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!

 

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