TwitLight is a Twitter Spotlight posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Also have a look at all the previous TwitLights and you are more than welcome to take part, too!

Today’s TwitLight is a man that has undoubtely made me laugh most times out of all the people that I follow on Twitter. I don’t actually remember how I first came across him or if he first started following me, but I’ve become so used to his tweets that I practically missed his tweets when his company disallowed the use of the internet and I’m glad to see he’s back in charge of their internet!

He refers to himself as BioWare’s bitch and can go on about their games for ages. The podcasts he co-hosts with @GamerEdie is a must listen for everyone, as are his episodes of ‘Panties in a bunch’ on the GameHounds Humpdate spinoff, although neither should be listened to around children as they can contain strong language.

In this TwitLight he talks about his work, his dreams of robbing banks, the perfect job on the Enterprise that I totally agree with and, surprisingly, doesn’t mention BioWare once! I promise, I didn’t make his love for them up!

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to @CooperHawkes!

1. Where are you from?
All over, but currently living in Massachusetts.

2. How old are you?
40. Don’t look at me that way, it just means I’ve been playing games before most of you whipper snappers were zygotes!

3. What do you do for a living?
I dabble, mostly I’m a DBA, but I also Systems and Network Admin, it’s actually much more fun than it sounds.

4. What does your alias/nickname mean and how did you come up with it?
Back in 1996 my favorite TV show at the time was “Space: Above and Beyond” and the character I most identified with was Paul Wang.

I would have used that name except I didn’t want people to think that A) I was making a bad penis joke, and B) I understood Chinese or Korean or Japanese. My second favorite character was Cooper Hawkes, so the name stuck.

5. What do you want to be when you grow up and has that changed at all since you were little?
I wanted to be an astronaut, then a journalist, then a movie director, then a movie writer, then a novelist, then I wanted to rob banks to live a lifestyle way beyond my means. Obviously none of the above worked out.

6. What song are you thinking about right now?
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd. The last 3 minutes of guitar heavy rifts sends me to a level of bliss higher than any drug you could take.

7. Do you have a Last.fm profile?
I do, but I’m not on there nearly enough. ID is also Cooper Hawkes.. I think Cooper Hawkes has more a life online than David LaMont. Works for me!

8. What are you reading at the moment? [Book, magazine, website, Wikipedia article..]
“VMWare Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure” it’s a page turner, I hope it has a surprise ending!

(GASP!) The SERVER DID IT!!

9. Which video game are you playing these days and is it as good as you thought it would be? [provided you play video games that is!]
Currently playing mostly “Diner Dash” on my iPod Touch. I seem to remember belittling this game back when it was a PC flash game. Oh how far I’ve come.

10. What is the weather like at the moment?
Sunny and cold, just like me!

11. What are your plans for the rest of the day?
I’m going to convert 8 million messages from MQX file into something an Oracle Database can read. After that I’ll pick up my son and take him to a therapy session. Hopefully he’ll fall asleep on the way home so I can put him to bed, make his lunch for tomorrow and maybe get five minutes me time before I conk out for my 5:15am wake up call.

12. If you could replace anyone in any TV show, who would you pick?
I would totally own the Matt Parkman character on “Heroes”, but I happen to adore Greg Grunberg so I’d have to say I’d love to replace James Callas on Battlestar Galactica. Not that I think he’s terrible as Gaius Baltar, or even that I can play him better, it’s for the Tricia Helfer love scenes.

13. If you had the chance to work on the Enterprise [Star Trek ship!], what job would you have?
Cleaning the toilets. Because there doesn’t seem to be any on there, I’d just sit around in the bar the whole time!

14. Seeing that I’m a grumpy person in the morning I’ve realized I can’t live with people that are overly happy as soon as they wake up. Would you be a good flatmate?
I’d be an awesome flatmate, because I loath the mornings. Have you ever been woken up and looked over at the clock and realized you still had 1 minute before the alarm goes off? Those mornings I hate the most because I feel like I was cheated of 60 whole seconds of sleep. PS. Do not approach me during AM hours unless there’s a cup of hot something in my hand. You have been warned.

15. What is the best website you’ve come across recently?
io9.com I Science Fiction based website, I do love visiting it.

16. How long have you been on Twitter for and when did you realise you were sucked in by it?
Since the beginning, 2006. I never really got sucked into it until shortly after the demise of my old podcast GamerAndy.

17. Settle this question for me: PC or Mac?
Sorry, the answer is: Depends. PC if you’re the type of person that doesn’t mind having to get his hands really dirty to do fun things. MAC if you just want to sit back, relax and let the computer do the thinking.

It’s my belief that SkyNet is a MAC.

18. And another one: ice cream or cake?
Ice Cream Cake.

19. Fill this out however you want: “Today I am ____ and I ____, but ____, because ____.”

Today I am pissed and I want to scream, but I can’t because I’ll get fired, or shot at.

20. What do you want everyone to know about you, who are you, what makes you tick? [aka describe yourself]
In retrospect Forrest Gump is a pretty shitty movie, but I was always charmed by that image of the feather in the breeze. I was also moved by that “floating accidental like” speech at the end of the movie. When I had my life’s epiphany, I realized that was me. I don’t plan, I don’t put things in place, I just go where the breeze takes me, and just own the situation as best I can.

People of said I’m a jack of all trades but a master of none. I don’t take offense, but I wonder what’s so bad about dipping your toes into as many pools as you can? Life’s too damn short, I find I’ll try anything at least one time.

Oh one last thing: I never forgive. Ever. You get one shot with me, blow that and there’s a slight chance you get a reprieve, but it depends on the situation, after that I’m done. You don’t get a third try to mess with me.

21. What is the last thing that you’ve felt proud about?
When my son said to me: “Daddy, you be Chewbacca, and I’ll be Han Solo.”

22. If I wanted to stalk you on the internet where would I have to go?

• I work at Gamehounds.
• Twitter: CooperHawkes
• Xbox Live: CooperHawkes
• PSN: Cooper Hawkes

Seeing a pattern? If you find someone called CooperHawkes (No space) That’s probably me.

23. Any more comments?
My favorite quote of all time:

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Make of that what you will. Thanks Carocat!!!

Thank you so much for taking part!