• A Tibetan dorje and dril-bu bell that could be over 200 years old (or 5, depending on how honest the street-vendors in Lhasa are)
• A fully calcified nautilus shell, a few hundred thousand years old
• An imprint of a Cretaceous-era fern, 65 million years old
• A fragment of an iron meteorite, between 2 and 3 billion years old
• My grandfather's 1940s era gold tie-clip
• My other grandfather's gold and diamond watch
• A lilac, uncomfortably low v-neck shirt with Hugh Laurie's face silk-screened on
• A digital Meade telescope with over 100,000 logged cosmological bodies and auto-calibration system (now broken).
• A Sarracenia pitcher palnt
• A walk-in (really more of a crawl-in) space shuttle that my mom made for me when I...

• Blood Meridian
  • They fight with fists, with feet, with bottles or knives. All races, all breeds. Men whose speech is like the grunting of apes. Men from lands so far and queer that standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself is vindicated.
  • A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
• Infinite Jest
  • What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
  • These worst mornings with cold floors and...

Boy

• Cicero (pronounced "Ki-ker-o")
• Felix
• Aulus
• Galen
• Aidan (or Aedán)
• Archie
• Castor
• Damien
• Milo
• Ransom

Girl

• Hadrian
• Atia
• Holly
• Celon
• Kari
• Ira
• Rhea
• Ransom

• Scientist:
  • Tycho Brahe
• Food:
  • Peanut butter-banana-honey toasted sandwiches.
• Author:
  • Douglas Adams
• Book:
  • So Long and Thanks For all the Fish
• Living Person:
  • Norman Borlaug
  • Stephen Fry
• Subject:
  • History/TOK/English
• Sport:

All titles taken from my bookshelf

• Hard Times in My Pants
• One Thousand and One Nights in My Pants
• So Long and Thanks for all the Fish in My Pants
• The Heroes in My Pants
• Why Nations Go to War in My Pants
• Presidents in My Pants
• Crime and Punishment in My Pants
• Chaos in My Pants
• Growing Up Catholic in My Pants
• We Are Not the First in My Pants
• Holes in My Pants
• An End to Suffering in My Pants
• How Do They Do That in My Pants?
• Life, the Universe and Everything in my pants
• Act of Treason in My Pants
• The Way Things Work in My Pants
• Stupid White Men in My Pants

• The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy series
• The Harry Potter series
• Infinite Jest
• Hyperion
• Blood Meridian
• Slaughterhouse FIve
• The Picture of Dorian Grey
• The Singularity is Near
• Faust, part one
• Childhood's End
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Foundation series
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• Non-Colouring Book
• THEM: Adventures with extremists
• Brave New World
• A Game of Thrones
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Outsider
• The Heroes

• Syzygy
  • either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun
• Curl
• Swig
• Swag
  • anything displaying high quantities of quality, eg. suits, good rap, snuggling
• Zephyr
  • the west wind; a gentle breeze; something that is airy or insubstantial
• Twaddle
  • Trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense
• Umbra

• Intelligence, and lots of it.
• Snarkiness
• Eloquence
• Compassion that's deep, but not overt
• Ambition
• Confidence
• Accents (especially Australian, Irish and Spanish)
• Argumentative skills. Nothing hotter than a good debate.
• Dark eyes (clichéd but true)
• Freckles. Yes please.
• Brighter eyes
• Very long or short hair
• Eyes in general
• High-ish cheekbones
• Prominent collarbones
• Surprise boobs!

• Snowdonia
• The Nabatean city of Petra
• The Olduvai Gorge
• Mount Roraima
• Dubrovnik
• Angkor Wat
• Bora Bora
• The Valley of Flowers
• Preikestolen
• Mecca
• The Serengeti
• Oslo
• The Tsangpo gorge
• Hogsmeade

• Alternative prehistory fan-fiction
• Campy martial arts movies
• Really strong tea
• Pumpkin bread
• Hagiography
• Pitman shorthand
• Ties
• Victorian era pseudosciences
• Wearing suits
• Paved roads
• Vaccinations
• Rain
• Flat-earth theories
• DEBATE (British Parliamentary FTW)
• Listening to the exploits of people with really outlandish and highly theatrical fetishes
• Genuinely good people
• Unbearably snarky people

• "I can't imagine a more complete and precise answer to the question 'for what reason...?' than 'none'. The fact that you don't like the answer is your problem, not the universe's."- Lee Daniel Crocker
• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.- Isaac Asimov
• The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously. A joyful life is an active life - it is not a dull static state of so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian, filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create - such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the sake of growth and happiness.
• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if lov...

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Dr. Strangelove
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Hot Fuzz
• Monty Python's the Life of Brian
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• Blood Meridian
• Gravity's Rainbow
• Infinite Jest
• The Folklore of Cats
• Cat's Cradle
• A Hat Full of Sky
• Fight Club
• Breakfast of Champions
• A Clash of Kings
• Hyperion
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Clockwork Orage
• 2010: Odyssey Two
• 2061: Odyssey Three

• House : Hufflepuff
• Patronus : Chinchilla
• Wand : 12.5", hazel wood, Pygmy puff fur core, unyielding
• Favorite Classes : Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration and Potions
• Electives : Magical Runes and Arithmancy
• Quidditch position : Beater
• Job of choice : Professor of something

• Books (Mostly really pretentious stuff)
  • The General in His Labyrinth
  • Folkloristics: An Introduction
  • The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology
  • The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics
  • Theologus Autodidactus
  • The Lore of the Unicorn
  • The Martian Chronicles
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Any volume from the 1910-1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Pathology Of Power
• DVDs
  • Cosmos (The 7 DVD set)
  • A Clockwork Orange

• My Jewish grandma is a recreational alcoholic and problem gambler
• My great-grandfather on my mum's side looks like a portly Adolf Hitler
• My sister has been a nihilist since she was 9 (she's 12 now)
• My dad was good friends with Sergey Brin's (founder of Google) father
• My dad also went to university with Michael Jordan
• My parents sat next to, and talked about the weather with, Carl Sagan in an airport shuttle-bus

• Radiohead
• Björk
• God Is An Astronaut
• Sigur Rós
• As Tall As Lions
• The Mountain Goats
• Dan Mangan
• Mumford and Sons
• Pheonix
• Bach
• Oliver Schroer
• Wagner
• The xx
• I Was a Cub Scout
• Regina Spektor
• Gorillaz
• The Hush Sound
• The Postal Service
• Imogen Heap
• Chopin
• Beethoven