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About Me

I write a little, but I'm still such an amateur it'll need rather a lot of work to get anywhere near decent. Play bass, and seriously need to work on my composition skills if I'm to warrant the use of the kickarse equipment I've got.
I should probably make some kind of effort to learn HTML or something too. I seem to be around computers way too much not to.

My Interests

Subversive weirdness, Pretending to be an intellectual, Giving drunken lectures on the virtue and greatness of the EZLN (thankfully rarely - avoid drink children, it's bad for you) to people who are so drunk themselves they actually listen..., playing bass, reading, writing

Music

Nine Inch Nails, One Minute Silence, Vast, Rage Against the Machine, Nightwish, Pitchshifter, A Perfect Circle, Filter, The A-Team Theme Tune (yes really), z'ev, Mitch Benn, Weapons, Siskin, Guano Apes, Negativland, Chiasm

Movies

Serenity, Dark City, La Haine, Virtual Nightmare, The Big Lebowski, Alien, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Dune (John Harrison's version), An Inconvenient Truth, Festen, Airplane, Airplane 2, Thank You For Smoking

Television

Black Books, The Simpsons, Firefly, The Office, Fry and Laurie (anything by/with them), Andy Richter Controls The Universe, The IT Crowd, That Mitchel and Webb Look, Peep Show, Boston Legal, Stargate, Mostly I listen to the comedy re-runs on the BBC these days.

Books

Kropotkin: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, China Mieville: Perdido Street Station, Terry Pratchett: Interesting Times, Proudhon: What is Property?, Any of the Culture books by Iain M. Banks, Francis Wheen: How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World, Banksy: Wall and Peace, China Mieville: Looking for Jake and Other Stories, Gary Cziko: Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution

Credentials: Buzznet Original Buzznet Original
Home: Brighton Sussex, United Kingdom
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Sign: Pisces
Orientation: Straight
Religion: Atheist
Drink: Yes
Smoke: No
Children: I Don'T Want Kids
Education: In College
Occupation: Iconoclast
Member Since: 06/03/2006
MSNĀ®: invitro_666
Online Now: No
My Groups: Banksy BBC of Buzznet Buzznet Originals QOTD The Book Club
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SCHOOLS
Box Hill
Mickleham, Surrey UK
Boring and bougois, but I was there for 5 years so I had to tolerate it (till I finished GCSEs). Never go to a public school (or private, if your from the US - not sure why we call it that).

Collyer's
Horsham, Sussex UK
Last 2 years of my pre-university education were here. Not too bad. Some cool teachers and some fun subjects. Plus, didn't have to pay like the last one, which is anathema to me. And ducks, ducks are anathema too.

University of Sussex Intellectual History
From 2006 Through [current]
Brighton, Sussex UK
The Course


JOBS
MIG 'Testing and reporting engineer' (i.e.: phone testing monkey)
From October 2005 Through March 2006
London UK
  You all just wish you could work here.

Testing mobiles, a little messing about with a URL interface, all whilst laughing at all the morons who send in messages to an AUTOMATED system (what do they think 'your message was not recognised' means?).

The only place where you can get your boss blind drunk - literally.


Buzznet Intern
A few weeks in June/July '06
Los Angeles, California US
  Fun place, probably the only reason I started to post stuff. Great people to work with as well. I always felt like I wasnt doing enough work for some reason.


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