User:LorD

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I look more than a little bit like this.
I look more than a little bit like this.

The basics

This user is male.
This user is right-handed.
This user is a Virgo.
This user is owned by one or more cats.
This user is a musician.
This user plays the guitar.
This user is a synthesizer player.
This user has an iPod.
JK
This user plays the Jedi Knight series of games such as Jedi Outcast.

Language

en This user is a native speaker of English.
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/ two		 This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
.  The This user puts two spaces after a full stop.
they This user considers singular they standard English usage.
A, B and C This user prefers not to use the serial comma.
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

Socio-political stances

This user supports recycling.
This user believes in the separation of church and state.
This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one.
This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.
\sum This user is greater than the sum of his or her userboxes.
This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.*
This user identifies as gay but doesn't see it as a central part of his life.
I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.
ufo This user is a UFOian.

Contents

[edit] LorD

Hello and welcome.

Age: 26

Sex: Male

Location: Hastings, England

Interests: Life, travel, music, writing, photography and design, online gaming.

Occupation: Engineering works planner on the railway.

Marital status: Joined in civil partnership.

[edit] Travel

My partner and I have been to these places:

[edit] Music

I write and produce music with my partner under the name of SilverSpirit and have had works released commercially, most successfully for US electroclash duo, Dangerous Muse.

SilverSpirit work is very rewarding and outstandingly enjoyable; time never passes so quickly as when I'm writing or producing music. Though I've never had any real training in writing or producing, the organic learning approach seems to have done me well and since I've been playing keyboards since I was six and writing music since I was eight, I have a wealth of bad habits to draw from.

In terms of the music I like to listen to, I love the following acts:

[edit] Writing

I write a lot. Less than I used to, but nowadays I'm limited by not having a laptop and not being too comfortable writing on my PDA and Bluetooth keyboard on the train. I write a blog in irregular intervals on the SilverSpirit site's community area and have only recently stopped copying these articles over to our MySpace page and other community sites we've joined.

Whenever we travel, I write about our experiences, thoughts and feelings while abroad and publish them to various sites, though I do plan to combine them into one large travelogue novel. Maybe...

In writing, I'm a big fan of pedantry and go by the style guide of The Times and other books such as Mind the Gaffe and the mighty Bill Bryson's Troublesome Words. In my old job working in railway safety, I was responsible for copyediting reports to the government about certain accidents. For this purpose I sported my infamous Red Pen of Death...

[edit] Photography and design

An image for SilverSpirit.
An image for SilverSpirit.

I love photography. Sometimes I kick myself for not bringing my digital SLR with me when I go out just because I see something that would make a great picture.

I used to be very point-and-click about taking photographs, but now I'm more aware of how images can be digitally manipulated and so I can plan around that and take shots that are more set-up and deliberate. I'm in no way a professional photographer and my knowledge of the art extends no further than what I have discovered through experience and buying magazines on the subject, but I'm sure I'll get better as I go.

As for design, I'm so absorbed by the notion of design, how things are packaged and represented publicly; I'm fascinated with typeface and layout, how images fit into design and in that capacity, I happily supply most of the SilverSpirit design work myself, though I am limited by my abilities.

The SilverSpirit website itself was designed by me, however it's a little bit rubbish, to be honest and very simple indeed. I wish I had the technical knowledge to make my vision become a reality!

As an update to that, the new SilverSpirit site was designed by Rasoul Hudda of rasoulhudda.com and is jolly good.

I've recently been getting into using Joomla!-based software to create interactive community sites. It's really good because it's so easy to build a marvellous site. I just wish our database was quicker!

[edit] Online gaming

There's only one game for me: Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy multiplayer and on the United Force Order server.

A real blast.

My custom lightsabre hilt.
My custom lightsabre hilt.

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