About

Michael Engard is a lunatic who thinks writing for strangers on the Internet is a good career move. You may have seen some websites he’s designed, some software he’s programmed, and some guest blogs he’s written.

Kaelri is his pseudonym. If you’ve seen a “Kaelri” on the Internet since 2001, it was probably him. The name has no meaning or pronunciation, but if it must, let’s say it comes from Celtic mythology, and pronounced /’keɪl ri/, which rhymes with “whale-sea.”

He is a voracious geek, an aggressive intellectual, an encourageable depressive, and an incorrigible romantic. He is a white, male, middle-class American cisgendered heterosexual from a Christian family, so his unique perspective probably means a lot to you. He was alive in the eighties, but doesn’t remember them, but not for the reasons you’re thinking. He has lived in Rochester, where he calls home; Toronto, where he went to university; and Macha, which doesn’t exist yet but we’re working hard on it.

You should talk to him (if you want to). He likes answering questions and saying “yes” as much as possible. He speaks a little bit of German, Quenya, HTML, D’ni, Lua, Hopelandic, and Shannlynn.