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Barbelith Skills Directory

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Goodness Gracious Meme

21:22 / 15.10.03

learning how to get funding/work in Britain doing arts/music/spoken word

that one's priceless.

oh, and if you can teach me how to navigate you can have half my kingdom...

oh, forgot one

Can sound plausible on almost any subject...

21:07 / 17.10.03

Computer programming.

Finance.

Martial arts info.(although temporarily limited to mouthboxing only)

Whisky Priestess

22:29 / 17.10.03

Theatre (creative performance/writing/directing and some technical)

Film (creative performing and writing for)

Writing rude letters to nasty companies

London (city)

Oxford (city and University)

Writing (creative and technical - competitions, publications, getting stuff put on/seen/read/published in a small way)

The many ins and outs of the Handspring Treo phone, godhelpme

Have English degree, will travel ...

22:58 / 17.10.03

Design
Fragments of other things (learned and forgotten on a regular basis)

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

17:14 / 20.10.03

American Social Services

Comics history

Timely/Atlas comics

Crime fiction

70's action adventure book series

Weightlifting

Nutrition

Crappy horror movies

Mystery Science Theater 3000

the garden gnome

17:31 / 20.10.03

General Home Improvement

Construction - non-commercial

Bar/Bartender related queries

Legal issues relating to the Federal Credit Reporting Act

Consumer Reporting Agencies

Editing

most Cliff Claven piffy nuances....that type of shit

...oh, and the speed of snails in freshly mulched garden beds. I've timed them for going on 12 years now.

19:07 / 20.10.03

- Macs: fixing, customizing, evangelizing, drooling over
- graphic/print design: Quark, Illustrator, etc.
- computer languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, mySQL, LOGO
- people languages: most of the Romantics, ancient Greek, drinking Japanese ("Are you drunk? I'm drunk! I like this beer!")
- obscure religions/philosophies: historical biblical criticism, matriarchal goddess cults, Buddhism, Derrida, Gnosticism
- obscure TV trivia: Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- gobbling: tofu, fresh mozarella, Indian buffets
- innuendo: lascivious and unecessary flirting

Jack The Bodiless

10:27 / 22.10.03

Jack The Bodiless - always ready to help out if you need free expert advice on having been involved/injured in a road traffic accident, or having to make a claim for such/or the theft/fire of a vehicle. Also civil procedure rules, taking peeps to court, Police & Criminal Evidence Act, fraud/theft/deception cases - all UK only, I'm afraid.

Also Marillion trivia. Dude.

10:38 / 22.10.03

Graphic design & related software - except god-frigging Coreldraw which no-one's mentioned and is the one thing I need urgently
Journalism / Editing
Teaching of the above
European, Central and Local government funded project management + thusly bid writing
Management of arthritis via diet
Schopenhauer, Mysticism [in a philosophical context]
Drinking
Taking blows to the head
Possibly some other stuff I've forgotten [see above]

11:14 / 22.10.03

Management of arthritis via diet

Would that be osteoarthritis or rhuematoid?

11:54 / 22.10.03

- Writing, editing, freelance journalism (esp for the techy mags world)
- Tech stuff, especially electronic & software design
- Martial arts (tai-chi chuan) and the Alexander technique
- Know loads about occultism, theory more than practise
- Know loads about UK stand-up comedy scene
- Guitar playing
- Basic Portugese (honest!)

20:58 / 22.10.03

Sanitarios saida, obrigada!
Adios, Amigo.

11:34 / 23.10.03

Ola! Was that something about lavatories?

Anyway, Gypsy - it's rheumatoid arthritis. Don't know much about osteo, but my knee can tell you when the weather has just turned. Not very useful but it's a comforting confirmation. Or possibly psychosomatic. Anyway, it's another skill to add to the list.

11:49 / 23.10.03

Football
Masturbation
Personal/ Professional excess

11:52 / 23.10.03

Drama education

Costume/set/puppet design and construction

Acting

Good drinking buddy

19:58 / 23.10.03

Heheh- I thought that was summit about lavatories as well.
Ginger: nao faz mal - suspeito que sua habilidade com a lingua e mais melhor
(heheh-fuck off Brazilian posters – stop chuckling at my remarkably pish attempts to communicate

)

Well it’s certainly quite a diverse skills base, looking over this thread, with a few hot spots in writing and various head-mangling areas of theory, as might have been foreseen

20:53 / 23.10.03

My skills:

- pedantry
- self-deprecation
- not being found out (and getting away with it)
- pretending I can do stuff when I haven't a clue what I'm doing
- talking with great authority about subjects I know bugger all about, really
- judging when I've had just a little too much to drink and stopping before I lose it entirely or the vestibular hallucinations kick in
- peppering my speech with obscure, long words and foreign borrowings to make me sound much smarter than I am
- exaggeration (without telling outright lies)
- popular music of the 70's and 80's
- management of acute episodes of major mental illness
- the care of small, captive cats
- passive aggressive strategies for managing personal relationships, including making my partner feel guilty (with little or no cause, not that it profits me much)
- royal genealogies, European & Latin American only
- ancient & mediaeval history (particularly the Italian Renaissance and the village of Ambridge)

but there I go, exaggerating again...

21:49 / 23.10.03

English Literature stuff - HG Wells, comics and their relation with visual culture and literature, the modern novel, and basically, coaching up to about A-Level. I'm kind of handy at this stuff.

Computers: explaining computers in plain English. Fixing problems. Showing people how to do things. Coding HTML and CSS2. Nice typographic design. Making music and pissing around with sound on said computers. Seriously, I'm a pretty nifty IT Support guy and loved by middle aged ladies for my ability to explain things in plain english. Also: building them, fixing busted Acer laptops, hanging around on hold to tech support lines for ages, knocking Moveable Type into shape, "useful things for newcomers to Apples".

Music: I'm a pretty talented flautist and a not half bad jazz pianist and keys player. Also known to dabble at guitar; particular fondness for Hammond organs. Oh, and I do all sorts of electronic music and home recording stuff and am pretty handy with stuff like that, if you give me a yell.

Trivia. Quiz machine demon, handy at both Countdown and University Challenge, brain filled with rubbish. Seriously. I will never let you down.

Encylopaedic knowledge of movies old and new. Very good amateur critic. Also very good at banging on for hours to anyone who'll listen (not just about movies).

Handy photographer.

Wit. Not Raconteur. Just Wit.

Various odds and ends of knowledge that I class as "trivia" but you might class as "useful knowledge".

I'm also pretty good at teaching people things. Seriously. I have a way. And can make stuff interesting if needs be.

Put like that, it looks good. I might have a career yet...

10:49 / 24.10.03

'English attitudes towards the Dutch in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries'

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