bicyclist, traveler, hacker, anarchist, home-brewer, mead-maker, herbalist; born and raised in san francisco.

I've lived in India, in a sailboat in the Oakland estuary, in a tent in the woods in BC, Canada; now in a cute house in SF.

Honing my post-apocalyptic survival skills; I'm studying fermentation, chemistry, botany; learning about plants... edible, medicinal and toxic.

adventure, learning, growing, working;

I am studying western herbalism, botany and fermentation. I love to go camping, bicycling touring, backpacking...

My living quarters often looks like a mad scientist's old world apothecary containing many books, plant matter, glass vessels and psychotropic alcoholic beverages of my own creation.

I'm a hacker and I like to learn about: algorithms, Unix systems, security, Tor, functional programming etc. lately I've been playing with Python's itertools and scapy; so. much. fun. to. hack.

I love unsanctioned cyclocross bicycle races. I also race in the occasional alley-cat; but in that case I'd put slicks on my cross bike. No single-speed or fixie here. Also I don't do Burning Man, man.

Tying all manner of knots... Tying my lovers up. Sailing. Analyzing computer systems. Mead making. Wild fermentation. Urban homesteading. Participating in anarchist collectives. Feeding fermented things to 10 housemates in an anarchist warehouse squat... and not giving anyone food poisoning.

hazel eyes, goatee, beard, dark clothing, cyclocross bicycle

books: Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
movies: Samurai Spy
shows: n/a

music: graveyard, jex thoth, blood ceremony, amon duul ii, sleep, black sabbath, buckethead, howlin wolf, frank zappa

food: i make all things fermented! such as:
sauerkraut, creme fraiche, kefir, kimchi, natto, miso, rice wine, beer, mead, tempeh

bicycles, sewing machines, camping gear, books, wool, wild plant communities

perverted kinky sexy thoughts, how to heal people with plants, how to make delicious fermented things, bicycles, sex, martial arts, health

- I am Dr. Strange: mead making, inoculating substrate with mold spores, pitching a wild yeast starter into a five gallon glass carboy, creating exlixers from fresh plant alcohol extracts, making kimchi, creme fraiche, kefir, beet kvass, tempeh, saurekraut etc...

- I am David: working on a nerdy tech project. hanging out with hackers, art walk, drinking beer with friends and starting a bon fire near the oakland estuary

- I am Dawud: vehicle packed. driving to the hills. botanizing plants. deep in the forest sleeping. relaxing naked in wild hotsprings. chewing on wild medicine roots. practicing martial arts.

I prefer relationships with depth and love.