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Hi, I'm Getty Ritter. I'm a kind of programmer-artist-writer-dilettante, and this is my mostly-tech-focused web site.

Right now I live in Portland, Oregon, and work as a computer scientist and engineer. My background is primarily in computer science, with a focus on programming language theory and proof theory, and in linguistics, with a focus on historical linguistics.

I also write prose—mostly [short stories](http://librarianofalexandria.com/category/stories/) and [drabbles](http://librarianofalexandria.com/category/fascicles/)—and create art in the form of [paintings](http://thefireattheshoemakersestate.tumblr.com/tagged/painting), [sketches](http://thefireattheshoemakersestate.tumblr.com/tagged/sketching), [ink drawings](http://thefireattheshoemakersestate.tumblr.com/tagged/ink-drawing), and [pixel art](http://thefireattheshoemakersestate.tumblr.com/tagged/pixel-art). I'm an experimental cook, amateur mixologist, and not a particularly good homebrewer. I speak half a dozen languages poorly and none well. Past hobbies that I'd like to get back to some day include blacksmithing, creating and maintaing bonsai, and conlang creation—but who has time?