Business before pleasure:
 my page at PublishersMarketplace.com
is the place to go for information about my working life in lexicography,
lexical research, and other stuff I do for money. Haven't got any money? 
Come anyway, maybe we can do a deal.

Orin's online resume (or CV if you call it that)
provides a nongraphic version of the above.

Statistics from Google reveal that most people get to the page you're looking at by searching on the phrase "who owns english". Here's why! An essay I wrote a few years ago:

Who Owns English?

You can buy books that I've written (thereby contributing to my modest income stream and perhaps helping to obviate an undignified descent into geriatric poverty) on Amazon.com! Most of them are on this link.

I'm a card-carrying member, and also president of the
 Dictionary Society of North America.
You, too, can become a card-carrying member of the Dictionary Society
(the One True Way to show your love of dictionaries) by visiting its blog.

Are you looking for the presentation I gave at the DSNA conference in Bloomington (May 2009)? Here's the abstract, where you'll also find links to the presentation:

Lumping, Splitting, and Natural Language Processing: 
Machine-readable Dictionaries and NLP

If you want to check out pictures I've taken
(as I grapple with a smarter-than-me digital camera)
you can go to Orin's (a.k.a. Oculator's) page at Flickr.com

I'm a student of Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Ajaan Geoff), abbot of
Metta Forest Monastery. His hundreds of Dhamma talks on the Internet
are for the good and gain of many. Check 'em out! 

Coming for a visit? Here's what to look for if you're doing a flyover:

View Larger Map
Yeah, all that dark green stuff is really trees! On public land! We can go
for a walk in the forest and then eat cookies and stuff like that.

Rumors of my imminent remove from Maryland and the East Coast are not exaggerated! I'll be pulling up stakes as soon as I sell this splendid manse I live in. Wanna buy it? Details are on view here

You can read my monthly column on words and language if you take out a very
modestly priced subscription to The Visual Thesaurus. Thousands do! If you're on a
budget, most of my older columns are archived for free at Vocabulary.com. I also
post regularly to the blog of Macmillan Dictionaries.

If you want to hear me sing (few have expressed the wish),
check out the concert schedule of the Masterworks Chorale:

Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County

Are we related? If your surname is Hargraves and you live in or have ancestors in
the Big Thicket, there's a pretty good chance of it. See entry number 8 on
Hargraves Lineages.

Other names I research, with intermittent success and several frustrating dead ends,
are Garrison, Haner, Huff, Ragland, Taylor, Watson, Wyley.

Are we connected? Here's my profile on LinkedIn:
LinkedIn Profile

Facebook? Yeah, what a great place to squander minutes! I'm happy to connect there with old friends (high school, college, London, Peace Corps, etc.) and new friends:
My page (subject to periodic adjustments) on Facebook

I don't post a lot on Google + and if you add me to your circles,
you'll hardly know I'm there.

In many situations, my Mr. Know-It-All tendency is a handicap to me, 
and an irritation to others. But now there is Quora!

If you want to talk to me or propose something unusual, start here!
Straight to my Inbox

This is Abdul.

Thanks, and see ya later!