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padi

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Gender

Male

Date of Birth

1957-06-21

About Me

Tall interesting guy with a bit of a passion for doing stuff on computers so long as it doesn’t involve Windows!

Country

United Kingdom

City

Caerdydd/Cardiff

UK County

Glamorgan / Morgannwg

Marital status

Single

Sexual orientation

Straight

Education

Undergraduate degree

Children

No

Smoke

No

Drink

Yes

Favourite season

Autumn

Political opinion

Far left

Favourite books

Too many to list – I have a large, and growing personal library!

Favourite TV shows

I love the two hospital soaps, Casualty and Holby City, but apart from that, I also enjoy Scandi Noir and other crime series from outside of the UK that appears on BBC 4. I also enjoy ‘home grown’ crime series such as The Fall and The Missing.

Favourite films

Like with books – far too many to list. But if it’s Hollywood it’s unlikely that I’ll be interested. However, I’m never one to throw the baby out with the bathwater, (and I reckon that something like 95% + of stuff made in Hollywood is less interesting than bathwater) and will happily watch films that manage to get past the censor who shelves anything that would excite anyone more than brain dead!  I like European movies, tend to dislike anything that is too sentimentally romantic. I watch a lot of movies, as I have a projector that can throw a huge 720p picture onto my living room wall so I get a real home cinema experience.

Favourite music

Aas with films and books, I have a wide taste in music. It ranges from trashy pop to classical music, with pretty much all genres in between.

Favourite quotes

“WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.”

Leisure – W.H. Davies.

Religious beliefs

I’m an extreme agnostic – pretty much an athiest, and am in agreement with Karl Marx about it being the opiate of the people. (Though X Factor and the like are the modern equivalent.)

Hobbies and interests

As I mentioned above, I like to do things with computers. I build them, install operating systems on them and I use them to run server software so that I can create (hopefully) interesting 3D virtual worlds that people can visit. I use Open Simulator software to do this.+

I’m also starting to create artwork using my computer, it’s early days, but I’m starting to get into it.