Panda Mery / 판다 메리

Almost too calm productive irritant,
neurodivergent researcher, bricoleur and flâneur

panfnordda@gizmofnordnaut.net

calm, almost too calm

1. Name of this website.

2. Description on a police custody record: ‘RISK ASSESSMENT: D[etained] P[risoner] is calm on arrival, almost too calm’.

3. State of the author when in stressful situations.

4. Title of a chapter in the book Being Autistic.

Locations: Seoul, London & Paris – Earth

Current projects

• Research partner at the University of Glasgow on the Older Autistic’s Kit project to develop a mobile application or website to support older autistic people in overcoming some of the barriers they experience and improving their quality of life.
• Restarter for the Restart Project, a social enterprise that aims to change our relationship with technology. We encourage and empower people to use their electronics longer by sharing repair and maintenance skills.
• Team member of AutAngel, a community interest company run by and for autistics.
• Advisor to the Challenging the Criminalisation of Autistic People support and campaign group set up to hold the government and other public bodies accountable for injustices and abuses against autistics.
• 연구원 숲생각 / Researcher, Forest Media.

Blog

A selection of articles

'Pataphysical, biographical and other occurences

  Some of my pictures on Flickr:

  Pictures of the discontinued line of suspicious clothing:

  My Curriculum vitae

gizmonaut

The name of this web domain – a portmanteau word made from ‘gizmo’ and ‘astronaut’ – meaning an explorer of things you can’t put a name to.

A gizmo is ‘something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known [syn: doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget]. A device or control that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget].’ (Source: WordNet)

An astronaut is a ‘member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.’, ‘From astro- +‎ -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).’ (Source: Wiktionary)

The first use of the word ‘gizmonaut’ appears to be in ‘programmers are almost universally gizmonauts’ by Lou Grinzo (Source: EXE Magazine, November 1999) and, with a different spelling, in a book titled The Gismonauts written by Keo Felker Lazarus (Published in 1981 by Modern Curriculum Press; ISBN 0695416073)

Many thanks to everyone visiting this website. It has been developed while listening to Nahmi’s music.