Nick / Gaming Handle: Adso / "The Great Gonzo"

Birthday: September 22nd (same as Bilbo Baggins)

Born: Berkeley, CA, USA

Supports: Wales (Rugby), Forty-Niners, and ahem ... Manchester United

Favorite Food: I'm an admitted Pizzaholic but I'm seeking help

Favorite Beverages: Becks, Bass, Boddingtons or a Rocket Beer...

Favorite Toy: Gee ... either 3ds Max, or my Wacom tablet

First Computer: A Sinclair Spectrum with 48K and rubber keyboard :)

Current Computer: Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz with 2GB of RAM

Favorite PC Games: Half-Life, Quake Arena, Red Alert, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Max Payne, Battlefield 1942, RTCW

Favorite Music: "Electronica" or European trance - Paul Oakenfold, Seb Fontaine, Pete Tong, Paul Van Dyk, Chemical Brothers, Leftfield. Also partial to Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers (that's the welsh connection!), Space, The Verve

Favorite Movies: Fifth Element, Star Wars (the old ones!), Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Usual Suspects, City of Lost Children, and pretty much anything CGI animated

Favorite TV: I grew up on a diet of British telly so ... Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Black Adder, The Prisoner, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers. Also Babylon 5, Star Trek, Six Feet Under.

Favorite Authors: Iain M. Banks, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Paul Theroux, P.J. O'Rourke, William Gibson, Peter F. Hamilton

Artistic Inspirations: Hergé, Ralph McQuarrie, Katsuhiro Otomo, Ansel Adams, Gerald Scarfe, Ron Smith, Carlos Ezquerra, Kevin O'Neill, Colin Wilson, Dave Gibbons, Cam Kennedy... the list is endless.

Other Interests: 3d of any description, fantasy art and comics, industrial design and architecture, computers and techy stuff, travelling, scuba diving, Marine fishies, skiing, cycling

Obscurest Claim to Fame: No crap - I found out the other day that my mom used to baby-sit the current US president George W. Bush. I keep begging her to spill the dirt on him but she just won't tell me squat (otherwise I'd be the U.S. "Secretary of Beer" by now...)