Your name: Steve Mellor.
Your online/nickname: See foot of page for details.
Web page url: Not until I have something interesting to put on it.
Age: 36
Birthday: February 20th.
Gender: Vaginally-challenged.
Location: Coventry.
Height/weight: 6'3" / dunno.
Current hair colour/style: ginger & grey / long & shaved.
Natural hair colour: as above.
Eye colour: transparent, mostly.
Religion: I'll follow anyone handing out doughnuts.
Siblings: Two sisters, sprog-enabled suburbanites.
Children: No thanks, they grow up to steal cars or get pregnant.
Relationship status: One handed, mostly.
Occupation: Something to do with computers & electronics.
Pets: Nermal & Solo (feline).
Computer you're on: Who cares?
Books: Too many. Recently: Birdy (William Wharton), Moby Dick (Melville), Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins), Loneliness Of A Long-Distance Runner (Sillitoe), Darwins Radio (Greg Bear), Timescape (Gregory Benford), Three Men In A Boat (Jerome), Perfume (Patrick Suskind), Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Kundera), Bully For Brontosaurus (Stephen Jay Gould), Why Is Sex Fun?, The Jesus Incident, The Plague, (Herbert/Ransom) Everest South West Face (Bonnington), The Llama Parlour (KAthy Lette), The Fight For The Malvinas, Fatua-Hiva (Thor Heyerdahl), The Human Factor (Graham Greene).
Movies: Not many. Delicatessen, Priscilla, The Thing, Wings Of Desire, Dark Star, Carry On Screaming.
Poems: John Cooper Clarke, Spike Milligan. The beasts they hunger, and eat, and die; And so do we, and the world's a sty; Hush fellow swine; Why nuzzle and cry? Swinehood hath no remedy. - Sidney Lanier
Television shows: Very few. Currently about the only thing I make an effort to watch is Beast.
Songs: A Forest (Cure), Horse With No Name (America), Station To Station (Bowie), too many more to list.
Bands/musicians: Bauhaus, Spear Of Destiny, Stranglers, Flock Of Seagulls, Juno Reactor, The Passage, Killing Joke, D.A.F, Miranda Sex Garden, Dead Can Dance, Skids, Ruts, Roxy Music, Yello, Talk Talk, Sunshine Blind, Queen Adreena, Debussey.
Club: Heresy, Exile.
Board games: None.
Computer games: Unreal Tournament, Quake, Homeworld, 3D Tetris, Half-Life.
Other games: Life.
Magazines: None.
Places to visit: Prague. Canals.
Food: Bacon butties, barbecued aubergine, beans on toast, chocolate.
Colours: Dark green, purple, black.
Drinks: Drambuie, Irn Bru, Beckerovka.
What other newsgroups do you read: None regularly.
To which mailing lists are you subscribed: Too many.
How long have you been reading upg: I've no idea.
What has been your favourite thread on upg: Pass.
What are some of your hobbies: Drinking. Dreaming. Playing with cats.
What's the motto you adhere to: Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking body. Sadly it's too late for two of those, and I'm not doing much of the remaining one.
What is your personal stupid human trick: Being an idiot.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Lying by the pool with a glass of iced Irn Bru in my hand, while being oiled by half a dozen buxom amazons.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Drive.
What do you think is your best asset: You'd have to ask others.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Intolerance and arrogance.
What do you value most in a friend: Tolerance.
How do you picture upg: Through my fingers, lately.
Do you have another question: Only one? Oh, arse.