about

Quinn has spent most of his life in educational facilities. He earned his Bachelor degree in Philosophy from the University of Victoria, graduating with Honours and Distinction in 2005. Realizing that a well rounded person needs more than just English and some high school French, he spent 2006 in intensive language courses on classical Arabic, classical Greek, and Latin. Beginning late in 2006, Quinn enrolled in a Master of Library and Information Science program at the University of Western Ontario. Upon receiving a Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada for his studies in philosophy, he departed UWO and took post at the University of Toronto. Quinn has recently completed his Master of Arts in Philosophy at U of T, and has now returned to complete his final semester of the MLIS degree at UWO with a Ontario Graduate Scholarship in tow. Quinn completed his alphabet soup (for now) in December 2007, finishing with BA (Hons. w/ Dist.), MA, and MLIS. He is currently looking for CDEFGJKPQRUV, but is unsure what degrees would offer those letters.

When Quinn isn't earning his letters he is working on text. Quinn is an excellent author; he is conversant with many domains of speech and can summon buzzwords upon command. When Quinn outputs text he uses LaTeX, (X)HTML and CSS, XML, Markdown, or maybe just plain ASCII/Unicode. To edit and manipulate that text Quinn uses fancy UNIX tools like grep, sed and awk, and scripts with some Python or PHP—basically, Quinn really likes regular expressions. Quinn hasn't forgotten all his schooling though; he keeps aware of many academic trends but really likes information and channel theory, interfaces between society and technology, radical and alternative technology, law and digital technologies, and cryptography.

Oh, and hire me!