MattArnold's Page

Location:

Detroit, Michigan, USA

About Me:

I was born in 1974, shortly after the vernal equinox, when science fiction author Philip K. Dick went insane. Those three events have no connection.

I attend science fiction conventions in southeast Michigan, help to run them, and have been a frequent panelist in recent years. I cofounded the Macomb/Oakland Fandom Organization, and served two terms on the board of directors of the Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association which runs ConFusion.

I am most prominently involved in the Penguicon science fiction and open source software convention. I'm a fan of Cory Doctorow and personally got him as a Guest of Honor for 2005, and fan of Christine Peterson and Charlie Stross who I got as Guests of Honor for 2007.

I am a transhumanist, speak Lojban, and own too many back issues of WIRED Magazine to count. I have one computer each of Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux, and prefer to read books on the screen of my handheld computer over paper.

I was a production artist for print and the web for eight years, but now I'm employed at a tech startup selling voice over internet and doing web design and administration.

My favorite podcasts are Escape Pod, Changesurfer Radio, and Polyamory Weekly.

On Yudkowsky's Future Shock Scale I rate a 3.

Look me up on Second Life with the handle Nemo Benmergui.

Website:

http://nemorathwald.com

Areas of interest:

abstract games, advanced technology, agnosticism, animation, anti-authoritarianism, apple computers, atheism, books, childfree, clay animation, coffee, coffee shops, creativity, douglas adams, e-books, enya, epcot center, go, humanism, icehouse, intelligence, interactive fiction, libertarianism, lojban, nanotech, nonmonogamy, open cola, open relationship, palm os, penguicon, philosophy, polyamory, reading, real-time strategy, science, science fiction, science fiction conventions, sculpting, secularism, singularity, skepticism, special effects, they might be giants, tom lehrer, transhumanism, universism, urban tribes, utopia, vangelis, whuffie, writing, zendo

Area(s) of expertise/knowledge:

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, HTML, CSS, web administration, teaching software, Lojban

Associations/Affiliations:

Penguicon, Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association, Logical Language Group

Volunteering / Financial Contributions:

Penguicon, Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association, Logical Language Group