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"People who put in all the commas betray themselves as moral weaklings with empty lives and out-of-date reference books."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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Keen. (adj.)

Anglophile / Britophile

Middle-aged

Non-thiest

Native Texan

Citizen of Austin, Texas 1985-2004, 2006-2010.

Now living in Pontiac, Illinois

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Nova Friend

Shares his birthday with the first test tube baby Louise Brown.

Go, Team Venture!

Robert Peter Robbie Fukkin Williams!!

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Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir by Terry Gilliam, released Thursday 1 October 2015  More Fool Me by Stephen Fry

Soon David Mitchell book, Slade House. , 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)
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Suggested_edits

World Naked Bike Ride

Never Apologise, the collected writings of Lindsay Anderson

Diamond Sutra

Jon McClure

Ian Rankin

Joaqu%C3%ADn Rodrigo

List of non-metropolitan counties

Iain Banks

Longyearbyen

Skara Brae

Politics of Switzerland

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Gaia hypothesis

Multiple sclerosis

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Personal identity (philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonkoping  (Sweden)

Flying Spaghetti Monster

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! 

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.

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Autism

Old Compton Street

Erewhon

Edith Cavell

Coldstream Guards

Johnson Beharry

Eeyore's Birthday Party

Finally
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''