Who the hell are you people?? :)
Dec. 16th, 2003 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyI want to know more about the people who read my journal. Those of you who feel that I already know you well are not exempted from answering :)
I would like you to provide some or all of the following: your name, your age, your occupation/studies, your living arrangements, what makes you tick, what you're into, what labels (or lack thereof) you might use to sum up your existence... amusing quirky factoids appreciated, but not essential.
Idea stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jinxremoving's journal, after it goaded me into providing a rather longer answer than I originally intended.
My reply went like this:
My name is Denny, and I'm 30 years old.
I'm currently unemployed due to injury but I'm usually a computer programmer (mostly web-related software development). I did a BSc in Computing as a nominally mature student, finishing a few years ago - I graduated first class with honours, which is without doubt the single biggest achievement of my life (I failed half my GCSes and all 4 of my A levels, mostly due to not being all that interested at the time). After that I worked at Cambridge Uni for a bit doing AI research, which was a lot more interesting than web development but a lot less rewarding financially, hence my current work - at present, I feel I get more fun out of having money at the weekends than I would out of enjoying the weekdays. This may change again in a few years.
I live alone in a sadly cliched semi-detached 2 bedroom house in a quiet cul-de-sac in Milton Keynes, but I'm hoping to move to London as soon as I can find work there - I want to live nearer to Torture Garden and the other big fetish clubs, and make the most of my 30s as my 20s were a bit quiet.
I'm lazy in an applied kind of way sometimes, and in a life-destroying kind of way at other times. My life philosophy is definitely hedonistic - as far as I'm concerned, I'm here to have fun - all else is based around that premise.
Despite that, I seem to get involved in political activism quite a lot, first with relation to legislation concerning motorcyclists, then moving on to 'net and privacy related issues. I also did as much as I could in the anti-war stuff recently, including being in the biggest London march, messy bit at the end and all. I guess I'm just not very good at turning the other cheek when I feel my lifestyle is being threatened by legislation etc, and I seem to perceive these threats at a longer range than many of my friends.
I'm happy to be labelled, these are some of the ones that spring to mind: geek, biker, metaller/goth/raver, fetishist. There are undoubtedly more, I don't kid myself that I'm particularly unique in any aspect of my life.
Quirky factoid: erm... I currently have two titamium plates and 14 screws in my right shin after a car pulled out in front of me and my motorbike. Does that count as quirky?
I would like you to provide some or all of the following: your name, your age, your occupation/studies, your living arrangements, what makes you tick, what you're into, what labels (or lack thereof) you might use to sum up your existence... amusing quirky factoids appreciated, but not essential.
Idea stolen from
jinxremoving's journal, after it goaded me into providing a rather longer answer than I originally intended.My reply went like this:
My name is Denny, and I'm 30 years old.
I'm currently unemployed due to injury but I'm usually a computer programmer (mostly web-related software development). I did a BSc in Computing as a nominally mature student, finishing a few years ago - I graduated first class with honours, which is without doubt the single biggest achievement of my life (I failed half my GCSes and all 4 of my A levels, mostly due to not being all that interested at the time). After that I worked at Cambridge Uni for a bit doing AI research, which was a lot more interesting than web development but a lot less rewarding financially, hence my current work - at present, I feel I get more fun out of having money at the weekends than I would out of enjoying the weekdays. This may change again in a few years.
I live alone in a sadly cliched semi-detached 2 bedroom house in a quiet cul-de-sac in Milton Keynes, but I'm hoping to move to London as soon as I can find work there - I want to live nearer to Torture Garden and the other big fetish clubs, and make the most of my 30s as my 20s were a bit quiet.
I'm lazy in an applied kind of way sometimes, and in a life-destroying kind of way at other times. My life philosophy is definitely hedonistic - as far as I'm concerned, I'm here to have fun - all else is based around that premise.
Despite that, I seem to get involved in political activism quite a lot, first with relation to legislation concerning motorcyclists, then moving on to 'net and privacy related issues. I also did as much as I could in the anti-war stuff recently, including being in the biggest London march, messy bit at the end and all. I guess I'm just not very good at turning the other cheek when I feel my lifestyle is being threatened by legislation etc, and I seem to perceive these threats at a longer range than many of my friends.
I'm happy to be labelled, these are some of the ones that spring to mind: geek, biker, metaller/goth/raver, fetishist. There are undoubtedly more, I don't kid myself that I'm particularly unique in any aspect of my life.
Quirky factoid: erm... I currently have two titamium plates and 14 screws in my right shin after a car pulled out in front of me and my motorbike. Does that count as quirky?
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Date: 2003-12-17 02:18 am (UTC)I mostly listen to things I bought 5-10 years ago - I do sometimes buy new things but it takes a while to filter into my list of things which i feel the *need* to play.
I tend to be minding my own business, and i'll suddenly get an urge to listen to a particular album by a particular band, and I have to listen to it. The sometimes i'll think of something else which would go with it,or sometimesthat would seem a bit of an anticlimax, so i sit in silence for a bit.
I never put my music on as background music to work or talk over. normally I can't even concentrate on reading if there is anything decent on, i have to keep putting hte book down to listen properly. About the only thing i can do is draw.
And the music that I get like that about spans ministry to Patty Smith to the Dwarves to Tori Amos. oddly I don't ever get the urge to listen to EBM, although that is what is mostly played at the clubs I go to. Every so often I will maage to drag my friends to somewhere which plays terrible glam metal like Poison and Motley Crue, and i'll be happy, but it doesn't happen often.