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54984 "Nuno Souto" <nsouto@a...> 1998‑12‑21 Bio:
Name: Nuno Pinto do Souto (there are more, but this will do).

Species: Homo Neanderthalicus Australis

Seeding: 1954, Mozambique. Parental roots come from Portugal.

Growth: All over the bloody place.

Current roots: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Branches: Woodworking, Photography, Video, Fishing, Fractals, all sorts of weir
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stuff.

Borers: DB Administrator and ORACLE tuning and design specialist. For the last
14 years. Before that, Codasyl DB design, Systems Analyst, Programmer. Since
1975.

Training: Electronics Bsc, until I saw the light (pun intended) and went into
software.

Purely amateur wood working, mostly with hand tools. Although I'm partial to th
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drill press, a future bandsaw (saving on-going) and a current circular saw on a
Triton workcentre. Making cabinets, benches, bookshelves, tables, house
carpentry. Garage workshop. Yes, I DO buy furniture, if it is well made and
looks good to me. I do not pretend to build everything myself.

W-W Gloat: A Norris A17 in absolutely MINT condition. The new L-N low-angle
block smoother is better, IMHO...

Pets: The kids. Hand tools. Fishing, Photo and Video gear. SWMBO (had to, she
lets me get away with all this stuff!).

Hates: Fanatics. In any shape or format. Marketing types. Stupidity. Crowds.
Loud-mouths. Cruella the Bill.

Reads: Pickover, Pirsig, sci-fi, classics, Krenov et all.

Enjoys: the odd cigar or cigarette (hey! I gotta die of something, OK?). Red
wines, white ports and boutique beers. Campfires in the middle of the Australia
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desert, chatting away. Gardening. Driving the 4wd.

Ambitions: None. Too old for that sort of crap. Done more than most anyway. I'm
very happy the way life turned out. So what!... (still wanna finish the web
site, though...  #8-)   ).

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto@a...



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