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Gordon Tisher lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Gordon has at various times been a print shop gofer, a day-care worker, a undergraduate in math and computer science, a scuba diver, a grad student in linguistics and theology, a horseback rider, a network administrator, a martial artist, a computational linguist, a flight student, a video game programmer, a classical choral singer, and a student of languages.

His interests in the software world include computational linguistics, parsing and compilation, 3d graphics, and operating systems. He works as a software developer.

He is married to an excellent woman by the name of Andrea, and they have a daughter named Emily. In his spare time he blogs about linguistics, science, politics, religion, and fatherhood.

He grew up in Liberia, and has lived in and traveled to a wide variety of places.