View from the Solent
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | throwing sand in the wheels of the state |
| Location | Portsmouth, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Aged, Part cheesehead, Forgotten more about computer hardware and software than most people will learn, To stop my brain turning to custard and leaking from my ears, studied for a degree in pure maths and theoretical physics, And then just kept going as it is too fascinating to stop. |
| Interests | Trying to decide whether to laugh or cry, Drinking beer (& gin & scotch & the juice of the pinot noir from Bourgogne), Appreciating women, FC Ajax and de Oranje, Looking at bodies of water- streams-rivers-canals-sea, Happy as a pig in shit with my view of the IoW & Portsmouth harbour mouth, Ordnance (or bigger). |
| Favorite Movies | Of all the gin joints in all the towns ...., Leon, The third man, Josey Wales |
| Favorite Music | The best rock'n roll band in the world. Kief kicks arse, Mozart, Melissa Etheridge, Miles Davis, Bessie Smith, Phoebe Snow, Ella, Sinatra |
| Favorite Books | Time enough for love (R A Heinlein), Discourse on metaphysics (G W Leibniz), Lectures on physics (R P Feynman), Brilliant orange (D Winner), The catcher in the rye (J D Salinger), A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch (A Solzhenitsyn), Up Pompey (C Culpepper), etc. etc. etc. ... |
The hair from your last haircut ... what would it say about your new style?
Hair?