Tall Paul (TP) Real Name:  Paul Age:  32 Resides:  Teesside, England Occupation:  Software developer for a telecoms co: www.teleware.com

Favorite website(s):
The Register

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
What is a book?
You think I get out to the movies?
I don't have a TV. (This is true) 

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Ricochet Robots the board game, or www.ricochetrobot.com every day.

What are you playing and working on right now:
Various codec plugins for our pure IP telephony platform.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Juggle Saver.

What's so special about your computer (room):
It has real people in it.

How many computers do you have:
IBM T22 flaptop (Main machine; I used to say no-one would ever need more than 128MB but I must confess since moving from pine and w3m to kmail and firefox I have bought an extra 128MB for it) Other PC spec similar to the above. Amiga1200 + 68030-68881 accelerator & 20MB hard disc.

What was your first computer:
ZX-Spectrum.

Geekiest moment of your life:
Resurrecting my Amiga so that I could use it as a VT100 terminal off the back of my PC.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When people started describing things that were really cool as 'sad'

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
You're assuming I notice when people don't understand.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
I set the default email for my wife to "the sexy blond one". For some reason she used pine instead of kmail to apply for a job; the default would not have applied if only she'd used what she'd always used. You can guess the embarrassment and pain that ensued.

What is your favourite quote:
"On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive." - ESR

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
vi, everyone would love me.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Juggle/Unicycle, Play Ricochet Robots.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
5 minutes into the future, with an atomic clock. Just to prove it worked.