| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | My most memorable childhood experience would be returning to my hometown when I was a teenager. My family had moved when I was too young to really have memories, so I went most of my childhood without seeing or playing with snow. When we finally went up to visit one winter, I remember practically living at the snow lodge for three days straight. I must have been snowboarding for 10 hours a day every day. Good times. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | The family member I most closely identify with is my brother. We haven't lived under the same roof for many years now, but every time we interact with each other it's like no time has passed at all. We can go months, sometimes even years, without contact, but it never seems to matter. We always have each other's backs, and I even had him as my best man for my wedding. His speech was awkward at best, but it was exactly what I expected from him. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | The trait I admire most in an individual would be critical thinking. Bonus points if the person is able to disconnect their personal biases when assessing a situation. Treating situations objectively and not emotionally seems to be becoming a rare trait these days, so it stands out even more when I find someone that can. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | One of the stories I have that's funny to me now, is definitely funnier in hindsight than at the time. We used to go to the beach a lot as kids, and I was quite a bit into surfing. One day the tide was weird, and we were at an unfamiliar beach, and I washed up onto a bed of rocks. Nothing too serious, but my face did get pretty roughed up, multiple cuts and scrapes all around it. Well, wouldn't you know it that two days later was school picture day, just in time for my whole face to be scabbing over and giving me the most grotesque-looking school photo I think my school has ever printed. Murphy's law in full effect. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | If I could travel anywhere right now it would be to Songdo, South Korea. It's a very futuristic city that seems to blend elements of science fiction architecture, with green walkways and water features and I appreciate juxtapositions like that. It seems like the kind of place that I would just walk around at night enjoying the atmosphere and I usually don't wander aimlessly through cities, so that's saying something. Second to that would probably be Egypt because, well, pyramids. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | I did just recently have a daughter; as of writing this she's 11 months old. If there was only one thing I could pass on to her it would be my intrigue of tinkering. I love taking things apart to see how they work, and even if I can't always get them back together afterwards, at least I learned a lot along the way. I hope that when she's older she'll also enjoy it and we can do it together, fingers crossed. |
