Simon Plumbe - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hiya!
I'm Simon (as if you couldn't guess) and I was born in Birmingham (well West Bromwich really!) in 1971, and I've lived here all my life. I'm in a long-term relationship with my girlfriend Trish, and at the moment I have no children... that I know of! lol (although Trish does have a six-year-old daughter who's an adorable pain-in-the-arse sometimes!)
Amongst other things I'm a freelance writer and I have been writing on an amateur basis since 1989 and professionally since 1994 on a range of subjects.
Away from writing, I am an avid science fiction fan, and I am interested in computing/gaming, web design, music, wildlife as you'll see from my photos on here (with a particular passion for pandas - giant and red), wrestling, basketball, cooking and a range of other interests.
From a gaming point of view, while I love modern gaming, especially on the Playstation 2, I'm more into retro gaming including old consoles and computers, my favourites being the Commodore 64 (and the Commodore 64 music scene) and Amiga, and PC Engine. I've also got a fondness for retro-style indie games on the PC - you can check out some of my favourites over at Tuna Snax and Retro 64 and one of my favourite developers here Tuna Technologies .
One of the main things I do in my spare time is jointly run Europe's largest Transformers convention, Auto Assembly, with my best friend Sven Harvey. It's a tough job but someone's got to do it! :P You can find out more about it here and the next one is taking place on 2nd August 2008
More to follow...!

My Interests

I am an avid science fiction fan (especially Transformers, Star Trek and Star Wars), and I am interested in computing/gaming, web design, music, wildlife, wrestling, basketball, cooking and a range of other interests. Mainly though, I enjoy spending as much time as possible with my girlfriend Trish and her daughter Hannah.

I'd like to meet:

Want to meet up with a load of old friends again who I haven't seen for a long time (and this is going to seem like name-dropping!) - Wally Wingert, Neil Kaplan (although we did meet up again not long ago!), David Kaye.

If you see the music section, I'm a big fan of S.P.O.CK - only ever met them once, and never seen them in concert (not easy when they've only been to the UK a couple of times) and I'd do anything to make that happen!

I'm a massive fan of Adam West's Batman and would love the chance to meet him as well, plus just the chance to meet new friends and any friends I have outside the UK who I've never had the chance to meet up with yet.

Anyone else? Well, even though he lived in the UK for 10 years, I never had the chance to meet up with one of my friends, Bjorn Lynne... and the most annoying thing was that there was one time where we were both at the same CD launch party in Birmingham and didn't know until afterwards(!) so I'd love to meet Bjorn some day!

You Are Animal
A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.
You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.
But you sure can beat a good drum.
"Kill! Kill!" The Muppet Personality Test

Music:

I love a wide range of music, ranging from rock to electronic, retro video game remixes, and everything in between! Favourite bands and artists right now include S.P.O.C.K, Queen, Metallica, Machinae Supremacy, Press Play On Tape, Jean-Michel Jarre, Bjorn Lynne and far too many more to mention here!!

Movies:

Again pretty varied although a strong sci-fi emphasis. Favourites have to include all the Star Wars movies, some of the Star Trek ones, both of the Blues Brothers movies and pretty much everything by Jackie Chan.

Television:

A mix really but I try to watch most Transformers shows, Star Trek, WWE, Heroes, poker (yeah, sad I know but it's strangely compelling), wildlife documentaries but definitely NOT so-called reality shows!

Books:

Don't get as much time to read as I'd like to so I mainly read Transformers graphic novels (you see a pattern here) and... in a typically geek fashion - tech manuals! *hides*

Heroes:

No "heroes" as such but I admire people who are particularly strong achievers in their chosen field, anyone with real talent and of course the woman in my life who I am madly in love with - Trish!

My Blog

My 12 Minute Survey (nicked from Trish!)

Do the world a favor: fill it out and post it for all your friends. Do this because the person who sent it to you didn't sit here for ages for nothing. Answer all the questions honestly, no lying to a...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Wed, 23 May 2007 02:25:00 PST

It Must Be Love...

It's not very often that I write blogs like this from the heart, but I want to dedicate this to the two very special women in my life, Heather and Trish, who I adore so much... It is hard being in a p...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:06:00 PST

Confessions...

I know I ramble on about a lot of different things in my blogs. Sometimes I talk about things that annoy me and I use my blogs to have a bit of a rant, other times I just write and use them as a bit o...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Wed, 16 May 2007 12:55:00 PST

A busy few days...

Things have been pretty manic over the last few days which is why I've been fairly quiet and not posted a blog for a bit. To be honest, my arse has barely touched the floor so I thought it was time to...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

Pre-Weekend Madness

Yesterday was a fairly hectic day. Following on from Wednesday's trip to London, I didn't really get a lot of sleep and waking up early didn't help either. Set out of the house and instead of going st...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Fri, 11 May 2007 01:21:00 PST

Primes and Padawans

Yesterday was one of the busiest days I've had for a LONG time and one I'm certainly not going to forget for a while either! I've been a close friend of Neil Kaplan (the voice of Optimus Prime from Tr...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:52:00 PST

50 Thigns About Me Survey (stolen from Trish!!)

Need I say more?! 50 Things About Me Survey..http://www.myspacebulletins.com">.. src="http://www.myspacebulletins.com/img/bulletinlogo.gif" border=0 align='left'>TAKE THIS SURVEY!Answer the questions ...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Fri, 04 May 2007 05:25:00 PST

Analysis Survey (Yeah, another one!)

Analysis Survey..http://www.myspacebulletins.com">.. src="http://www.myspacebulletins.com/img/bulletinlogo.gif" border=0 align='left'>TAKE THIS SURVEY!LAST PERSON WHO1. Slept in your bed besides you?N...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Thu, 03 May 2007 03:08:00 PST

Eggs and Apes...

Back after a day off from blogging with my second blog (okay first REAL blog as I don't count my survey blogs)... did any of you miss me? Didn't think so! Well, yesterday was pretty eventful. Work was...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:08:00 PST

Hectic Times...

A new month, a new blog and another one that's quite likely to go all over the place! As usual, I'm writing this at work so it's one that I'm writing offline so I tend to write a bit here and there wh...
Posted by Simon Plumbe on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:53:00 PST