Giles Orr

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I'm a librarian, computer geek, photographer, areligious Buddhist, and ex-engineer from Toronto. I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Toronto) and another one in Library Science (McGill). I spend my spare time writing Python, HTML, Bash scripts, whatever language I'm learning right now, working with Linux, and watching movies. My favourite hobbies other than computers are photography and travel.

"The World is on its elbows and knees
It's forgotten the message and worships the creeds."
- Matt Johnson

Recent Movies and TV

• The New Mutants
• April and the Extraordinary World
• Heroes Wanted
• Unknown Origins
• Thunder Force
• Love Actually
• Tower
• Alice in Borderland, Season 1
• Denise Ho: Becoming the Song
• Wristcutters: A Love Story

Recent Reading List

• The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
• Sabriel, Garth Nix
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire
• Waking Gods, Sylvain Neuvel
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
• Practical Vim, Drew Neil
• Old Man's War, John Scalzi
• Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K. Jerome
• Stealing Worlds, Karl Schroeder
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, Matsuo Bashō

Recent Favourite Music

• several soma fm stations
• DJ Shadow "The Private Press"
• Grimes' "Art Angels"
• Mika's first album
• The Claypool Lennon Delirium
• The Alan Parsons Project
• Jethro Tull
• Metric
• Infected Mushroom
• Slash: "Apocalyptic Love," "World on Fire," "Living the Dream"
• Ewan Dobson
• Ultravox
• "Diamond Dogs" and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
• Tears for Fears
• Mozart, later Piano Concertos and Symphonies
• The New Pornographers
• "Random Access Memories" and the "Tron: Legacy" soundtrack
• "Black Hawk Down" soundtrack
• Green Day (and occasionally Dean Gray)
• Jesse Cook (most often "Nomad")
• Devo - "Something for Everybody" and "Freedom of Choice"
• The Chemical Brothers

Great song lyrics

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I seem to be making a profession of bizarre (self-)portraits. Here we are ...

			Lots more pictures here.
1991	October 2001	July 2006