Giles Orr

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I'm a librarian/computer geek/photographer from Toronto. When I speak, I sound Canadian with a hint of the Deep South - but my politics are pure bleeding heart liberal. I was born on the cusp between the Baby Boomers and Generation X, but my life has definitely felt more like that of a Gen-Xer - over-educated and frequently underemployed. I'm an areligious Buddhist (really) willing to slaughter a chicken on the altar to offend fundamentalists of any variety. I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Toronto) and another one in Library Science (McGill). I spend about six hours a week exercising. I spend my spare time writing HTML and scripts, 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 Reading List

Adiamante, L.E. Modesitt
The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery, Janwillem va de Wetering
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
The Magus, John Fowles
The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho
Sweet Silver Blues, Glen Cook
Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: a novel, Marina Lewycka
Sin City vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For, Frank Miller
Linux Journal

Recent Listening List

Greatest Hits 1970-2002, Elton John
A Valid Path, Alan Parsons Project
Led Zepplin, III
Paint the Sky With Stars, Enya
Greatest Hits, Elton John
The Open Door, Evanescence
Warning:, Green Day
1, Beatles
Dirty Boogie, Brian Setzer et al
Storyville, Robbie Robertson

Recent Movies

A Good Year
An Officer and a Gentleman
Mad Dog and Glory
The Lives of Others
Twelfth Night (BBC)
Soylent Green
A League of Their Own
Hancock
WALL-E
High Crimes
Just Cause

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

			Lots more pictures here.
1991	October 2001	July 2006