(From Dodgeblogium)
Seven Things That Make Me Laugh:
- This is Spïnal Tap
- Anything with John Cleese
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
- A Very Peculiar Practice
- Drop The Dead Donkey
- Steve Jacksons Games satirical card games; expecially Chez Geek.
- St Gargoyles from the Church Times
Seven Things I Love:
- Cornwall
- Switzerland
- Locomotives with English Electric power units and no wussy silencers
- N-Gauge (Or N-scale for left-coasters)
- Prog-rock
- Cats
- Human-moderated Roleplaying games
Seven Things I Loathe
- Drive-by comments trolls
- Spam (the junk email, not the processed meat)
- The English music-press establishment, lead by the NME
- All shades of knee-jerk ideologues, regardless of political stripe.
- The privatisation and fragentation of British Rail
- Virgin Voyagers
- The dice-pool mechanism used in Deadlands
Seven Things on my Desk
- Sony VAIO Laptop Computer
- This month’s edition of Modern Railways
- Several CD-Roms of photos from my Swiss visit which I haven’t got round to uploading onto the web yet.
- A biro
- “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” by Dream Theater.
- Some Fudge dice which are trying to remind me my PBeM GM posts are overdue.
- Glass of Stella Artois
Seven Facts About Me
- I was born in a room overlooking the Great Western Main Line
- Have a degree in Computer Science from the University of Reading
- Started blogging in March 2002
- Am a blogchild of Bruce Baugh and Anne Blaeske
- Have met about eight other bloggers in person
- Have met more than thirty oneline roleplayers in person
- Have voted at least once for every significant political party (except for the neo-fascist ones)
Seven Things I Can Do
- Normalise relational databases (it says so on my CV!)
- Gamesmaster RPGs both on-line and face-to-face
- Keep a PBeM running for more than seven years
- Name all the class 50s locomotives, in order
- Draw (except for people)
- Assemble simpler etched brass wagon kits.
- Live without a car.
Seven Things I Can’t Do
- Speak any foreign language (as opposed to computer languages)
- Understand the appeal of Pop Idol
- Live in an American suburban sprawl
- Eat Pizza (damned allergies)
- Tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi
- Put together Parkwood Models clayhood kits and get the chassis square.
- Utter the word “Nebulosity” at work.
Seven Famous People I Want to Meet
- Rick Wakeman
- Chris Green of Virgin Trains (and ask him “Those Voyagers, what were you thinking?)
- Sir David Steel
- Archbishop Rowan Willams
- Iain Banks
- Ronnie Dio
- Buck Dharma
Seven Albums People Should Give a listen
- Jon Lord – Sarabande
- Spock’s Beard – Beware of Darkness
- Marillion – Anoraknophobia
- Dream Theater – Scenes from a Memory
- Tommy Bolin – Private Eyes
- Anathema – Judgement
- Uriah Heep – Sea of Light
