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When I was a boy, my uncle told me about his solo bicycle trek across Central America. I grew up wanting to do that too, so I studied Spanish and computer engineering. On my first trip, I climbed the tallest mountain in the Andes (Aconcagua), then I explored Peru. My second trip was a solo bicycle trek across Central America, then I got a job in in Tokyo. Now I've spent more than 10 years travelling the world, mostly with my wife Lili. We got married in Brazil, then we toured Africa by public bus, then we moved to New Zealand (nobody saw that coming), and now we are New Zealand citizens! Here's our travel blog: David and Lili's World Tour.
I speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently, plus intermediate French. I still practice Footbag (Hacky Sack) and Yoga, but my knees are no longer up for Ultimate (Frisbee) or Soccer. I ride my bicycle religiously, always have. Sometimes I burst into spontaneous juggling. I am humbled and honored to share that I have been recognized by my peers in my favorite sport, and inducted into the World Footbag Hall of Fame.
To make money and for intellectual challenge, I usually work as a technology expert in a variety of roles. Here's my Curriculum Vitae. I used to teach Object-Oriented Programming and Design (Software Engineering in the wild) at the University of Colorado (using Java and C++). Here's a cool example, a JavaScript app with which you can Make Fractal Art. Enjoy.
In other news I wrote a novel: Globalocity - The Adventures of Raymond. Go around the world with an attitude, and a secret sub-plot. Go with Raymond. Globalocity gets excellent reviews because it is interesting and engaging, fun fiction. Global velocity! This book will grab you and take you for a ride. Check it out.
As an intrepid world traveller, I have visited gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans in the wild, so I can testify that we humans talk better than our furrier cousins, but we don't climb trees as well. Based on heaps of evidence, I believe that Evolution is not just a theory, but a fact. How else could we possibly hope to understand human history and the origin of our instincts? Therefore we are all Trained Apes (and some apes are trained better than others). The good news is that empathy is in our nature. Moreover, now that we live in a brave new world full of fact-free fake news, the scientific pursuit of reliable knowledge is more important than ever. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia for this reason, and I subscribe to New Scientist magazine. Hopefully the next generation of AI technology will include tools to detect bullshit on social media with confidence. Also, I would love to see AI applied to discovering a mathematical Theory of Everything. Wouldn't you? Thanks for surfing my page. Peace.
