MobyD (Moby46)

Updated:September 17, 2014 4:07 pm
Last visit:July 13, 2019 11:28 am
Member Since:October 31, 2001 9:50 pm

LocationPortland, Oregon

GenderMale

Birthday April 27

InterestsI have actually been a member of Delphi since late October 1998, but three years later I forgot my password and started this account to get back in.

OccupationRetired. I'm also on Facebook. I volunteer at Faerieworlds, FaerieCon and Mythicworlds, three events put on by Faerieworlds LLC.

Personal QuoteHave pun will travel.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Salvor Hardin in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation"

My RideMAX Light Rail and buses. I stopped driving my own car in late 2011. It saves me between $1.5K and $2K a year. Public transit takes longer, but I get the senior discount, so it's definitely cheaper. If I really need to leave the area, I can rent, but I don't do that very often.

RPG CharacterI've never done RPG, but I do go to Faerieworlds events as a wizard. In 2009 I had a small part in an indie film begun at Faerieworlds. I was Gwydion, a wizard under a spell that causes me to Spoonerize words when speaking of magic, or as Gwydion would say "a spizard under a well that causes me to Woonerize spords when meaking of spagic." In November at FaerieCon East in Baltimore, I'll be debuting a new outfit - a goblin modelled on Gandersnitch the Goblin (check him out on Facebook) but with my own persona. Sometimes I dress as a pirate as well.

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Height6'

Eye Colorbrown

Hair Colordark brown

Fashion Statementno tie

Religionfallen Unitarian Universalist (I'd say atheist, but that's not a religion)

EthnicityScottish/English

Political Stancepro-democracy, anti-plutocracy, anti-theocracy, anti-fascist

Sexual Orientationstraight but not narrow

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AuthorsSpider Robinson, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, Douglas Adams, John Varley, Anne McCaffrey, Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Allen Steele, Connie Willis, Tony Hillerman, Nevada Barr, Carl Hiaasen, Bill Bryson, Jasper Fforde, Brian Froud, Molly Ivins, John McPhee, Richard Dawkins, Charlaine Harris

BooksI usually read as much as I can by the authors listed above.

MagazinesAsimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Comic StripsBizarro, Girl Genius, Tree Lobsters, xkcd, SMBC, Girls With Slingshots, Questionable Content, Wondermark, This Modern World, Shoe

MoviesBlade Runner, Serenity, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda, Casablanca, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Straight Story, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

TV ShowsCosmos, The Big Bang Theory, Firefly, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Ken Burns' series, Last Chance to See, Warehouse 13, Castle, True Blood

Type of MusicCeltic, Folk

Bands/ArtistsTricky Pixie, Omnia, Faun, Woodland, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Laurie Anderson, Alasdair Fraser, Steeleye Span, Pyewackett, Stan Rogers, Tom Rush, Baka Beyond, Dead Can Dance, Jean Michel Jarre, Jimmy Buffett, Simon & Garfunkel, Garfunkel and Oates