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

• Memory: The Origins of Alien
• A Bug's Life
• Alphaville
• Doom Patrol, Season 1
• Time Trap
• October Faction, Season 1
• A Discovery of Witches, Season 1
• Ragnarok, Season 1
• His Dark Materials, Season 1
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Recent Reading List

• Stealing Worlds, Karl Schroeder
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, Matsuo Bashō
• Mira's Last Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Swearing is Good for You, Emma Byrne
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
• Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel
• The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton
• The Emperor's Blades, Brian Staveley
• I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
• Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone
• The Happy Traveler, Jaime Kurtz

Recent Favourite Music

• 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"
• Buzzcocks
• 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