CURRENT MISSION

To seek out and explore strange new lifeforms

ABOUT ME

I'm taking a break from professional academia, as a research scientist in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (whatever that is) to explore the world a bit. To help pay for this great endeavor I build and run an educational web-site (showmedo.com) dedicated to improving the teaching of free and open-source software (FOSS). FOSS is philosophically not a million miles away from couchsurfing I think.

PHILOSOPHY

carpe diem right now

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am completely new to couchsurfing and have no contributions to boast of yet. I hope to change that soon.

Interests

cross-country running, mountain-biking, cycle-touring, camping, jazz-piano, science, film, computer-modeling, animal-behaviour, insect-navigation, minimal-cognition, tech-gear-junky, history of science, politics. And a whole slew of other things.

• animals
• running
• modeling
• politics
• technology
• jazz
• piano
• cycling
• camping
• history
• neuroscience
• science
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Five movies, off the top of my head:
Sweet Smell of Success, Wages of Fear, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Excaliber, Yojimbo.
" books ":
Catch 22, God Bless You Mr Rosewater, Michael Holmes biography of George Bernard Shaw, The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century, Carol (Patricia Highsmith)
" albums ":
Kind of Blue, Buttercorn Lady, Highway 61 Revisited, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Bill Evan's Alone

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I cycled 1000 odd miles from Brighton to Barcelona to visit some friends. Crossing the Pyrenees into Spain with bike+panniers was the hardest and one of the most amazing things I've done.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well I run an educational web-site (Showmedo.com), specializing in free and open-source software. So I'm a professional advocate of that movement.

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