User:Rethunk

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Contents 1 The Latest 2 User Info before 2008: Ancient History 3 Miscellany 4 Music 5 Literature 6 Edited or Tweaked

[edit] The Latest

15 Jan 2008. With the exception of a few minor edits, it's been two years since I've written or edited a Wikipedia article, and five years since I created my account.

For the short term I think I'll concentrate on cleanup, mediation, and fact checking.

[edit] User Info before 2008: Ancient History

I'm an engineer in the field of machine vision, which is essentially a combination of computer vision--the academic study of "making computers see"--and industrial automation.

My interests outside of work include writing fiction, philosophy, etymology, jazz, independent comics, and billiards/pool/snooker. I'm quite happy shooting pool using a Schuler carom cue, and I wish I could find a snooker table within 100 miles.

Here's a quick list of articles for which I've written first drafts.

[edit] Miscellany

• machine vision
  • "at the time of writing this, [the 100,000th article on Wikipedia] is Machine vision by Rethunk, started at 05:30 the same morning! (That is, assuming that none of the subsequent new pages are non-articles, which may not actually be true.)" -- from "Wikipedia: 100,000th article" (as of 21 Jan 2003)

• Austin City Limits (television)
  • concert music program on American television
• Celis
  • Belgian-style beer brewed in Texas, then Michigan
• Kris Kringle

[edit] Music

• Weather Report
  • 1970s jazz fusion band featuring Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter
• Julian Cannonball Adderley
  • jazz saxophonist
• Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
  • funky jazz/bluegrass/superchops band
• Béla Fleck
  • banjo player
• Juan Atkins
  • father of techno music, Detroit musician

[edit] Literature

• Jonathan Franzen
  • American novelist, author of The Corrections
• Christopher McQuarrie
  • American writer, Oscar winner for screenplay of The Usual Suspects

[edit] Edited or Tweaked

• accuracy, calibration
• billiards - added a few games
• beer - added breweries, etc.

And so on. If you want to know more about my habits--and golly, I'm not sure even I would do this--then click 'User contributions' and check the list.