Your name: Captain M
Your online/nickname: Captain M/ That Idiot/ Marcus the Carcus
Age: can't remember can't be arsed to look up the relevant documents
Birthday/birthplace: 8th October 19.. (Yes, same as Pete Scathe!)/some shithole somewhere
Gender: male
Location: killfiles up and down the land (I think). Which is why you probably aren't reading this.
Height/weight: 5' 11"/ haven't weighed myself in ages but I'm certainly not overweight.
Current haircolour/style: black with frequent splashes of white from bird attacks.
Natural hair colour: light brown.
Eye colour: sky blue.
Piercings/tattoos: ears pierced but the holes have probably closed up by now because I haven't worn any studs or earrings for ages.
Religion: Raj Neesh (only kidding!)
Siblings: 1 brother, autistic
Children: none and there probably never will be.
Relationship status: loser!.
Occupation: cynic, social dissident, literary guerrilla, subversive. Paid occupation: freelance services to publishers.
Pets: A bluebottle called Boris. He's looking rather poorly today: he's been lying on the window sill for the past two days and hasn't moved at all. If there are any vets out there could you give me some advice.
Computer you are on: G4 PowerMac
Books/authors/type of literature: (puts on anorak) Mainly non-fiction: stuff about history, archaeology, astronomy, geology. Fiction: sci-fi authors such as Asimov, Clarke, Stephen Baxter, Michael Moorcock. Some historical fiction including Peter Ackroyd, Sebastian Faulks and Bernard Cornwell.
Magazines: Astronomy Now, NewScientist, Scientific American, ShcNews, MacFormat (Hi, Mimsy), Practical Shed Assembler.
Movies/directors/actors...: Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, The Blues Brothers, Henry V (Olivier version, but Brannagh's isn't too far behind IMHO), 2001, The Bounty (1984 version), Saving Private Ryan, Last of the Mohicans (the one with Daniel Day-Lewis), The Wicker Man, Ed Wood, The Big Sleep (Howard Hawkes version), Casablanca.
. poems/poets: Subversive/subversives.
Television shows: Babylon 5, The Prisoner, Dr Who, Sharpe, Time Team, Meet the Ancestors that kind of thing.
Radios/radio shows: Radio 4 mostly
Songs:
Bands/musicians: (I hate this one too many to list properly but here's a few not in any particular order) Die Laughing (RIP) The Shroud, Faith & the Muse, NMA, the Inkies, Sunshine Blind, This Burning Effigy, Breath of Life, Faithful Dawn, All Living Fear, Miranda Sex Garden, FotN (am I still allowed to like 'trad goth' stuff?), These Crimson Dreams, Swans of Avon, oh and (revealing dodgy hippie streak) Hawkwind/ Robert Calvert.
Artist thing: Van Dyck, Heironymus Bosch and the bloke who used to scrawl dirty drawings on the wall in the gents toilets under Brighton railway station.
Games(board, computer, others): Don't play much in the way of computer games any more, Spend enough time at a computer screen as it is. I'd rather use the time for other things like reading books or going for walks in the fresh air.
Places to visit: 51 Pegasi, 47 Ursa Majoris, 70 Virgonis
Food and drinks: Baileys!
What other newsgroups do you read: uk.sci.astro, uk.comp.sys.mac, alt.rec.shed, alt.test
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Wessex Goth, Blackmail, Shed Assemblers Anonymous
How long have you been reading upg: Approx 3 years.
What has been your favorite thread on upg:
What are some of your hobbies: Astronomy, archaeology, history, geology,
What's the motto you adhere to: Born to lose out to lunch
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Current one is looking in the mirror and impersonating Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver saying "You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck d'yu' think you're talkin' to?".
What do you think is your best asset: Don't think I have any.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Being negative about myself all the time.
What do you value most in a friend: Telling me not to be so negative about myself all the time.
How do you picture upg: The nutters on buses.
Any question you would like added: CHARACTER FROM WINNIE THE POOH YOU MOST
Idenfify with: Eeyore of course!