User:Pat Payne

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[edit] About Me

I am a carbon-based life-form on the North American landmass. I do not argue with dragons, for I know that I am crunchy and taste good with ketchup. :)

Seriously, though, I live in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and work both as a freelance writer for the local paper every so often (the Palos Verdes Peninsula News) as well as as a computer tech at a dot-com firm in Los Angeles. In my off hours, I like nothing better than to curl up with a good book. I usually have at least three going at once, and juggle between them. (I try not to go too high in number though, or the different books get jumbled -- once, for three days, I was convinced that Athos, Porthos and Aramis had fought Hitler! :P )

As the boxes say below, I have an interest in Old English history, but in general, I'm interested in most historical areas. It's just the times of Caesar and Alfred the Great that I've gravitated to more than any other.

I've been hit by a vandal recently. This is all I have to say about it: "Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." -- Winston Churchill

and

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." --attributed to Winston Churchill.

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A small partial map of the Internet. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. This graph contains over 40,000 nodes, which represents about 2% of the Class C network address space.

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Noting too major yet:

Herr Meets Hare
I'll Never Heil Again
MAN-08 Elmeth
I'm also working on a major re-write of de Legibus.
Glaistig
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

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[edit] Books I'm reading now

Cleopatra's Kidnappers by Stephen Dando-Collins
The Bible by Moses, Solomon, John, Matthew et. al.
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
A Conspiracy so Immense by David M. Oshinsky

Current Boschmeter Wikistress level:

Must keep calm...find my center...

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Who I am, in gory detail...

This user agrees with George Orwell in outlook but is not a Socialist.

This user rejects all forms of Marxist thinking

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nazis

This user opposes facism in all its forms

This user believes it is every citizen's duty to assess every candidate and abstain from voting if none is found fit for office, unless he or she wants to vote anyway.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user enjoys writing.

This user reads The Daily Breeze.

This user reads The Los Angeles Times.

This user reads The Palos Verdes Peninsula News.

This user enjoys reading the speeches and philosophy of Cicero.

Big Brother is watching this user.

This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

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This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let him or her know.

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