Your name: Graham Clark
Your online/nickname: Graham Clark, usually.
Web page url:
Age: Too old, by about 5 or six years.
Birthday: December.
Gender: Animal.
Location: Cambridge, for my sins. They must have been pretty good sins, but for the life of me I can't remember them.
Height/weight: 5'9", and rather too much.
Current hair colour/style: Dark brown, currently fairly short.
Natural hair colour:
Eye colour: Brown
Religion: Liberal Naderite.
Siblings: One of each.
Children: yeah . . . as if.
Relationship status: Dead loss.
Occupation: Sequence Finisher.
Pets: 2 goths.
Computer you're on: Xterm/NC-type thing, connected to various alphastations and alphaservers. I've a couple of PCs at home.
Books: Yes. I have upwards of several, a significant proportion of which I've actually read.
Movies: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.
Poems: This Be The Verse
Television shows: I've not been watching much TV lately, so I'm missing a lot. Black Books looks to have been great, but I only saw a couple on video after it had finished. I do, however, watch the news a lot, and current affairs stuff when I can.
Songs: I Want You (Costello), A Song From Under the Floorboards (Magazine), No-One Will Ever Love You (Magnetic Fields)
Bands/musicians: Stephin Merritt, Cave, Stephin Merritt, NoMeansNo, NMA
Club: Only my own at the moment, which is a little sad.
DJs: Pete Scathe, of course.
Board games: Go . . . when I can, which is never.
Computer games: I'm meant to be playing lots of network strategy stuff, but of course I'm not getting round to it.
Other games: Illuminati . . . again, in theory only.
Magazines: New Scientist. And anyone who says it's only for the jobs section is going to get a good hiding.
Places to visit: Anywhere that's got friends I haven't seen in a while.
Food: Anything without meat (in theory). Anything without meat or any discernible nutritional value (in practice).
Colours: are great. Sunsets, trees, skies, lakes . . . wonderful.
Drinks: Irn Bru.
What other newsgroups do you read: uk.music.alternative
To which mailing lists are you subscribed: The Buca list, and a couple of Cambridge lists.
How long have you been reading upg: A good while.
What has been your favourite thread on upg:
What are some of your hobbies: Procrastination.
What's the motto you adhere to: Live fast, die young, leave a horrible mess - for someone else to clean up. I've already failed on the first two, but what the hell.
What is your personal stupid human trick:
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Living, rather than just existing.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Talent (any).
What do you think is your best asset: I'm quite bright. No, really I am - I've got certificates and everything.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Don't get me started.
What do you value most in a friend: Presence
How do you picture upg: Funny patterns on a glowing screen.
Do you have another question: Of course I do. They never end.