culture data repository | Questionnaire: Paul Morrison

Your name	Paul Morrison
Occupation	Programmer and general IT person.
Where d'ya live?	Cape Town, South Africa
Education / research	Primary school. High School. Technikon. Bachelors Degree in Information Technology.
How did you hear about the List?	Searched for one Mr. Banks on the web, and found the website that changed my life (I did not say it changed for the better).
Favourite kids' TV prog	Never get a chance to watch kiddies tv.
Think this list should stay more 'on topic'?	Not really.
Fancy a get together? Suggestions?	Sure! I will let you folks know when I am in your general area. A possibility in the next few years.
Favourite drink	Natural: Grape Juice. Fizzy: Lemon Twist. Alcoholic: Savannah Cider.
Books \| Preferred Genre	Primarily SF and fantasy, with a close 3rd being books on various biological/astronomical stuff.
Books \| Best book ever	I refuse to limit myself to a single book, especially considering that a favourite would be different depending on what mood I am in.
Books \| Best Banks (mainstream / non-sf)	Espedair Street
Books \| Best Banks (sf)	Consider Phlebas
Favourite films	Terminator 2; Reservoir Dogs; The Professional (Leon); Heat; Twelve Monkeys; Monty Python's The Life Of Brian; Contact; Fight Club; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Memento; etc etc.
Favourite music	Mostly Hard-rock, metal, etc. Basically anything except: C&W; RnB; Dance; Boy Bands etc.
Favourite deviant practice	Watching four movies (in a theatre) in a single day, normally together with a different person for each movie.
Favourite Banks line	That bit in Excession that describes most civilizations meeting an excession in the same way as a sentence meets a full stop.
Favourite Banks scene	The Killing Time's attack on the Affront fleet in Excession. The Clear Air Turbulence leaving it's repair bay in Consider Phlebas. The bit in Inversions (spoiler alert!) where the doctor escapes from the dungeons. And lots, lots more.
Do you preach Banks to your mates?	Yes.
If so, how many converts?	About two or three casual converts.
Favourite gland (from a Banks book)	Sharp Blue.
If you could design a custom drug gland, what would it be?	Chocolate!
Sexual orientation and/or sheep joke	Boringly heterosexual
Religious beliefs	None. If you have to classify me then it would be atheist.
Particularly despised religious viewpoint/religion	Thought control. The indoctrination that disputing the religious
Closest political affiliation	Whoever seems to be making the most sense at the moment.
Political Compass score (see here)	Economic left/right: -4.38 Authoritarian/Liberal: -5.9
Photo	http://users.iafrica.com/p/pf/pfm/me.jpg
Description	183cm tall, 87kg. Dark hair (starting to get too thin for comfort) cut shortish. Will start shaving head in the next year or two. Normally a bit stubbly (the rest of my face) as I only shave a couple of times a week. Normally in a very jovial mood. Somewhat introverted at first, but after I have known you for a year or two you will discover just how much fun I am to be with.
Other hobbies	Reading. Watching movies. Listening to music. Computer games. Buying too many books. Basking in the adoration of my friends. Flirting (unsuccessfully). Creating the impression that I am intelligent, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Pets	None at the moment, but I do seem to be taking care of my brother's fish more than he does. Still planning on getting a pet snake Real Soon Now (TM). Think of the pickup lines I can use in clubs! (Wanna come back to my place and see my snake? - Bound to work every time!)
Other people you live with	Parents. None of the women I have asked will let me live with them.
What you live in	House in Table View, a suburb north of Cape Town proper. It has a very good view of Table Mountain, so I wonder why they called it Table View...?
Anything else interesting you want to tell us?	There may be children on the list, so I cannot divulge that information.

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