User:Tristan Miller

Name: Tristan Miller; Designation: Human

Behold...Tristan Miller's Ten Point Plan

Contents 1 Contact Details 2 Newly acquired skills 3 Skills of yore 4 Selected interests & hobbies 5 Ideas 6 Other things 7 Interesting(?) reading 8 Off-Icial occupations 9 Other Tristan Millers 10 Other e-humans

Contact Details

• e-mail: tristan AT mindcloud DOT org

• skype: cromulator

Feel free to contact me on any of the above channels.

Newly acquired skills

• improved PHP skills
• MySQL skillz
• RSS feed creation
• bass guitar
• Basic skills in C++
• Mediawiki skin creation
• Electronics, antennae, etc.
• Can juggle a little.

Skills of yore

• Mathematics
• Programming
• Miracles of repair
• Painting
• Thinking and drinking
• Going back in time to prevent various abuses of user pages
• plotting and scheming
• various & sundry musical skills
• moderate electronical ability (upgraded from basic after a semester of digital electronics)
• piloting virtual and actual aircraft

Selected interests & hobbies

• Music: various, though TISM, David Bowie, the Flaming Lips and King Crimson are regular favourites
• I'm a fan of Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman and Bill Hicks
• Physics, mathematics, the Universe, and the nature of consciousness
• Robotics, AI, computer programming, Programmable Gate Arrays (and their use in evolving hardware), genetics and the secrets of life itself
• Astronomy, entomology, aircraft of all shapes and sizes
• Epic journeys across the badlands
• Punching through the barriers of time, dragging past and future together
• History and the limits of the human mind
• Warhammer 40000 - tabletop battles involving miniature soldiers and rules
• My favourite party trick used to be where I'd throw a tennis ball into space and take out a satellite. This was a good way of getting a backyard fire started, but I was fined several hundred dollars by the Holdfast Bay City Council for "disturbing the ambience" and my body wasted away under the ensuing crushing poverty.

Ideas

IDEAS, man, ideas? Where do they come from? Reality encodes our neural architecture, which we then encode into the outside reality.

• The Story of the Oily Brickpusher
• Mimolok
• Sharehouse Seminar Series
• Ungravity illusions
• Wave your own flag!
• Techno-smear
• My stats...
• Popecorn
• X-Treem Aerobraking
• HRM Horoscope
• Chritianity
• The Sun
• Mindcloud magazine
• Mindcloud Organisation
• The Book of Sorrows
• Earth Government
• The Ult'mate C.U.N.T.
• Excelsior Expedition
• Google Conspiracy
• Hell-ED & Hell-ED Ball
• Conformatronics
• Niven, Quam, Cola & Base 13
• Look out for the Stump of Sharpened Hate.
• Social activities pyramid
• Adaptive-organic Supercomputers, and their software.
• Thoughts about the Internet
• Hate Emitting Diode
• Award for Healthy Food
• Health warning: you could be wasting your time
• Important technological developments of the next 15 years
• Beard experiment
• LOL1!
• A brave new religion for a brave new world
• Information retrieved from dreams
• Die Zukunft-Kriege
• Something that may evolve into a story

It was only a matter of time before the ants got into that coffee cup.

Other things

• Tristan Miller Diary

• Software I use

• iHate 1.1 - A film of omnidirectional hatred, by Tristan Miller and Scott Ible.

• Extatosoma tiaratum - Gradually evolving guide to a rather fascinating and amicable insect.

• Interesting coordinates - Sites of interest and controversy for you to look at with PastVision

• Gormulent Offerings - My 'channel' on 'U-Toob'. I don't usually go for this sort of thing, but somebody insisted I upload some vids to it. Huzzah.

Interesting(?) reading

• Science Hobbyist site by Bill Beaty. Plenty of interesting stuff to read and do. The pages on electricity are amazingly great.

• Common errors in English writing/speech. Very useful, and often amusing. Feel like a SMARTARSE! Also has a list of things that AREN'T errors, but are often said so to be.

• Fearlessness,honesty

• How to not be a moron - guide to critical thinking, pointed out to me by Blokey357

• Triumphant! - Triumphant! International’s mission is to create a world where refugees identify themselves as people who are powerful in the face of challenging circumstances, rather than as victims of those circumstances.

• Confluence - photographing the planet, one ground location at a time...pointed out to me by Leo Auri

• Russian Army article - demonstrating some examples of the crap new recruits face from their superiors...thrown at me by Mechcon

• Upright Citizens Brigade,Upright Citizens Brigade - hilarious improvisational and sketch comedy humans.

• Heim Theory and Burkhard Heim - interesting physics.

• WHHHHOOOOOOOA!!!!!!

• Craziness

• Slinging.org - Please make and learn to use one of these ancient weapons.

• Injustice Clown - the black-hearted tale of a broken clown who stumbles from bad situation to bad situation in an utterly doomed quest for redemption.

• scitoys.com - Build scientific equipment & toys out of household objects and minimal equipment. Did you know you could use a TV screen as a high voltage source?

• notpron - Internet-based riddle. Great for soaking up all that spare time you've got.

• Psilocybe Mushroom FAQ - Everything you want to know about certain fungi.

• Something to cut out and glue together. Try it!

• Something Awful - the Internet makes you stupid. Find out how.

• Achewood - inspired webcomic, make sure you read a few back issues as well.

• Mediastrike - campaign aimed at exposing media complicity in political agendas.

• w3schools.com - Online tutorials in all manner of web development, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, SQL, .NET and much more. Educate yourself!

• ?

• XKCD.com - another webcomic of truth and mathematics

• Perry Bible Fellowship - many amusing tributes to comicry

Off-Icial occupations

• Working as a salesman, admin grunt, breaker maker and lifter-shifter at a small solar photovoltaic company.
• Studying to become a pilot in the Graduate Diploma of Aviation at UniSA's Aviation Academy.
• Former volunteer and learner of Apocalypse Skills with the State Emergency Service of South Australia.
• Former student teacher, former mailroom attendant, former weather-system watchkeeper/fire noticer, and one-time server of science equipment to the sons and daughters of the obscenely wealthy.
• I graduated with Honours in astrophysics at the University of Adelaide in 2006, adding several letters to my title and boosting my cred a little bit.
• Former presenter of science shows and data-entry wizard at The Investigator Science & Technology Centre. Made redundant by governmental funding decisions.
• Occasional tutor of desperate, fail-fearing students...call now for a free quote. Group discounts apply.

Other Tristan Millers

• Tristan Miller the AI researcher
• Same fellow, but his personal page rather than an academic one. Frighteningly similar to this Tristan in too many ways. There are photos of him at lunch with Richard Stallman. Interesting.
• At the bottom of this page for a marketing firm is a profile for a woman named Tristan Miller!
• Artwork by another Tristan Miller. Quite good stuff.
• Article including Tristan Miller, the socialist activist. Actually me, although an earlier revision.

The search continues.

Other e-humans

• Injustice Gilganixon
• Bastardine of Hippo
• Dr Boy
• Dr. Krazy
• Leo Auri
• User:Blokey357
• Quantim
• Audry autonomy
• Josh Clark
• Mechcon
• One blog of my grandfather

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