About Me

I've got quite a varied selection of interests. The biggest one for me is probably snakes, which I'm super fond of. I've got my own little one called William Snakespeare, and I love him. I also recently caught my first wild snake, a ~2 metre long Murray Darling Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei). That's the same as my own little snake, who will one day grow that big. Currently he's only about half a metre long.

I'm also a big player of Minecraft, particularly on peaceful multiplayer servers. I've got two friends with SMPs, both with PvP banned, and I play on those quite a bit.

I also do a bit of woodwork and building of small things. I've played around with LEGO for over a decade now, and I've got quite a collection of it, and in the last few years I've started building things out of more robust materials too. With the help of my grandfather, I recently made a copper-rimmed mead horn out of a strip of copper and a buffalo horn, inspired by the Old Norse mead horns.
I've also made a shield out of some merbau decking timber and a big piece of thick leather, and a handle for an old hammer head.
Another thing I've started recently is making wooden cups, which originated from a challenge that my mother initiated: each of us make a wooden cup, and we compare who's is better. While my mother is yet to start hers, I've just finished my second and I've been collecting timber to make more of them.

Finally, I've become quite fond of astrophysics, hence my online name "MrAstrophysicist". I'm one of those people who really like astrophysics and physics, but are less fond of the maths involved, and it does make things a bit harder.