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For those who are curious (and most Wikipedians are):
My username comes from one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite films, Brazil. Except I replaced the J.H. with my own initials. Without initials Ghost In The Machine is also the title of one of my favorite albums by The Police.
I'm just a rotund nerd in early mid-life crisis with a love of knowledge. My mind is a vast Pack rat's maze of facts and information ranging from the truly profound to the trivial to the outright useless.
A major reason for this is my lifelong love of encyclopedias. These miniture libraries were fantastic mind expanding tools for me. Plus, not meaning to sound like some prehistoric geezer here, in the times before home computers became commonplace and long before the WWW, they were the closest thing we had to easy information avalable at the fingertips.
But early on I embraced computers, recognizing their vast potential as mind-expanding tools also. In fact it seems Iam one of few in my age cohort who did not manage to cash in on the computer revolution in some way. This is due partly to technical ineptitude but also to a firm belief that knowledge should be free and open.
This is why the Misplaced Pages strongly appeals to me on many levels. And why it is a pleasure and privilege for me to contribute in some small way to this noble project. Afterall, as Harry Tuttle in Brazil said, "We're all in it together kid..."
Contribs (so far)
Stuff I've gone and started: Atuk, Battle of Bedriacum, Battle of Château-Thierry (1814), Battle of Gainesville, Battle of Grossbeeren, Battle of Katzbach, Battle of Lugdunum, Battle of Noreia, Beda Fomm, Championship League for Quake (CLQ), Charles E. Lindblom, Charles McKeown, Cimbrian War, El Agheila, Grande Armée Slang, Horse artillery, Jean Baptiste Eble, Judge Constance Harm, Karl von Müller, L'Armée du Nord, Mojo (The Simpsons), Oz Deathmatch, Teutobod, The Art of War (Machiavelli), The BattleGrounds, The Tank In Attack, Theodor von Hippel, Torpedo belt, Tsul 'Kalu, Vexillatio, WON2.
Stuff I've greatly expanded upon and/or contributed to:
Battle of Aquae Sextiae, Battle of Arras (1940), Battle of Bautzen, Battle of Dresden, Battle of Flodden Field, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of Long Island, Battle of Lützen (1813), Battle of Ulm, Battle of Vercellae, British VIII Corps, Byzantine battle tactics, Diocletian, Dominique Jean Larrey, Erwin Rommel, First Battle of the Aisne, Great Retreat, Imperial Guard, Iron law of oligarchy, La Grande Armée, List of unusual deaths, Maurice Tillet, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Nivelle Offensive, Operation Brevity, Operation Crusader, Order of Battle of the Waterloo Campaign, Paras of Nepal, Praetorian Guard, Richard O'Connor
, Robert A. Dahl, Roman legion, Roman infantry tactics, strategy and battle formations, Second Battle of the Aisne, Siege of Tobruk, Team Fortress Classic, Third Battle of the Aisne, WON.
And counting...
My Best Wikifriends, collaborators and partners in crimes:
Leithp, Nufy8, Spawn Man, Shauri, Wiglaf, Fergananim, Kirill Lokshin, SoLando, Philx, Ansbachdragoner, Jeff-the-riffer
My WikiFan List, of colleagues whose work and/or charachter I admire
SimonP, Panairjdde, Pedantically Speaking, Prokonsul Piotrus, Talrias, Loopy, Rhion, Raul654, The Minister of War, Karmafist, Spanish Fairy
Projects
Current and former:
This user is a member of
WikiProject Military history.
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(PROUD member since 12 September 2005)
Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Countering systemic bias (as of 13 October 2005)
Template:User FORMER ESP-member(as of 15 November 2005)
Template:FORMER User WikiProject Florida(as of 22 December 2005)
Linkage
- A site dedicated to my Uncle, Captain Lloyd Logan USCG (ret) and his cutter Morgenthau's Vietnam tour of duty 1970-71
- House Of Painful Enlightenment! My order, my family, my house.
- Diarrhea Of A Madman, My Blog... of sorts.
- The Daily Pulp (more of a weekly really), A friend's review site where I also proudly contribute.
- Rock out on my Launchcast station!
Awards:
Please put 'em here and thanks in advance! :>
smile!
smile! 00:00, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Trivia
| BS | This user can speak Bullshit. |
| en-4 | This user can contribute with a near-native level of English. |
| fr-2 | Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. |
| es-1 | Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. |
| ... | This user would like to be able to speak some more languages. |
 | This user contributes using Firefox. |
I won 2nd place ($2000+$500 in prizes) playing History IQ online, under the screenname Mr. Plow. In the process I befriended the third place finisher, Belisarius, who later turns out to be none other than Robin Grover himself. He goes to New York to compete on the show itself and is victorious in the grand championship (he could've given Ken Jennings a run for the millions). Afterwards, I get praise from Caesar when he tells me "I'm glad you were'nt there, or I would have been just another furrow for Mr Plow!". My response: "Hey, I'm a SNOW plow, not a dirt plow ;)". I saved our friendship by quickly adding, how much easier it is playing at home, cozy than under the hot studio lights LIVE. He agrees and we both agree I should be his successor as the next $100,000 grand champ. Then word comes that the program has been put on "hiatus", which we, as reasonably bright individuals, know means CANCELLED. So Robin and I start a movement to spare this fun, educational and profitable show from the programmer's axe. We name it "Save Our History IQ!" in mild mockery of the History Channel's own "Save Our History" campaign. Through our names we gather support and through our tactics of electronic guerilla (Or E-Rilla if you will:) harassment we were making real progress towards our goal. The network's brain truss appeared to be buckling in our favor. Then Tuesday, September 11 2001 happens, the WTC Towers were not too far from the studio where HIQ was taped. Suddenly, saving a gameshow from cancellation became one of the last things on our minds.
I've met some other famous, and near famous, people too. "But enough talk about me, let's talk about YOU...what do you think of ME?"--Groucho Marx
I have a Black cat named Max, After Max Weber, Max Planck, Maxwell Smart and Maxwell Edision (Majoring in Medicine) from the Beatles' song Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
I have a miniture Dobermann-Spaniel mix named Ein, after the cagey canine from Cowboy Bebop and of course Albert Einstein.
This Page was started at 18:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC) Which marks the official beginning of my Wik-istance.
To date it has only been vandalized a paultry poultry 3 4.5 times...C'mon vandals! You can do better!