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| User: | gfish (497361)
Child of a Metal God
My Hands Are Much Too Clever For My Heart
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| Name: | GrendelFish |
| Website: | Cyphertext: Gateway to the Republic |
| Location: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Birthdate: | 1977-09-04 |
| E-mail: | livejournal4@cyphertext.net
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| gfish | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Skype: |  mdockrey |
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| Bio: |
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| Image courtesy NASA/JSC |
Currently a grad student at the University of British Columbia studying computer vision and robotics.
A builder of the above-pictured SPACE ROBOT.
Creator of Obsphere and generally obsessed with maps.
The guitar playing one third of the filk group Escape Key.
An award-winning filmmaker.
No longer the author of an underappreciated webcomic.
Author of a rather different space robot.
Novice blacksmith. A dabbler in primitive copper smelting and other bootstrapping technologies.
Gentleman adventurer.
Some other stuff, too.
Pity poor Hrothgar,
Grendel's foe!
Pity poor Grendel,
O, O, O!
Grendel is crazy,
O, O, O!
Thinks old Hrothgar
Makes it snow!
Pity poor Grengar,
Hrothdel's foe!
Down goes the whirlpool:
Eek! No, no! |
| Memories: | 182 entries |
| Interests: | 86: 24-hour time, aikido, anarcho-capitalism, angle grinders, anglish, archaeometallurgy, atlatls, biking, blacksmithing, boeing surplus, brights, cargo cults, cartography, certifications, coding in freefall, collapse of civilization, confucianism, daria, diane duane, doctor who, dystopias, emacs, escape key, eschatons, esperanto, fandom, fencing, filk, filmmaking, flintknapping, forges, geocryology, gis, glassblowing, gonzo engineering, grep, guitar, hermann hesse, home automation, human powered transportation, iaido, interstitial spaces, ken macleod, kendo, larry niven, lathes, locksmithing, machining, massive soviet technology, metrology, microgravity, midgardmoo, mir, multilingual puns, mysql, natural philosophy, obsphere, old english, opposable thumbs, over-engineering, paddling, parkour, php, positive-sum games, public transit, recursive functions, robert pirsig, sandbaggers, sextants, sf, siege engineering, simulated annealing, smelting, space robots, time team, ukiyo-e, unilateral pre-emptive metrification, united nations, university of british columbia, university of washington, utility belts, vernor vinge, vomit comet, webcomics, xkcd, 無 |
| Schools: | Greenacres Elementary School - Spokane Valley, WA (1983 - 1989)
Discovery School - Spokane, WA (1989 - 1990)
St. George's School - Spokane, WA (1990 - 1993)
University High School - Spokane Valley, WA (1993 - 1995)
Eastern Washington University - Cheney, WA (1995 - 1996)
University of Washington - Seattle, WA (1996 - 2000)
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC, Canada (2007 - present)
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| Friends: |  | 191: | adamselzer, adularia, airlinepilot, aladriana, anansi133, angilong, arjache, art_geek, ash_blackwell, ashley_y, autopope, avicado, bakeme, barefootorbust, basal_surge, beaq, bientot, blackanvil, blackavar, blacksandwhites, bobus, boizane, boojum, book_addict, bridgetester, brithistorian, cadhla, cairisrin, caladri, callmem, carmiel, caroltlp, catamorphism, catsittingstill, cflute, chaoswolf, chatworthy, chocolate_jen, chuckdarwin, compilerbitch, corivax, cow, craigp, creeves78, crimmycat, damiana_swan, dandelionteeth, darlingfreak, dduane, dianthus, dmmaus, drakemonger, dreamingcrow, dresdencodak, dryaunda, dymaxion, edith_mf, eeyorerin, eleventoes, encapsulate, entelein, eogan, evilmicrowizard, evilworkowizard, ewtikins, fantasygoat, fifel, figmo, filkferengi, firesign3000, fuse_sat, gement, goes_sat, gorgeousgary, grinninfoole, helenangel, heyokish, hollyking, hollyqueen, hpapillon, hsifyppah, huck, ilmarinen, inteflata, ionan, irgth, itslyd2, ivolucien, jadine, jedi_iwakura, jeffreycornish, jhitchin, johno, jonsinger, julesong, jwz, k_crow, kamiilyaan, kathrynt, kethet, keystricken, kilianpooh, koruja, lola_mccrary, lolmike, lonelyache, loree, lostmachine, lumiere, lunar__angel, maribou, matt_ruff, mdlbear, meardaba, memegarden, meowse, mrgoodwraith, mrlogic, mrpsyklops, museinred, nadadoll, najalaise, nanoflux, neuro42, niac, noumignon, novalis, olafthunderfoot, onefishjyuufish, opportunitygrrl, orawnzva, p7a77, pandora233, pathdancer, permanent_guest, peteralway, plantae, porysski, qatar, qazwsxmko, quiet000001, randomdreams, rigel_p, robogock, rollick, rosacanina, rowtree, runnerwolf, samildanach, sar_anon, scott_t_s, shandryl, sickyprincess, sistawendy, socialistboy, solarbird, sonatine, sonjaaa, spaced, spinnerin_ftw, spiritdance, spiritrover, starlight_gypsy, stellar_dust, stolen_tea, tailsboy, talamh_aisling, talamh_sidhe, tarkrai, technoshaman, tfabris, theferrett, thewronghands, tikimonkey, tithonium, tmfkan64, tnarg42, tommusic, triskadekaphile, trystel, tylik, vesperti, vixyish, waysofseeing, wazm, wigu, woggie, xiadyn, xkcd, zaggers, zaratyst |  | 32: | anachrotech, aurora_chasers, bethscafe, brights, cartographica, casadelgeek, ecophagy, esperanto, filk, gis, keenonifty, l_j_kendo_kai, learn_esperanto, mappalujo, metalsmiths, midint, myriadwords, myriarchy, navling, nerdvana, old_english, recumbents, sea_metro, seattleinperil, singingsunrise, snafmoo, spacers_ooc, tallshipgeeks, teamalala, teratogenesis, transit_stories, youngwizards |  | 36: | armsctrlwonk, bruce_schneier, charlies_diary, clockwork_feed, coroner_stories, daily_show, dockrey_dc, dr_jeff_masters, dyepot, encap, flashenabled, fpolicy_blog, fryblog, gibsonfeed, gxangalo, hackaday, ironicsans, janchipchase, kenmacleodblog, lmb_myspace, modrnwrld_comic, monzyfeed, phdcomic, randomblogspot, sightline_feed, strangerblog, sunnybains_feed, tendoctors, typography_blog, velvet_knife, voxun, whineaboutgames, wilwheaton, xkcd_blag, xkcd_rss, zefranktheshow |
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| Friend of: | 175: adamselzer, adularia, airlinepilot, aladriana, anansi133, angilong, arjache, ash_blackwell, ashley_y, autopope, avicado, bakeme, barefootorbust, basal_surge, beaq, bientot, blackanvil, blackavar, blacksandwhites, bobus, boizane, book_addict, bridgetester, brithistorian, cadhla, cairisrin, caladri, callmem, carmiel, caroltlp, catamorphism, catsittingstill, cflute, chaoswolf, chatworthy, chuckdarwin, compilerbitch, corivax, cow, craigp, creeves78, crimmycat, damiana_swan, darlingfreak, dianthus, drakemonger, dreamingcrow, dryaunda, dymaxion, edith_mf, eeyorerin, eleventoes, encapsulate, entelein, eogan, evilworkowizard, ewtikins, fifel, figmo, filkferengi, firesign3000, fuse_sat, gement, goddamnkids, goes_sat, gorgeousgary, grinninfoole, helenangel, hollyking, hollyqueen, hpapillon, hsifyppah, huck, ilmarinen, inteflata, ionan, irgth, itslyd2, ivolucien, jadine, jedi_iwakura, jeffreycornish, jhitchin, johno, jonsinger, julesong, k_crow, kamiilyaan, kathrynt, kethet, keystricken, kilianpooh, koruja, lola_mccrary, lolmike, lonelyache, loree, lostmachine, lumiere, lunar__angel, maribou, mdlbear, meardaba, memegarden, morinon, mrgoodwraith, mrlogic, mrpsyklops, museinred, najalaise, nanoflux, neuro42, niac, noumignon, novalis, olafthunderfoot, onefishjyuufish, opportunitygrrl, orawnzva, p7a77, pandora233, pathdancer, pathfindress, permanent_guest, peteralway, phitau, plantae, porysski, qazwsxmko, quiet000001, randomdreams, rigel_p, rollick, rowtree, runnerwolf, samildanach, sar_anon, scott_t_s, shandryl, sickyprincess, sistawendy, socialistboy, solarbird, sonjaaa, spaced, spinnerin_ftw, spiritdance, spiritrover, star_dusting, starlight_gypsy, ... |
| Member of: | 17: anachrotech, aurora_chasers, brights, cartographica, casadelgeek, ecophagy, filk, gis, mappalujo, midint, navling, nerdvana, seattleinperil, snafmoo, spacers_ooc, tallshipgeeks, youngwizards |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
