User:DJones

About me

I am Dave Jones - pedant, trivia lover, and all round pain-in-the-ass. As a computer scientist, my hobbies naturally include graphic design and engineering(?!). The hobby which takes up most of my time is DVD creation, through which I have now increased my collection of TV series by a large margin. I am something of a 'language nazi', but only when it really matters (dodgy tenses, nonsensical sentences) and not just for the sake of it (I really don't care about split infinitives or using a preposition to end a sentence with). I do my best to avoid messing with the style of someone else's writing unless it is absolutely necessary.

Books that I have

Format shamelessly stolen from Sanity and thus the list is formed from the bibliography.

Johnny Maxwell

• Only You Can Save Mankind

Other non-Discworld

• The Dark Side of the Sun
• Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
• Strata - currently missing.

Discworld

• The Colour of Magic
• The Light Fantastic
• Equal Rites
• Mort
• Sourcery
• Wyrd Sisters
• Pyramids
• Guards! Guards!
• Eric
• Moving Pictures
• Reaper Man
• Witches Abroad
• Small Gods
• Lords and Ladies
• Men at Arms
• Soul Music
• Interesting Times
• Maskerade
• Feet of Clay
• Hogfather
• Jingo
• The Last Continent
• Carpe Jugulum
• The Fifth Elephant
• The Truth
• Thief of Time
• Night Watch
• Monstrous Regiment
• Going Postal
• Thud!

• The Discworld Companion
• The Science of Discworld - also currently missing.
• The Streets of Ankh-Morpork

• The Unseen University Challenge

Wishlist

• Death's Domain
• Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
• The New Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
• A Hat Full of Sky
• The Wee Free Men
• The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
• The Last Hero
• The Science of Discworld II: the Globe
• The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
• The Discworld Mapp
• A Tourist Guide to Lancre

Non-Discworld stuff

I'm a fan of;

• Dr. Who - well, someone has to be a fan, and it's season 29 this year NOT season 3
• Heroes - only just started up but it looks interesting
• House - sheer class
• Hustle - smooth, slick, and delightfully daft
• Life On Mars - sheer genius
• Monk - brilliant so far, although I think they're starting to run out of ideas after 4 seasons
• Red Dwarf - all 8 seasons on DVD, but I admit it goes downhill after season 5 or so
• The Amazing Race - haven't seen much of it, but my schadenfreude caused me to enjoy it immensely when I saw one episode in which half of the teams still in the race managed to fill their cars with the wrong type of petrol despite it saying "DIESEL" in big letters on the petrol-tank cover
• Time Team - I don't know why, it's just addictive

I'm sure I shall put more uninteresting guff about me on here from time to time. If you want me to put something specific on here, just ask.