Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The physical

Your name: Alasdair Watson

Your online/nickname: Don't use one.

Web page URL: No Second Chances/Prophet Hosting will be running soon, really. No, I mean it.

Age: 22

Birthday: 25/03

Gender: Male.

Location: Sarf London/Edinburgh, depending on when I can get to Edinburgh.

Height/weight: 6'2", about 15 stone.

Current haircolour/style:
  Too bloody short, but growing again.

Natural hair colour: Brown.

Eye colour: Blue.

Religion: To complicated to explain here.

Siblings: 1 brother.

Children: none

Relationship status: My g/f lives in Edinburgh, I live in London. It's such fun.

Occupation: Systems Developer/Web Designer.

Computer you're on: PC And now for the real reason I filled this in.

Favorites

Books: At the mo, I'm reading Michio Kaku's "Visions", and looking for "The Science of the Discworld", and re-reading "The Manual" by the KLF repeatedly, and seriously debating giving it a go, and looking for any other books by Bill Drummond. You should also all get hold of the graphic novel "The Tale of One Bad Rat", by Bryan Talbot, which is a work of genius on so many levels that I cannot describe.

Movies: Exiztenz, Exorcist, Grosse Pointe Blank, Gattaca, and am eagerly awaiting The Blair Witch Project.

Poems: Faust, any version.

Television shows: B5, Simpsons.

Songs: Tansads, "God on a String". Pixies, "Debaser". Tom Waits, "Georgia Lee" and "Come on up to the House".

Bands/musicians: Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Diamanda Galas, the KLF in any of their incarnations, Kodo Drumming, currently seeking some Gamelan, rather fond a CD called Vox Humana (Ancestral Voices for a modern Europe).

Board games: Chess, badly. I want to learn Go, at some point.

Computer games: 1st person shooters, and console beat-em-ups.

Other games: I'm an inverate roleplayer, and recently got back into tragic : the Addiction. I swear, worse than a big hit from the crackpipe.

Magazines: New Scientist

Places to visit: Edinburgh.

Food: Pizza, Chinese, Thai.

Colours: Black, purple.

Drinks: Irn Bru, Guiness, Kriek, Bushmills,

Miscellaneous questions

What other newsgroups do you read: I'm mostly found on alt.games.white-wolf these days, sometimes poke my head in in various rec.arts.comics.* groups, and lurk from time to time in lots of places. Currently rather fond of alt.sci.physics.new- theories.

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Used to be on sluts, but sine I can never be arsed with going out in the center of town, it seemed kind of pointless.

How long have you been reading UPG: On and off for about 3 years, more off than on.

What are some of your hobbies: RPGs, shopping for books/CDs, writing and reading comics.

What's the motto you adhere to: Fuck 'em, if they can't take a joke.

What's is your personal stupid human trick: I can pick things up with my toes?

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Writing comics for a living, or at the very least, having some sort of job that I can do while traveling the world for long periods of time.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Artistic talent, in addition to design sense.

What do you think is your best asset: I'm devastatingly charming, witty and sexy. And I'm modest, too. Possibly also my well developed sense of irony.

What do you think is the worst thing about you: I have no flaws. I am a perfect being. Worship me. Some people say I'm occaisionally a bit arrogant, but clearly they have no idea what they're talking about.

What do you value most in a friend: Loyalty/trustworthiness.