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Shamelessly pasted from my OKC
My Self Summary:
A few months ago I was asked what my greatest regret was. My greatest regret was from when I was much younger, I was at the London Planetarium gift shop, I wanted a snap bracelet but I was told I could not have one, but instead I could have some space ice cream. I turned down the offer in the hope my parents would give in and let me have the snap bracelet. They didn't. I still regret not being able to taste ice cream of the future. But to add a painful twist to this tale, the person I told this to, remembered and bought me a pack of space ice cream for Christmas, but now I am a strict vegetarian and the ice cream has whey in it, of which I cannot determine the source, so I am now trapped in a limbo where I have the ice cream but do not know if I can eat it. There is a moral to this story, but I don't know what the fuck it is.
...That wasn't really a self summery, so in the meantime I'll make a nice big easy to digest list of stuff that I like:
Modernist and to a lesser extent Brutalist architecture, also housing using shipping containers
Toxophilite based pursuits
Lists
Cooking
Toothpicks/Cocktail Sticks
Mahjong (HK, CO or even JP, but if you want to play a 4 fan game I will punch you in the face)
Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx
HV electrical hobby projects that invlove BIG capacitors (NEWS JUST IN: The old blue aluminium caps makes the best guitar slide I have ever used - try it yourself!)
Cholula hot sauce. ON. FUCKING. EVERYTHING.
hark a vagrant
Fine wood work using exotic hardwoods, in particular Lignum Vitae
Mechanical Keyboards
DISABLING ALL SAFETY INTERLOCKS FOR SPORT AND PROFIT.
Hardware Hacks, also wetware hacking
Transhumanism I'd use my robot hand for good! (a lie)
Breaking page alignment... my attempt to break it here failed :(
Heatsinks
Most phases of data processing
Scotch Bonnets.
Petrichor
SAME HAT
Augmented Reality
Things that are CNC milled from a single billet
Rare earth magnets
Manipulation of Tempest for auditory enjoyment
Multimeters
slow down
Reese's Pieces
swann morton 10A's (11's for special occasions)
The cold
Come dine with me
Hirajoshi scale
Measuring things with a Micrometer or a Vernier Calliper TO CONFIRM ALL MY SUSPICIONS.
Gekiga
Owning server boards, routers and unnecessarily noisy switches (SUCK IT DANKS!)
The Neo Geo pocket (colour)
I am lies, damn lies, and statistics
What I'm doing with my life:
Losing jobs at a rate which would make a lesser man hang himself.
Other than that I'm currently wasting my time reading (mainly German philosophy because I am clearly full of shit), watching films, playing guitar (I've started building up a pedal board so I can play guitar without actually playing guitar) and shooting (Archery - Olympic Recurve for those who care) whilst being arrested under anti-terrorism legislation (sadly true, long story).
Also I am finally back in Birmingham and ready to bring shame and disappointment (not in that order) to some lucky girls life.
I’m really good at:
THE GAME, bodge fixing / ghetto hacks, cooking / baking, self impalement (this is like self improvement, but instead of bettering oneself, you just end up going to A&E), writing haikus about inappropriate subjects, sleeping on hard surfaces, bodge bathroom surgery, being poor, trailing broken glass into the bed.
The first things people usually notice about me:
My geometry. It is said to be "abnormal, non-Euclidean and oddly all wrong".
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food:
Well I read a lot of comic books / manga / graphics novels (my favourite ones are ones where nothing happens and everyone is miserable) or whatever you want to call them but i guess that doesn't really count... Books on modernist architecture... well that's mainly looking at pictures still... My current pile of books from Christmas to get through is; God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe, Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Japrocksampler by Julian Cope (I saw this on someone else's profile, so thank you for bringing it to my attention who ever you are) and Critique of Judgement by Kant. As you can see from this list I am clearly full of shit. As neat as eBook readers are (I really like the e-ink technology), I don't care for them. For some reason if I want take a book around with me I like seeing it slowly getting more and more battered.
Much like the Dali Lama I enjoy the cinema of Steven Seagal and compulsively collect his films no matter how shit they are (spoiler: that's every film after 1999, he's made a lot of films since 1999). I also collect any film Chow Yun Fat was in during the 80's in Hong Kong that involved him jumping around holding a gun in each hand, aside from that the rest of my collection is made up of foreign / art house films to make up for all of that Seagal nonsense, and then a load of anime to piss away any credibility I may have regained.
TV wise I like cooking shows; Come dine with me, Iron Chef (original is by far the best), Masterchef etc... I'm not sure why I like them so much, 90% of the stuff they make I can't eat.
My taste in music however is impeccable, a delightful collection made up of only the finest hardcore, noise, post rock, black metal, classical, doom and other various genres, mainly owned on vinyl. A gentleman never name drops. I am an audiophile.
Food wise I am a vegetarian so rather than actually eat I just spend time slowly reading the back of food packets. Quaver and lettuce sandwiches - thank me later. (AS OF YET I HAVE RECEIVED NO THANKS, TRY IT YOU FUCKING PHILISTINES)
The six things I could never do without:
My phone, record player + records, bow + arrows, computer / laptop, guitar and bike.
I spend a lot of time thinking about:
The same trite things everyone else seems to think about, such as 'was pikachu male or female?'
How awesome the Aerobie was and why I don't have one any more.
Why can't I sleep when I want to.
The subtle enjoyment to be found in a bad headache.
On a typical Friday night I am:
Playing at about 17 BPM in B standard tuning. Writing erotic Ayn Rand fan fiction. Lying about what I do on a Friday night.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit:
I've been known to beat up girls and run them over with a vehicle.
You should message me if:
Because all of your friends are getting married and starting families, because you always told yourself you wouldn't have to settle, but you think your looks are going to start fading soon and you've realised the fairytale romance you hoped for probably will never materialise, but mostly you're just tired of feeling ugly and alone. You are on an internet dating site after all, you can only tread water for so long.
My Self Summary:
A few months ago I was asked what my greatest regret was. My greatest regret was from when I was much younger, I was at the London Planetarium gift shop, I wanted a snap bracelet but I was told I could not have one, but instead I could have some space ice cream. I turned down the offer in the hope my parents would give in and let me have the snap bracelet. They didn't. I still regret not being able to taste ice cream of the future. But to add a painful twist to this tale, the person I told this to, remembered and bought me a pack of space ice cream for Christmas, but now I am a strict vegetarian and the ice cream has whey in it, of which I cannot determine the source, so I am now trapped in a limbo where I have the ice cream but do not know if I can eat it. There is a moral to this story, but I don't know what the fuck it is.
...That wasn't really a self summery, so in the meantime I'll make a nice big easy to digest list of stuff that I like:
Modernist and to a lesser extent Brutalist architecture, also housing using shipping containers
Toxophilite based pursuits
Lists
Cooking
Toothpicks/Cocktail Sticks
Mahjong (HK, CO or even JP, but if you want to play a 4 fan game I will punch you in the face)
Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx
HV electrical hobby projects that invlove BIG capacitors (NEWS JUST IN: The old blue aluminium caps makes the best guitar slide I have ever used - try it yourself!)
Cholula hot sauce. ON. FUCKING. EVERYTHING.
hark a vagrant
Fine wood work using exotic hardwoods, in particular Lignum Vitae
Mechanical Keyboards
DISABLING ALL SAFETY INTERLOCKS FOR SPORT AND PROFIT.
Hardware Hacks, also wetware hacking
Transhumanism I'd use my robot hand for good! (a lie)
Breaking page alignment... my attempt to break it here failed :(
Heatsinks
Most phases of data processing
Scotch Bonnets.
Petrichor
SAME HAT
Augmented Reality
Things that are CNC milled from a single billet
Rare earth magnets
Manipulation of Tempest for auditory enjoyment
Multimeters
slow down
Reese's Pieces
swann morton 10A's (11's for special occasions)
The cold
Come dine with me
Hirajoshi scale
Measuring things with a Micrometer or a Vernier Calliper TO CONFIRM ALL MY SUSPICIONS.
Gekiga
Owning server boards, routers and unnecessarily noisy switches (SUCK IT DANKS!)
The Neo Geo pocket (colour)
I am lies, damn lies, and statistics
What I'm doing with my life:
Losing jobs at a rate which would make a lesser man hang himself.
Other than that I'm currently wasting my time reading (mainly German philosophy because I am clearly full of shit), watching films, playing guitar (I've started building up a pedal board so I can play guitar without actually playing guitar) and shooting (Archery - Olympic Recurve for those who care) whilst being arrested under anti-terrorism legislation (sadly true, long story).
Also I am finally back in Birmingham and ready to bring shame and disappointment (not in that order) to some lucky girls life.
I’m really good at:
THE GAME, bodge fixing / ghetto hacks, cooking / baking, self impalement (this is like self improvement, but instead of bettering oneself, you just end up going to A&E), writing haikus about inappropriate subjects, sleeping on hard surfaces, bodge bathroom surgery, being poor, trailing broken glass into the bed.
The first things people usually notice about me:
My geometry. It is said to be "abnormal, non-Euclidean and oddly all wrong".
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food:
Well I read a lot of comic books / manga / graphics novels (my favourite ones are ones where nothing happens and everyone is miserable) or whatever you want to call them but i guess that doesn't really count... Books on modernist architecture... well that's mainly looking at pictures still... My current pile of books from Christmas to get through is; God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe, Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Japrocksampler by Julian Cope (I saw this on someone else's profile, so thank you for bringing it to my attention who ever you are) and Critique of Judgement by Kant. As you can see from this list I am clearly full of shit. As neat as eBook readers are (I really like the e-ink technology), I don't care for them. For some reason if I want take a book around with me I like seeing it slowly getting more and more battered.
Much like the Dali Lama I enjoy the cinema of Steven Seagal and compulsively collect his films no matter how shit they are (spoiler: that's every film after 1999, he's made a lot of films since 1999). I also collect any film Chow Yun Fat was in during the 80's in Hong Kong that involved him jumping around holding a gun in each hand, aside from that the rest of my collection is made up of foreign / art house films to make up for all of that Seagal nonsense, and then a load of anime to piss away any credibility I may have regained.
TV wise I like cooking shows; Come dine with me, Iron Chef (original is by far the best), Masterchef etc... I'm not sure why I like them so much, 90% of the stuff they make I can't eat.
My taste in music however is impeccable, a delightful collection made up of only the finest hardcore, noise, post rock, black metal, classical, doom and other various genres, mainly owned on vinyl. A gentleman never name drops. I am an audiophile.
Food wise I am a vegetarian so rather than actually eat I just spend time slowly reading the back of food packets. Quaver and lettuce sandwiches - thank me later. (AS OF YET I HAVE RECEIVED NO THANKS, TRY IT YOU FUCKING PHILISTINES)
The six things I could never do without:
My phone, record player + records, bow + arrows, computer / laptop, guitar and bike.
I spend a lot of time thinking about:
The same trite things everyone else seems to think about, such as 'was pikachu male or female?'
How awesome the Aerobie was and why I don't have one any more.
Why can't I sleep when I want to.
The subtle enjoyment to be found in a bad headache.
On a typical Friday night I am:
Playing at about 17 BPM in B standard tuning. Writing erotic Ayn Rand fan fiction. Lying about what I do on a Friday night.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit:
I've been known to beat up girls and run them over with a vehicle.
You should message me if:
Because all of your friends are getting married and starting families, because you always told yourself you wouldn't have to settle, but you think your looks are going to start fading soon and you've realised the fairytale romance you hoped for probably will never materialise, but mostly you're just tired of feeling ugly and alone. You are on an internet dating site after all, you can only tread water for so long.
