David Golding
Born Sunday 13 March 1977 in Modbury, Adelaide, South Australia. Went to primary school in Bordertown; secondary school in Mildura, Victoria. Has lived in Melbourne since 1995.
Married Penny on Saturday 3 December 2005.
Became a father to Daniel on Sunday 31 December 2006.
Raised in the Uniting Church, but became non-religious in adolescence.
Bachelor’s degree in Science from Monash University, Clayton Campus, with a double major in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics.
Work as a software architect and developer.
Am 187cm tall.
Golding is Welsh for “fair-haired”. Am an eighth generation Australian, with a roughly split Anglo and German with bits heritage before that.
| Likes | Especially |
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| Modern music | - The Beatles (1968)—The Beatles
- Oxygene (1977)—Jean-Michele Jarre
- Tusk (1979)—Fleedwood Mac
- Big Science (1982)—Laurie Anderson
- And Justice For All… (1988)—Metallica
- Angel Dust (1992)—FNM
- In Utero (1993)—Nirvana
- The Downward Spiral (1994)—NIN
- Disco Volante (1995)—Mr Bungle
- From The Choirgirl Hotel (1998)—Tori Amos
- The Eminem Show (2002)—Eminem
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| Classical music | |
| Movies | - Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
- Ashes of Time (1994)
- Three Colours: Red (1994)
- Dancer in the Dark (2000)
- the Star Wars trilogies
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| Television | - Babylon 5
- Doctor Who
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Spaced
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| Comics | - The Invisibles—Grant Morrison et al
- Bruno—Christopher Baldwin
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| Comic artists | - Geoff Senior (Transformers)
- Simon Bisley (ABC Warriors, Doom Patrol)
- Dave McKean (Sandman)
- Frank Quitely
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| Novels | - Jane Eyre (1847)—Charlotte Bronte
- Slaughterhouse-5 (1969)—Kurt Vonnegut
- White Queen (1991)—Gwyneth Jones
- Transit (1992)—Ben Aaronovich
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| Single malt scotch whisky | |
| Beer | - Asahi
- Mountain Goat
- Golden Draak
- Coopers Best Extra Stout
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| Wine | |
| Philosophy | - Epicurus
- Spinoza
- Montaigne
- Nietzsche
- Derrida
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| Politics | - Humanism
- multiplicity
- democracy
- enlightened self-interest
- separation of church and state
- rule of law
- counterrevolutionary
- anarchy
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| Sculpture | |
| Painting | - Holbein
- Caravaggio
- Duchamp
- Van Gogh
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| Programming Languages | |
| Sport | |
| Cities | - Melbourne
- San Francisco
- Paris
- Amsterdam
- Venice
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| Countryside | |
| Food | - Jonathan apples
- blue cheese
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| Science heroes | - Archimedes
- Richard Feynman
- Jaron Lanier
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| Colour | |
| Toys | - Transformers
- Masters of the Universe
- Tigger
- Star Wars
- Lego
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| Misc | - Spiders
- fighter planes
- history
- religion
- bicycle riding
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But there is more to life: fragments.
I have a weblog.
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