Your name: G. R. Greenway. My first name has various rustic/upperclass twit connotations. I share it with (differently spelt) an extremely irritating ex tory M.P. I don't dislike it, I'm not ashamed of it but I keep it off public forums, partially because of a fanatical desire for privacy.
Your online/nickname: Augeas, it never gets used in e-mail, but having my real name used on USENET tends to annoy me. If I get pestered for my name by Hare Krishnas, Jehova's Witnesses or pissed up casuals I will supply a false one without hesitation. The online name partially describes my attitude to life... [See corresponding post on A.G.]
Web page URL: http://www.elis.demon.co.uk/
Age: 26
Birthday: It's next year.
Gender: Male
Location: Somewhere in Reading.
Height/weight: Five-foot-eightish I think. I oscillate between 70 and 80 Kg.
Current haircolour/style: Brownish, amorphous, wants cutting.
Natural hair colour: Always is.
Eye colour: Blue-grey
Religion: None.
Siblings: None.
Children: None.
Relationship status: Single. Very.
Occupation: Research student. (Polymer physicist.)
Pets: I neglect a rubber rat and a stuffed penguin.
Computer you're on: C-Lab Falcon Mk X. -It usually runs something called Magic, which came on two 720K floppies and multi-tasks in a rather more stable fashion than Win 98. Occaisional flirtations with a BSD-like thing called MiNT. One day I will fix the CD rom driver and install Linux 68K.
Books: Anything by Gunter Grass, Anthony Burgess or Mikhail Bulgakov, Catch 22, 1984, various tomes about polymers, numerical mathematics, fractals, patterns and consciousness.
Movies: Dr Strangelove, The Producers.
Poems: I tollerate the odd bit of Ted Hughes and Christina Rosseti.
Television shows: Never watch it. I only just heard that "World In Action" had bitten the dust. It's a dead, vacuuos medium. Can you imagine "I, Cladius" being made today ?
Songs: Questions And Answers -Sham '69, Squaresville -Thee Headcoats, Smah It Up -The Damned, Wardance -Killing Joke.
Bands/musicians: Billy Childish, Thee Headcoatees, The Cramps, Armitage Shanks, Nick Cave, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Dead Kennedys, Groop Dogdrill, The Horati, The Meteors, The Creatures, The Ventures, The Downliner's Sect, Bonzo Dog Band, Alien Sex Fiend, The Standells, The Sonics, Sham '69...
Board games: None.
Computer games: Nethack, Infocom text adventures, FORTRAN.
Other games: None.
Magazines: NewScientist, Private Eye, MaximumRockNRoll, Fracture, Physics World, New Statesman.
Places to visit: Iceland, Mojave desert. [Add Zabriske point to the films.]
Food: Loads of fresh fruit and veg, loads of pork, too much cheese, so I've temporairily quit.
Colours: Fire-engine red.
Drinks: Black tea, (Early Grey or green china) gin and tonic, rum and black beer, decent bitters (Sam Smiths, Theakston's, Black Sheep...) single malt scotch, stouts, (Mackeson's, Jamaican Dragon, Sam Smith's Oatmeal, Guiness if need be and never bloody Murphy's) German Rauchbier, (smoked hops) belgian trappist beers and if nothing else drinkable is around (this inlcudes all cider, almost all lager and badly kept bitters, epsecially Brakespears but also Tetleys and Boddingtons) or even if I just feel like it grapefruit juice or straight tonic.
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.music.banana-truffle, alt.gothic, comp.sys.atari.st. (Have tried sci.polymers, alt.ascii-art, alt.punk, rec.games.roguelike.nethack and groups devoted to LaTeX and interactive fiction whose names escape me, alt.extropians.)
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: None, quit sluts.
How long have you been reading UPG: Since it started.
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: The suprisingly civil veggie thread. No-one got flamed (much) and it died as soon as it ceased to amuse. (Must killfile the "Oh my God..." thread if it persists.)
What are some of your hobbies: Useless walks, writing bad fractal programs, hunting obscure punk records, fiddling around bit bits of card and glue, occaisional origami, farting around with Fimo, trying to show up to Tai Chi.
What's the motto you adhere to: Diversity and dichotomy.
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Performing treacherous balancing acts while asleep.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Rotting in acadaemia so I can read more and not do any life-threating experiments.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Driving licence, musical ability.
What do you think is your best asset: Dry wit, assuming all those people aren't merely humouring me.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Overcame the shyness. Now it's merely reserve and cold contempt.
What do you value most in a friend: Trust, the (naked and ugly) truth.
How do you picture UPG: Infrequently. Euuuch ! Well, thank you *very* much for *that* image.
Do you have another question: Don't you *enjoy* being slightly nasty ?