User:Derekbd

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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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Sonnet 116

by William Shakespeare

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.

Name source: Theodoric

Keen. (adj.)

Anglophile

Native Texan

Pethead [1]

Nova Friend.

Resides in Austin, Texas, USA. Favourite places: Barton Creek and Hippie Hollow.

Was born in a Chinese Year of the Fire Horse, and is a Leo.

Shares his birthday with the first test tube baby Louise Brown, Estelle Getty, Matt LeBlanc, among others.


Favourite wikibits:
Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places/Landscapes

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Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun

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Currently reading and/or recently read books:

Timewatch - The Redemption of Christopher Colombus by Orson Scott Card.

A Crack in the Edge of the World — the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake by Simon Winchester

Pay close attention! (was new interests):


Multiple sclerosis


Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank

Personal identity (philosophy)

Robin Hood official BBC site

Flying Spaghetti Monster

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! [2]

The Venture Bros.

Manchester based dramas, including Clocking Off, Burn It, The Street (TV series), Sorted.

Chris Coghill

Doc Martin, excellent UK series. Decidedly unique. Recommended to fans of Northern Exposure and BriTV.

Tibet news

Autism

Old Compton Street

Erewhon [3]

Edith Cavell

Coldstream Guards

Johnson Beharry

Eeyore's Birthday Party


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