Steve Crook

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Technology
Occupation Unoccupied, but I was a programmer once upon a time
Location United Kingdom
Introduction Old enough to be sceptical about promises made by people with power, young enough not be be sclerotic when it comes to new stuff. I spent 30 years programming computers, starting in the early eighties with COBOL and finishing with C# and too much to mention in-between.
Interests Films, Photography, Music, Reading mostly fiction, programming computers, general science and technology
Favorite Movies 2001, The Thing (the Carpenter remake), Singing In The Rain, White Christmas, What's Up Doc, Cyborg She, Spirited Away
Favorite Music Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Shpongle, Eat Static, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Ella Fitzgerald, Muse, Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac), Infected Mushroom
Favorite Books James Elroy, Elmore Leonard, Arthur C Clarke, Fred Pohl, Frank Herbert, Brian Stableford, Evelyn Waugh, Tim Powers, Terry Pratchett