John Roland Penner
  11 Channel Ave, Wards Island
  Toronto, 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:

(nic, rose, diana, hedy & john sr, 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, user interface design, and 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 am a certified Waldorf Teacher — just graduated class of  2009 from the Teacher Training at the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Richmond Hill (Canada). Now I'm looking for a school that needs a Waldorf Teacher who loves children, music, and physics.

Work

I've been involved in Technical Writing and 3D Animation for most of my life. For the last three years (2005-2008), I was gainfully self-employed as the iDoctor. In 2005, I finished my contract with CORE Feature Animation as Lead Technical Writer for the Disney film, The Wild. Before that, I worked for a great 3D Graphics company called Side Effects Software (1995 - 2003) where I wrote the manuals for Houdini 3D Animation software. I also did Tech Support and Training at Graphisoft for ArchiCAD (1992 - 1995). There, I also wrote a book on GDL programming and created parametric 3D libraries for Architects.

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 • 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) • john waterhouse • william morris • freddy quinn• rod serling • gene roddenberry • bobby fischer • esquivel • goethe • mozart • hildegard von bingen • greg hermanovic • steve wozniak • richard stallman • steve jobs • linus torvalds.

Favourite

BANDS
• Jeff Johnson
• Ride
• Waterboys
• Stereolab
• New Order
• Stone Roses
• 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)
• 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)
• 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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W++ N !o K- w--- !O M++ V PS++(--) PE+(-)
Y+ PGP-- t+ 5? X- R !tv b++ DI? D-- G e* h r* y?

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