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Recent Entries in Friends in e-places

• Friends in e-places no.8: Lisa Bullock

  Lisa, or L-Bo as she is known to her friends back in the projects, hails from Dartford, and isn't the least bit ashamed. After spending as much time as she could at Goldsmiths College, abusing the Fine Art students, she ignored the fact that she had trained as a historian, and promptly became an Events Co-ordinator for Dartford Borough Council, which could be described as a contradiction in terms. Once Ken Livingstone heard about her...

• Friends in e-places no.7: Ricky Banks

  Ricky lives in South East London with Liz, his wife to be. He works at the BBC on various podcasting, blogging and Listen Again-related stuff. Ironically, he’s a pretty rubbish blogger himself. One day, he'll write a novel, live off the money from the screenplay and retire to a farm in New Zealand. What would your Mastermind specialist subject(s) be? • Apocayptic themes in the dramatic works of Samuel Beckett; The cinematic style and thematic...

• Friends in e-places no.6: Ben Supper

  Ben Supper had an uneventful childhood in Reading before moving to Guildford and studying there for seven years. He has occupied much of the twenty-first century trying his hand at academia, journalism, broadcast engineering, computer programming, web design, and playing the piano. Freshly qualified as a world authority on a very specialised area of acoustics, Ben develops audio equipment for a living. After moving to Pinner in London last November with his wife Michelle, Ben...

• Friends in e-places no.5: James Sheppard

  James / Jim / Jimbo lived with Rich in the year following university back when flathunting was new and exciting and he was making the first few steps as a graduate in his future career, before heading to London to seek his fortune. Currently he's coming to terms with stupid house prices and the cold realisation that there are many working years ahead followed by a rubbish pension and then death. He's also coming to...

• Friends in e-places no.4: Dan Hill

  Dan Hill is a designer and writer, living and working in London. He blogs at City of Sound. What would your Mastermind specialist subject(s) be? • Oh god, no idea. I'm a generalist, not a specialist. Could I destroy the game by picking general knowledge as my specialist subject? Europe or America? • Europe. Every time. Mainly for the civilisation. Only exceptions would be New York — which is basically a European city, stretched —...

• Friends in e-places no.3: Stef W

  Stef W was born in Chav central, aka Medway. After leading a normal and stable childhood, he got into all manner of mind altering substances, the most potent of which being Politics. Currently attempting to scale the great heights of political wonkery, he occasionally lets loose a foul mouthed diatribe on arbitrary constant. What would your Mastermind specialist subject(s) be? •The Political Philosophy and Narcotic Consumption of Hunter S. Thompson OR Drum and Bass Vinyl...

• Friends in e-places no.2: Paul Wright

  Paul Wright is a web developer living in London. He fulfils pretty much all the stereotypes for such a career choice; working for a small online company that sells gadgets & games, doesn't stop banging on about Ruby On Rails, wears black rimmed glasses and has a somewhat unhealthy threadless.com addiction. The only thing missing is a regularly updated blog (wrighty.com has been in existence for six years but has fallen to a schedule of...

• Friends in e-places no.1: Simon Pearson

  Simon Pearson grew up in a small Welsh town where the teeth were buck and the life simple. Brought up on a diet of mammy's soup, free milk and custard creams, he mostly wore brightly coloured shorts, had big round gold-rimmed glasses and played piano far too keenly. Suffice to say he wasn't big on the social scene. After a stint of cleaning out the pic 'n' mix and being a spotty till boy whilst...

• Introducing friends in e-places

  This post sees the introduction of a new feature on arbitrary constant: friends in e-places. The feature aims to ask electronic (or otherwise) acquaintances of arbitrary constant what they think of the topics this site is interested in, as well as a few other fun questions along the way. It also aims to introduce readers of this site to other blogs and sites they might find interesting and / or challenging. A list of all...