User:Tristan Miller

(Extracted from http://wiki.mindcloud.org/wiki/Tristan_Miller ;-D)

Cloud of Minds
Tristan Miller

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Motto Don't surround yourself with yourself.
Established March, 1983
Mindcloud Classification Outside the Arch of Time
Political Leaning Deterministic Nightmare
Location Adelaide, the Universe
Endowment -.. . .-.. .. --. .... - ..-. ..- .-..
Homepage tristanmiller.blogspot.com
Version 10, 11, 12?
THACO 11
Awards No awards. Nowards.

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Name: Tristan Miller; Designation: Human 

Behold...Tristan Miller's Ten Point Plan

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Contents

[edit] Contact Details

  • e-mail: tristan AT mindcloud DOT org
  • msn: tristan AT macbbs DOT com DOT au (Do not email me at this address, it could take months to get a reply!)
  • skype: cromulator My status

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 aircraft

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] Ideas

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

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


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

[edit] Other things

hi my name is tristan lol
hi my name is tristan lol
  • 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.

[edit] Interesting(?) reading

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

[edit] Off-Icial occupations

  • Studying to become a pilot in the Graduate Diploma of Aviation at UniSA's Aviation Academy.
  • 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, current 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.

[edit] Other Tristan Millers

The search continues.

[edit] Other e-humans

Recently unearthed photo - Tristan Miller in Berlin
Recently unearthed photo - Tristan Miller in Berlin


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Silly event aggrandissements.
Silly event aggrandissements.
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