Temporary Homepage of Greg Taylor

Currently Under Construction...
(...not unlike my life! Last updated June 2008 :)

So, who is this Greg guy anyway? Well, as of 2001 a graduate from the Mathematics program at the University of Waterloo. Computer Science major, Music minor. As of 2003, owner of a B. Ed from Queen's University. And as of 2008, an actual full time teacher of math (and stuff) in Ottawa, Ontario! That would be the capital of Canada, by the way. I've also been involved in drama, roleplay, various teaching and anime committees, I have a wonderful french fiance, and I write in my spare time. (The insanity comes from keeping everything coordinated.)

Want to know more? Well, in the vein of learning about the present through the past, here are some important links...

• I attended Shad Valley at UofW in 1993.
• I helped in the production of the UofW math publication mathNEWS from 1995 (and was editor for four terms).
• I became a member of the theatre group FASS in 1997, and I was Chief Scriptwriter for "2001: A FASS Oddity".
• The Club That Really Likes Anime (CTRL-A) is the UofW Anime Club which I attended for years. ^^
• I've also been to Anime North for 11 years straight... yes, that means every year since 1997, when it first became a convention.
• Once I hit Ottawa, Ottawa Anime became a good reference guide. For more on SOAP, see below.

I also have two younger sisters, but currently don't have links to webpages about them. They've now graduated from University, which I think makes me officially "old". Oh, and if you're working where 'hologrami' comes from, it's from the words 'hologram' (my nick/handle back in my Quantum Leap days) and 'ami' (who was once my favorite anime character; see below).

Want to know more? Well, in the vein of learning about the present through the past, here is an important link... Time Loops

New year, new subsection; besides, most of what I've been doing on the 'net for the last five years really does come down to roleplay. In the past, I have played the following parts:

• Rupert Giles, on the Buffy MUX, which shut down a few years ago. But posted logs may be accessible.
• Alison Vunderlande, on the same MUX as above. She was a character who became Angel's secretary, and even got her own website here, to explain all her randomness in the logfiles.
• Hayden Whitehall, a Watcher (played by Michael Shanks) who was sent to Ottawa in HtVS. It ended some time ago, but recently had a "reunion tour".
• Crystal Chambers, a fear-projecting empathic runaway who ended up in Albany. Over the years, she became a fear-projecting telepathic empathic half-demon Guardian of Time with sorcery, a special sword, and energy absorbing shield. If there is ever a movie, our group thinks she should be played by this person.
• Cybelle, who has been on Ginzuishou MUX since 1996, back when it was BSSM and/or NSM. At one point she was the Princess of Mercury. There was also Ryo Urawa from BSSM, whose old MUX page I've recreated here. He became something of a private eye himself when the tone shifted into Season 2.
• Then there's all the time that's been shot by me playing local Nethack, which is roleplay of sorts. I've currently ascended seven character classes, the most notable being Mage Hayate. So she gets top billing on my Nethack Ascension Page.

As mentioned above, I've had an interest in anime since December of 1995 at UofW. I try to help out locally with SOAP and their con, AC Cubed, including running the fanfic contest in 2007. I've also found and re-uploaded my old university page of Ami-chan No Hatsukoi, from Mercury Central. Ah, memories.

So, with respect to anime, what would I recommend? Well...
*My current obsession is with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Which you may never see now that Geneon has folded, but it has cool English-talking staves, then German-talking weapons (in the sequel MGLN A's), then Italian-named villains (in the sequel MGLN StrikerS). About the only downside (for me) is the lolis. The last series is probably the weakest, simply because of the pacing for what they were cramming into it; I've decided the second is the best.
*My gateway anime series was Sailor Moon, as it was out dubbed in early 1996, the same time as the founding of BSSM MUX. (I still own many Ami Mizuno plushies from that era...)
*My favourite anime series is still Marmalade Boy. I own the entire series, and it was one of the first shows I ever saw subtitled, in Ottawa in 1996.
*Favourite classic series': Fushigi Yuugi. Read or Die (the OAV; still good but a bit disappointing was the ROD TV series). Martian Successor Nadesico.
*Favourite recent series': Gurren-Lagann (go Yomako!).

Following are links to some of the stuff I've written... a lot of it fanfics, and most of them Sailor Moon related. This is simply because I was able to write more in the late 90s, when it was popular. And while I have produced some original works since, I don't have the space to store them online. (In one of these, a story written in episodic format about teenagers who discover a time machine, I've surpassed 300 pages. Feel free to ask me about it!) Note: Included in the list below is a link to my "Anime North" award winning fanfiction based on the Read or Die OAV. I have also been a judge for "Anime North" (2005) and "AC Cubed" (2006/07).

• *NEW* Using "Windows Movie Maker", I managed to twist my Windows ME operating system to produce the following ROD/Nanoha audio mix. I plan to upgrade to a Mac soon...
• For AC Cubed 2006, I produced a short AMV based on the "Sandglass of Summer Colours" OVA. Find it at 7 Days of Summer.
• The most recent story writing I've completed is a Sailor Moon/Cardcaptors/MXC dub parody, called Takeshi's MXC!
• Here's the story of fanfiction I've submitted to the Anime North Fanfiction Contest.
• Here's a page with information about the mathNEWS articles I've written over the years.
• Irony Chef, a Sailor Moon/Iron Chef hybrid, is stored locally. It has sequels Irony Chef 2 (Fushigi Yuugi/Iron Chef) and Irony Chef 3 (Nadesico/Iron Chef).
• How about fanfiction written to a deadline? Here's a fic I wrote in 2 hours at Anime North's "Iron Author" event in 2001, on the subject of "Dominance": Pooling of Efforts. Foolishly I followed this up in September 2002, at an "Iron Author" event in Ottawa organized by SOAP, with a fic written in just under ONE hour. I've replicated the written word here exactly with the fic Descendants, that I titled in the last thirty seconds.
• Now here's a somewhat popular Sailor Moon fic of mine called What Evil Lurks (was at moonromance - I'll look into fixing this)
• I once wrote an Ami/Setsuna fic called A Stitch in Time (not online atm).
• There's also the ongoing saga of Marmalade Mercury (not online atm).
• The first fic I ever wrote, Dark Slide of the Moon, was a Sliders/Sailor Moon crossover (was at moonromance).

(That's it, that's everything. e-mail me through my id: cz159 "at" ncf.ca) .