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Calm brilliance
Applied & theoretical metalchemy
Created on 2001-04-25 11:33:34 (#112145), last updated 2009-07-13
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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
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conlangs_decal teacher (videos) - 2-3 unit semester long class @ UCB on how to create languagesconlangs founderIn 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
empaths (woo) and 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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∞, 23, a cappella, agnosticism, aikido, american sign language, androgyny, arabic, asl, being, berkeley, bisexuality, brilliance, cats, cognitive science, compersion, compsci, conlanging, conlangs, cooking, cuddling, discordianism, empaths, empathy, energy work, english, fencing, french, friends, geeks, genius, gnosticism, hacking, honor, intelligence, intraspection, introspection, japanese, ki, klingon, language, languages, life, linguistics, long hair, love, mandarin, martial arts, massage, meditation, meta, meta-meta, mirror neurons, music, neuropsychology, ockham's razor, openness, photography, piano, poetry, polyamory, pongs, proxemics, puns, russian, saigrok, sapiosexuality, scritches, sensuality, sewing, shiny things, spanish, st. francis, stillness, syncretism, wit, writing systems, zen, ॐ, ‽, ∞, ♪, 合氣道
Schools:
Brinckerhoff Elementary School - Fishkill, NY (1987 - 1991)Van Wyck Junior High School - Wappingers Falls, NY (1992 - 1994)
John Jay High School - Hopewell Junction, NY (1993 - 1994)
David Starr Jordan Middle School - Palo Alto, CA (1995)
Palo Alto High School - Palo Alto, CA (1996 - 2000)
Foothill College - Los Altos Hills, CA (2001 - 2002)
De Anza College - Cupertino, CA (2003 - 2004)
University of California - Berkeley - Berkeley, CA (2004 - 2006)
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