This is Where I Attempt to Marginalise Myself

Who I (think I) am

Full name: Andrew James Bromage (says so on the title graphic, even)

Pronunciation: Bromage rhymes with the English homage , not the French fromage .

Known aliases: Aquila, Pseudonym, The Dirty Vicar of St. Looney's, Daddy, HeyYou

Born: Sunday, 29 July 1973, Box Hill (a suburb of Melbourne), Victoria, Australia.

Reside: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Religion: Christian (Moderate Protestant with strong Wesleyan tendencies, recovering modernist); Lay Minister candidate

Degree

Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne, with honours
Major in Computer Science

Academic Interests

Sciences : see Geek Stuff

In other areas:

• Systematic theology
• Linguistics, particularly Koine Greek
• Poetry
• Art/Architechture (particularly Art Deco, Art Noveau, and Victoriana)

Things I Do

Online:

• Active participant in comp.graphics.rendering.renderman
• Own and administer our own network server (aptly named caffeine)
• Freelance web development (see: Alicorna)
• Various other geeky online things

Offline:

• Work at RMIT, writing large-scale text retrieval systems in C++
• Play the cello (but not that well)
• Attend operas and symphony performances (not so much since becoming a parent)
• Consume mass quantities of chocolate and caffeine
• Change nappies
• Spend time with my my family
• Pet the cat
• Watch films, particularly anything by Pixar , PDI , Dreamworks/SKG , Miramax is usually pretty good, and I tend to like anything directed by Luc Besson.
• Seek out as many public Parent/Baby Change Rooms as possible in the greater Melbourne area
• Go to the zoo

Things I Like

Favourites:

• Food: Rendang (in fact, anything with too much chili in it)
• Drink: Coffee, long and black
• Font: Helvetica
• Bands: (in no particular order)
  • Emerson, Lake and Palmer
  • Yes
  • Spinal Tap (just what is the HTML code for an umlaut N?)
  • Mike Oldfield
  • Queen
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Pink Floyd
• Feline: Missycat , who displaced Mephistopholes, also known as Miffy (Please note that the the picture of Miffy on my brother David 's page is not, in fact, Miffy, but is the previous cat, Licorice. I know this because I took that picture that he's claiming is Miffy. Here's a real picture of Miffy.)
• Brother: Greg Bromage (aka The Mystic aka World's Greatest Technician)
• Sister-in-Law: Robyn Milverton
• Psalm: 1

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