Your name: Graham Clark
Your nickname/online name: Cough Don't have one, guv. Honest.
Age: Too old. Halfway dead, according to some.
Birthday: Recently.
Gender: "Those that from a long way off look like flies."
Location: The Athens of the North.
Height/weight: Average/More than average.
Current hair colour/style: Dark brown and grey/longish, straight.
Natural hair colour: Likewise.
Eye colour: Brown.
Body mods: Teeth fully upgraded, as recommended, by 4000 days. All other parts factory standard.
Religion: None. And I'm quite insistent on this point.
Siblings: One of each.
Children: None.
Relationship status: Spoken for.
Occupation: Biologist. Technically, unemployed biologist.
Pets: None.
Books: The Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe), My Friend Mr Leakey (JBS Haldane), The good fairies of New York (Martin Millar), Vurt (Jeff Noone).
Movies: The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover, Repo Man, Ran, Hana-Bi, Heathers.
Poems: pity not this poor monster, manunkind (EE Cummings)
Television shows: The news. Top of the Pops. Have I got news for you.
Songs: I gave up my eyes to a man who was blind (Ballboy). A song from under the floorboards (Magazine). In a lonely place (Joy Division).
Bands/musicians: Ballboy, the Magnetic fields, Bauhaus, Joy Division, New Model Army, Puressence, The Crimea, Clearlake, mclusky, In The Nursery.
Club: The Calling, Cambridge.
Dj (n.b. you can't name yourself): Gingiber, anonymouSETH, Lorien, Scylla, Loki, the DJ of Bath and Wells.
Board games: Go, Civilisation, Kingmaker.
Computer games: Freecell.
Other games: Illuminati.
Magazines: New Scientist, Nature.
Places to visit: Iceland, Jamaica, Prague, New Orleans, New York, DC.
Food: Mushrooms.
Colours: Blue, green, grey.
Drinks: Addlestone's cider, Caley 80/-, Irn Bru, single malts (especially Laphraoig or Highland Park).
Computer you're on now: Zachariah, a linux PC.
Web page url:
Reading upg since: Soon after it started.
Favourite thread on upg: Any of the really argumentative ones. Actually, probably the one that I ended up dumping sections of Jungk's "Brighter than a thousand suns" into.
How you picture upg: As a newsgroup.
Other newsgroups read: uk.music.alternative, uk.media.radio.radcliffe, ed.general, sci.bio
Electronic mailing lists: commune, camgoth, pure, sluts, buca.
Irc channels:
What are some of your hobbies: Records, books, arguments.
What's the motto you adhere to: Non risibiles pedecentur.
What is your personal stupid human trick: Sticking a mars bar in my mouth sideways. Years ago, when mars bars were bigger than now.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Dancing on Maggie's grave.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: A job. Anyone need a genome sequenced?
What do you think is your best asset: I'm told I'm quite bright.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: I'm told I can be quite arrogant.
What do you value most in a friend: Existence.
Do you have another question: Can you guarantee me an answer?