Enemy of Entropy
About Cyn
Cynthia Armistead is a homeschooling mother to Katie, homemaker, student, polyamorous life partner to Sam, writer, disabled person, activist, and an unabashed geek.
She inherited her distaste for all things that don’t work well from her father, Bill Roberson. In her, it has grown into a habit of imposing order on her environment, stopping the spread of entropy whenever possible and setting up systems to spread serenity. Thus, she became the Enemy of Entropy.
Her mother, Dianna Roberson (née Goss) must be thanked for introducing Cyn to the world of letters, words, and books.
She is also the Slayer of Red Tape Dragons, THE Mommy, and She Who Says What Must Be Said (especially when people don’t want to hear it).
Cyn enjoys designing and stitching counted-thread needlework, reading, singing, coloring, live acoustic music, science fiction and fantasy, and tabletop roleplaying games. She misses dancing and other, more active pursuits.
Information about Cynthia’s work outside the home may be found on her resume. There are also a few technical writing samples in that section of the site.
Someday she’ll write an actual biographical entry, but for now she wants to make it easier for old friends to find her by mentioning the names she has lived and worked under throughout her life. Her family called her Cindy, so really, really old friends know her as Cindy Roberson. Her first husband was high-school sweetheart Scott Allen Hall, so she was known as Cindy or Cynthia Hall for a short time. Husband number two and father of her daughter Katie was the late Wayne Armistead, from whence came her current last name. She was briefly married to Paul Smathers, and known during that time as Cynthia Smathers or Cynthia Armistead-Smathers. If she ever changes her surname again, it’ll most likely be to something that has nothing at all to do with any husband or her father.
Online, she’s been TechnoMom since 1995. When she was on AOL, she went by CynthiaLyn, FlameOpal, or TLACyn (Tech Live Advisor Cyn). She also had a screen name for use in the Homework Help forums, but isn’t absolutely certain of what it was — maybe ProfCyn?
She enjoys hearing from friendly people, so please leave comments!
