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Pickwick's Papers
..notes from extinction
Permanent Account, Created on 19 September 2003 (#1335261), Last updated on 15 November 2010
- Name:
- Notes from extinction
- Birthdate:
- 16 January 1978
- Location:
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- External Services:
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- pickwick@livejournal.com
- pickwick@livejournal.com
- pickwicklet
- Schools:
- Marr College - Troon, Scotland - South Ayrshire, United Kingdom (1989 - 1995)Muirhead Primary - Troon, Scotland - South Ayrshire, United KingdomUniversity of Strathclyde - Glasgow, Scotland - Glasgow, United Kingdom (1995 - 1999)University of Paisley - Paisley, Scotland - Renfrewshire, United Kingdom (2000 - 2001)
- Interests: (150)
- academia, accents, action figures, alan cumming, alan rickman's voice, alyson hannigan, angel, anita blake, anthony stewart head, anthropomorphizing inanimate objects, apostrophes, as byatt, atheism, balderdash and piffle, battle royale, being a geek, being nocturnal, being right, belle and sebastian, billy connolly, books, boom-di-yada, both captain jacks, buffy the vampire slayer, chalet school, charlie brooker, chocolate, chrestomanci, christopher brookmyre, christopher eccleston, clerks, coffee, comics, commas, cultural literacy, cute geeks, cyberpunk, cynicism, danny wallace, dark and stormy nights, diana wynne jones, discworld, divine comedy, doctor who, dorothy l sayers, dorothy parker, douglas adams, duct tape, editing, english, escher, esoterica, ex libris, fairy tales, fan fiction, fantasy, firefly, gaming, geekery, glasgow, grammar, green & blacks, h.r.giger, half man half biscuit, harry dresden, hazelnut lattes, helen love, heroes, ian mckellen, individuality, intellectual snobbery, irn bru, jaffa cakes, jasper fforde, jeremy hardy, jim butcher, john cusack, johnny depp, kevin smith, laughing, libraries, linguistics, literature, living in the future, lord of the rings, lord peter wimsey, magic, mark thomas, media spin, michael marshall smith, mocking politicians, munchkin, musicals, mythology, neal stephenson, neil gaiman, nemi, nineties indie, not reading books, pedantry, philip pullman, pointless lj memes, procrastination, punctuation, qi, queen, queer as folk, quizzes, reading, rob gonsalves, rocky horror, roleplaying, rule 34, sandman, sapiosexuality, sarcasm, science fiction, scotland, shiny things, silliness, slash fiction, sleeping, socialism, someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet, spelling, spending money, spirited away, sporks, stephen fry, steven pinker, stompy boots, subtitles, subtitling, sumerian, terry pratchett, the english language, the high life, theory of religion, torchwood, trashy urban fantasy, trivia, tv as text, v for vendetta, veronica mars, victor and barry, voice recognition, watching-britain-slide-into-a-police state, wil wheaton, words, you
- Bio
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
- Ambrose Bierce
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Charles De Secondat
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist
but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats.
I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Neil Armstrong
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle
The Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
- William Gibson
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
- Chuck Palahniuk
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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