Looking moody, but not very cool
Well...what to say.....My name is Paul Townend, I'm 28 years old, and I am therefore well on my way towards senility and obsoletion. Oh wait, that's already happened. Oh man!
I'm currently a Research Fellow working in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds on a project called "Modelling and Simulation for e-social Science" (MoSeS). Prior to this, I completed a PhD in Computer Science at Leeds, and before that, I spent over 6 years at the University of Durham too, where I received my BSc. and MSc. degrees.
I'm interested in photography, and often wander around the place taking odd photographs of things that interest me - usually based on light/shade type arrangements. I'm not that serious with it all though, and generally just point the camera, press the button, and hope! I occasionally need to travel to distant places as part of my job, so I try my best to take some reasonable photos of where I've been - hence the list on the left. I also sometimes upload photos from closer to home, but they're generally not as good! I'm also into Astronomy, and I have a 6" Newtonian reflector 'scope that I use to look at - you know - the stars and stuff. I'm quite proud of how well it resolves the surface features of Jupiter. My hope is to get a camera adapter and marry the two interests together, in order to take decent photos of astronomical objects. I've got some of the moon, but I'd like to get nice photos of Andromeda, Jupiter and Saturn in the near future, too. And Mars, if I'm in the mood.
Apart from all that, I like music, although there isn't much around at the moment. Idlewild are a current favourite band. I don't watch much TV, so I'm not really up-to-date on any of the modern manufactured bands - sorry!
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