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"People who put in all the commas betray themselves as moral weaklings with empty lives and out-of-date reference books."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
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"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
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"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today." - Chinese proverb
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. |
First
Name source: Theodoric
Keen. (adj.)
Anglophile / Britophile
Native Texan
Citizen of Austin, Texas 1985-2004, 2006-2010.
Now living in Pontiac, Illinois
Pethead [http://www.petshopboys.co.uk]
Nova Friend
Shares his birthday with the first test tube baby Louise Brown.
Next
Currently reading ...
[ very out of date ]
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir by Terry Gilliam, released Thursday 1 October 2015
[http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UNNEEKG/ref=pe_385040_112047530_TE_DP]
{{User:UBX/Terry Gilliam}}
Soon
David Mitchell book, Slade House. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/14/david-mitchell-new-novel-slade-house-autumn], released Tuesday 27 October 2015.
Read in the past
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Bring Up the Bodies 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
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
Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess
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List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
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'''Pay close attention!''' (was '''new interests''')
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Suggested_edits
[http://books.google.com/books?id=3rEcAQAAIAAJ&q=never+apologise&dq=never+apologise&num=20&client=firefox-a Never Apologise, the collected writings of] Lindsay Anderson
List of non-metropolitan counties
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Norman_Foster%2C_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank
Personal identity (philosophy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonkoping (Sweden)
[http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/index.html]
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.
[http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Tibet|Tibet Tibet news]
Erewhon [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Erewhon]
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Finally
A hero
Alan Turing was one of the main creative minds that led to modern computing. He happened to be unapologetically gay.
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"The mind orders the body and immediately it obeys. The mind orders itself, and meets resistance." -St. Augustine