Dave Curran

Who?
24 year old civil servant in London. Owner of a rather pointless website.







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But what do you do?
I used to work on metal foams, an amazing revolutionary new material which was almost certainly going to mean a new dawn for civilisation (and may yet...). Now I've escaped science altogether, got a proper job, and am working on government policy for the UK's manufacturing industry (and before you ask, yes - there still is one - and it still makes money).

Why Swiss?
I'm not actually Swiss at all - but my parents live in Geneva and after living there for 18 years the label stuck when I moved to the UK. More to the point, all the obvious website names were already taken by the time I got round to making this one.

Is that all?
I'm involved in quite a few random societies. The SBR is, of course, easily the best College student union anywhere, of course - it always helps to have a swiss treasurer who can do a bit of money-laundering when the cash runs out. Not that it's free advertising, but the best film society in Cambridge is definitely St John's. You get to see projectionists fighting with a large and complex projector, and if you're lucky you may see a mountain of 35mm film pouring out of the projection room door. The John's punts are only £2 an hour, with a choice of 12 punts - thanks to the poor sods who deal with the flash floods, unexplained sinkings and assorted disasters. The website is brilliant too (I made it) - worth dropping everything to have alook at it. I'd also recommend the St John's May Ball (the seventh best party in the world, according to Time Magazine). And the University Scientific Society is also very well organised - I'm no longer in the committee but it's still worth going to their events...

Where?
Battersea. I'd put more, but I don't have a computer any more (apart from a government-issue disaster from the mid-nineties, which I can't install anything on), so it's complicated to update this page. This partly explains the unresolved mix of London and Cambridge throughout the site, and the spectacularly out-of-date nature of some sections.






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