User:Houstonista
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Jon (born November 28, 1981 in Webster, Texas) was born and raised in the Houston area.
Jon is a senior in standing at the University of Houston. He is persuing a Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies and would like to land a gig at a library one day. Jon can't really afford college with the menial jobs he works to turn a subsistant wage, but he finds joy in his arduous circumstances. With very few classes to complete in order to satisfy the requirement for graduation, Jon should earn his degree in twenty or thirty years.
According to his business card, Jon is a "solutions coordinator" who works for a systems integrator - deftly coordinating solutions to all kinds of ambiguous problems. He designs access, audio, fire alarm, intrusion, and CCTV implementations, but mostly he just plays FreeCell.
Jon resides in a tiny 396sqft. apartment in the effervescent Montrose area of Houston. He likes to ride his bicycle around town, run five kilometers, play basketball, participate in Malt Liquor Monday, and is good at finding neat stuff on the ground.
[edit] Contribution
After noticing that Otis Thorpe, once a player for the Houston Rockets, did not have a page indicating his NBA career, Jon created one. Using, perhaps, inappropriately subjective language and ingratiating the contributions of Thorpe to the team, the page was edited by a third party to reflect a more objective treatment of Thorpe. Jon was enlightened by the revision of his work and has tried to maintain stricter standards of objectivity and intellectual honesty in his contributions to Wikipedia.
The Houston Rockets entry appeared to have been written by a bird. The article was composed exclusively with casual language, and the sentences were built from legos, taking much from the quality of the page. Jon provided a cursory revision of the page in his spare time at work when he needed to appear busy. Much work remains to be done, but the entry for the Houston Rockets now reads more like a grammar school term paper than a crayola composition.
There should be a page documenting the Houston institution, West Alabama Icehouse. Established in 1928, this beer garden has served Neartown Houston faithfully and dutifully. The challenge in writing the article is the propensity to wander into editorial and ingratiating language, resulting in more of a review than a documentation of the establishment.
