Well, I'm Mick, at least, that's what they call me now, when I was born in 929 I was known as Rufus, some of the story is here:
http://www.ephotozine.com/user.cfm?user=29015
and some at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mess/
Besides being a practical engineer, that means I actualy make work what the theoretical engineers think about, I write: general interest articles, used to paint, arthritis put a stop to that, Grow bonsai, take real photos, you know, with a real camera and film, I have large format 5x4 Shen Hao.