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http://your.website@url.co.uk |
| Birthday |
8 May 1987 |
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Room 601, Deck 10, U.S.S. Enterprise D. |
| Interests |
50,000 characters, that's a lot. I might as well use them.
Well, lets see... I'm like doing technical drawings, mostly freehand, but occasionally with rulers, et cetera. I draw engines and machines of various descriptions, mostly of my own design, but sometimes of machines that already exist. I have been compared to W. Heath-Robinson on more than one occasion. I'm interested in electronics, and I have built some marvellous machines, relying on the versitility of the humble relay. I have built an arc radio transmitter, who's design dates back to the late 19th centry, an Audio Tape Interface Unit for my Nipkow (pronounced "Nipkov") Six Motion Picture camera (something vaguely resembling a video camera), a computer made from clocks, and various meters and power supplies. I like analougue meters, Valves(Rule), picture tubes and switches (not push-switches though).
I like big lumps of metal that move very quickly, like big steam engines (especially beam engines - the Grand Junction 90' at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum is a good example of this), church bells (which I have recently discovered are far more complicated than at first thought. Did you know, for instance that, unlike a guitar in which successive harmonics are multiples of the fundemental frequency, a bell's harmonics, or partials as they are properly called, are not multiples of any frequency), and the railway.
I also take a passing interest in campinology (as I have already written about), psychology (did you know, for instance, that making mistakes while copying text is nothing to be shamed of. Your brain doesn't say "this first letter's an A, so I'll write an A, the next letter's an N, so I'll write an N". Instead, it says "this first word is ANIMAL, so I'll write ANIMAL". But if you don't know how to spell Animal, then you won't copy it correctly, unless you make a concious decision to copy the word letter-by-letter.) and archaeology (I like watching television programmes like "Time Team" and ", well that's just about the only archaeology programme I enjoy much.
Anyway, I've done a lot of writing, let's see how many characters I used...
2141! Is that all?!
Oh well, I'll write some more (oh please no!). I'm currently writing a nonsense text called "Anti-Bordem Referrals" (yes I know that's not spelled correctly, but I didn't know that when I started it, back in late 2000) which is really very long indeed. Most of it I did between academic years 9 and 11, but I did a fair amount in years 12 and 13, but not a lot afterward, even though I have a lot of time which I should be using for looking for jobs.
I collect cathode-ray tubes - you know, television tubes, valves, Vacuum Florescent Displays, neon lamps, graphecons, that sort of thing - and occasionally use them. I have built a power supply that uses two valves for the D.C. rectifier - not that D.C. needs rectifying, but you know what I mean. I have also built an oscilloscope out of a monochrome (that's black-and-white, although they also show shades of grey - hey, Shades of Grey is an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation) television.
Still only 3133 characters? I'd better write some more. Don't what to waste any of this space.
I write computer programs on my B.B.C. Master 128 Microcomputer, an example of which is one of the photographs at the top of this page that you are reading now. As well as giant cocks, I have written an operating system, several programs for doing clever things with the computer's relay, and all of the graphics for the General Look-Up Compilation were done on that computer, except the ANIMATION and MIXER entries. Oh, have I told you about the General Look-Up Compilation, I don't think so, so I shall tell you.
It's a bit like an audio-visual dictionary. For example, it tells you about the first steam engine. You don't have to imagine the steam going through the pipes, and the valves moving, because you can see it all happening on the screen, and explaining itself as it goes. If you've seen the 1981 (since repeated numerous times) television series of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the Guide entries such as Vogon Constructor Fleets and Babel Fish, then this is roughly what the G.L.-U.C. looks like, but most of the entries (there are more than 40 of them) are about real things. It's available on both Video and D.V.D.
Oh, by the way, I'm actually a hot sex machine who goes commando most of the time, likes wearing jumpsuits, and playing Hand-Cuff Me To The Bed And Tickle Me Senseless.
Still only 4544 characters? Well, I'd better write some more, hadn't I. I have a hobby in electronics, and I've recently built a machine that generates the Morse code of the letter that you press on the keyboard, so if you press the letter "A" then it goes "click click... click...... click", but those "cl"s look like they're a "d" so it looks like "dick", which it isn't. Anyway, it's very complicated and I've called it the 8-30 Telegraph Computer, although strictly speaking it isn't actually a computer because it doesn't actually compute, but it does have R.A.M., R.O.M., a keyboard, a clock and a main bus which can be both written to and - get this, AND - read from. The 8 is because the main bus has eight lines, and the 30 is because it has thirty combinations of dots and dashes that it can produce (the letters A to Z (pronounced "zed") and four combinations not used in the Morse code). Anyway, that's all from that, and now I'm just going to mumble on and on and on about apsolutly nothing in particular except the fact that I'm mumbling on and on and on about apsolutly nothing in particular. That's quite a frequent quote from Anti-Bordem Referrals. |
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