Your name: Mark Dunne
Your online/nickname: MarkWCats (or, 'Oh shit, he's on IRC after too much coffee again')
Web page URL: http://www.iol.ie/~mdunne
Age: 17, ATM
Birthday: Yes. Please. Oh, 5th October
Gender: mail.
Location: Here. Here is mainly a place in County Cavan, Ireland. Occassionally, here changes to Dublin (hopefully in Sept/Oct Dublin due to college)
Height/weight: I think 5'10". About 11.5 stone.
Current haircolour/style: Dark brown/long thing.
Natural hair colour: dark brown.
Eye colour: greeny grey inderminate shade of blue.
Religion: God only knows... :-) I worship the mighty Cats in anticipation of the day they destroy the evil Hamsters and rule the universe! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Join in this rather fun hobby at http://www.iol.ie/~mdunne/icc/ :-)
Siblings: 2.
Children: Fortunately no.
Relationship status: desperate
Occupation: student, but currently doing things in a place. (including playing with power tools, hehehehehehehehehe) so that I know what I'm talkig about when I work on their coimputer thing.
Pets: Cats. Number uncertain.
Computer you're on: PC Pentium MMX 200MHz, NT4.0/SuSe Linux 5.2/Win3.11FWG/DOS6.22. ATM.
Books: I found a cornflakes box that had a really interesting side panel last week.
Movies: The Matrix, Aliens, Beetlejuice, The Craft.
Poems: Because I could Not Stop For Death.
Television shows: Buffy, Earth: Final Conflict, Babylon 5, South Park, Friends, Veronica's Closet, Fraiser, prolly others that I am not aware of conciously, but watch by instinct.
Songs: "Single Girl", "Monochrome", "Heavenyl Nobodies", "Invisible Man" (all Lush, and indeed ost other Lush songs), "Sale of the Century" (Sleeper), "Dancing on Glass", "Right Now " (Creatures), "Last Christmas", "Baby Boy" (Whigfield) and zillions of others.
Bands/musicians: Everything but country. Siouxsie (and whatever band she's in), Lush, Sleeper, bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Whigfield. (you want to make something of it? :-)) And zillions of others....
Board games: Chess. Draughts.
Computer games: XEvil, Half-Life, Doom.
Other games: Used to play Fighting Fantasy.
Magazines: Nah, I use a revolver :-)
Places to visit: Everywhere. But America (all of it), France and London come highest.
Food: Chocolate, toast, more chocolate.
Colours: black, blue, PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Drinks: coffee, tea, vodka and coke, vodka and more vodka.
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.babylon5.uk, alt.fan.neil-gaiman, alt.books.terry-brooks
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: ab5uk Writers Guild, Starlust (Lush mailing list), iegoth, Fibbers. Gaimaniacs, XEvil list, M$ things (BackOffice and so on. Well, I hafta. I use 'em for work)
How long have you been reading UPG: on-and-off (but mostly off 'cos of exams) since just after Whitby 1998.
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: The ones where people insult each other in various silly manners. Er... not very specific, I know, but....
What are some of your hobbies: sleeping, listening to music, reading, writing web sites, programming, going out.
What's the motto you adhere to: "I'm not vain, just really really shallow" "I didn't do it, they're lying, I'm a good boy I am. " "I WANNA <something which probably doesn't exist>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "In any conversation or argument, if you can't convince, confuse. "
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Switching between mopey and perky at whim. Or sometimes nto at whim, which is bad....
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Writing programs or stuff like that, and getting lots of money for it. Better yet, writing stotries and novels... Yummy....
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Being able to find my perky switch when outside my home.
What do you think is your best asset: Quick, fast and ruthless.... Yeah!!!! Er, well, I'm not exactly judgemental. At least that bit is true.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: A shyness that sometimes goes right into absolute terror at the thought of seeing other people. (Or speaking to 'em. )
What do you value most in a friend: Good sense of humour. (and the ability to put up with my mood swings and varying levels of terror)
How do you picture UPG: about this far ][ from collapsing either drunk or in a fit of giggles.
Do you have another question: Should I?