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Babble-Box

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

These users believes in the Noodly Appendage of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

This user is an Aries.

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

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Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

'	This user is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University.

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This user would like to know all existing languages.

This user plays the piano.

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This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

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This user knows how to use which and that correctly.

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Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct".

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This user may get around to being a professional procrastinator. Someday. Maybe.

THIS USER'S HEAD ASPLODE.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user activates the Stargate to invade other planets.

This user runs Mac OS X.

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Ceci n'est pas une boîte utilisateur.

This user maintains a blog.

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Billie Jean is not this user's lover. She's just a girl who claims that he is the one.

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Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain.

This user should not be trusted.

My name is Dan. I am a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, where I am working on a PhD in musicology. I earned a BMus from Vanderbilt University in 1999 and an MM from Texas in 2003. I grew up in Northern Virginia, but most of my family hails from Central Texas. I am a third-generation Longhorn.

Obviously, music is my primary interest. I specialize primarily in European music in the Twentieth century, but I have recently developed strong interests in Renaissance music, American classical music, and the early history of blues and rock and roll. I wrote my master's report on the sets of twenty-four preludes and fugues through all the major and minor keys by Johann Sebastian Bach (the Well-Tempered Clavier), Dmitri Shostakovich (the op. 87 set) and Anthony Burgess (the Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard). My doctoral dissertation will also include a chapter (at least) on Burgess, as well as some work on Paul Bowles and Charlie Chaplain.

I am shamelessly obsessed with college sports, especially basketball. I run a website featuring my own attempt at a computer ranking algorithm, which may or may not be a stupid waste of time, and I am the founder of the College Basketball Wiki. I also like candy, video games, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. My more serious non-musical interests include linguistics, astronomy, art history, poetry, and judaica.

I started editing on 31 March 2005. I am an inclusionist, and I believe that no matter what it is, someone somewhere is interested enough in it for it to have a Wikipedia article. I think that edit wars are stupid and childish. I try to avoid controversial articles and heavily edited articles, not because I'm afraid of getting my hands dirty, but because I don't usually care.