[NOTE TO PEOPLE I'VE BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH: my old EFF e-mail address doesn't work any more; use mech~AT~well.com (change "~AT~" to the at-sign of course.)]
I'm some weird-ass mixture of nerd, former playah, P.R. maven, pool hustler, civil liberties spokesthing, scholar, barfly, industrofetish club freak, curmudgeon, soundingboard & shoulder to cry on, extroverted introvert (and vice-versa), scientist and artist, driven and lazy, gregariously shy and shly gregarious. Some will tell you I'm the sweetest person they know, and a few will say I'm an asshole (oh well! I've never been able to figure those few out. Not my problem.)
I lived for almost a decade in San Francisco, but moved to Toronto, Ontario in Feb. 2005, and am presently in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as of Sep. 2006.
Professionally, I am a web developer, running my own consultancy. I was most rencently otherwise employed as the development and tech director at a Toronto company called Integrity Incorporated . Previously, I worked for about 9 years with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , and did a 2-year stint with the CryptoRights Foundation as well. I specialize in helping sites get out of the "Browser Wars" by redesigning with strict adherence to Internet standards so that the sites work in all modern browsers and are easy to maintain and update. I've handled projects ranging from small garage band sites to serious multi-domain e-commerce sites built from the ground up on Perl, XML, PHP, and SQL, with multiple user levels, content management, and on-the-fly downloadable document generation. [GEEK! Yep.]
Avocationally, I sometimes go to industro-fetish-goth kinds of clubs, play local competitive pool, dabble in darts, and so forth and things. I hang out most Sundays at the Horseshoe Lounge in the Queen Street West district (T.O.) I like movies.
I am a big fan of public transit. I am not a morning person. An intellectual but not a snob. Oh, and I'm very silly most of the time. Sometimes it also refers to itself in the first person singular neuter, as if it were an alien space god. Also, it has a BEEG fat whiny kitty, who eats pistachios, hot peppers and alfalfa sprouts for some reason.
My Myers-Briggs (MBTI) personality type is mostly INTP, but I'm on the cusp between INTP (informative engineers, designers, architects), ENTP (directive engineers, inventors, setters of new standards), INFP (informative mediators, tutors, monastics), and ENFP (directive mediators, advocates, heralds). This is rather curious since at least 3 of these 4 personality types are found in 1-3% or less of the general population! Mostly I'm INTP, though.
Link up with me on:
Tribe ,
Friendster ,
Orkut ,
Ryze ,
LinkedIn ,
Plaxo (search for "Stanton McCandlish"),
Yahoo!360 ,
Multiply ,
AlwaysOn ,
Ecademy ,
Flickr ,
Expats , Hatester