User:Prime Lemur

This user participates in
WikiProject Citation cleanup.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Plants.

This user knows that replacing one bias with another is not cleanup.

Everyone has points of view with inherent cultural biases - recognition is the first step to achieving NPOV.

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This user likes to browse random articles, and make helpful edits whenever they can.

This user is a citizen of Australia.

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This user is a native speaker of Australian English.

This user account is secured with a unique committed identity.

ADD

This user has Attention Deficit Disorder.

SAD

This user has studied Systems Analysis and Design. That's SAD.

This user cultivates orchids, sometimes successfully.

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en-N	This user has a native understanding of English.

Committed identity: ec4be3117568e0595510848e3dae09afa530206a4c7e9595bc4e6ddd699099b47e3594726972046d009f2a660366c4a83e70d0253af8f11094dc6d8712878d2e is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

My real name is Aaron.

I am colour blind. I wish more computer programmers were familiar with what colour vision deficiency is and how apparently insignificant, whimsical and/or aesthetically appealing choices in colour palette can mean the difference between usable and unusable user interfaces for the (surprisingly large) fraction of the population with a CVD.

I have Attention Deficit Disorder, which was only diagnosed in adulthood. It pretty much ruined the first 25 years of my life. Today it is reasonably well-controlled by medication. Everyone has, to varying degrees, some familiarity & experience with deficits in attention. One of the clinical criteria of ADD is that the problem is so substantial, systematic and pervasive that it interferes with education, employment, relationships, day to day responsibilities and/or goals & aspirations. Medication helps put people with ADD back in control of their lives, but those diagnosed in adulthood can find themselves at considerable disadvantage (in education, employment, finances, relationships) in comparison to their peers, and that's something medication can't fix.

History

My first experience of on-line gaming (and the dangers of addiction) was through MUDs: an acronym for multi user dungeons. Not content to merely play MUDs for 12 hours a day, I eventually became a programmer and designer of the scripted frontend user experience, and with growing experience, helped maintain the backend server codebase.^[a]

That's ... not a jpeg, is it? MUDs made extensive use of ASCII art, and later, once monitors capable of displaying more than one colour were more common, ANSI art.

Hobbies and Interests

A far from exhaustive list of things that interest me:

Geology
- Geology & geological history of Australia
- Minerals
  - Collecting minerals
    - Boulder opal
    - Sapphires of Australian origin
    - Tourmaline
  - Fossicking for minerals
  - Participating in mineral-related forums, assisting with identifying minerals
  - Boring people senseless by going on, and on, and on about minerals
Botany
- Orchids
  - Cultivating species orchids^[b]
  - Studying the natural ecology, evolutionary history & taxonomy of orchids
  - Methods & history of orchid hybridisation
  - Australian native orchids
- Australian native plants
Organic chemistry
- Flavour & fragrance chemistry
- Essential oils
  - Distillation & other separation techniques
- Brewing & distilling alcoholic beverages
Mycology
Ethnopharmacology
Linguistics

Notes

^ See front and back ends.
^ Species orchids are those orchids that are found growing as indigenous plants. They are the sources of today's ~100,000 orchid hybrids and their innumerable clonal variants.

[1] See front and back ends.

[2] Species orchids are those orchids that are found growing as indigenous plants. They are the sources of today's ~100,000 orchid hybrids and their innumerable clonal variants.

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