Gaming, decking myself out in as many pieces of metal and bits of neon tubing as is possible to fit about my person, kittens, fossils, cyborgs, explosions, dicking about with html and occasionally php, listening to music most of which could be described as a bloody awful racket, Marmite, lasers, veganism, drawing, grammar pedantry, heraldry, evolution
Music
Epic and heroic power metal, the more florid the better. Banging tubthumping drum & bass that sounds like a Dyson raping a ZX Spectrum. Rousing classical with dramatic arias and blaring trumpets and pounding drums. Psychedelic soundscapes that slither and warp and never sound the same twice. Joyful and lilting calypso and soca. I love my music to be full of energy, though the more relaxing stuff has its place - nothing like immersive, luxurious trip hop late at night.
Movies
I'm not a fan of cinema and much prefer games. I tend to get bored with serious films, preferring those with slapstick and/or explosions, and plots you could write on a rice grain.
Television
Bottom, Doctor Who, Family Guy, first series of Green Wing, Mythbusters, QI, South Park, The Young Ones, old science programmes from before they went down the shitter.
Books
Mostly real science or ostentatious fantasy. George R R Martin: Song of Ice and Fire series; Simon R Green: Shadows Fall; Richard Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale; John Steinbeck: Cannery Row, The Grapes of Wrath. I love reading scientific explanations for supposedly paranormal events. I like playing Fighting Fantasy books and I collect the out of print ones.
Heroes
All those who make scientific reconaissance their life's work, and all those who made the world a better place through science.
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: Palaeobiology & Evolution
Clubs: I'm in a few but they never tell me when the meetings are on. Phoo!
2006 to Present
Richmond-upon-Thames College
Twickenham, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Biology, chemistry, geology, philosophy
Minor: Critical thinking, law, psychology
Clubs: None, but I hung out in Skylights lots. Good times!
2002 to 2005
Orleans Park School
Twickenham, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
About me:
I have a website: anna-ghislaine.com. I also co-admin (with founder Simon Duffin) the wonderful messageboard Teh Shed. Otherwise I am usually to be found on the b3ta /talk board, and/or on #ylug on FreeNode, under the name Bob Todd or variant thereof.
I am quite a geek and a huge nerd, and generally prefer a quiet night in with a game, a book or some code to a night out. I'm definitely the 'quiet gathering with chums' person rather than the 'going out getting pissed in a large noisy group' person. I have a very puerile (even by b3tan standards), and quite dark, sense of humour, which has an unfortunate tendency to manifest itself at inopportune moments. As the result of what happens when English teachers are allowed to breed, I am an uber-pedant and can frequently be found bemoaning what's happening to our language.
Right now I am a student studying dinosaurs and lasers and gold. When I have time I write reviews for Gamestyle - the UK's longest-running independent games website.
Have a look at this lovely song about crisps written and performed by my chum Simon and his chums:
Background and theme by SatanSpace. It's not blood, it's jam.
Who I'd like to meet: I don't care if you're from Pompey too - stop trying to add me just because I live near you.
On here, I'd like to meet other geeks and nerds to whom I can talk about games, technology, the natural world, and computers, and who are also happy to just talk bollocks. I'm just looking for chums; not people with whom to form a relationship. Please, don't add me if you're just clicking loads of people in the hope that a few will reciprocate. I'd rather have a small number of friends who took the time to read my profile and decide that they wanted to know more about me than hundreds who just like 'collecting' people.
Off Myspace, I'd like to meet Brian Blessed, because I imagine it would be a very memorable experience. I'd also like to meet more of my online friends offline.
Into the realms of fantasy, it would have to be Sparda (best game character ever, end of - though I suppose Guybrush Threepwood and Raziel come close).
