CURRENT MISSION

Write spectacularly. Not write the word, "spectacularly." That would not be much of a mission. Rather, write in a spectacular manner. I think you probably get it.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in a small, flattish midwestern city and have since lived all over the US--New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, rural Massachusetts--and spent a year in England. I'm currently taking advantage of being able to work from anywhere by shuttling back-and-forth between Philadelphia and New York as I decide where to settle, or rather, resettle. I also plan to do some traveling, camping, friend-visiting, and general poking about, with some sitting-on-my-ass mixed in.

Over the course of my career, I've been an aspiring philosophy professor, a videogame programmer, an Internet entrepreneur, and a vendor of cookies and lemonade. The cookies and lemonade business was lucrative but ended abruptly when our sole employee decided that my business partner/sister and I were old enough to bake our own cookies. Now I do freelance web development while I figure out how to stop doing freelance web development and write full time. In the meantime, I blog about politics, world affairs, religion, and whatever else piques my interest: http://dagblog.com.

PHILOSOPHY

Working on my manifesto. I will publish it in this little box once I've completed it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've never tried it before but look forward to surfing. I plan to host once I have a permanent place again.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Aspiring

Interests

I have no interests. I had one a couple of years ago, but it didn't work out.

Seriously: hiking, skiing, caneoing, reading, writing, politics, philosophy, history, drinking good beer and wine

• arts
• writing
• wine
• beer
• working out
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• skiing
• boxing
• business
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• freelancing
• history
• religion
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: My Life as a Dog, Brazil, Groundhog Day
Music: The National, Crooked Fingers, Talking Heads
Books: Tom Jones (Fielding), World According to Garp (Irving), The Greenlanders (Smiley)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked Denali, hang-glided over Rio, frolicked in tenth-century Turkish ruins, wrote and directed a play, some other stuff.

Teach, Learn, Share

Philosophy, web technologies, politics, the art of egg squeezing

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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