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| User: | metawidget (1294173)  
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| Name: | Erk! |
| Website: | metawidget.net |
| Location: | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| Birthdate: | 08-09 |
| Bio: |
- Born
- Barrie Memorial Hospital, Ormstown, QC, 9th of August 1980. In a hurry (2 hours of labour or thereabouts), but later than the docs had me scheduled. That makes me a metal monkey or a Leo, depending on your preferred flavour of soothsaying.
- Now at
- Living and working in the National Capital Region: living with my fiancée, a cat, a rat and a pound of worms, working as a methodologist on health statistics, linking records and doing research and dissemination. More details available from the résumé.
I enjoy being a translator between technical cants, an explainer, a troubleshooter and a jack-of-all-trades. I like art that revels in a few weird restrictions, and/or has a twisted sense of humour. I love my family, including ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) loupdebois and my sister and parents who remain non-LJ people (as far as I know). Not merely not-evil, rottenfruit continues to deepen my understanding of what all the fuss about romantic love is about. I think of potlucks as avenues for creative expression. It takes some convincing to get me to dance in a social setting, but not so much if I'm in my kitchen and life is kicking ass.
- In between
- Spent early childhood in NDG neighbourhood of Montréal, late childhood and teenage years in Ormstown. Enjoyed school for the most part, represented Ormstown Elementary in basketball, and Math Olympics; did student government, drama and Intellectual Olympics at high school. Had a stable home life in the countryside with animals, space to run around and a seven kilometre ride to the nearest dépanneur (thirteen when I wasn’t old enough to go on the main roads). My post-secondary years were in Montréal at Dawson and Concordia (undergrad and now the beginnings of an M.Sc. with a bunch of research and work in there too), with a stint in the Ottawa-Gatineau area as a co-op student at Statistics Canada, in the Census Research and Geography Methods units.
- Stances
I try to live by the "if it works for you and nobody gets hurt, great" ethic, which works for me. One of my good deeds to do for this lifetime is to provide backup, consolation or covering fire for someone facing less reasonable attitudes while sorting out their queerness or atheism.
If you've been friended and looked around some or been reading for a while, you may want to participate in my mini-census. While you're at it, try out my Johari and Nohari windows. Other bits of LJ-adminstration: add me if you like, and I'll figure it out soon enough. My friends list is about keeping a bunch of journals that I enjoy reading for whatever reason in easy reach, and for updating people that I feel the need to update on less than world-accessible stuff. If you add me, I will notice, and probably try you on for size. I don't announce cuts. Unfriended people are welcome to keep reading. I do use filters and friended posts, but I'll try to make my world-accessible journal interesting and relatively frequent.
If you find yourself getting filtered content that you'd rather not, contact me any way you like and I'll ratchet things down to your liking (within the granularity of my filters).
Friends have my blessing if they want to mess with my entry tags. Please use your powers for good and not for evil (and generally for adding salient tags and correcting typos).
- Blood type
- O positive
- Geek code
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| Memories: | 123 entries |
| Pictures: | over 100 public |
| Interests: | 147: ambiguity, androgyny, anger, anti-definition-by-exclusion, architecture, art, atheism, awkwardness, backrubs, balance, beauty, beer, benevolent temptresses, bicycling, blue monday, books, boop, canada, candles, cheap-ass gay hippies, civilization, cleverness, coffee, collaboration, communication, community, computers, concordia university, contracts, contrariness, cooking, cute furry mammals, dinner, discordianism, doodling, duty, eating well, eccentricity, eels, elizabeth bruce, eris, ethics, etymology, fair trade, feminism, fnord, food, formative chess breakdowns, free love, free will, french, games, geekiness, generative design, geometry, go-betweens, grammar, graphic design, hands-on, happiness, hippies, history, honesty, honey glazed babies, hugs, hull, humanity, identity, improv cooking, indian food, learning, linguistics, literacy, logic, love, macs, masculinity, mathematics, metawidget, montréal, morbid curiosity, my cat, nature, naïveté, pedantry, people, photography, php, politics, polyamory, public transit, québec, radio, rats, reading, reason, recipes, rhetoric, romanticism, rottenfruit, science, scrabble, secrets, secularism, self-control, semantics, sexuality, shiny things, sibboleths, simplicity, society, something new every week, spacefem.com, speech acts, standards, statistics, staying up late, strangers, strip scrabble, stupid friggin', talking, tea, teaching, teasing, teh internetz, the cbc, the decline of civilization, tree-hugging hippie crap, unconditional love, understanding, usability, useful trivia, useless trivia, vegetarian food, verbosity, verdun, vermicomposting, ville-marie, vogon poetry, weirdos, what i like, whimsy, wine, wonder, writing, yoga, ∞ |
| Schools: | Ormstown Elementary School - Ormstown, QC, Canada
Chateauguay Valley Regional High School - Ormstown, QC, Canada (1992 - 1997)
Dawson College - Westmount, QC, Canada (1997 - 1999)
Concordia University - Montréal, QC, Canada (1999 - 2007)
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| Friends: | | 114: | _anemone_, aeon_of_maat, airneail, alabasterine, almond_tiger, archdiva, babyboykai, beeblefish, big_red_dave, bitter_femme, blacksquiggles, blueheron, cafebluemonday, callmepavlov, choucroute, christmas7, cjmr, crankybear, cuz_mary_jane, daka, dargit, denkizero, diatribein, dizietsma, dropthelemon, drux, eclips1st, electricland, elementearth, emjayne, felis_ultharus, femiwhat, femmusic, feygele, finneco, fuzzyila, girl_fawkes, goddessofjoi, gorbash_dragon, gregorama, grimmwire, guntar, harperjean, hub_, iangurudata, japonisme, jdhorner, joenotcharles, jophils, judyna, jul3z, justcallmeju, kallisti, keyef, kita_mcgee, ladymeta, letthatbeenough, liberation_now, lightcastle, lillerina, loupdebois, metawidget, montrealais, moonlightjoy, mordak88, mrxsleaze, mtlchick, newtonthecat, nightkitchen, nihilicious, notofthisworld, nuotio, obskura, odetothepillow, one_in_progress, open_design, photogeek_mtl, phrawzty, phreeduhm, plautus, pphaneuf, punzerel, putgeminmouth, raccoonbonapart, ramou, ravi, rho, rottenfruit, sbourge, senhor, sfllaw, shade_42, silverspar, skeptic320, sorceror, spacefem, stalkingsilence, star_holder, stateofwonder, status, sushil, swestrup, taxlady, the_arachne, thebabynancy, travelbunny, tygrbabe, tylerpistol, ubergreenkat, ungratefulbiped, v0idnull, vierge_en_trop, xipetotec, zebragod |  | 23: | bluesoapbox, boho_shabby, borderlinelegal, concordia_u, dorkottawa, feedback, fuzzysex, gatineau, ingbank, journeybox, lazy_cooks, lj_biz, lj_design, lj_maintenance, lj_releases, marnanel_joule, montreal, news, ottawa, paidmembers, suggestions, trash_collector, verdun |
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| Mutual Friends: | 102: _anemone_, aeon_of_maat, airneail, alabasterine, almond_tiger, archdiva, babyboykai, beeblefish, big_red_dave, bitter_femme, blacksquiggles, blueheron, cafebluemonday, callmepavlov, choucroute, christmas7, cjmr, crankybear, cuz_mary_jane, daka, dargit, denkizero, diatribein, dizietsma, dropthelemon, drux, electricland, elementearth, emjayne, felis_ultharus, femiwhat, femmusic, feygele, finneco, fuzzyila, girl_fawkes, goddessofjoi, gorbash_dragon, gregorama, grimmwire, guntar, hub_, iangurudata, japonisme, jdhorner, joenotcharles, jophils, judyna, jul3z, justcallmeju, keyef, kita_mcgee, ladymeta, lightcastle, lillerina, loupdebois, metawidget, montrealais, moonlightjoy, mordak88, mtlchick, newtonthecat, nightkitchen, notofthisworld, obskura, odetothepillow, open_design, photogeek_mtl, phrawzty, plautus, pphaneuf, punzerel, putgeminmouth, raccoonbonapart, ramou, ravi, rho, rottenfruit, sbourge, senhor, sfllaw, shade_42, silverspar, skeptic320, sorceror, spacefem, stalkingsilence, star_holder, stateofwonder, sushil, swestrup, taxlady, the_arachne, thebabynancy, travelbunny, tygrbabe, tylerpistol, ubergreenkat, ungratefulbiped, v0idnull, vierge_en_trop, xipetotec |
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| Member of: | 19: bluesoapbox, boho_shabby, borderlinelegal, concordia_u, dorkottawa, feedback, fuzzysex, gatineau, ingbank, journeybox, lazy_cooks, marnanel_joule, montreal, mtlpoly, ottawa, paidmembers, queer_mtl, trash_collector, verdun |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
