Your name: Ian
Age: 29
Birthday: 02/01 (I quite like the thought that my 30th will be two days in to the year 2000 - which is, after all, The Future. We'll all be driving electric flying cars by then, and wearing tinfoil jumpsuits.
Gender: male
Location: a small village in North Wales
Height/weight: 5'10", 11 stone
Current haircolour/style: n/a apart from a bit of black goatee & tache
Natural hair colour: brown
Eye colour: brown
Religion: gnostic pagan discordian thelemite odinist witch, more or less
Siblings: 1 sister
Children: none
Relationship status: polymorphous polyamorous pervert with less morals than a rabbit on heat
Occupation: Mac operator, drummer, stilt walker, writer
Pets: 3 cats: Shani, Timogen, Orlando. 1 dog: Nuala
Computer you're on: Cyrix 166
Books: Snowcrash (Stephenson), Walking on Glass, The Player of Games (Banks), Engines of Creation (Drexler).
Movies: Star Wars trilogy, Blade Runner, Nikita, Muppet Treasure Island
Poems: The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (Blake)
Television shows: Babylon 5, Daria, Eurotrash, Buffy, Xena
Songs: Right Now - The Creatures, Search & Destroy - Iggy, Calyx - Mother Destruction, We Care A Lot - Faith No More.
Bands/musicians: Scarlatti, Girls Under Glass, Silke Bischoff, Eco, Apop, Bauhaus, Ultraviolence, Riou, Lab 4, Mother Destruction, Massive Attack, KLF, Portishead, Tricky, Digable Planets, PiL, Leftfield, NIN, Inertia, Nick Cave, Imminent Starvation, Leechwoman, DCD, Dick Gaughan
Board games: Axis & Allies, Space Hulk, Car Wars, Cosmic Encounter
Computer games: Civ, Civ II, Masters of Orion, MOO2, Alpha Centauri
Other games: Star Wars card game, live roleplay
Magazines: Nanotechnology
Places to visit: Scotland, Ireland
Food: Good ice cream, seafood, chicken or rabbit casserole, curry, noodles, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, smoked salmon, Lindt Excellence
Colours: black, green, purple
Drinks: port, whisky, whiskey, Flowers IPA, Hoegaarden, Grolsch, Cointreau, chocolate milk (esp. Tesco's own brand), YoYo.
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.gothic, uk.games.roleplay, rec.games.frp.live-action, sci.nanotechnology, uk.religion.pagan
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: thelema-93, mancgoff, oathcircle, scotgoth, mayfest, freebooter
How long have you been reading UPG: since Feb '97
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: Quite like a good argument, usually about either techno or magick, although tattoos & politics are also good & contentious.
What are some of your hobbies: woodcarving, being a pirate, leatherwork, ceramic sculpture, trailrunning
What's the motto you adhere to: ni significat si ni oscillat (it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing)
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Recti Isolation (or as Fakir Musafar puts it, Yogic Belly Suck) but do not ask me to try it with a stomach full of lager
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: wenching & drinking
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: A large motorcycle with lots of Zs in its name, followed closely by a full suit of plate armour, followed closely by a G3 Powerbook, followed closely by a pair of Wesco Extra Tall Engineer Boots Oh and I suppose the skill to eat unfeasible quantities of ice cream without putting any weight on
What do you think is your best asset: everything
What do you think is the worst thing about you: nothing
What do you value most in a friend: wit, honesty
How do you picture UPG: Like Planet X in the late 80s, but with even more lax bouncers
Do you have another question: What's the strangest place you've ever gone to sleep?