Brain Pilot Adrift On the Sands Of Time

I live in East Lothian with my wife and daughter, and I work in a very boring job that has something to do with Land Registration.

My main interests in life (aside from my family) are music, writing and nutrition. There's a concept album in there somewhere, but I am studiously avoiding having anything to do with it.

I've recorded and produced about twenty albums of my own music, and the music of various friends. Only one was released commercially, and that was such a disaster I was never motivated to take the plunge again. All the bad things you've heard about the music business are true. Hence the continuance of the boring job.

If you are really interested in that aspect of my history (although I cannot imagine why you would be) you could search on line using - peri + urban + tranceport. I'll pop up.

Recently, I've helped out doing some music for amateur films, including Joseph Bell's Baby Lazarus that gained one or two awards. I've even made some short films myself (figuring that since the hardest part of film making is doing the music the rest should be a doddle).

I've written many short stories, song lyrics and poems, but few have made it to the public eye. I did manage to finish the first volume of a projected sf trilogy, but it was pretty awful, and didn't get anywhere. I have various other projects on the go, all of which help to keep me sane in the face of ongoing tedium and mediocrity.

My interest in nutritional matters was sparked off by a series of personal health crises, which culminated in an extended period of illness about three years ago. This coincided with the knowledge that I would soon be a dad. Fearing that I was in no fit state to look after myself, let alone be anyone's dad, I began a journey that has led me to a much deeper understanding of what food means, both in the physiological and in the political sense.

As a species we evolved to eat wild game, running free. The redder and fattier the meat, the happier we are. As long as we eat grass fed red meat along with it's attendant saturated fats we can survive quite nicely. There are many examples through history (and to a lesser degree in the modern world) of people who did just that and lived (or still live) healthy lives, free of the "diseases of civilisation".

We are so far away from that ideal these days that we can barely remember there was a time when eating was a simple affair. Intuitively, many of us know something is wrong, but most of us don't know what it is.

I've made it something of a mission to promote (in my own small way) the idea that our modern carbohydrate filled lifestyle is the cause of the majority of our health problems today. This is not a new idea, and the modern era of thinking on this may well have begun with the work of Weston A Price, a dentist who travelled the world in the 1930s in search of the answer to a very simple question - what rots our teeth and makes us sick?

He found, as will anyone who does the research with an open mind, that it is refined carbohydrate and sugar that causes most of the medical ills of the modern world. Everything from multiple sclerosis to piles can be traced directly back to our diet, and in many cases conditions as diverse as diabetes, heart disease and irritable bowel syndrome can be alleviated, prevented or cured by eating a diet that is as close to that ancient model as possible.

If you fancy doing some research for yourself on this subject, you could do worse than search out Nigeepoo's H2G2 page, where he has listed some essential links.

I have hobbies too.

As a family we ride a tandem bicycle made by Thorn, and we love to take our holidays on it. Our favourite places are Tiree and Blair Athole.

I'm a keen amateur photographer (but then, isn't everyone these days?), with a passing interest in 3D photography.

I love games of all sorts, both the computer and board variety. I once had my own board games company, and was once considered to be a fine games designer. My favourite games are go and Oids (which I still play on the Atari ST emulator STEEM).

I'm still a musician at heart, so I have an ongoing interest in music and the technology used to make it, especially the virtual sort. I'm currently using Sonar 4, Reason 2, and a whole bunch of free and not so free VSTi and DXi plugins. I'm also a big fan of Cool Edit Pro and its successor Adobe Audition.

For film editing I use Magix Movie Edit Pro, which is (in my humble opinion) far more user friendly and feature laden than the likes of Adobe Premiere, especially for the hobbyist like myself.

I can be contacted directly by email at don'[email protected] (substituting periurbanix for don't-you-dare). Be nice.

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