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Overview

  • 29 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French, German; learning English, Japanese
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Research assistant in mathematical logic
  • university degree, currently writing a Ph.D. thesis
  • From born in Paris grew up in Freiburg (germany)
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

getting rid of this mission thingy

ABOUT ME

I hate to talk about myself, sad but true :(
I always think i must be the most boring person on earth, even though most people seem to disagree.
here's was my "professional website". I changed jobs now and work in finance in the busy town of frankfurt

PHILOSOPHY

Well if anything, then the books of Julien on the philosophical differences between ancient chinese and greek philosophy influenced greatly the way i see life, especially in the decision making process, as well as on concept as efficiency or time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

surfed a few places in New York, Germany, France as well as in Japan. I had a few surfer at my place while i was living in Münster writing my thesis.

Interests

Math, asian movies (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, HK, Taiwanese, Thai etc, so far no Indian movies), classical music (there is nothing i love more then going to a concert, it's just fabulous).

Electronic music grows on me recently. I'm clubbing more and more, i like to travel to see good DJ's :)

I also listen to japanese independent Rock and japanese oldies. For a not quite accurate picture of my current musical taste you can check my last.fm profile: http://www.last.fm/user/skl8em

I am interested in almost all things academic, though international law, intellectual property, individual rights and liberty and other related political problems are a subject that interest me a lot.

Web 2.0 and associated things, somehow i think it will change society(take couchsurfing for example) and how we understand interpersonal relations, and i'm kinda thrilled by that change :)

  • writing
  • books
  • concerts
  • cooking
  • modeling
  • clubbing
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • classical music
  • electronic music
  • law
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Shostakovitch, Prokofiev, Ligeti and many more.
Dj Shadow, DJ Krush and more. Daft Punk, Ed Banger rec. Boys Noize, Modeselektor, BPitch Control, Sébastien Léger, Fred Falke, Alan Braxe and again many more....
generaly speaking: Electronic, house, techno, minimal are all welcome :)

Movies: everything from Wong Kar Way, Kurosawa, Kim Ki-Duk, Chan-wook Park, Takeshi Miike, and and and
Jean Resnoir, Bresson (don't forget the "R" after the "B") I. Bergman and other european director are also very important to me.

For books, i love sci-fi(O.S. Card, Vance, Zelazny, Frederic Brown), Cyberpunk, historical romans (Dumas, Zevaco, Sir Walter Scott) and french litterature of the 19th century(Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac), i read other tings but this what i tend to prefer if given the choice.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went through an inner model theory seminar and actually learned how to build K!

Teach, Learn, Share

I have some cooking skills i am more than happy to share, if you need some help in german or french... Please don't ask math related things though, i am really bad at calculus (unless it's about set theory)!

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, United States

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