Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2001 Edition

The Physical:

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.

Favourites:

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.

Miscellaneous Questions:

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.