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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Research Funding Guru
Location Bristol, United Kingdom
Introduction My stalled academic career has turned into a life of commuting to Swindon (yuk!) while remembering how nice it was to work in the same city you live in. I spend my time trying to fit in enough sleep to remain barely functional at work, around the more important activities of bringing up two tiny nerds, and finding time for my nerdy hobbies.
Interests Academic: History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Design Domestic: Food and Drink, esp. cocktails and mixology, Reading, the Danish concept of Hygge Nerd Stuff: Boardgames, RPGs esp Dungeons and Dragons, Oldhammer, Star Wars
Favorite Movies Rain Man, The Usual Suspects, Fist of the North Star, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, The Dark Crystal, The Lost Boys, The Breakfast Club, Clerks, Pump Up the Volume, Point Break, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, The Browning Version. TV: The Wire, Lost, 24, Spooks, Spaced, Black Books, The Green Wing, Kitchen Confidential, Agatha Christie's Poirot, The League of Gentleman, Inside No.9, Sherlock.
Favorite Music Increasingly eclectic, and often themed around whatever nerdy activity I'm taking part in, but I still love electronica of all sorts, from the ambient to the hardcore. I'm slowly coming round to folk, but I still don't like Jazz, so don't try and make me.
Favorite Books The Lord of the Rings, The Belgariad and The Mallorean, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Disc World, The Forgotten Realms, The Drenai Novels, Harry Potter, The Horus Heresy, Montaillou, The Cheese and the Worms

You're trapped in a well with a goat and a slinky. Describe how you will escape.

Oh dear! poor goat - I kill it and extract the bezoar stone from its stomach - I use the metal slinky to scratch a series of mystic runes on the well walls before using the goat's entrails to cast an augary - if the portents are good I cast a levitation spell and float out of the well.