User:Xyzt1234
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Born in Lisbon in 1954, male, married university professor, of the MD-PhD sort; currently teaches medicine students to use word processors and spreadsheets.
Main hobby is was photography, with a couple individual exhibitions.
Many photos of mine are on Usefilm and DeviantArt.
Contributes to the English Wikipedia, the Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikiversity and Wikiquote, where Xyzt1234 user pages exist.
Coordinates: 38°32′06″N 08°10′30″W / 38.535°N 8.175°W / 38.535; -8.175
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| PC-0 |
This user is politically incorrect. Hence, he will speak plainly and directly to the point rather than trip all over himself trying to be inoffensive. |
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This user is 57 years, 4 months and 11 days old. |
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This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. |
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This user remembers VHS. ± |
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This user still remembers these. |
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This user uses DOS.
(or knows how to use it.) |
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This user prefers making userboxes to arguing with other editors. |
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This user believes in compliance with W3C standards. |
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This user writes valid XHTML |
| Lipsum |
This user uses lorem ipsum as placeholder text to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. |
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This user maintains a blog. |
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This user uses Google as a primary search engine. |
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This user owns 7 working computers. |
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This user contributes using Ubuntu. |
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This user wishes that the manufacturer did not install Windows Vista on their computer. |
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This user loves food in moderation. |
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This user would rather eat
organic food
than tampered-with food
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This user wonders if Spotted Owl makes good soup. |
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This user is interested in beauty. |
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This user loves to read. |
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This user loves rainy days. |
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This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans have such a hard time with them. |
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This user enjoys the interesting and weird works of Douglas Adams.
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George Orwell taught this user everything they need to know about the government.
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According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-2) and
Social Authoritarian (4) |
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This user pretends ignorance and stupidity for tactical reasons |
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This user has hypercholesterolemia but now thinks the case against cholesterol is unproven, so chooses healthy diet/lifestyle over medication.
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WARNING! This user sleeps a lot. |
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This user does NOT get along with his/her digestive system. |
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This user may contain Poison gas. Store them in an upright position at all times, and encourage them to forgo Baked beans. |
| This user exists. This is not claiming that this user is not a bot, sockpuppet, blocked user, or inactive user, it is just stating that this user EXISTS. He/She/It/They would like to point out that the reader must exist as well. |
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This user is a child at heart. They might have grown older but they'll never grow up. |
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This user doesn't care what your "ancestries" are, this user likes people for what they are and not because of a place of birth! |
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This user will NOT swear, not to God, on the Bible or anything else. This user lets their Yes be Yes and their No be No. [James 5:12]. |
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This user is interested in Neopaganism and/or is a Neopagan. |
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This user is interested in alchemy. |
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This user is
a Thelemite |
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will. |
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This user would be perfectly fine with humanity if it weren't for all those people. |
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This user's time zone is UTC. |
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It is approximately 9:19 PM where this user lives. |
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This user was born in the year of the Horse. |
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This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha! |
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This user knows that their userboxes are disorganised but has decided that they don't really care. |
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This user uses entirely too many userboxes. |
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This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very drowsy. |
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This user prefers using userboxes to fill up their user page instead of actually writing something useful. |
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This user provides information using userboxes because he or she is bored. |
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This user
- remembers smoking in buses, trains, airplanes and hospital infirmaries as a matter of course
- flew on a DC-3, a Noratlas, a DC-6 and a Caravelle
- flew a Chipmunk and a T-37 as student
- remembers carbon paper, copy paper, and retyping an entire work because of a single typo
- had his life saved by this new medication, tetracycline
- remembers having thrived on unpasteurized cow milk
- was considered badly retarded by his rather illiterate Portuguese primary teachers
- remembers when there was no TV in Portugal, no FM, and only 4 radio stations
- remembers using London-style red phone boots, double-decker buses and mail pillar boxes in Lisbon
- remembers having sent and received telegrams
- made standard 8 mm movies in black and white
- made and edited 16 mm movies in color
- remembers watching 70 mm movies
- remembers when bikinis were still unthinkable if not forbidden in Portugal, and that many people sunbathed in dress or suit
- remembers houses without bathroom (or kitchen, or plumbing) and still knows of many within a 2 km radius of his country house
- was taught set theory, probability theory, algebraic structures and basic calculus in 10-11th grade
- remembers when photocopiers were so expensive and far-fetched that stencil stayed an option
- remembers that the poorest women and children went barefoot
- knows first-hand that you have to kill if you want to eat (plants are alive too)
- was born when world population was two billion something
- once thought that the year 2000 was beyond his wildest imagination
- once thought that autofocus was an interesting possibility for photo cameras
- remembers calling operator to phone out of town
- briefly operated a telephone switchboard
- remembers Lisbon almost without cars and no outdoors
- remembers the Tagus with dolphins and clear waters and seeing the bottom
- received only the smallpox, polio and tetanus vaccines as a child
- had mumps, chickenpox, measles, epidemic hepatitis and you name it and feels great, thanks
- remembers taking six hours by car from Lisbon to Oporto, about the same to Évora and eight or so to Serpa
- learned to use a slide ruler and tables of logarithms with six decimal places
- remembers having used a time-sharing teletype with BASIC
- learned to program with a Ti-58 calculator
- this user's first personal computer was a Sinclair ZX80
- this user first did word processing with LocoScript running on CP/M on an Amstrad PCW 8256 computer
- used WordStar 4 as a text processor (though WordPerfect 5.1 was far better)
- first computer at workplace was a Wang_2200
- remembers colleagues who used punch tape and programmed directly in octal with the computer's console switches
- used punch cards
- remembers using MS-DOS 3.1
- and Windows 3.0 and that it wasn't very good
- was the sysop of a BBS he set up working
- remembers when there were no ads nor commercial sites on the Web. And when there was no Web.
- is a Civilization IV and Flight Simulator junkie and flies on the IVAO network
- was a doctor when hearing the patient and a thorough physical examination were important and would have loved to have worked for the Médecins_Sans_Frontières, but thing$ being a$ they are...
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