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 Secret Garden
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• Murder in: the Land of the Cathars
• Murder in: Colmar
• Murder in: Oleron
• Russian Doll
• Infinitum: Subject Unknown
• The House of the Lost on the Cape
• Hydra
• The Matrix - Resurrections

Recent Reading List

• The Radleys, Matt Haig
• The Orphans of Raspay, Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Physicians of Vilnoc, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
• Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Penric's Fox, Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Humans, Matt Haig
• Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
• A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster Bujold

Recent Favourite Music

• Molotov Jukebox "Tropical Gypsy"
• 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

Great song lyrics

Personal Heroes

• Siddhārtha Gautama
• Nikola Tesla
• Desmond Doss
• John Harrison

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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