CURRENT MISSION

To forge fine fabrics of cognitive connectivity

ABOUT ME

My Myers-Briggs personality type is INTP.

I am a Materialist, absurdist & post-positivist; a warm, open-minded thinker, doer and maker.

I live in a suburb of Fukuoka city and work at the prefecture's Board of Education.

I like eating out, exploring a new city, making new friends, cooking, and photography.

I majored in Studio Art and Psychology. I like to make oil paintings of 8 and 16-bit sprites from old video games. I also like to extrapolate images out of random fields of patternless design. If you don't see a big difference between art and science, we'll get along famously.

If you think cephalopods are cool we're practically friends already. I had a pet octopus in college and soon I'll have another one here in Japan.

Before I moved here last August, I was teaching English at a high school in Fukuoka's rural countryside, so I can show you a thing or two off the beaten path as well, if that's your thang. I lived in Cherry blossom and rice paddy country.

PHILOSOPHY

You'll never have all the answers, and that's okay.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I sometimes let people sleep on my couch. I plan to sleep on theirs someday!

Interests

cephalopods, photography, chiptunes, breakcore, hip-hop, travel, the internet, cooking, technology, evolution, genetics, neuroscience and culture.

• pets
• arts
• culture
• design
• photography
• education
• cooking
• technology
• video games
• traveling
• eating out
• painting
• teaching
• genealogy
• neuroscience
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

The Big Lebowski, Waking Life, Army of Darkness, etc.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Girl Talk, Saskrotch, Jurassic 5, a tribe called quest, etc.

-Diane Ackerman: A Natural History of the Senses
-Matt Ridley: The Red Queen; Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
-Chuck Palahniuk: Diary

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One time I took the double-overnight "orient express" train from Budapest to Istanbul. Quite a ride.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to take care of a pet octopus. I also know a bit about painting, photography and natural selection

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Japan, United States