User:The Mad Echidna
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I was born on 25 October 1971, and since completing year 12, I have studied Medicine (for 3 years), Arts, Maths, and Education. My only qualification is a BSc. in maths. I live in Australia, and call football "soccer".
My interests include history, philosophy, religion, literature, foreign languages, pure mathematics, probability theory, and occasionally energy studies. I am currently enrolled in honours in maths (probability theory/ robust statistics). I also speak a bit of French, almost, but not quite, enough to understand the French news with David Pujadas. I am intermittently reading books on philosophy, and studying Latin. I'm also planning to start Arabic soon. I aim to one day read the Qur'an in its original tongue.
My ambitions include writing a big classic work of philosophy to unify all systems of knowledge and spirituality. I also want to solve the mystery of human consciousness, and make the perfect pizza.
Musically, I like Beethoven, John Dowland and Bob Dylan. Daniel Levitin was once asked to find six songs that summed up all of rock music. I thought, how ridiculous - you only need one: A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. This covers folk, politics, rock and eclecticism, with a dash of the "talking blues" in there somewhere.
My major contributions to Wikipedia include policing the use of the semicolon, and removing clumsy use of the conditional tense ("Demosthenes would go on to..." instead of "Demosthenes went on to..."). My other edits always seem to get reverted, so I'm sticking with semicolons for a while. You can also find me on the reference desk fairly often.
Cheers!!
The Mad Echidna 03:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
