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
- Amy
- Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Scrubs Season 1
- Morbius
- Pitch Perfect
- Avatar
- Emma.
- Dual
- Drunk Bus
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
Personal Heroes
- Siddhārtha Gautama
- Nikola Tesla
- Desmond Doss
- John Harrison
I seem to be making a profession of bizarre (self-)portraits. Here we are ...
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1991 | October 2001 | July 2006 |