Thorn's Creation

thorn's creation
	Hobbies Valence 592 - Read a little about the Roleplaying game my friends and I wrote. How to have fun: Foosball and Frisbee - a short description of some of my favorite passtimes Jingsaw's Jigsaw - a small web project dedicated to the city as a natural human habitat. Education (in chronological order) St. Dominic's International School, Portugal Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH), U.S.A. Tufts University, U.S.A. EECS Dept. English Dept. Religion & Spirituality I am a member of the Baha'i Faith. I am doing meditation and warriorship Shambhala training. Work I work at netNumina in Cambridge, MA. I used to work on usability for GTE's (Verizon's) electronic yellow pages site - SuperPages My focus is on desgin and usability - A Web Page Usability Breif LARPs (It's more than a hobby - it's a consumption) Live Action RolePlaying games. A weekend spent at a LARP wiil almost certainly be fun and different, and generate more interesting things to say when people ask "what did you do this weekend?" I taught an Explorations in Fall '98 through the Experimental College at Tufts University. You can find the tentative syllabus and reading list here: EXP 009H - An Exploration of Interactive Literature I play in the Realms of Wonder on occasion. Chronical LARPs: In the spring of 2001 I ran a story called Evening Child. I played James O'meara, Mouth of the Sidhe, in Embers, a Garou game -- Feb June 2000. I played Michael Walker in Balance of Power -- October '98 - June '99 I ran a White Wolf based MET Vampire LARP called Inquiry Jan - June 1998. I also played Talis Newman in a Vampire LARP at WPI durring '96-'97 called Gateways. If you played or are just interested, check out Talis' Gateways Page. LARP Picture Gallery Interactive Literature Resume IL Articles The Lowell Sun's article on Intercon XV. 14 March 2000
Please e-mail me at cbetts@cs.tufts.edu Last time I remembered to update the date after making updates: 26 February 2002

thorn's creation