school girls and boys, and made small experimental computer games.

Now I'm traveling the world with my beautiful wife, with the goal of making small computer games about the places that I visit. Visit http://gametrekking.com for more information.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I learned about CS through a friend who hosted me while traveling in Taiwan. Now I'm hoping to surf more couches during my extended Game Trekking project (http://gametrekking.com). Eventually, when I settle down somewhere again, I hope to host surfers myself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I learned about couch surfing from my friend Simon, who hosted me and my wife in Taiwan for nearly three weeks.

Interests

Walking, traveling, playing German board games, watching and studying movies, reading good books aloud, philosophizing about life, anything genuine.

• arts
• writing
• books
• design
• dining
• running
• walking
• movies
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• surfing
• anthropology
• art history
• computer science
• freelancing
• history
• mathematics
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, J.R.R Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Søren Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, The Power and the Glory, Cancer Ward, The Brothers Karamazov, Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy, Lying Awake by Mark Salzman, Madame Bovary, Catcher In The Rye, Beowulf.

Movies:
A Room with a View, The Princess Bride, Star Wars, The Mission, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ghost in the Shell, Good Will Hunting, Pan's Labyrinth, Once.

Music:
Sigur Rós, Sufjan Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Coldplay.