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A little about me...
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This user resides in Virginia, but is not a native Virginian. |
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This user is of Irish ancestry. |
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This user keeps pet fish. |
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This user owns one or more dogs. |
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Awarded honorary title of Accomplished Shipbuilder (conferred by Irpen).
Citation: For your excellent work in creation and development of articles devoted to the shipbuilding facilities of Nikolayev you are hereby awarded the honorary title of "Accomplished Shipbuilder" accompanied with this badge. Thanks again for your efforts! -- Irpen 00:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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This user is a member of the IEEE. |
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This user is interested in the ancient Celts. |
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I am Chief Huggy Bear and my interests include technology and history. In particular, computer science, parsing and sorting algorithms, cryptography, mathematics, programming language theory, and space and missile programs of the 1950-1960s. I also enjoy studying the technology used throughout military history and the people who made it all possible.
Currently, I am involved in researching and writing articles about Ukrainian shipbuilding from Imperial Russia to present day. Wow! It has been pretty cool so far!
[edit] Who am I
I grew up in the small town of Gainesville, Missouri. When I was 18 years old, I joined the U.S. Navy which took me Asia. A couple of my first civilian technology-related jobs took me to the middle east and I even lived and worked in England for a while. Now days, I live and work in Fairfax County, Virginia which is about 20 miles from Washington, D.C.. You can check me out on my personal website (which never seems to get completed) or through LinkedIn.
I started using Wikipedia a few years ago and considered it a good resource. However, I was eventually put-off by the number of "silly" articles and the overwhelming articles about video games, movies, actors, actresses, fictional characters and worlds from video games and science fiction movies, and seemingly every athlete from various sports. Personally, I'd like to see these kinds of articles get moved off the main wiki and/or maintained elsewhere. There are tons of sports related and movie databases out there (again just my opinion). But everyone has their own interests which makes the world go 'round. I would much rather see people (especially children) browsing Wikipedia instead of gossiping in chat rooms, posting garbage on mySpace, and surfing the web for trash.
As a whole, I am amazed at the professionalism of the community and its collaborative spirit. So, just this year I thought I would help by expanding and creating new articles. So, I am fairly new to the editing process and style guidelines set forth by the Wikipedia community. I am always appreciative of fellow editors who help clean up my work, implement better templates, and of course expand the article.
[edit] To do list
- Ukrainian Shipbuilding
- Capture all shipyard facilities and capabilities; then build consistent table views.
- Find more info on early shipbuilding techniques compared to today's
- Track down lead or influential shipbuilders by name; which I may use later to write biographies like I did for Boris Mikhailovich Malinin.
- Learn more about the economic impacts of the privatization of the shipyards in 1991.
- "Learn" to read/write basic Russian and Ukrainian Cyrillic; then try to learn some language basics because there are a lot of hot Russian girls living in my neighborhood and they frequent the swimming pool. :-)
- Correlate the "plants", companies, and joint ventures which use the shipyards.
- Each shipyard could have a list of notable ships and classes.
- Once the shipyard articles are done, I think I will write a unifying article describing the history of Ukrainian shipbuilding which discusses origins, evolution, economic and cultural impacts, Ukrainian institutes devoted to the discipline, shipbuilders persona as well as influential people, and of course a cross reference to shipyard articles.
[edit] Article Contributions
Computer Science or Math-related (most were requested)
- Promise theory · Pyglet · Manifest typing · KXML · Polyphase merge sort · Type soundness · Stub Test · Multicast delegate · Superincreasing sequence · Cryptographic Quarterly · Blum-Micali algorithm
Russian and Ukrainian Related Articles
- Boris Mikhailovich Malinin · Black Sea Shipyard · Zaliv Shipbuilding yard · Okean Shipyard · Leninska Kuznya Shipyard · Sevastopol Shipyard · Kherson Shipyard · Shipyard named after 61 Communards · Mariupol Shipyard
Space Related Articles
- Akademik Sergei Korolev
Mythology
- Dabilla · Daolghas · Maine mac Darthacht · Dealgnaid · Joint-eater · Judik-Hael
Military History
- Operation Thunderhead · Rare and Secret Order of The Double Sunrise · Byron Lavoy Cockrell (Engineer)
Miscellaneous
- Port of Taipei · Ari David Levie
Articles I've Expanded
- Soviet Navy · Typhoon class submarine · Soviet M class submarine · Dekabrist class submarine · Soviet Northern Fleet · Admiralty Shipyard · Admiral Kuznetsov class · Yuri Artsutanov · USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) · Adak Island · Tylwyth teg
[edit] Image Contributions
My own work
- (View) - World's smallest suspension bridge in Boston's Public Garden
- (View) - Clam Lagoon, Adak Island, Alaska
Others, I just uploaded
[edit] My Technical (Geek) Skills
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Programming Languages
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This user is an advanced OpenSSL programmer. |
Template:User perl
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This user can program in awk. |
| sed |
This user can program in sed. |
| sql |
This user can program in SQL. |
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Other Technology
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This user writes programs that access MySQL. |
| bash |
This user is a bash scripter. |
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[edit] My Military Background
| Military Background (1988-1996) |
| My Medals and ribbons (Not in order of precedence):
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| This user was proud to be a U.S. Navy Submariner (SS) |
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