Hello to you, intrepid sculler of profiles interminable. I was once told I have the second most annoying voice in the world. I hope you will not be similarly vexed by my written tirades

My name is Scott. I study software engineering at Heriot Watt university and have lived all my life in Falkirk (central Scotland).

You will have noticed I do 'nt type lk dis'. This is just raw personal preference, fractured English annoys me. Communication is a wondeful thing and people that put more effort into it instantly earn my respect

What sort of person am I?

Life is short. Everyone knows it but so many of us willfully fritter it away. For a year I worked in a local cafe. Every Sunday morning a woman came in with her husband and ordered toast. Every week I took her the toast and she had an expression of utmost boredom and thanked me in a voice completely devoid of life.

I never want to end up like that. Life is a great gift and its opportunities should be taken.

An acquaintance of mine once said of a girl "I've never met anyone that stupid, she's lucky she's hot"

I thought "Not really, it means people like you will treat her in that way"

Another friend showed me a picture of an attractive woman and rather crudely asked "wud ye?"

I said "I don't know - I don't know anything about her"

He didn't understand that answer. Perhaps my views are hopelessly out of touch but that is the way I view the world

I believe very strongly in people's ability to change their lives via the right attitude. That's not to say I buy into new-age 'cosmic ordering' or the like, I just firmly believe that people with more optimistic attitudes do better in challenging situations than pessimists

I'm an honest person. When I was entering my teens I was blunt and thought myself clever for it. Now I employ tact when appropriate but I still absolutely will not lie (or omit, or misrepresent) even when that makes my life more difficult than it otherwise would be

All sorts of things fascinate me. Psychology is an area that I find very interesting but perhaps only because I'm a layman. Some of the studies that have been done into human behaviour are incredible

I follow cricket, golf and football; mainly as an armchair fan but I enjoy going to matches too

I have a sense of humour which I like to think of as unusual and others have variously described as warped, non-existant and illegal

To me a significant other is someone you can be yourself around, someone that accepts you completely. They don't need to share all your interests or have all the same views as you but they embrace you wholeheartedly despite any differences. Someone that you would die for and someone that you want to live for. Someone that makes simple things like walking home on a dark winter's night a fun experience

I'm four and a bit years into a degree in Software Engineering. Next summer I will finish that and hopefully before then I'll figure out if I want to study for a phd or venture into the workplace.

Currently I'm in the process of learning to play golf

Another pet project of mine which I have been doing on and off for a few years is learning to have lucid dreams

In my younger years I did a lot of writing for fun. That has slipped away from me over time but I would really like to go back to it at some stage

Other than that I'm always looking to learn new things, see new places and meet interesting people

Most things academic, especially maths and science. I'm often called a bright spark but really I have just been fortunate enough to have a good memory.

I seem to have a knack for noticing things and putting connections together that my friends and family don't.

Probably that I haven't said much. I'm pretty quiet around people at first but I'll talk you to death once I've got warmed up

I haven't read as much recently as I'd like. Some of my favourite authors are Tolkien, Pratchett, Crichton and Cormier but really I'll read anything. Generally I read sci-fi/fantasy

Movies - Hard to pick out just a few but some that I like include Gladiator, The Shawshank Redemption, Borat, Crash and the Butterfly Effect

TV - In years gone by I've watched a lot of sci-fi, recently my favourite show has been House but I also like Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, The West Wing and Doctor Who

Music - I was a real latecomer to music and I'm still finding out exactly what my tastes are. I do enjoy Johnny Cash, Michelle Branch, Paul Potts, Hanna Pakarinen and Oasis. I recently discovered the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and I was blown away.

Food - I really enjoy food of all kinds, I go out of my way to try new things whenever I can. My particular favourites are mexican food and wild game

The internet. It's just such a powerful tool for communicating, shopping, banking, researching and entertainment that my life would definitely be less convenient without it

Something to occupy my mind. I get extremely restless if I've got nothing to work on for long periods of time. Learning new things is something I really enjoy whether it's useless trivia, hard science, history or pop culture

Friends and family. I think Bill Clinton said it best - "If we were the most beautiful, the most intelligent, the most wealthy, the most powerful person - and then found all of a sudden that we were alone on the planet, it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans"

Humour. What would life be worth if we could not laugh at ourselves and with our friends?

Imagination. As Einstein said, 'Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere.' I love sci-fi/fantasy TV/films/books, anything that gets you away from the mundane and lets you think about issues in isolation

Can there ever be peace in the middle east?

Why is everyone that drives behind me always in such a rush?

Why is everyone that drives in front of me always so slow?

What do people hope to achieve by raging at the poor people on check-in desks or the like?

In all seriousness I think about more or less everything - God, religion, politics, sport, who would win in a duel between Gandalf and Dumbledore. Some things I don't like to dwell on are whatever celebrity X is in the news for or who is the subject of the latest media witch hunt

Most likely at home, relaxing. Or possibly at the cinema or visiting a friend. If I can get a team together I love to enter quizzes

I'm not a great fan of crowded, noisy spaces full of drunken people trying to impress each other but occasionally I will be found in the pub.

I worry that I will always be alone

You are not looking for an average guy. You're not interested in the sort of person that happily boasts 'Last night I drank X units of alcohol, slept with Y women and that's only the half I remember.' You enjoy chatting about moral and philosopical conundrums and light hearted trivia equally

I'm happy to chat and get to know new people, even if that's as far it goes