About me/the site

What sort of stuff do you post about?

Why not have a look…? No? Ok, well I’m interested in a lot of stuff and I repost things I think are interesting, unusual, fun, right, wrong, all sorts. Sometimes it’s a straight relink, sometimes I’ll throw in my own thoughts.

You’ll find (amongst others) posts about Star Wars, kittens, Mario, beatboxing, astrophysics, medicine, Kuniyoshi, jug bands, Fleischer animation, neuroscience, Batman, westerns, the Apocalypse, Charlie Brown, time, pilish, Philip K Dick, Venn diagrams, zombies, grammar, Warren Zevon, pancakes, Count Duckula, Team Fortress 2, powered exoskeletons, der Wolpertinger, My Little Pony, Bruce Springsteen, Granny Weatherwax and the Higgs Boson. But there’s lots more too, seriously, you should just go and have a read.

What’s with the symbol/logo at the top of your site?

It’s a monogram using the letters M and A (more observant readers will have realised that those aren’t my initials). It comes from a nickname I had at University, the name is all but gone now but I always liked the monogram, maybe because it looks a little like a torii at the foot of a mountain.

For those who are interested the A is from Albrecht Dürer‘s monogram, the M is my own.

I thought you were getting your friends to write this page for you?

I was, and in fact some of them did but I figured I should probably write some of it too. Here’s what they had to say:

Justin

Half monkey, half geek he’s more machine now than man, twisted and evil. A prodigious DVD purchaser and alphabetiser, cat lover, tall and hairy like an eloquent Chewbacca, the person you invite on to your pub quiz team, capable of very acerbic put-downs, artistic and/or autistic, likely to know all the words to that obscure song you just thought of.

Alexis

A little strange but you make a wicked chocolate cake.

This description actually came about when I said to Lex that she should tell this girl I fancy at work that I’m pretty awesome (should the opportunity present itself) to which she said, “I might go for the honesty policy and tell her that you are…”

Kate

Kind, generous and a bit of a geek (but in a good way)

Kate wins the prize for the nicest answer