CURRENT MISSION

To travel and to experience as many things and meet as many walks of life imaginable. Or pretty much follow in Li Bai's footsteps.

ABOUT ME

"I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time"

旅行 新的美好 静我们会找到属于我们的人生。

I enjoy simple things. I can entertain tranquillity and solace just as much as spontaneity and caprice.

I like both the feeling of gazing up at the exploding ancient cosmos above me, my mind overwhelmed by the sheer vastness of space and the myriad sea of stars and planets, and feeling infinitely small and irrelevant to the eons of time the universe around me, and the feeling of standing up on the highest building of a great city and looking down at the mass of life before me and marvelling how extremely rare, beautiful, powerful and important each and every one of us are.

Life is such a short time but sometimes that's really hard to remember. I want to enjoy and do as much as I can in life.

PHILOSOPHY

I would rather be ashes than dust
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet
The function of man is to live, not to exist
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them
I shall use my time

Interests

I have an extreme variety of interests including but, of course, not limited to:

TRAVEL, Consciousness, Cultures, Moonscapes, Stochasticity and robustness to noise in gene expression, Trekking\Hiking\Bushwalking, Savants, Karst Topography, Adventure, Terraforming, Nihilism, Sushi, Exploration/Pioneering/First Contact, International Politics, Camping, Anthropological linguistics, Drinking Gin, Extreme Sports and Exercising, Reading a Thesaurus, Antarctica, Tiny Houses, Black holes, black hole information paradox, and black hole radiation, Tacos, Revolutions against oppressive governments, Permaculture, Cross-cultural exchanges, Bears, Cosmic inflation, hypothetical scenarios, Riding Horses, The history of European imperialism, Moral Selfishness, Modernist Poetry, Health and Nutrition, Sociolinguistics, Coffee, High Elevation Deserts and Alpine Climates, Supersymmetry, Necropolises/Ghost Towns, Entropy (arrow of time), RPG video games, Pizza, Circumstantial Moral Luck, AI, Impressionism, Intercultural Conflict Resolution, The Singularity, Prose Poetry and of course a dash of Irony and Sarcasm

• horses
• poetry
• impressionism
• coffee
• exercise
• running
• drinking
• politics
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• hiking
• camping
• sports
• extreme sports
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Although I enjoy all forms of music, I particularly enjoy music that weaves an intimate and visual landscape, journey or atmosphere. Here are a few of my favorites:
Spokane
Mogwai
Neon Indian
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Stars of the Lid
Krallice
Grouper
Grizzly Bear
Sigur Rós
True Widow

As for movies...
Pulp Fiction
Akira
A Fistful of Dollars (Per un Pugno di Dollari)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Fight Club
The Big Lebowski
Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊)
Lord of the Rings
Memento
No Country for Old Men
Star Wars (OT)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Doing an air-guitar rock ballad for an audience of 5,000+ in Inner Mongolia to the tune of "Live Forever" by Oasis

Slashing across five lanes of traffic in Miami and surviving

Hiking along what is left of the ancient Great Wall of China

Discussing the finer points of James Joyce with a 60 year old lady over a pint of Guiness and the green, green grass of Galway, Ireland

Breaking into the balcony of the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Montmartre for that perfect picture at sunset

Having a staring competetion with a Black Bear in Yosimite Natl' Park in California

Getting fat and happy in Italy (more Pecorino please!)

Traversing the lunar landscape of the Tibetan plateau with pilgrims from the yellow hat sect

Getting run over by my own motorbike on Koh Tao, Thailand

Finally understanding what the Japanese Buddist meant by Satori (悟り)in Yangshuo, China

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Italy, United States

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