John Paul Costella
- Born:
- 24 September 1966, East Melbourne, Australia.
- Educated:
- Kew kindergarten Stawell St,
Sacred Heart Primary School Kew,
Burke Hall Kew,
Xavier College Kew,
St Kevin's College Toorak,
Monash University,
The University of Melbourne.
- Qualifications:
- B.E.(Hons.), B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.
- Employed:
- East Hawthorn Newsagency,
McDonald's Restaurants,
student tutoring,
IBM Australia Ltd,
The University of Melbourne.
- Physical defects:
- Colour blind (deuteranopia; no green receptors);
short sighted (-2.75 D left, -2.25 D right);
asthmatic.
- Mental defects:
- Too numerous to fit on tauon's hard disk.
Many due to being an engineer.
- Club:
- Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Cricket Ground, East Melbourne.
- Football team (AFL):
- Richmond (The Tigers).
- Favourite colour:
- Blue.
- Favourite pair of colours:
- Black and yellow.
- Instruments:
- Drums (favourite), guitar, piano (primitive),
viola (bad memories), violin,
recorder (good fun), whatever else is lying around.
- Favourite key:
- F minor.
- Favourite drum solo:
- Midnight Oil, The Power and the Passion
(he must have six hands!).
- Favourite key change:
- From minor to major after second verse of
Madonna's Like a Prayer.
- Personality:
- While eating lunch one day, I happened to surf onto an
here
for the computer-generated results.
- Photos:
- Here are some family snapshots:
- Favourite ties:
- To see them all, click
here.
Otherwise, click on an individual tie below.
Copyright © 1994-1995 John P. Costella
(jpc@physics.unimelb.edu.au).
Accesses since 12 September 1995: 
