Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2003 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: 

Your nickname/online name: /mel/, or Sheepthief in some places

Age: 38

Birthday: Feb

Gender: Male

Location: Coventry, UK

Height/weight: 6'3"/dunno

Current hair colour/style: Ginger, grey, http://acidb.ath.cx/yeahbaby.jpg

Natural hair colour: Ginger, grey.

Eye colour: Brown

Body mods: One tattoo, if that counts, and a few bits surgically removed.

Religion: I need no crutch, and certainly not one so shaky.

Siblings: Two older sisters.

Children: Not yet.

Relationship status: Single-handedly single, and emphatically so.

Occupation: Unemployed bum.

Pets: Solo & Nermal, http://mel.webhop.net


Favourites:

Books: Greg Egan, Jerome K Jerome, George Orwell, Alan Sillitoe, Graham Greene, Isaac Asimov.

Movies: Delicatessent, Priscilla, Wings Of Desire.

Poems: Sidney Lanier

Television shows: The Simpsons, Have I Got News for You.

Songs: A Forest, Planet Claire, In Shreds, No Love Lost, Horse With No Name.

Bands/musicians: Empirion, Juno Reactor, Interpol, Pink Turns Blue.

Club: Don't currently have a favourite.

Dj (n.b. you can't name yourself): 

Board games: Never use Trivial Pursuit as a substitute for sex.

Computer games: Don't seem to bother much now, but I'd like to take this opportunity to register my disgust at how shit Unreal 2 was.

Other games: None.

Magazines: None.

Places to visit: Prague.

Food: Bacon & brie baguettes.

Colours: Infra-red.

Drinks: Becherovka, Drambuie, Irn Bru


Net.existence:

Computer you're on now: ~yawn~

Web page url: http://sheepthief.livejournal.com/

Reading upg since: Years, I dunno.

Favourite thread on upg: Anything that effectively demonstrates what a waste of organs Mixy/Phildo is.

How you picture upg: On its last legs.

Other newsgroups read: None.

Electronic mailing lists: A few regional goth things, but very few these days.

Irc channels: #uk_goffs, if I'm desperate.

(Kind of needs updating for livejournal, no)?


Miscellaneous Questions:

What are some of your hobbies: Reading, sleeping, scratching my arse, pointless philosophising.

What's the motto you adhere to: I don't.

What is your personal stupid human trick: The fact that I still exist.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: I hope to God it's not this.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: An overwhelming sense of contentment.

What do you think is your best asset: Sense of humour.

What do you think is the worst thing about you: Selfishness / thoughtlessness.

What do you value most in a friend: Being there.

Do you have another question: What's it all about then, eh?