Xyzt1234

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ptEste usuário/utilizador tem como língua materna o português.

en-4This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

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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.

Pages I've been about

• Abraxas
• Alchemy
• Almendres Cromlech
• Anta Grande do Zambujeiro
• Carl Jung
• Escoural Cave
• Évora
• Fernando Pessoa
• Kishin Shinoyama
• Portuguese Proverbs

This User

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PC-0This user is politically incorrect.

69This user is 69 years, 5 months, and 30 days old. ()

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user remembers when television programming was only in black-and-white.

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

This user remembers VHS. ±

This user still remembers these.

C:\>_This user uses DOS, or knows how to use it.

TV-0This user has no television set.

This user prefers making userboxes to arguing with other editors.

C-2This user is an intermediate C programmer.

pas-2This user is an intermediate Pascal programmer.

HTML-2This user is an intermediate HTML user.

css-2This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user.

W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.

This user writes valid XHTML.

LipsumThis user uses lorem ipsum as placeholder text to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation.

This user is a DeviantArt deviant.

This user uses Google Maps.

This user is an editor on Wikivoyage.

This user maintains a blog.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user contributes using a wireless connection.

7	This user owns 7 working computers.

This user contributes using either Internet Explorer or Firefox.

This user is part of the International Penguin Conspiracy.

This user contributes using Ubuntu.

This user wishes that the manufacturer did not install Windows Vista on their computer.

This user has experienced many blue screen(s) of death, and caused a few of them.

?This user dual boots

Linux and

Windows.?

This user creates websites with gedit.

This user writes with the OpenOffice.org suite.

FzThis user uploads websites with FileZilla.

This user uses free software wherever and whenever possible.

This user contributes using GIMP.

This user's primary email client is Mozilla Thunderbird.

This user loves food in moderation.

26This user's body mass index
is 26

ORGThis user would rather eat
organic food
than tampered-with food

This user is an omnivore.

This user loves
Indian cuisine.

This user likes their steak brown on the outside, mooing on the inside.

This user loves spaghetti.

This user wonders if the Spotted owl makes good soup.

This user likes
Chocolate Chip Cookies.

This user likes Ice cream.

This user drinks water.

This user loves espresso.

S-0This user does not drink carbonated beverages.

This user drinks
wines

This user drinks. Period.

This user enjoys chess.

This user is a modder.

This user is interested in beauty.

This user loves knowledge.

This user loves to read.

This user enjoys photography.

This user enjoys Classical music.

This user is skeptical of anthropogenic global warming.

This user supports sustainable living.

This user is interested in regiving.

This user is a tobacco smoker.

This user loves rainy days.

This user is interested in higher education.

a²+b²=c²This user is an intermediate mathematician.

?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.

This user's deviation is standard.

This user likes geometry.

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This user likes René Magritte

This user enjoys reading fiction.

This user enjoys reading thrillers.

This user knows who the true Father of Science Fiction is.

This user reads science fiction.

This user reads postcyberpunk science fiction

This user really enjoys dark and stormy nights.

1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick.

DNA	This user enjoys the interesting and weird works of Douglas Adams.

This user acknowledges Fernando Pessoa were geniuses.

George Orwell taught this user everything they need to know about the government.

This user thinks Foucault's Pendulum is a much better version of The Da Vinci Code.

DON'T PANICThis user attempts not to panic with the aid of several towels.

This user knows that the mainstream media is just a brainwashing tool.

This user enjoys early music.

This user enjoys music by Georg Philipp Telemann.

This user enjoys music by Antonio Vivaldi.

This user enjoys music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

This user enjoys music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

This user enjoys philosophy.

This user is a Humanist.

This user believes that
life is good.

This user is interested in the belief that death is an acceptable part of life.

This user believes if voting changed anything, it would be made illegal.

According to The Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (−2) and
Social Authoritarian (4)

This user is a Christian anarchist.^‡

This user supports flat taxes.

This user believes the use of alarmist tactics by the Green Movement has obstructed the fulfillment of its original goals.

This user thinks the
global warming issue has been immensely exaggerated

This user supports
universal health care.

This user opposes the use of capital punishment.

This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

This user believes that fighting for peace is akin to fucking for virginity.

This user has been tested and is a Certified Nerd.

This user uses a TI calculator.

This user is interested in metaphysics.

This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education.

MDThis user has a Doctor of Medicine degree.

PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

IQ	This user's Intelligence Quotient is 132.

This user might or might not have an academic degree, and considers the distinction irrelevant on Wikipedia.

This user pretends ignorance and stupidity for tactical reasons.

This user is nEurOtic.

This user is highly... um... What's that word again?

This user has hypercholesterolemia but now thinks the case against cholesterol is unproven, so chooses healthy diet/lifestyle over medication.

WARNING! This user sleeps a lot.

This user does NOT get along with his/her digestive system.

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.Existent

This user is a child at heart. They might have grown older, but they'll never grow up.

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!

CPLPEste utilizador/usuário é Lusófono. This user is Lusophone.

This user thinks he is a meta-agnostic, but he is not certain.

This user has been touched by His Noodly Appendage.

This user's spiritual beliefs are complex and personal.

This user is a lapsed Catholic.

This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.

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].

This user is interested in Neopaganism and/or is a Neopagan.

This user is interested in Gnosticism

This user is interested in alchemy.

This user is a Thelemite

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the Law, Love under Will.

This user would be perfectly fine with humanity if it weren't for all those people.

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This user understands all the mysteries of the Universe

This user believes that Evolution and Christianity are mutually supportive.

UTCThis user's time zone is UTC.

It is approximately 6:32 PM where this user lives.

00:00This user uses 24-hour time.

This user is a Scorpio.

This user was born in the Year of the Horse.馬

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This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!

This user knows that their userboxes are disorganised but has decided that they don't really care.

ubx-5This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very drowsy.

This user prefers using userboxes to fill up their user page instead of actually writing something useful.

This user provides information using userboxes because he or she is bored.

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...
• this user etc.