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

Recent Reading List

Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hallowed Hunt, Lois McMaster Bujold
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
Learning the Vi and Vim Editors, 8th edition, Arnold Robbins and Elbert Hannah
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia McKillip
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
It's Me Again, Donald Jack
Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
That's Me in the Middle, Donald Jack
Three Cheers for Me, Donald Jack

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

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

			Lots more pictures here.
1991	October 2001	July 2006