CURRENT MISSION

Founding the UW-Madison Centre for Porch Studies

ABOUT ME

Sum ergo cogito

PHILOSOPHY

Onwards. And so onwards along the path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence! However you may be, be your own source of experience! Throw off your discontent about your nature; forgive yourself your own self, for you have in yourself there is a ladder with a hundred rungs, on which you can climb to knowledge.....You have it in your power to achieve the absorption of all you experience - your experiments, errors, delusions, passions, your love and your hope-into your goal, without remainder.

-Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I mainly participate by staying on other couches as I am still getting in to couch surfing, but I am looking forward to getting more involved.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed on a lovely couch in Århus, Denmark and look forward to finding many more couches in the world.

Interests

I generally think of music and philosophy as my main interests, but as it turns out I am interested in all sorts of things. I spend a lot of time cooking and finding new places to eat. I thoroughly enjoy spending time on my porch in the summer. In general I spend a lot of time outdoors and love backwoods and wilderness camping. I also enjoy the feeling of being in a country and not knowing the language. Lastly, but certainly not least I love maps.

• cooking
• music
• outdoor activities
• camping
• surfing
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

I don't think I've found a genre of music from which I haven't found something that I liked. However, my favorites are: Sonny Rollins: The Bridge, Wilco: A Ghost Is Born, Nels Cline: Draw Breath, Bob Dylan & The Band: Planet Waves, Ornette Coleman: Change of The Century, Loose Fur: Loose Fur, The Clash: Sandinista, Mahler's 9th Symphony, Nietzsche's Klavier Werker, The Roots: Organix, Sonic Youth: Murray Street....and on and on and on.

I spend my time reading a lot of philosophy books, rather than literature and fiction in general, but here are some favorites of mine; Edward Abbey: Desert Solitaire, Søren Kierkegaard: Repetition, Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science and On The Genealogy of Morals, August Strindberg: Lady Julie, Dag Solstad: Shyness and Dignity, Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake, Albert Camus: The Stranger

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach a few things pretty well.
-Computers: how to fix them and how to use them
-Cooking: I'm pretty familiar with the French, Italian, and German styles of cooking, but would be eager to learn more about different sorts of cookery.
-Bikes: how to repair them.
-Philosophy: I don't know why anyone would want to learn about philosophy from me, but as it happens I'm not bad at teaching it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, United States

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