CURRENT MISSION

Saving the world... I guess ?

ABOUT ME

I guess my references tell it best...

PHILOSOPHY

"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive anyway"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can share a few funny road stories, experiences about bike trips and strange countries. I've spend time in many different places, I can talk about it endlessly if you ask :-).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

From being sneaked at night into a military base in eastern Turkey, to shamelessly lying to the Uzbek state police in Tashkent because couchsurfing is not really legal over there, I've got a bit of CS experience... It's always been good fun !

Interests

Cycling, my friends, skiing (all sorts of), traveling, geeky math & science, mountains, linguistic, photography, anthropology, flying, biology, reading, epistemology, psychology, writing, coffee...

• writing
• photography
• coffee
• flying
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• skiing
• anthropology
• biology
• emergency services
• languages
• law
• mathematics
• psychology
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Mmh... long list. What about...

"My war gone by, I miss it so" (A. Loyd)
"Take me, take me with you" (L. Kelly)
"La vie devant soi" (R. Gary)
"Les mangeurs d'etoiles" (R. Gary)
"Le grand vestiaire" (R. Gary)
"Jaeniksen vuosi" (A. Paasilinna)
"The three burials of Melchiades Estrada" (T.L. Johns)
"The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" (M. Gondry)
"Lost in translation" (S. Coppola)
"Princess Mononoke" (H. Miyazaki)
"Betty Blue" (P. Djian)
"Das Leben der Anderen" (F.H. Donnersmarck)
"Lola rennt" (T. Tykwer)
"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" (J. Diamond)
"Why Is Sex Fun? - The Evolution of Human Sexuality" (J. Diamond)
"The Language Instinct" (S. Pinker)
"The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" (S. Pinker)
"The Stuff of Thought" (S. Pinker)
"The Selfish Gene" (R. Dawkins)
"The Blind Watchmaker" (R. Dawkins)
"The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" (S. Pinker)

to name just a few... oh, and I think that Hiatus and Shura are geniuses.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taking care of my nieces...

Teach, Learn, Share

Did you know that superstitions and unfounded beliefs are mainly resulting from the massive evolutionary advantage of detecting a pattern even if there is none (over-sensitive pattern recognition) over not detecting a pattern when there is one (under-sensitive pattern recognition) ?

Did you know that - bar a few sentence-structuring switches - grammar is wired in the brain at birth ? Did you know that one of the evidences for this comes from the transformation of pidgin into fully structured languages ?

Did you know that the world has been conquered by european nations partly (but not only) because the fertile crescent has an east-west orientation, while america has a north-south orientation ? And China lagged behind because it lacks a major geographic barrier such as the alps ?

I love suprising, geeky, mind-changing thesis. If you have any, please share it with me.

If not interested, I know how to fix a bike too...

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

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