Some more things about me..
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I've only ever physically stolen one thing in my life..a jelly worm when I was about 9, from a Newsagents in East Hull (not the one my father now owns).
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"You're a very kind and wonderful person who is willing to help those in need." -- Andrea (after I somehow managed to miscount from #50 to #52..any wonder I failed A level maths?)
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I now only ever remember dreams on 2 occasions in my life, when I'm ill (fever dreams) and the other I'm not saying. The rest of the time I merely feel as if I've fallen into a deep black hole and somehow floated back up again (to me it as if I have no dreams, but obviously I do, I just no longer remember them).
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The greatest enemy I have in life is my own laziness and willingness to just let things pass me by without stress nor compassion. I hope to combat this demon..somehow.
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It was this very laziness which led to the downfall of the company (EternalServices) I used to run, in which enough was not done within time to meet a profit margin before our competitors did the very same things we would rely upon. Don't I suck?
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I once designed a computer based RPG, in the style of a classic side scroller, but with internet multiplayer capabilities, based on a mythos created (primarily by myself, for comic strips and other purposes) while working for the EternalKnights IRC network. It used a graphical engine that could be extended by the designer/programmer very easily and could dynamically generate in-game content when exceeding the original pre-set storyline/parameters; I was working on a network comms stack to allow the multiplayer element at the time before moving onto work more heavily on the webmail facilities at EternalServices.
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I used to work on the grammatical and lexical specifications for a language called NuBasic, based on the now dead RapidQ language (it's death was the very reason for NuBasic's birth, at the time titled NewBasic until an apparent name-clash was discovered with another longer standing project). I was also supposed to work on R&D for bytecode and interpreter, but always found myself with rarely enough time for my language definition duties let alone dev duties. It was at the time designed to be one of the easiest to use and yet fully OO-complete languages and environments around, like combining Smalltalk with BASIC and then chopping all the extra baggage off; after defining a good deal of the language, and the main developer coding up a basic interpreter, the project fell by the wayside and ultimately death-by-entropy after we all found we had more important matters at hand and even less time for a language that other people seemed to be dreaming up much better contemporaries to.
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I can't abide mushrooms. I find them to be one of the most vile "foods", if you can even call them that, on the planet.
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For many years I've had one of the most bizarre little eating habits, in that I can't stand gelatinous pieces or strips of fat attached to meat I'm eating, there was a time, which I refer to these days as my "spoilt little bastard" years, in that I would insist on all the fat being cut off before consumption. I'm definitely not proud of it, and when eating things like bacon I practically destroy the damn thing, but I think I'm better than I used to be.
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Although I don't really like to admit it, I have an addictive personality. Give me some pistachio nuts and I'll have them finished in another a minute, shelled and eaten faster than most people could consume a pre-shelled bag; I was a very bad chocoholic before being diagnosed of diabetes type I, and somewhat like alcoholics (but obviously in most cases with less severe effects) I will always be a chocoholic, a dangerous thing to be when you don't have any pancreas cells to call your own, and in fact to this day I run the risk of causing myself damage when left alone with quantities of chocolate. I already cause myself another damage drinking caffeinated drinks each day (because of the caffeine I suspect, but primarily because of damage to my teeth). It is because of my addictive personality that contributes to my not drinking (alcohol that is), in that I don't trust myself under the effects of a more powerful substance like alcohol (which would more than likely again lead to more complications with my diabetes); this, and I dislike the majority of alcoholic drinks, apart from Brennivin.
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This website has a dirty, dirty secret. Way back when, about 1999/2000, and I needed fast site design to stick up on
1stvamp.com, I used a particular, rather infamous, program to quickly draw up the design, and then proceeded to heavily edit the output code afterward. Yes, I admit it, that program was Microsoft Frontpage. The code has changed a lot, but the original design is still there (although I'm working on a new design).
And this is about where I ran out of ideas and decided to post what I had up to now..