Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The physical

Your name: Graham Clark

Your online/nickname: Usually just my name. Sometimes Zotz, particularly when the news server at work's munged.

Web page URL:

Age: 30

Birthday: Arse-end of the year somewhere.

Gender: Male.

Location: Cambridge, for my sins. Very serious sins, apparently, but I can't quite remember what they might have been.

Height/weight: 5'10", about 13 stone . . . I think.

Current haircolour/style: According to my extremely charitable
 flatmates, it's either a public-school mop or something muppetty. Basically it hasn't been cut since last summer because I can't be bothered.

Natural hair colour: Dark brown with an increasing amount of grey.

Eye colour: brown

Religion: none

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother.

Children: none

Relationship status: Somewhere between "single" and "leper".

Occupation: Finisher. It's difficult to describe briefly, so I won't bother.

Pets:

Computer you're on: PC

Favorites

Books: Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" is just awesome, as are Gene Wolfe's books. Primo Levi's "If This Is A Man" should be required reading.

Movies: Bogstandard arthouse fodder. Not, to the great distress of many of my friends, action or martial arts flicks.

Poems: unfortunately not.

Television shows: B5, TOTP, the BBC 24-hour news channel.

Songs: A Song From Under The Floorboards (Magazine), I Want You (Elvis Costello), My Life Is A Mediocre Piece Of Shit (Alice Donut)

Bands/musicians: Mostly post-punk alternative music. Some other stuff - the inevitable Stooges/Velvets, Warren Zevon

Board games: Civilisation, Kingmaker.

Computer games: Civ CTP

Other games: Illuminati - if anyone near Cam,bridge fancies a game with all 3 expansions . . .

Magazines: New Scientist

Places to visit: Edinburgh.

Food: Vegetarian - light on the sweetcorn, please, unless it's still on the cob.

Colours: Colours? What they?

Drinks: Irn Bru, Addlestone's, Caledonian Edinburgh Ale

Miscellaneous questions

What other newsgroups do you read: uk.music.alternative, uk.media.radio.radcliffe, comp.os.linux.development.system (hardly any of which I understand), bionet.genome.autosequencing

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Cambridge rocksoc, NTK

How long have you been reading UPG: Since it turned up on the eduni server. A while.

What has been your favorite thread on UPG:

What are some of your hobbies: Lurking in my room, scaring James by braking late, buying vinyl, overintellectualising.

What's the motto you adhere to: Non Risibiles Pedecentur

What's is your personal stupid human trick: Sticking a mars bar into my mouth sideways. It's not as impressive now that mars bars are smaller.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: I'd rather hoped to be doing several things. Living back in Edinburgh, I suppose.

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Again, it's difficult to pick one out. A bigger bedroom, a greater liking for Cambridgeshire . . . no, I think I'd like to be more organised. That would help a lot.

What do you think is your best asset: Very helpful friends.

What do you think is the worst thing about you: Intellectual arrogance, probably.

What do you value most in a friend: Being local.

How do you picture UPG: On a screen, same as the rest of you.

Do you have another question: Nobody'd answer it, so why bother?