Represent ♥’s Everyday Tweeple – Meet @matthewncube
Voici numero 2 in our new series Represent ♥’s Everyday Tweeple – inspired by tweets in our stream that made us want to know more about the hearts and minds behind the 140 characters… Meet Matthew Ncube, known on Twitter as @matthewncube – he’s an Afropolitan spreadsheet geek living it large in London – In’it! ;0 Don’t forget to follow Editorista on @sisiwami to find out who’s next in the series… It’s a lady !
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Web: http://searchgeek.wordpress.com/
Bio: work in paid search. love pivot tables. game theory & chaos theory enthusiast. afropolitan. mostly from zim.
What is a pivot table?
– a pivot table makes lots of lots numbers in a spreadsheet easy to understand and can make nice graphs and pictures to draw conclusions
Please enlighten us with an example of game theory?
-Right. Say boy and girl go on a movie date. Boy wants to see action movie. Girl wants to see chick flick. They both want to spend to spend time together. The strategic bargaining is game theory in practice. Simples.
What about chaos theory?
– Expect the unexpected. There’s a black swan approaching around the corner. Like the reason the laundry in your washing machine is untangled. Your machine probably uses a nonlinear chaotic system, which means every cycle is random. Got it? (umm… no, still not, but I’ll ask my clever friends to explain 😉 )
What ingredients make up an afroplitan?
– Young, proudly African, internationally mobile, polyglot, making a mark in the world, the coolest damn people on earth
Where’s the rest of you from if not Zim?
– Well… the rest has been picked up along the way for example my Pan African music sense, my dull British humour, my European dresscode and my brazen American ego
Why London and for how long?
– London by coincidence and will be for a very long time (please explain this coincidink further in the comments… pretty please ? ;0 )
So tell us about your night with Mos Def…
– I still think I was dreaming
Which ‘thing’ are you going to next week at Koko and why?
– Some artist is having a gig there showcasing his new album and a friend got me on the guest list. apparently it’s Usher. not the greatest fan but i’m up for a party.
Tell us about ‘Bring me my Bow of burning gold’…
– My school’s favourite hymn, don’t ask why as it was an all boys boarding school on the Zim/Bots border – sung it at the end of each term – now symbolises the end of anything significant I do
Please can we have a photo of your favourite cupcakes
– I dont actually like cupcakes. too much fat, not enough protein. i’m obsessed by their trend.
Would you have cow’s feet in peanut sauce again? What other exotic dishes are you favourite?
– i can make my own cow’s feet in peanut sauce now. other favourites: the entire menu of Bissap Baobab (I was once Mayor of this eatery in San Francisco’s Mission District)
Give us 5 reasons why you rate London as the coolest city on the planet
1. The Tube
2. Brixton Market
3. My TasteLondon card
4. The Science Museum
5. WC1 and WC2 postcodes
Besides Shingai, which other Southern Africans are you a groupie of?
Thandiswa Mazwai, will you marry me?
You’re buying your first TV of your life… tell us more
– I was going to buy one, but my new flat mate has a 54 inch monstrosity. that’s put me off.
Tell us about your love for spreadsheets
– take a blank sheet and create a work of art with lots of words and numbers and add pictures to it. that’s love
What are your top 3 apps including Extraodinaires and why?
– Toiluxe & Sleep Cycle. Extraordinaires because every little helps. Toiluxe in case I’m caught short, there’s a posh loo nearby. Sleep Cycle is the best wake up call EVER!
Can you please send us a photo of you doing *a little jig*
– my *jigs” are short, sharp and abrupt. too fast for a camera to pick up
What 5 tracks should we be listening to right now?
– Sometimes by The Noisettes
– Izilo by Thandiswa Mazwai
– Vanish by Freshground
– Where Do I Begin by Sneaky Sound System
– Misty Blue by Dorothy Moore
Sharpile dude! Knowotimeanluv?
