This 'shell' is somewhere in the middle of what humans call the "teens". Today Angel's horizons keep broadening.īasu is the biological shell of an pre-singularity mind. One day, by chance, he found OA and discovered a site difficult to understand at first, but deeply interesting with time.
While Angel developed a love for creature catalogs and D&D bestiaries, science and knowledge also began to attract his attention and with each discovery his horizons broadened a little more.Įxposure to so many wonders and facts eventually caused an urge in Ángel to express his imagination in the form of writings and tales covering the most varied topics. In his teen years, he discovered his passion for planets and space and started to read anything he could find about aliens and other planets. Ángel grew up reading ancient myths and legends and playing video games about castles and mages. This grew out of two earlier nicknames: Paladium - A trojan statue of Pallas Athena (the Paladion) and the periodic element Pd 46 - and another nickname: Avangel. Ángel's interest in both science and myth is initially demonstrated by his nickname: Avengium. John himself aspires to become immortal through various genetic tweaks and mind uploading technologies, but it remains on his "To Do List", right after "learn Portuguese". John himself is married to his high school girlfriend Margo, and together they have three children (Liam Martin, Jackson Rhys, and Moira Sophie-Faith. All of his projects can be found at his website, Explorations. The Planetary Classification List, designed for that setting, has gained some renown in the appropriate online communities, and it is his honor to have it modified and used in Orion's Arm as well. Having achieved a degree in English at Montana State University-Northern, he is currently working on his ArcBuilder Universe, an attempted hard science fiction setting. From there, the leap to science fiction was easy, although the further side step into a fanatic for bad monster and science fiction movies remains unexplained. From a very early age he gained a love of the unknown, spawning an interest in the sciences that was heavily encouraged by his Father and his work in the National Forest and Park Services. Dollan was born on Apat some point in the early hours (which likely explains his almost pathological fear of waking up before 8am). Senior Members - active former Board members In addition, Trond suffers from terminal distraction, and is actively interested in a range of other topics, including philosophy, history, biology, cosmology, and mathematics. Outside OA, Trond is an avid gamer and researcher, working on a range of projects in augmented reality, game design, computer vision, and educational technology.
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Since then, his role has evolved into general technical advice and software development, culminating in the development of dedicated management tools for Orion's Arm's vast mass of content. Trond has been with Orion's Arm almost since its inception - after joining in early 2001, he became the group's system admin and treasurer in 2002. Trond is a freelance researcher, software engineer, and game designer, and a PhD candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is working on generative and intelligent educational games for teaching human anatomy using Semantic Web technologies. Trond Nilsen - Vice-President, Technical Advisor, CMS Developer Currently lives in the Tidewater Region of Virginia and works as an Instructional Designer for a large local corporation. Discovering Orion's Arm one of happier moments of life to date. When he grows up he wants to be a Power.Ĭurrent interests include reading, working out, music (hard rock to classical, no rap please), and thinking about the future. Encountered Drexler's Engines of Creation in college along with trans and post-humanism and Vinge's Singularity concept. Switched to English and graduated in 1993, but always remained avid science and science fiction fan. Went to college at University of Arizona, Tucson intending to become engineer and discovered that higher mathematics just doesn't compute for him. Generally prefers 'hard' science fiction that is still not afraid to think big.
Drashner was born and raised in the semi-wilds of Alaska, first got into science fiction at age 9 when he picked up a copy of Clarke's Childhood's End in a bored moment. Todd Drashner - Treasurer, Moderator, Editor
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