User:El Pollo Diablo
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[edit] About me now
I am currently a PhD student at Loughborough University, in the East Midlands, UK. My research involves creating a tool which will allow the simulative analysis of reliability with a combination of Maintenance Free Operating Periods and Phased Missions. The simulation tool uses Petri nets to provide this. Hopefully I shall be finished by the end of 2007. This is debatable, as I do spent a rather inordinate amount of time flitting between this and the BBC News website.
I am engaged to be married. My fiancée, Christabel, lives in Chessington, Surrey and has just graduated in Fashion Merchandising Management.
[edit] Likes
- Cats
- The internet. It's amazing how much time can be wasted doing, well, nothing really.
- Computers
- Maths
- Programming
- Su Doku
- Spending time with Christabel
- Reading books. I'm into Pratchett, Tolkien and that school, but will also read pretty much anything anyone gives me. Recently this has included Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, and Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. I'm currently reading "A Darkness at Sethanon" by Raymond E. Feist, part of the Riftwar Saga.
- The films I'm into are pretty much anything except girly rom-coms. Horror, comedy (zany or straight-laced), action (although if these are too cheesy they tend to piss me off), and so on.
[edit] Dislikes
- People who walk slowly, taking up the entire pavement
- People who block the supermarket aisle with their trolley, either walking slowly or stopping to look at something
- Chavs
- Jade Goody
- Jennifer Lopez
- Smoking, especially people who socially smoke. It killed my dad, so I think I could be forgiven for this one
- Poodles
- Hairy baths
- Computers (depends what it's done to me)
- Tories
- Surrey
- Burnley
[edit] About me before
My upbringing is pretty much your standard male, middle-class, white upbringing. I am a Christian, and although I prefer not to give myself a denomination of this ('not Catholic or evangelical', generally), I currently go to a Church of England church.
I was brought up in Rossendale, Lancashire, and went to school at a mixed Grammar School in Waterfoot (Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School). I got my GCSEs, four A-levels and one AS-level before going to university in Loughborough to do a degree in Mathematical Engineering. I got a first-class honours in this and, having no particular clue what I was going to do afterwards, decided to do a PhD.
[edit] Things to do
- Unmerge and create Fault tree article
- Create Phased Missions article
- Possibly create MFOP article, depending on whether I can be arsed
- Sort out Sir Matt Busby article
- Help try to sort out Sir Alex Ferguson article.
[edit] Favourite Articles
This will increase as time goes on, its certainly not exhaustive...
