John Roland Penner
  11 Channel Ave, Toronto,
  Ontario, M5J 1Y6 (Canada)

  We are what we repeatedly do.
  Excellence, then, is not an act,
  but a habit. (Aristotle)

Family

by the gregorian calendar, i was born into this world on the 4th of november, 1967 to a wonderful family:

(john & hedy, diana, rose, melissa, roland)

i love spending time with friends and family. whenever i can, i'm busy making music, working on creative projects, riding a bike, reading books, hiking in the woods, studying architecture, and sometimes being siezed with madness and writing poetry. i'm also interested in medieval & celtic history, epistemology, and chess programming. i have an abiding interest in good infrastructure.

Waldorf

Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto • Class of 2009

  Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.  (Yeats)

I Graduated Waldorf Teacher Training (class of 2009) from the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Richmond Hill (Canada). Now I'm looking for a school that needs a Waldorf Teacher who loves Children, Computers, and Music.

Work

Since 2005, I've been self-employed as the iDoctor. Before that, I'd been involved in Technical Writing and 3D Animation for over ten years. Most recently at CORE Feature Animation as Lead Technical Writer for the Disney film, The Wild (2003-2005). Before that, I worked for a 3D Graphics company called Side Effects Software (1995 - 2003) where I wrote the documentation for Houdini 3D Animation software (versions 1.0 to 6.0, and Prisms 6.0). From 1992-1995, I did Tech Support and Training at Graphisoft for ArchiCAD. There, I also wrote a book on GDL 3D graphics programming for Architects, and created a parametric 3D library (Medley 2.0).

Good People

people i regard highly include: my mother and father • fr. myles colgan (doc o'carm. rsp ics) • george macdonald • rudolf steiner • nikola tesla • mahatma gandhi • madame blavatsky • khalil gibran • c.s. lewis • charles williams • j.r.r. tolkien • jeff johnson • lisa gerrard (dead can dance) • mike scott (waterboys) • mark gardener (ride) • george harrison (beatles) • patrick mcGoohan • john waterhouse • william morris • freddy quinn• rod serling • gene roddenberry • bobby fischer • claude shannon • douglas engelbart • john searle • esquivel • goethe • mozart • hildegard von bingen • greg hermanovic • robert purves • steve wozniak • richard stallman • steve jobs, and robert Kennedy jr.

Favourite

BANDS
• Jeff Johnson
• Ride
• Waterboys
• Stereolab
• New Order
• Stone Roses
• Tame Impala
• Pale Saints
• Boo Radleys
• Syd Barrett
• Donovan
• Esquivel
• The Church
• The Lucy Show
• The Mighty Lemon Drops
• The Chameleons
• The Cure
• The Smiths
• The Beatles
• Dead Can Dance
• Baltimore Consort
• Circa 1500
• Clannad
• Orison
• Mozart

BOOKS
• Phantastes & Lilith (George MacDonald)
• Till we have Faces (C.S. Lewis)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
• All Hallow's Eve (Charles Williams)
• The Silmarilion (J.R.R. Tolkien)

FILMS
• Baraka (Ron Frike)
• Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders)
   'Der Himmel über Berlin'
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Franco Zeffirelli)
• La Double Vie de Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
• Star Wars IV, A New Hope (George Lucas)
• Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
• The Navigator - A Medieval Odyssey (Vincent Ward)
• Ladri di Saponette 'The Icicle Thief' (Maurizio Nichetti)
• Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
• The Wickerman (Robin Hardy)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
• Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
• The Field (Jim Sheridan)
• Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
• Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway)
• Howard's End (James Ivory)

GEEK CODE v3.1
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sold the BMW, got a bike,
and couldn't be happier... :}