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My self-summary Propose an edit

I like my friends a lot. I love reading books, obsessing over TV and reading comics. Dancing is fun sometimes. I like the first beer after a hard days work. I need to be challenged. I don't travel enough. I think my hair is cool when I'm drunk.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I'm about to start work at a big, scary, possibly evil investment bank in month doing maybe-nefarious things with computers. It's my third job in the two years since I left university - I get bored easily.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Recommending books and films and TV. Listening. Dancing with the upper half of my body. Making technology work. Making unnecessary purchases from the interweb.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

My dorky t-shirt. It usually has a hilarious visual pun or bad in-joke on it. Several people have independently commented on my lego-man-like hair.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

Books:
Revelation Space, Diaspora, Foundation, Stories Of Your Life And Others, Scott Pilgrim, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Accelerando, Black Juice
Anything by: Alfred Bester, Justina Robson, Geoff Ryman, Charlie Stross, Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, Haruki Murakami, Douglas Coupland

I usually stick to SF but I'm trying to branch out a little. Book recommendations are *always* much appreciated.

Movies:
Blade Runner, Gattaca, Tom Yum Goong, Hard Boiled, Star Trek 2, Blues Brothers

Music:
Johnny Cash, Stars, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Martha Wainwright, Barry White, Everlast, The Album Leaf, Tangerine Dream, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, M83, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, The Pipettes, The Bad Plus, The Black Keys, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Meat Loaf, Leonard Cohen, Charlie Parker, The Postal Service, Bic Runga, Mates of State, The Editors, The Magnetic Fields, Regina Spektor

Food:
Fish and chips, Pad thai, Yorkshire pudding and sushi.

I can't believe there's not a category for TV:
Babylon 5, Arrested Development, 24, Alias, Trailer Park Boys, Boston Legal, Family Guy, Veronica Mars, Prison Break, House, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, My Name is Earl, Cheers, Frasier, Weeds, Firefly, Doctor Who, Ultraviolet, Desperate Housewives, The X-Files, Robot Chicken, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Angel, Paranoia Agent, Kure Kure Takora, Densha Otoko, Spaced, Black Books, Brass Eye, Peep Show, Absolute Power, Spooks, The Grid, Eyes, Futurama, The Shield, Wonderfalls, Jack Of All Trades, Invader Zim, Neon Genesis Evangelion, West Wing, The Show with Ze Frank, Deadwood, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Heroes, Dexter, 30 Rock, The Wire, Ghost In The Shell, Psych, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Wire, Sports Night, Biffovision, Pushing Daisies, How I Met Your Mother, Flight of the Conchords, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Leverage, Burn Notice

It's possible I watch too much TV.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Friends! Awesome 7 year old X-Files T-shirt that doesn't fit! Slightly battered Macbook! Piles of unread but intriguing books! Awesome futurephone on which I can browse Facebook while on the loo! Friends again, because they're pretty cool.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

TV. How broken something is, and how can I fix it. How awesome it would be if I could be an astronaut. Whether I'm cool enough to wear a jaunty hat regularly. What's for dinner.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Out drinking heavily as a prelude to dancing like there's no-one watching. Or obsessively watching a whole season of something good on TV while munching crunchy cornflakes. And of course making video game characters run round and round in circles until my flatmates punch me.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I think that the maths poem in Harold and Kumar Go To Guantanamo Bay is really sweet.

You should message me if Propose an edit

You've got a book recommendation. Or you have an opinion about jaunty hats, or jauntiness in general. Or if you're as obsessed by a word like 'jaunty'.

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