CURRENT MISSION

Pushin' Buttons

ABOUT ME

There are a couple of things I learned when I was a kid... I can't really say for sure where I learned them, but it would be reasonable to point to my parents. Both of these things seem to be somewhat core to how I approach the world.

The first thing is that when you come to a gate in your path that you must go through, you should always leave the gate the way you found it, barring external direction otherwise.

The second is that when you're using a machine, it has a "feel" when things are working right, and a distinctly different "feel" when it's not working right. It's important to be sensitive to this "feel", and to investigate and address any changes over time.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't tread on me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I often cook for the surfers who Hillary invites into our home.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My partner is an avid couchsurfer and regularly hosts at our home. All of my CouchSurfing experience has been as a co-host with her.

Interests

Wine, cooking, eating, hiking, road trips, mountains, beaches, traveling, hot springs, festivals, computers, geeking out

• burningman
• festivals
• cooking
• wine
• technology
• traveling
• hiking
• road trips
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Caveat: I feel keenly aware of the inherent limitations in trying to quantify tastes in creative works simply by creating an abridged list of said.

Reading:
These days books generally only come out when I am for whatever reason without a downlink. In those cases, I tend towards nonfiction... especially travel journals, pop anthropology, revisionist history (from the perspective of my US public education background), and books about how humans impact their environment. Authors with multiple works on my bookshelves include Marc Reisner, Charles C. Mann, Rick Steves, Jered Diamond, Eric Hansen, Bill Bryson, and Richard Feynman. I am highly suspicious of anything written by Malcolm Gladwell.

In the past I have enjoyed fiction from the likes of Neal Stephenson, Alex Garland, Tom Clancy, Douglas Adams, Raymond Carver, and Mark Twain.

Watching:
I honestly spend more time watching the meme of the week than any other video content.

Listening:
In my personal library you will find a lot of classic rock, reggae, jam bands, psytrance, ambient, downtempo, trip-hop, and female vocalists. I seem to enjoy any music when it is performed live outdoors with so much dancing that the earth shakes. I'm also especially fond of cross-genre remixes, and songs remade in completely different genres from their original.

When I am working, I am often listening to a pandora feed that was initially seeded from Shpongle, RJD2, William Orbit, Airpushers, The Orb, Beats Antique, The Avalanches, Moondog, and I Monster.

Also, Groove Salad and Lush from soma fm.

Eating:
I really, really like food. All of it, except: eggplant, most shellfish, and food that is overly fried or drowned in condiments.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hmmm, burningman is pretty amazing..

Teach, Learn, Share

I can tell you about the SF bay area (I'm mostly familiar with the coastal and south bay areas)... or we can talk about technology and society. Or I can show you the best place for a Guinness.

Countries I’ve Visited

Morocco, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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