Giles Orr
Blog Resume PapersI'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
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Bolt
- Encanto
- Around the World in 80 Days
- The Tin Star
- How to Steal a Million
- The Protégé
- Murder in Cotentin
- Murder in Alsace
- The Watch, Season 1
Recent Reading List
- Searching for Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
- Dealing With Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
- The Tar-Aiym Krang, Alan Dean Foster
- Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 2, Walt Kelly
- Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1, Walt Kelly
- The End of the Matter, Alan Dean Foster
- Orphan Star, Alan Dean Foster
- Icerigger, Alan Dean Foster
- The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
- The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Recent Favourite Music
- Genticorum's "Malins Plaisirs"
- Polyphia
- Gin Wigmore
- 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
I seem to be making a profession of bizarre (self-)portraits. Here we are ...
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1991 | October 2001 | July 2006 |