User:Derekbd
"People who put in all the commas betray themselves as moral weaklings with empty lives and out-of-date reference books." - Lynne Truss
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today." - Chinese proverb
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| Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds O no! it is an ever-fixed mark Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks If this be error and upon me proved, |
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[edit]Name source: Theodoric
Keen. (adj.)
Anglophile / Britophile
Native Texan
Citizen of Austin, Texas 1985-2004, 2006-2010.
Now living in Pontiac, Illinois
Nova Friend
Shares his birthday with the first test tube baby Louise Brown.
Robert Peter Robbie Fukkin Williams!!
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[edit]Favourite wikibits:
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Landscapes
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Currently reading ...
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Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir by Terry Gilliam, released Thursday 1 October 2015
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 | This user knows that Terry Gilliam is enfant terrible, le grand auteur, and python magnifique. † |
Soon
David Mitchell book, Slade House. [3], released Tuesday 27 October 2015. <Highly anticipating.
Read in the past
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Return to the Fractured Planet by Dave Stone
The Mary-Sue Extrusion by Dave Stone
Oh No It Isn't! by Paul Cornell
Down by Lawrence Miles
The Business by Iain Banks
Scotland - The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
The Story of Britain by Rebecca Fraser
Transition and Surface Detail by Iain Banks
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/murakami/complete.html
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whit by Iain Banks ( re-read )
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Making History by Stephen Fry
Dubliners by James Joyce
Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess
List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Pay close attention! (was new interests)
[edit]https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Suggested_edits
Never Apologise, the collected writings of Lindsay Anderson
List of non-metropolitan counties
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank
Personal identity (philosophy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonkoping (Sweden)
Manchester based dramas, including Clocking Off, Burn It, The Street (TV series), Sorted.
Doc Martin, excellent UK series. Decidedly unique. Recommended to fans of Northern Exposure and BriTV.
Finally
[edit]A hero
Alan Turing was one of the main creative minds that led to modern computing. He happened to be unapologetically gay.
"The mind orders the body and immediately it obeys. The mind orders itself, and meets resistance." -St. Augustine