Your name: Kevin O' Gorman
Your online/nickname: K.
Web page URL: http://stunbunny.org
Age: 24
Birthday: June-ish
Gender: Male
Location: Usually Dublin (Ireland)
Height/weight: 6'2"/11 stone
Current haircolour/style: pink streaks, shaven sides, fairly short
Natural hair colour: brown/black
Eye colour: brown
Religion: is a bad thing
Siblings: I have some
Children: none, I hope.
Relationship status: unavailable
Occupation: it's hard to tell, programming I think.
Pets: Nothing animate
Computer you're on: PPro running FreeBSD from an Alpha running VMS from a Pentium running NT from a brain running KevOS 0.01 alpha
Books: Currently working my way through GEB:EGB. It's good but I'm losing the run of it. Blackcock's Feather, Snow Crash, War of the Worlds, whatever's around. I tend to read fiction to fill in gaps in my time rather than for enjoyment.
Movies: lately, PI. Previously, Ghost in the Shell, Age of Innocence, Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress, Tetsuo-Body Hammer, some Dario Argento flicks, Alien 3 (sue me), all the Ernest movies, the Misfits, Niagara, Mad Love (the Peter Lorre one), Apocalypse Now - weird, I never thought of myself as a movie fan. Live and learn.
Poems: Just for a change - T.S. Eliot. Primo Levi, Emily Dickinson, Ho Chi Minh's prison diaries, used to like Donne.
Television shows: There's a lot of shark documentaries on telly these days, isn't there? Earthworm Jim, Pokemon (when I get up in time), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (see Alien 3), otherwise nothing (see reasons for reading fiction)
Songs: Rooftop Lullabye (Jack L.), A low frequency inversion field (Spacetime Continuum),
Bands/musicians: The last couple of concerts I enjoyed were by Jack L. and Smog. otherwise a small subset of standard gothy crap.
Board games: The last I played was Go, but I got thoroughly trashed by an apparently-stupid computer player, so I haven't tried again.
Computer games: Quake.
Other games: Verbal matches with workmates.
Magazines: Usagi Yojimbo, very occasionally a Scientific American if I'm stuck in an airport or something.
Places to visit: I'm gradually coming round on the whole Vegas thing. Anywhere with a forest.
Food: Ramen. Mexican food, tagliatelle with sweet sausage and peppers in a herby brothy thing. Steak. Cherry Garcia. Chocolate midnight cookie Haagen Dasz. Cherries, plums, tomatoes (raw and whole only), raspberries, strawberries. Pepperoni pizza.
Colours: pink and black (sue me)
Drinks: Some herbal teas. Vodka, Red Bull, vodka and Red Bull, Guinness (but only because their twins ad campaign was cute), good coffee. Hot whiskies during the winter. Margaritas.
What other newsgroups do you read: I keep an eye on quite a few. UPG's the only one I post to on anything like a regular basis.
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: techie lists.
How long have you been reading UPG: since it started
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: Dunno.
What are some of your hobbies: I'm trying to get into stick and tissue planes again, but can't get up the courage to cover any of them. (Free flight planes only - I'm a cheap bastard.)
What's the motto you adhere to: I don't. Which is itself expressible as a motto, but hey. How about "It's like forcing your way through a vat of wet offal!", which I say quite a lot.
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Lately I've been making this annoying squeaking sound with my (facial) cheek muscle.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Ruling your petty planet with an iron fist. Or getting into nanotechnology.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: A crispy outer shell.
What do you think is your best asset: Adaptability
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Streak of self-pity
What do you value most in a friend: I don't look for one single trait. It's nice when they don't run away screaming on meeting me.
How do you picture UPG: A productivity black hole.
Do you have another question: What?