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Experimenting and exploring!

Some things I'm experimenting with:
Food: I've been pescaterian, vegetarian, and (currently) vegan in the past year.
Activities: I've done soccer, basketball, track and cross country, swim team, kokikai aikido (brown belt), and ultimate frisbee for between 4-8 years each.

Some things I like exploring:
- Thinking about and trying to understand complex systems.
- Books (mostly science fiction)
- State/County Parks (Hiking, Trail Running, and I'd like to learn more about backpacking).

Reaching high places :) Changing my mind about something when there is good evidence to do so.

I'm a brown belt in Kokikai Aikido, an awesomely gentle martial art with a focus on strength through misdirection and whole body coordination, rather than through brute strength. It's a great martial art for people of all sizes, weak and strong.

Continuing with physical performance arts, I also enjoy spinning poi and learning new techniques. Make your own poi with knee-length socks and practice tennis balls, both from target!

I also like learning, and am currently taking (for fun) an online Machine Learning class taught by Professor Andrew Ng through Coursera.org.

I've also visited a memory techniques group from meetup.com in the SF/Berkley areas that would eventually like to train for the national/international competitions. Here's the group founder's blog: http://mnemotechnics.org/wiki/Getting_Started

I'm really bad at getting lost, but enjoy trying anyways. Once last week I actually did got pseudo-lost inside GG Park after dusk, I didn't know how the roads cross through the park and my 3mi run went on an extended detour and turned into a 7mi run :)

That I'm a paradox, tall but quiet, strong but gentle, and can say a lot with very few words. (I'm not from the second foundation though. :)

Reference from The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov, highly recommended to anyone who likes science fiction even slightly.

Books (mostly Science Fiction):
- Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
- Ender's Game and series
- Catch-22
- Digital Fortress - and Dan Brown's other books :)
- From childhood - Redwall Series, Lord of the Rings

Homemade Cooking (3 months of being vegan):
(From asian grocery stores and trader joe's.)
- Smoothies
- Frozen Fruit: Mangos, Papayas, Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, Cherries, honeydew, cantalope, any fruit...
- Greens: Spinach in smoothies is delicious!
- Lentils are also good in smoothies :)
- Seeds: Mostly Chia and Flax
- Raw Nuts: Walnuts, Cashews, Hazelnuts, Almonds
- Stir fries, Soups, Baked Veggies!
- Baked Yam/Sweet Potato/Tomato/Peppers/Onions/Basil
- Steamed Veggies & delicious asian items (rice cooker)
- All sorts of asian veggies, tomatoes, beets, any veggie really.
- Beancurd rolls, other frozen asian deliciousness

Music (Electronic / Symphonic / Melodies)
Awesome Electronic Music Guide:
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
- Trance (Vocal, Symphonic, Psy/Goa, Ibiza, Dream, Epic, Anthem)
- Symphonic Trance
- House (Most Europop)
- Hardcore (Happy (ddr), Trancecore)
- Chill-out
- Used to listen to: Coldplay, U2, Dave Matthews Band, Jazz, Classical.

Favorite Activities:
- Hiking, Trail Jogging, Kayaking, Swimming, Bicycling, Exploring.
- Learning something new, exploring some topic, cooking healthy food, making something awesome.

Movies:
(Creativity in movies is awesome, although I rarely watch movies.)
- Matrix
- Inception
- Bourne Trilogy
- The Italian Job

Shows...don't really watch TV, but friends have shown me:
- Chuck
- Firefly/Serenity
- Game of Thrones

Curiosity
Chopsticks
Friends & Family
Learning & Exploring Life
Active Lifestyle / Outdoor Activities
Minimalist Running Shoes (New Balance Minimus Trail 00)

There's so many ways to live, so many things to experience, so many things to become better at. I'd like to learn about new things (languages like chinese or japanese), continue becoming better at things I enjoy (programming, cooking), and become even more athletic (kokikai aikido, ultimate frisbee, trail running, anything outdoors)!

Watching the sunset (and jogging along the waves) at a beach. Also finishing planning my weekend.

Connecting the most dissimilar ideas and wondering if there might be a meaningful connection hidden behind the obvious reality. What if... http://what-if.xkcd.com/9/

If you say hi, who knows what could happen... maybe we'll be friends, maybe the galaxy will turn into pink earmuffs (hope not) :)

If you don't say hi, we both know what will happen.