Name, Rank, and Number..

Name

Derek Mahony B.F. B.Sc.

Born

May 1949

Home

North Somerset, England

Occupation

Retired (which turns out to be a full-time job)

Previous Ways of Earning a Crust

Electronics Engineer, Trials Engineer, Systems Engineer, Real Time Software Engineer

My favourite things.. a random selection..

Authors

Terry Pratchett, Tom Sharpe, Roald Dahl, Spike Milligan, Jasper Fford, Alan Bennett, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel

Favourite Books

Anything by Terry Pratchett, The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, The Beiderbecke Trilogy by Alan Platter, The Magic Roundabout Noisy Book...

Music

- a quick scan of the CDs (yes, I still use those) shows:

Pink, Björk, Garbage, Skunk Anansie, Laurie Anderson, Annie Lennox, The Last Dinner Party, Sinead O'Connor, Alanis Morrisette, Alisha's Attic, Catatonia, Anastasia, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Texas, Florence and the Machine (..do you spot a common thread here?) Eurythmics, Gus Gus, JJ Cale, ZZ Top, Doors, Hendrix, Nilsson...

All time favourites: White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics, Light My Fire by the Doors, anything by Pink and Garbage

Films

Dark Star, UHF, Close Encounters, The Blues Brothers, Dogma, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cabaret, V for Vendetta

TV

Most TV gets the "I can read the news or bluesky while they're on" treatment but a few exceptions are..

serious science, technology, and nature programmes (not the gee-wizz ones), series 1 of some detectivey programmes (before they get silly and illogical), The Big Bang Theory, Only Connect, QI..

Past favorites: Magic Roundabout, Rugrats, The Beiderbecke Series, Brass, Only Fools, Men Behaving Badly, Coupling, Blake's Seven (they don't make scenery like that any more), Two Pints, How I Met Your Mother, The Detectorists..

Interests..

Computing, photography, animal CCTV, graphical doodling,3D printing, weather station, maintaining the Bath & Wells MU web site,

Dislikes..

ranging from boring to abhorrent..

Sport, politics, sport, interviewers who don't listen!, sport, most game shows, all reality shows, did I mention sport?