Tim Chen Allen

@timchenallen.bsky.social

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AI Engineer/Data Scientist. I love Ypsilanti. Father of sighthounds. Former parkour athlete. Current Tolkien lover. Sober since 1995.

A group of older dancers smiling and standing around some drums
Gray-haired smiling man holding a framed award from FEMA and a challenge coin.
Happy man holding a copy of the book “The Great Crash 1929” in front of a librarian.
Smiling man, with a tie standing in the Great Hall of the Detroit Institute of Arts, wearing a badge that says “Hablo Español” (I speak Spanish) and a neck leash that says U.S. Marine Corps.
Elegantly dressed man with a cape surrounded by beautifully dressed women with elaborate hairstyles in the Great Hall of the Detroit Institute of the Arts
A kid at a keyboard types Frodo’s quote: “I Know What I Must Do. It's Just... I'm Afraid To Do It”. Three immense muscular men respond “You have my bow!” “And my axe” “My friends… you bow to no one”
Man smiling in front of of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan
Smiling man standing in front of FEMA headquarters in Washington, DC
A stack of nine FEMA polo shirts on a suitcase
Medieval warrior armed with axe and shield in role-playing type game on screen
A string quartet playing amidst a sea of candles in a high-vaulted room with intricate painted patterns on the walls and ceiling.
A hand holding a dog eared copy of JRR Tolkien’s The Silmarillion in front of a copy of The Lord of the Rings
Older couple smiling in front of a Mayan ruin
30 year sobriety coin held in a man’s hand
Older couple holding hands and looking back at the camera from their seats on a small airplane over the ocean
Man in suit poses comically in a large room with light-colored marble floors, marble walls, and a gold-colored painted domed ceiling
High Scope Mansion in the moonlight of Ypsilanti
Man in furry hat pointing at a fence repair he made by replacing a broken hinge with a hose clamp
Smiling middle-aged man with glasses standing in front of the Detroit Institute of the Arts
he accepted a sum of money from a bitterly-hated business rival, giving him no receipt for it. He subsequently denied having received the money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man. He thus used his own wrongdoing as a means of destroying the reputation of another. In fact, his rival was ruined.
Man in knit cap on snowy forest road
Storefront of Wyrd Byrd, a shop with 45 rpm records and books displayed in the window.
Screenshot of two smiling adult brothers playing Dungeons and Dragons via Zoom. The brother on the left is role playing a character from the game.
Black greyhound dog stretching with his tongue sticking out the side of his mouth
Man in furry ear flap hat looking right into the camera
Older hyper enthusiastic Tolkien fan sitting in an empty movie theater
A couple in front of a chalkboard,with a halo over the woman and horns over the man, in three poses: looking forward, the man kissing the woman, and the woman passionately kissing the man with his face in her hands
Front cover of the book “The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970–1977”. The cover features a dark red background with gold letters and an enormous gold ampersand.
Movie poster with painting of six epic humanoid (and one eagle) Tolkien figures standing ready for battle over the words “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”. Colors are dark with a stormy sky background and amassed troops armed with lances in the foreground, all tinged with the color of blood.
Screenshot of a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet for a Barbarian named Kai. Str 15, Dec 14, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10!
Man in furry hat with two sighthound dogs (a black Greyhound and cream Sloughi) in a snowy field in Ypsilanti, Michigan
A snow-covered field with two beautiful greyhounds running fast, a black American Greyhound and a cream Sloughi.
Happy older man with purple t-shirt standing in front of the Ypsilanti Historical Society building
The front cover of the audiobook “The Silmarillion” read by Andy Serkis. The artwork is of a Balrog.
Tim Allen wearing a ear flap hat and scarf on a snowy sidewalk in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ordered bar chart, each bar representing a book genre (e.g. Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction) and bar length representing the number of books read in that genre (e.g. 27, 21, 18)
The other had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets braying upon a few notes. And it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern.
Two tall sighthounds, Zeno, a cream-colored Sloughi and Zoom, a black-colored American Greyhound, stand on a leaf-strewn path in the early morning in Ypsilanti, Michigan
A dramatic Autumn night sky with a few clouds over neighborhood houses in Ypsilanti, Michigan.