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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, German; learning French
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Student / Designer / Programmer
  • constantly
  • From Augsburg, Germany
  • Profile 70% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Create awesome stuff, dance to amazing music, get to know wacky people

ABOUT ME

Currently I'm a student at Augsburg University. I should be getting my bachelor's degree in CS real soon now.

My idea of a good time? Let my friends pick almost any music genre (the more obscure the better), go with them to a performance and get to know the fans and the music at the same time. Afterwards try to to get backstage and have a few beers with the performers.

My bike is my primary and favourite mode of transport almost all year round. I ride it on roads, dirt roads, snowy mountains, grassy hills and through the woods.

I love to party all night, but I'll need someone to talk philosophy/bad art/movies/music/computers the next day, to balance it out. I can do mostly culture, or mostly party, but doing just one without the other would be boring.

Every once in a while I will let out my inner nerd and attend programming or design related conferences around europe. I create apps for the iPhone/iPad as well as websites, and I make them as beautiful, useful, and a joy to use as possible. And I'm hugely proud if people use and like them.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to be brutally honest, and expect others to be as well. I want to be open to different viewpoints, ideas, cultures and people, because every time I am, I learn something new.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Visited friends in Britain, Germany and the US and stayed on their couches, but no experience with couchsurfing.org yet.

Interests

Playing the guitar and drums (badly), travelling and backpacking, graphic design, wakeboarding and waterskiing, biking, mixing cocktails, using the word "awesome." People watching, being inappropriate, going out, socialising with friends.

  • arts
  • culture
  • performing arts
  • design
  • graphic design
  • oktoberfest
  • dancing
  • beer
  • cocktails
  • partying
  • drinking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • coding
  • music
  • guitar
  • drums
  • cycling
  • backpacking
  • skiing
  • wakeboarding
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Mostly action flicks, especially if they have weird humour or a well-done story. Matrix, Planet Terror, Shaun of the Dead, Resident Evil, The Princess Bride, Crank, Inglorious Basterds

Music: Some mainstream Rock, some obscure metal, some indie, some electro and dubstep and a little bit of hip hop. — Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Muse, Dredg, Evergreen Terrace, Stone Sour, Tenacious D, Mastodon, NOFX, Mindless Self-Indulgence, Butthole Surfers, Isis, Melvins, Electric Six, The Ting Tings, Damian Marley, Mellow Mark, Benjie, Sublime, Major Lazer, The Prodigy, Bassnectar, Boys Noize, Console, The Notwist, MSTRKRFT, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Tiger Hifi, Beck, Alien Sex Fiend, Amanda Blank, Blumentopf

Books: Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Paul Grahan, Haruki Murakami, Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, Neil Stephenson, Christopher Moore, Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Jean-Paul Sartre

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I was about 14 I witnessed an assault on an armoured car with a bazooka. In Nigeria.

Teach, Learn, Share

If weather permits I can try to teach you how to water ski or wakeboard.

How To Drink Bavarian Beer (Oktoberfest Edition) (tm).

I can help you with almost any programming-related stuff, and I think I'm at least an average designer. I don't expect many people are interested in learning how to code while couchsurfing, right? :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Nigeria

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