1st thing: I make really long posts... sorry!
2nd thing: I'm sort of enthusiastic & outspoken ... sorry in advance for anything that might accidentally come out sounding like Gordon Ramsay on rocket fuel & offend some really nice person! (just in case)
I'm a caffeine addicted, atheistic Skeptic with a "mad scientist" INTJ personality type (or in Jung's words - a crank - thanks Carl.) When I am not here I hang out on another forum with fellow mad, cranky INTJs plotting world domination & discussing how we might actually get our heads out of lala land or science books for long enough to enact our evil plans. It has been rumoured that we are incapable of dressing ourselves in matching socks, absent-mindedly smack into walls every 5 minutes & are robots that do not have souls. That's rubbish. My matching socks have not been anywhere near a wall today... Full excuse for other absurd INTJ behaviour can be found here:
http://russellrowe.com/Myers-Briggs%20Typ
Location
In my own little world, but that's ok – they all know me here. (NB: You are currently talking to the first computer to pass the Turing Test - not a real human)
Interests
Reading, Turing Machines, computers, AI, robots, cryptography, science, psychology, writing lyric & poetry, photography, speaking German, sound engineering and songwriting. Playing chess and er... Star Munchkin! Attempting to play pretty much any sort of musical instrument with strings on or that you can beat the crap out of! Egg slicers and pots are good.
My fav thing: Recording studios. If the universe was one big recording studio it would be perfect. :-) Plans are afoot to build one with my fellow engineer friend in her future semi-underwater house which will have grass & cows on the roof & an entrance only accessible by submarine.... OK moral of this story is never leave two mad scientist types alone together in a room for more than half an hour!
Occupation
Cyberspace Mangler by day, Alien Hunter by night...
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
Life of Brian
Everything else by Monty Python
Richard Dawkins' stuff
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Apollo 13
Batman Begins
Spiderman
Indiana Jones
Instinct
Contact
Shrek
Ice Age
Monsters Inc
Madagascar (I like to move it, move it!...)
Star Trek
Favourite TV Shows
Myth Busters
Big Bang Theory
Chuck
Two and a Half Men
Top Gear
Flight of the Conchords
NCIS
anything with Michael Palin, Gene Simmons or Gordon Ramsay in it.
Favourite Books
Jung, Einstein, Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Stephen Hawking, Douglas Adams type stuff etc & any other cool science, or psychology books. And Wikipedia. Actually, I will read pretty much anything except bills.
Currently reading "The God Delusion" & "Greatest Show" by Richard Dawkins, "Without Conscience" by Robert Hare, "Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter & "New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram. I don't read much...
Muse Releases Owned
Resistance, Hallaballo DVD,Absolution, HAARP, Absolution Tour DVD, Black Holes, SHOWBIZ, Origin of S... (and soon anything else I haven't got yet)...
Muse Concerts Attended / Attending
I live at the bottom of the world on an island so don't think it's very likely I will be going to any Muse gig in the near future!