User:Nickshanks

“Here I am standing in a street with mud and a cow” — Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia.^[1]

Nicholas George Shanks was born on 1 May 1981 at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, to a Scottish father and Hungarian mother. He was raised in West Bridgford before moving at age 18 to Hatfield to attend the University of Hertfordshire where he read Astrophysics.

Although presently a web developer at the Royal Opera House, in London's Covent Garden, Nicholas has won an Apple Design Award whilst working as a Cocoa programmer for Boinx Software of Bavaria, where he wrote Mac applications. Interests include learning languages (Gàidhlig, Latina, 日本語, Русский). Besides astrophysics, computing and linguistics, his interests include archaeology, paleontology, paleoanthropology, human and robotic spaceflight, terraforming, females, natural disasters and a plethora of other topics. His musical tastes include Bruce Springsteen, The Police, Die Prinzen, Chris Isaak, Jefferson Airplane, Peter Gabriel, The Steve Miller Band and U2 amongst many many others.