Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2001 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: Tom Sulston

Your online/nickname: Tom Sulston (Mr_Tom on IRC)

Web page url: www.ebpages.are.too.much.hassle.for.me

Age: 22 going on 50.

Birthday: 17th October

Gender: Bloke.

Location: London (Willesden Green)

Height/weight: 5'10"ish, 12 Stone, give or take.

Current hair colour/style: Belt-length & brown

Natural hair colour: the same shade of brown.

Eye colour: Blue

Religion: Evangelistic atheist. But will settle for Bahai'ism

Siblings: A brother.

Children: Couldn't eat a whole one.

Relationship status: Attached.

Occupation: IT Consultant (My job is to make your job redundant)

Pets: 2 flatmates.

Computer you're on: Celery400, Win98, Hard-Disk, RAM, that sort of stuff. Play with HP V-class at werk.

Favourites:

Books: Iain Banks (Without the M), Elizabeth Wurtzel, Robert Anton Wilson, culinary tomes that aren't written by celebrity chefs.

Movies: They're called films. Coen Brothers, Darren Aranofsky, Michael Caine, Jurgen Procnow. Too many to list.

Poems: Atilla the Stockbroker. He is wise.

Television shows: No TV for me. But when I did have one, I liked Cardiac Arrest.

Songs: Almost anything by the bands below

Bands/musicians: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Dr. John, The KLF, Dido, Portishead, Morcheeba, and the usual Goth stuff.

Club: Don't do them a lot. Anywhere with a quiet room and a nice bar.

Board games: Jenga, Risk, Nuclear War, Talisman, Mah Jong, Bridge.

Computer games: Counterstrike. 1nsane.

Other games: Tag.

Magazines: Private Eye, Wire,

Places to visit: There's nowhere I've not been to yet that I don't want to go.

Food: Nothing pre-made. Anything, as long as it's fresh, free of dodgy chemicals, and made with the attention that food deserves.

Colours: Black black black black black, EVEN BLACKER! (With odd bits of other colours - no patterns though)

Drinks: Gin and tonic. beer. tea. Proper coffee. Been off the surgical spirit for a while now.

Miscellaneous Questions:

What other newsgroups do you read: agf, agp, ukpg.

To which mailing lists are you subscribed: Sluts (occasionally) OxGoths, Heretics, ukagf

How long have you been reading upg: Few years.

What has been your favourite thread on upg: Any that don't involve Mixy getting all het up.

What are some of your hobbies: Drinking, spodding, drinking, cooking.

What's the motto you adhere to: You're only as big as the things that make you angry.

What is your personal stupid human trick: I can hold a burning torch in my mouth while juggling knives and standing on a rola-bola.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Running a restaurant in Sydney.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: A restaurant in Sydney, and the money to run it.

What do you think is your best asset: I can cook. And even make a nice martini.

What do you think is the worst thing about you: I can't do anything else.

What do you value most in a friend: The ability to put up with my inane witterings.

How do you picture upg: On a monitor.

Do you have another question: