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What's the first film you were taken to see as a kid? Believe it or not, mine was Paint Your Wagon (1969) with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood when I was 3 years old. Umm I don't think my parents really chose that one for me somehow! I blame my father wholeheardedly for any subsequent Clint Eastwood fixation.
What was the first video you rented? Remember renting videos? Which was your first rental?
Your favourite RPG? I love JRPGs especially the Final Fantasy games - do you have a favoute RPG or series of RPG's?
What was the last truly scary horror film you saw? I grew up on Hammer House of Horror & Stephen King books which explains a lot but I just don't think films are scary these days?
What is the best night out watching the big match ever? I had a fab time the night of the England-Germany semi final of Euro 96, sadly we lost after a string of nail biting penalties but the drunkenness in Nottingham market square afterwards (including a whole array of boys showing me their st george cross boxers in the street!) made up for it :D

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RIP Benoit Mandelbrot

Father of Fractal Geometry dies at age 86

I just read that Poland-born mathematician and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, passed away yesterday.

I'll put up a proper gallery soon [EDIT: See here for Mandlebrot Gallery] but for now would just like to say that this person was a genius of truly imaginary magnitude (to the power of the square root of minus one). Deeply influential to me and many others from my generation for reasons that are best left unexplained.

This guy gave us the tools to find beauty in the strangest of things, a fern, the side of a mountain, the movement of dust motes in a ray of light, a sneeze on the inside of a space helmet or just a cactus in a plant pot on a shelf on an acid trip. He made my Amiga do work like a real computer, and gave me the inspiration to drop out of college to do something less boring instead.