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

Recent Reading List

The Emperor's Blades, Brian Staveley
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone
The Happy Traveler, Jaime Kurtz
The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny
The Little World of Don Camillo, Giovanni Guareschi
An Insider's Guide to Canada's Capital
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander
Little Fuzzy, H. Beam Piper

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

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

			Lots more pictures here.
1991	October 2001	July 2006