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Welcome to my new site! I love learning new things, gathering more information- sometimes the more useless the better. My interests are fairly broad, and include just about everything except Politics and Opera, so there should be a wide spate of topics in here. 
  Just getting started here, so my first post is forthcoming. As Adam was supposed to have said to Eve, "stand back, honey. I don't know how big this thing is supposed to get!"

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