Vital statistics
Introduction
These are all the facts about Bobulous that, almost certainly, nobody needs or wants to know.
Official
Name
Robert Downes.
Nationality
British.
Physical
Height
191cm (six foot and three inches).
Mass
In excess of a tenth of a metric tonne.
Estimated date of death
Somewhere between August 2040 and July 2041, according to a couple of online death tests.
Eyes
Rich blue in colour. No spectacles, nor contact lenses. Experienced a period of chiasmic interference.
Hair
Dark brown; always either very short or very untidy. Sports a trendy wedge that only laser weapons may one day be able to tame.
Clothing
Functional clothing chosen for purpose or comfort, never for appearance. Lots of pockets. Waterproof jacket, if any jacket. Based on Bob's clothing alone, people have mistakenly thought that he must be some sort of adventurous rock-climbing type, or a staff member at HMV.
Mental
IQ
Reported as 111 (superior intelligence) by a 5-minute online test; as 129 (very superior intelligence) by a 20-minute online test; and as 160 (super-genius-level intelligence) by a thirteen-minute online test. Also 122 by a fifty-minute test. None of these tests was professionally administered and Bobulous is dubious as to their worth or accuracy.
Myers-Briggs
According to tests based on the Keirsey and Myers-Briggs typologies, Bob's personality is INTP. Paul James offers a good profile of the INTP personality type.
The Big Personality Test
According to the BBC's Big Personality Test, Bob scores the following:
| Trait | Score
(out of 5) | Rated |
|---|
| Openness | 3.5 | Medium |
| Conscientiousness | 3.2 | Medium |
| Extroversion | 1.9 | Low |
| Agreeableness | 1.3 | Low |
| Neuroticism | 4.3 | High |
In summary, Bob is a people-loathing, direct-talking stress-head. This may explain why he scares people in job interviews.
Preferential
Music collection highlights
Them Crooked Vultures; Tool; Tenacious D.
Television choice
Peep Show; Mythbusters; The Big Bang Theory.
Favourite computer games, old and new
- Jetpac: (Sinclair ZX Spectrum; Ultimate, 1983) Collate those engine parts.
- Chucky Egg: (Acorn Electron; A&F Software, 1983) Flee that rampant chicken horde!
- A whole heap of Commodore Amiga games.
- Tank Wars: (PC; Microforum, 1990) The ground-corrupting shell doesn't make sense — it just doesn't make sense!
- Jones in the Fast Lane: (PC; Sierra On-Line, 1994) Don't turn up to work wearing only under-garments.
- DooM II: (PC; id Software, 1994) Dripping with atmosphere, and chunky demon giblets.
- Command & Conquer: (PC; Westwood Studios, 1995) Flame tanks! FLAME TANKS!!!
- Half-Life: (PC; Valve, 1998) Stop staring at me, you besuited git.
- System Shock 2: (PC; Irrational Games, 1999) An empty corridor was never so menacing before the Von Braun.
- Deus Ex: (PC; Ion Storm, 2000) Why, why was the sequel so crappy?
- Call Of Duty: (PC; Infinity Ward, 2003) I'm sure that one man can't absorb that many bullets and still keep going.
- Half-Life 2: (PC; Valve, 2004) Fly, my pretties!
- Battlefield 2: (PC; DICE, 2005) I really need more RAM.
- Team Fortress 2 (PC; Valve Software, 2007) Ah, man, I got more RAM and I still couldn't hit a barn wall at three metres.
Favourite novels
The Dune series of books by Frank Herbert;
On The Road by Jack Kerouac;
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson; Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
Recommended movies
- Aliens (1986)
- You know what? I think I'll just stay in orbit and watch from here, if that's alright by you guys.
- Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Hilarious, and parodied so much that you'll recognise a lot of it even if you've never seen it before.
- The Thing (1982)
- Suspense and horror wrapped in a snowbound antarctic research base. Beware the dog.
Places visited outside England
- Wales
- Talybont, Merthyr Tydfil, Abertillery, Bwlch, Pen-Y-Fan.
- France
- Calais, The Somme, Paris.
- Ireland
- Belmullet, Knock, Dublin, Cork, Galway.
- Rest of Europe
- Prague, Bratislava, Vienna, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Cologne.
- United States of America
- Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City.
- Tunisia
- Sousse, El Djem, Sfax, Douz, Kebili, Tozeur, Kairouan, Tunis, Carthage, Sidi Bou Saïd, Monastir.