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Calm brilliance

Applied & theoretical metalchemy

Created on 2001-04-25 11:33:34 (#112145), last updated 2009-07-13

10,177 comments received, 9,164 comments posted

Basic Info
Name:Sai Emrys
Birthdate:1982-01-12
Location:Berkeley, California, United States

Contact:

lj@saizai.com
Bio
詩心ある、
でも詩語がない。
残念ね。
悲しみは
喜びなると
明光る。
大脳は
心意と一心
無心知る。

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My current resume (Need a Ruby/Rails hacker? I'm available.)

I give great professional massages. Want one?

RL contact info, journal filters info, & legal documents in case of emergency

What to do if I'm twitching or can't move / speak


Who am I?

The name I go by is Sai Emrys. If you have met me since 2001 or so, you probably know me by that name (and I prefer you use it); my legal name is still different, but only for government and family use. Neither of them is "my name", however; I don't have one, though the glyph is vaguely close.

I have been called variously a student, nomad, hacker (not cracker), scholar, empath, pianist, linguist, programmer, photographer, meta-alchemist, vegetarian (recovering) zombie, moon-baffle 3rd class, pong, ordained minister, gnostic, aikidoka, orgonist, fiercely loyal friend, kittenish pseudoduck, anomaly, eccentric, trained massage therapist, conlanger, sapiosexual, Discordian, bisexual, polyamorist, teetotaler, non-smoker, agnostic, geek, cat, cat ownee, cognitive scientist, ASL signer, idiosyncratic meditator, rationalist, humanist, backpacker, costumer, self-gendered, outspoken 'silent type', musician, pianist, harpsichordist, Iron Chef WTF, hedonist, polyglot, poet, worldview-multiplist and just generally a "unique" person.

If you want to friend me, go ahead. FWIW, I usually only friend people who are my friends in real life. But I'm happy to make new ones; that's what conversation is for, so ping me sometime for IM or tea.

Projects & Publications

- articles
Empathy - Meta-cognition by mirror neurons, from junior year of my UCB CogSci BA
Meditation for Hackers: All-Point Techniques - 2600 Magazine, Summer 2008
Non-linear Fully 2-dimensional Writing System Design (in progress)
On the Design of an Ideal Language

- projects
Rails Authorization Plugin fork to support full anonymous user roles
SuperDeploy Capistrano recipes plugin

- presentations
(upcoming) Meditation workshop, Toorcamp 2009
Grip language (w/ Alex Fink), 3rd Language Creation Conference
Conlanging 101: Intro & Advanced Vocabulary Generation (ppt part 1, part 2), 2nd Language Creation Conference
Non-Linear Fully 2-Dimensional Writing Systems, 1st Language Creation Conference

- conlang stuff
Language Creation Society Podcast co-lead producer/host
3x Language Creation Conference lead organizer
Language Creation Society (501(c)3) founder/President
2x [info]conlangs_decal teacher (videos) - 2-3 unit semester long class @ UCB on how to create languages
[info]conlangs founder


In progress:
- articles
Rails Magazine & PeepCode - Push servers on Rails

- projects
Kura 2.0 (repo tracker list) - lexicon management, field linguist data entry, multilingual WordNet, Wiktionary 2.0, etc etc; to be compatible with (and superset to) Kura, ELAN, Shoebox, WordNet, etc
MakeYourLaws - helps people change the political world by participating in a democracy (not republic)
MotoStudy - a research study to investigate correlations between motorcyclist behaviors and outcomes
“Hermes” - connects people of different religions for a common cause
“Silk Hat” - a social game with sophisticated technology on the back end to make things Just Work

- books
Proceedings of the Language Creation Conference - essays by LCC presenters on topics substantially related to their presentation(s); editor & chapter co-author
Meditation for Hackers: A dogma-free recipe book (excerpt above) - full breadth, practical coverage of various classes of effective meditation techniques, minus the woo &c
Language Creation 101 (formerly the Conlang Books Project) - introductory linguistics textbook using conlanging as an applied method

... plus various and varying Very Sekrit Projects™


Other useful things:

I moderate [info]empaths (woo) and [info]academic_empath (empirical), at least hypothetically (I haven't really touched 'em in years).

Marnanel graph of my friend-of since April '03

This profile was last updated 11 May 2009.
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