Aumakua

Quick Intro

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

its etcThis user has no difficulty spelling three-letter words.

A... even those preceded by one-letter words.LOT

Basic information relevant to Wikipedia editing:

• Attended California Institute of Technology, 1974-1975.
• Attended Iowa State University 1975-1976 and 1979-1981.
• Worked at a nursery for over ten years.
• Co-authored dnd (computer game) from several locales, 1976-1985.
• Professional computer software engineer, 1981-1992, writing code in TUTOR, C, Pascal, Assembly and other languages.
• Enthusiast and player of computer strategy games and games of logic
• An accomplished photographer, both with 35 mm film and now using digital photography and Adobe Photoshop.
• An accomplished professional face painter since 1995.
• Have visited all 48 contiguous states in the U.S., every province in Canada from British Columbia to Nova Scotia (and only the ones directly between), plus Mexico, Guatemala, more than half the departments of France, and 10 other countries in Europe.

Observations

1. In a tabbed browser, the number of tabs pointing to articles on Wikipedia grows exponentially until the user gives up on ever reading them all, closes the browser, and starts from scratch.
2. People who stop good people from doing good things for good people because "it's against the rules" are jerks. In my experience, the vast majority of these jerks work for insurance companies, law firms, or the government, but they have been spotted in many other situations.