User:Normxxx

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Current time and date is 08:01 8 June 2025 (GMT)

About me

Name	Norman
Birth	28 Aug	1932
Birthplace	Brooklyn,	New York
Residence	Southern Maryland	Washington, D.C. suburb
Education	C.C.N.Y.; U. of MD; U. of MI	B.S.E.E, M.A. Mathematics, Ph.D. Psych. (Mathematical)

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This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This user is a Myers-Briggs type INTP.

This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

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User is alternately an Atheist or Omnitheist by conviction; a scientific Agnostic by pure reason; and a Religious Pluralist by inclination.

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This user strongly supports the theory of evolution.

I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.

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This user contributes using Microsoft Windows 7.

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

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Major contributions

Articles on which I've done a significant amount of work.

• Acceptance test
• Adverse selection
• Analog computer
• Architecture and Architecture (disambiguation)
• Automation
• Catastrophic failure
• Computer software
• Corporate governance
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Data Processor
• Deadlock
• Deflation (economics)
• Engineer
• Engineering
• Event handler
• Exclusive
• Exhaust
• HOL
• Hybrid computer
• Inclusive
• Insourcing
• Interface Control Document
• Interrupt handler
• KISS principle
• Mind-body problem
• Object-oriented programming
• Operational definition
• Paleolithic
• Process (computing)
• Reentrant
• Social progress
• Software architect
• Software architecture
• Solipsism
• Specification
• Stand-alone
• Stock exchange
• Stock Market
• System
• Systems engineering
• Technician
• Technology
• Thrash (computer science)
• Work-around

Articles I've created

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• Hardware architect
• Hardware architecture
• Systems architect
• Systems architecture
• Wikipedia:Starter toolset

Major Interests

• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of physics | Interpretation of quantum mechanics | Philosophy of space and time
• Philosophy of biology | Anthropology
• Securities market trading
• Opera, Folk music, Operetta, musical theater, popular vocals (especially from the '20s, 30's, 40s, and 50s)— all forms of sung music that have a pleasant melody (even some rock music).

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Official portrait, 1992

Barbara Bush (June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, the wife of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush. Born in New York City and raised in Rye, her children include George W. Bush, the 43rd president, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida. She and Abigail Adams are the only two women to be the wife of one U.S. president and the mother of another. Bush was generally popular as First Lady, recognized for her apolitical grandmotherly image. Founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, and diagnosed with Graves' disease in 1989, she frequently carried out charity work, including support for people with AIDS. She spoke at commencement in 1990 at Wellesley College; her selection was controversial, but the speech was widely regarded as a success. She remained active in political campaigning after leaving the White House, as her sons George and Jeb each ran for both governor and president. (Full article...)

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• 1826 – In York, Upper Canada, members of the Family Compact destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot after Mackenzie accused them of corruption.
• 1929 – Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
• 1941 – World War II: The Allies commenced the Syria–Lebanon campaign against Vichy French possessions in the Levant.
• 1953 – An F5 tornado struck Flint and Beecher, Michigan, causing 116 fatalities, 844 injuries and $19 million in damage during a larger tornado outbreak sequence.

• William of York (d. 1154)
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• Omar Bongo (d. 2009)

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Picture of the Day

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Set design for Act III of the opera Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué, composed by Daniel Auber with a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Created for the première performance at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera on 27 February 1833.

The opera concerns some aspects of the real-life assassination of Gustav III, King of Sweden. Its libretto was used as the original basis for Giuseppe Verdi's later Un ballo in maschera, though Italian censorship forced numerous changes to that version.Set design credit: Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri; restored by Adam Cuerden

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