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The Non-natural interests of

- Fred Curtis

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 | 		"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."
       - Ogden Nash

Things which distract me from computers (contrary to expert advice) include - Origami, modern art, learning - Japanese & Mandarin, collecting silly - quotes and stories, pretending to - cook. I love to ride my - bicycle and I found my love in a grocery shop. A - programmer by trade, currently working at Optus (Internet), I live in - Sydney, - Australia. Raised a devout phaneromaniac, now a practising leucoderm and disciple of Ka-Ping Yee (inventor of MINSE), my chief religious beliefs involve - text editors, operating systems and the conviction that - Microsoft, Javascript, the <BLINK> tag etc are instruments of Xenu. Current goals are to obtain P-plates [Done! April 2005], to overcome my terror of - photocopying machines and to update my - CV.

- What I've Been Reading Lately

Currently reading:

  • Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word
  • Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh, Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics
  • Robert and Brenda Vale, Time to Eat the Dog?

Recently finished:

  • Feb 2010 - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials series: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
  • Feb 2010 - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife series: Vol 4 - Horizon
  • Jan 2010 - Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife series: Vol 1 - Beguilement, Vol 2 - Legacy, Vol 3 - Passage
  • Jan 2010 - Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff
  • Dec 2009 - Alan Coren, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks
  • Oct 2009 - Iain McCalman, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro [quotes]
  • Aug 2009 - Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background [quotes]
  • Aug 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones [quotes]
  • Aug 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, The World According to Bertie [quotes]
  • Jul 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland [quotes]
  • Jul 2009 - Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
  • Jul 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, Espresso Tales [quotes]
  • Jul 2009 - Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street [quotes]
  • May 2009 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Muscal Invective (2nd Edn.)
  • Apr 2009 - Greg Egan, Incandescence
  • Apr 2009 - Idan Ben-Barak, Small Wonders: How Microbes Rule Our World
  • Mar 2009 - Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [quotes]
  • Mar 2009 - Lee Smolin, The trouble with physics : the rise of string theory, the fall of a science, and what comes next

- What I've Been Writing Lately

- Exciting events in Fred's life

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  • Playing the computer game 'nethack' on a character-based terminal and sensing a room full of monsters which looked like:

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