User:UncleBubba

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UncleBubba

This user lives in the
United States of America.

ATL

This user lives in or hails from Atlanta.

This user is an Eagle Scout,
class of 1972.

en-US

This user is a native speaker of American English.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Spam.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user fights vandalism.

This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Computing.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Aviation.

This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

Technology Skills

APL-4

This user is an expert APL programmer.

asm-4

This user is an expert assembly language programmer.

bash-3

This user is an advanced Bash programmer.

bat-4

This user is an expert Batch programmer.

COBOL-4

This user is an expert COBOL programmer.

SQL-1

This user is a beginning SQL user.

This user remembers using punch cards.

Personal Preferences

?met?

This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.

This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.

Hobbies and Fun

This user enjoys photography.

cvg-2

This user is an intermediate gamer.

This user enjoys hang gliding.

This user has soloed a Cessna 150.

This user has soloed a Cessna 172.

This user is a licensed private aircraft pilot, and has earned an instrument rating.

This user is a fan of
first-person shooters.

This user can interpret raw METAR data.

Rants and Silliness

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

Y'all

Hey y'all! This user is a fan or speaker of Southern dialect, where we have "owl" not "oil" like them Yankees.

;

This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly.

This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very drowsy.

About

Originally from Atlanta, I now live in the Richmond, Virginia, USA area. By day, I am an information security officer; at other times, I'm just a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

I'm an instrument-rated airplane pilot (ASEL), motorcyclist (dirt and street), amateur (as in not-very-good) musician, and the worst golfer imaginable. Over the last 10 years or so, I've spent more and more time seeing the world from the seat of a touring motorcycle.

Someday, I hope to ride the Trans America Trail and the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, but that's going to take a lighter bike (that can handle unpaved roads).

Activities

Lately, I've spent a fair amount of time patrolling recent changes to high-volume Wikipedia pages. Wow! What an interesting experience! I feel I'm becoming something of a bastard regarding unsourced additions to the encyclopedia.

If nothing else, it's an incredible exercise in managing emotional responses, which is more difficult than I ever imagined it would be. This cute little image is both a reminder to me and a pointer to an article on the subject, if you're interested.

As I gain more experience, I intend to post descriptions of the more noteworthy ones here. Whether educational or humorous, they are always interesting!

Favorite Quotations

My new favorite quote for Wikipedia:

Another key to the problem here, {name of contentious editor}, is you don't see yourself as having an opinion; you see yourself as bearing The Truth. You perceive your biases as neutral.
— WP:TIGERS, quoting someone on [WikiEN-l]

Other favorites:

I can NOT emphasize this enough:
There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative "I heard it somewhere" pseudo information is to be tagged with a "needs a cite" tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information, but it is particularly true of negative information about living persons.
I think a fair number of people need to be kicked out of the project just for being lousy writers. (This is not a policy statement, just a statement of attitude and frustration.)
— Jimmy Wales, [WikiEN-l] Factions vs. Division Tue May 16 20:30:15 UTC 2006

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it!
— Unknown

Either do, or do not; there is no try.
— Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Behold, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds!
— Robert Oppenheimer, quoting Vishnu from The Bagavad Gita after seeing Trinity detonation

And I looked and I beheld a pale horse; and the the name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
— The Revelation to John, The Holy Bible

Subpages

User:UncleBubba/Test

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