Your name: Matthew Porth
Your online/nickname: purrpurrpussy
Web page url: http://www.freshbrains.co.uk (a little empty! - soon!)
Age: Too old
Birthday: 6th April
Gender: Male
Location: London
Height/weight: 5'9", slightly lass than 10 stone
Current hair colour/style: mid length dark brown (OK, I'm lazy and old)
Natural hair colour: It's all natural darling...
Eye colour: Hazel
Religion: Libertarian Satanist
Siblings: A little brother (who's old too.. ha!)
Children: Not fucking likely...
Relationship status: Ho eating cake ;)
Occupation: Code Guru...
Pets: Slik Cut the techno dog, Titch the wonder cat.
Computer you're on: MegaHAL 9000 - Huge PC with too many hard drives, too many sound cards, bitching speaker system, lovely monitor, loads of RAM - Damn I need to upgrade....
Books: "Programming Languages and Interpreter Based Approach", anything by Knuth, "Algorithmic Beauty of Plants", "DSP First" - anything hardcore and techy - oh and "Exquisite Corpse"
Movies: "They Live", "The Fearless Vampire Hunters", Alien, Southpark the Movie... hundreds and hundreds of them...
Poems: If I am reading it (not very often) mostly Romantic period sonnets.
Television shows: WWF Heat, WWF RAW, BBC News 24, not much really - I have 37 cable channels and hardly ever watch them...
Songs: It would take days to answer this.
Bands/musicians: As above..
Club: Tenebrae
Board games: Monopoly
Computer games: F-Zero X, ChuChu Rocket, JSR, Mario64, Zelda (OoT), Worms, Wetrix, Extreme Violence, anything 80's and retro. I've played thousands....
Other games: Foreplay
Magazines: Sound on Sound, World of Wrestling, Edge(somtimes), Dr Dobbs, C/C++ Journal, Micrprocessor Report. many....
Places to visit: My folks place in the middle of nowhere...
Food: Yeo valley organic yoghurt, KFC zinger tower burgers, anything in Yildiz Ockabasi (blackstock road, finsbury park)
Colours: Blue, Red, Pink, Purple, Black, Silver, and Neon Green.
Drinks: Rum, guiness, water, coffee...
What other newsgroups do you read: comp.arch, comp.dsp, uk.video.games.dreamcast, comp.sys.sinclair
To which mailing lists are you subscribed: ZX81, OpenGL, numerous.
How long have you been reading upg: I used to read a.g before u.p.g existed.
What has been your favourite thread on upg: I don't have a memory.
What are some of your hobbies: Coding audio/visual apps, writing music using this room full of kit.... drinking, fighting, fucking....
What's the motto you adhere to: I don't
What is your personal stupid human trick: Drinking till I become seriously physically unwell.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Breathing.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: I wish I could slow time down cos' I always want to do more than I can in the given time. sigh...
What do you think is your best asset: Being able to identify a twat then avoid them forever.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: I'm fantastic - I have no flaws - you all love me....
What do you value most in a friend: The ability to turn up round my flat with copious amounts of brain frying booze/drugs just as I have run out!
How do you picture upg: Textually
Do you have another question: Do you want to know the answer?