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| Personal background |
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My personal background is something of an exciting story at the moment. I've just had a very strange and quite enlightening experience. It was my New Year's resolution to track down my father. My parents divorced when I was a baby and my father decided to keep out of the way for the next twenty-seven years for his own inscrutable reasons. But when I found him (using the internet, electoral rolls etc) he seemed pleased to be found. We met up for lunch last weekend and found many many co-incidences.
For a start, I look exactly like he did twenty-five years ago (minus the kipper tie and flares). We also use the same phrases (I thought language was an envirnonmental response not genetic) and had exactly the same lunch.
But the most interesting thing is that a few years ago, he did some research into the family ancestry and discovered something very interesting. All of my family seem to have been engineers of some description. He is the company engineer for United Biscuits, his father was a mechanical engineer, his grand-father was a civil engineer and my great great great grandfather was the British Government Engineer for the West Indies. While he was out there, he married and had children. The woman he married was half-cast: white father, black mother. So this means that my great great great great grandmother was black, making me one sixty-fourth black! This explains my curly hair, love of motown and reggae and maybe the type of cigarettes I like to smoke. Obviously, being a man, I've decided which sixy-fourth of me is West Indian.
It's not all easy though - being caught in the middle. White people don't like me any more because I'm one sixty-fourth black. Black people don't like me because I'm sixty-three sixty-fourths white. I'm a halfling. Well, a one sixty-fourthling.
I am stand-up comedian based in Glasgow and I'm performing my one man show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe (Assembly Rooms). I'm thinking of calling the show: James Campbell - One Sixty-Fourth Black. Tell me what yo |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think this is a very exciting project. I was introduced to it by my friend John Stirling who sells people dodgy insurance policies.
I don't quite understand why SETI hasn't got enough computers of it's own but if my 56k (non broadband connection) modem can help in some way I glad to be a part of it.
If we do discover extra-terrestrial life forms out there maybe we'll all start regarding ourselves as Terran rather than worrying about our's and other's ethnic identities. |
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