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

• Mr. Right
• Juliet, Naked
• Russian Doll
• Twelfth Night
• Shakespeare in Love
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Preacher, Season 3
• Lucifer, Season 1
• Revenger
• Finding Your Feet

Recent Reading List

• Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho
• The Fortunate Fall, Raphael Carter
• The Lost City of Z, David Grann
• The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
• Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
• How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
• Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett
• Elements of Taste: Understanding What We Like and Why, Benjamin Errett
• A Brief History of Vice, Robert Evans

Recent Favourite Music

• The Alan Parsons Project
• Jethro Tull
• Infected Mushroom
• Slash: "Apocalyptic Love" and "World on Fire"
• Buzzcocks
• Ewan Dobson
• Ultravox
• "Diamond Dogs" and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
• Tears for Fears
• Mozart, later Piano Concertos and Symphonies
• Metric
• The New Pornographers
• Gorillaz
• "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
• Paco de Lucia
• Chet Baker

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