About The Author

Welcome to tmSd, the blog with flavour.

You have no idea what you’re in for.

If you’re on this page, I commend you. It means you’ve shown more than a superficial glance at this website before sighing and clicking that little arrow on the WordPress toolbar, leaving nothing but a +1 pageview in my stat-graph.

This page is entitled About The Author for a reason. While there are a handful of people without whom TMSD simply could not exist, I’m the only one who actually does any writing around here.

Hence, this website is a document of my opinion.

Now to start on the actual description of the author.

My name is James Plant. I am a male  secondary school student from north-west England in the United Kingdom. I own far too many computers for my own good – because I never throw anything away – and I am a massive fan of Linux, in particular the Ubuntu distribution.

Seeing as I never read anyone’s About Me page due to the phenomenon known as “I can’t be arsed”, I’m going to write 25 facts in an easy to digest lump, in the hope that someone will be arsed.

1. I am a MASSIVE Sonic the Hedgehog fan. Read tmSd and that much is obvious.
2. I am a MASSIVE Linux fan.
3. Where computers are involved, I know absolutely nothing about networking or anything along those lines. I have no plans to remedy this.
4. I like to stand in public places with my brother and discuss software freedoms in a loud voice. Outside any Apple shop is a particular favourite.
   
5. I have far too many computers than I need. I actually have five, plus my Pocket PC mobile phone.
6. I am a MASSIVE fan of the Nintendo Wii.
7. I own a Creative ZEN Stone Plus, because the iPod has fallen out of my favour recently because it is beginning to have a “chavvy” image.
8. I HATE chav culture. As far as I can tell, chav culture – at least in my school – is trying to make yourself look cooler by doing things you’re not old enough to do.
9. I do actually have a Twitter account, although nobody else I know does. My username is TMSD, if you’re interested.
10. I am a reader of several webcomics, such as Questionable Content and the wonderful xkcd webcomic.
11. My spellchecker has recognised “webcomic” as a word, but not “webcomics”. How strange.
12. I do have a presence on several IRC channels around the web. However, I’m not going to divulge which ones.
13. 4chan looks awful.
14. Some things in my life are just incredibly cool for absolutely no reason at all. Such things include Cacti, Octopuses and the Sega Mega Drive.
15. TmSd has long outlived my expected lifespan for the site, and I have no plans to stop anytime soon.
16. While we’re on the subject of tmSd, this website has been DDOS’ed twice. I’d like to find the perpetrator of this act and smack him in the face with a fire iron.
17. Fact #17 is always where I start to run out of ideas.
18. I’ve actually seen a dead body. Several, in fact, at the Bodyworlds 4 exhibition when it was in nearby Manchester. Check out the post “I’ve seen more dead bodies than you!” for some form of details.
19. Pork scratchings – or pork rinds as they’re called in the US, are the ultimate form of food. I believe they are what God must taste like.
20. I have what is deemed by many people to be an incredibly cool watch. It has three faces, two time telling faces and one which is a compass that doesn’t really work. I’ve never had a negative comment about that watch.
21. I love coffee, but only with milk and plenty of sugar, so I guess I’m not really that in to coffee.
22. I love tea, but only with milk and plenty of sugar, so I guess I’m not really that in to tea.
23. I am almost exactly 6′ tall, and I’m somehow not fat even though I am a fan of food. I try and eat healthily.
24. My webcam is staring at me with it’s cold, cold glass eye. So cold.
25. I love WordPress. I use it becuase the alternatives are full of hideous stereotypes. I mean, I sure don’t want to be on LiveJournal with all the fourteen-year-old goth girls who insist on calling it their “DeadJournal”. Eugh.

And that is 25 facts about me. That took half an hour to write.

I could actually go on for much longer. I just don’t want to.

Now you can read tmSd knowing all about the maniac responsible for this hideous mess.

Questions You May Or May Not Actually Want Answering

You: Why is there a capital S in your name?

Me: It looked better in the old logo, and it sort of stuck.

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