User:Oceanbourne
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Oceanbourne is a writer, translator, linguist, and theorist who has written for the popular, trade, news, and academic media on a variety of topics including:
- video games and gaming as a cultural aspect
- gay rights and gay-oreinted legal issues
- law and technology issues
- architecture
- the literary work of Hélène Cixous
- Nordic history and lore
- translation theory
- transliteration of non-Slavic languages that use Cyrillic orthographies.
- medico-legal issues & legal ethics
- aviation law
- admiralty law
In addition, he is involved in the visual and performing arts and has written criticism thereof.
In regard to Wikipedia, his main focus is the creation and editing of articles dealing with:
- law and technology
- Faroese Culture
- Nordic culture and languages
- mythologies
- Danish writers
- contemporary French and British poets
- computer languages
- computer science
- transliteration
A few of Oceanbourne's peer-reviewed publications:
"Programming and Analysis of Historic Texts" Multilingual Computing & Technology, 12: 7. pp. 37-39
"Metaphor in Old French and Its Translation: Chrétien de Troyes’ Érec et Énide". The ATA Chronicle. May, 2002.
"Queer manifestations on the Internet: the evolution of legal obstacles and legal freedoms". Mots Pluriels, 19. October 2001.
the above is availible online here[1]
I adore the online blogging platform known as LiveJournal:
My LiveJournal [2]
Some Quirky Personal details:
favourite music: Nightwish, Høgni Lisberg, Belle & Sebastian, Trembling Blue Stars, Field Mice, Isabel Pantoja, Niña Pastori, Albita, Therion, Super Furry Animals, Stormgarde Anna Vissi, Laura Nyro, The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Gloria Estefan, Faye Wong, Sally Yeh, Gigi Leung, Leon Lai, Namie Amuro, Faith No More, Mercury Rev, Everything but the Girl, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Kate Bush, Rammstein, Twila Paris, Loreena McKennitt, and Dag Nasty.
favourite authors:
Fiction and Non-fiction: Jane Austen, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Mann, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Gloria Jahoda, Kate Chopin, JT Leroy, Marcel Proust, Dennis Cooper, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Carson McCullers, and Emily Brontë.
Poetry: Robert Frost, John Clare, Muriel Rukeyser, T.S. Eliot, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Terik Trout, Autumn McClintock, and Jorie Graham.
favourite anime: Full Metal Alchemist, Shaman King, .hack//SIGN, Neon Genisis Evangellion, Gundam Wing.
favourite colour: sky blue
favourite food: sushi and Thai curries
favourite number: 17
favourite season: Autumn
favourite activities: mountain biking, soccer, running, swimming, Shotokan karate, drawing, anime, writing, reading, cooking, travel, dancing.
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--Mike 03:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
