User:Davidbspalding
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Who
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I've been a registered user since March, 2006. Web user/developer since 1994. Internet user since 1991. Home page here. Former freelance writer, public radio producer, technology mentor, U.S. Coast Guard avionics tech and aircrewman, musician, film student (USC). Strictly a Wikipedia newbie, but catching on fast.
I usually reply to any post on my talk page, as I'm still learning fundamentals and stylistic conventions of WP. Please feel free to leave me a message about any concern or correction.
I'm a San Francisco native, have lived and worked in the South many years, currently residing in Durham, NC and working for a a Linux company.
What
IMHO Wikimedia is about the neatest application of WWW tech since, oh, XHTML and the OEBPS, or custom portal pages. Generally, I'm learning as I go. I'm about as excited about Wikipedia as I was about computers in the mid-1970s, and the WWW in 1994.
Generally I like to:
- Add to topics I have some knowledge of,
- Clean up language issues,
- Patrol recent changes (a-vandal huntin' we will go, hi-ho the merry-o...)
- Learn something new each day, and add to topics based on my escapades in learning. I reserve the right to be a dumbass, or inadvertantly break a page; I also reserve the privilege to fix my screw-ups as soon as I'm (made) aware of them. ;)
- I've created a few Userboxes when I feel pretty darn sure that no one has done one like it.
Yes, as you can see, I am a sci-fi geek. I grew up that way, before anyone heard of Star Wars(original) or Star Trek(movies, spin-off series) or Battlestar Galactic(either).
Some pages I've invested in
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) – 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal – A Christmas Story – A Matter of Life and Death (film) – Albert Spalding – American Film Theater – Anchor Bay Entertainment – Ancient Order of the Pterodactyl – Batman Returns – Blue Peter (disambiguation) – Bluetooth – Bodhrán – CompuServe – Cyberspace – DR-DOS – Dassault Falcon – Dick Smith (make-up artist) – Discovery One – Dolby Pro Logic – EVA Pod – Electronic Frontier Foundation – Elmer Fowler Stone – Film – Filmmaking – Fire in the Sky – Heywood R. Floyd – High-definition television – History of Microsoft Windows – Idiocracy – Jargon File – Jefferies tube – Ken Takakura – List of 2001: A Space Odyssey trivia – Manhunter (film) – Mr. Baseball – NC-4 – Open eBook – Oral sex – Pan and scan – Peter Bogdanovich – Rescue on Fractalus! – Rick Baker – Robert Mulligan – Rogue (computer game) – Start menu – THX – The Hacker Crackdown – The Haunting (1963 film) – The Innocents (film) – The Last Wave – The Other – The Wicker Man – The Wind and the Lion – The Yakuza – Tricorder – Turner Classic Movies – U.S. Coast Guard in popular culture – Vincent (film) – Voight-Kampff machine – Wah Chang – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – Category:United States Coast Guard Aviation
Where
- Film
- Sci-fi, horror, fantasy film
- Star Trek
- Classic studio pictures
- Special visual effects
- Computing
- Music
- Irish Traditional music (play bodhran and bones)
- Space music (as defined by Stephen Hill)