Izogi

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This user is a skeptic.

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This user does not smoke.

Secondhand smoke is one of this user's pet peeves.

This user does not trust electronic voting machines.

This user's favorite color is green.

This user exercises regularly and drinks a lot of water to stay hydrated.

This user is right-handed.

INTPThis user's MBTI type is INTP.

This user is skeptical of MBTI, regarding it as pseudoscience.

This user believes that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players".

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Activities

This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy.

This user enjoys reading science fiction.

Big Brother is watching this user.

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This user plays ultimate.

vln-1This user is a novice violinist.

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to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.

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twoThis user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

A, B and CThis user prefers not to use the serial comma.

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it'sIt's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

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Dear everybody.

My name is Mike. I live in a house. It has windows and doors, floors, a ceiling and a roof. Sometimes I leave the house and go to other places. Usually I come back sooner or later, and often I go out again having returned prior to leaving.

I live in Wellington, New Zealand, where I recently completed a Master of Science, in Computer Science, at Victoria University. Now I work as a software developer and people pay me money. When I'm not working though, I spend a lot of time divided between playing Ultimate, and getting involved in the local amateur astronomy scene. My current aim is to get much more involved in tramping, primarily to get a better look at some of the awesome places around New Zealand.

Stuff I've done

I'm generally happy to roam around randomly, helping to tidy up pages, fix grammar and things every so often where it looks like it's needed. The articles that I spend the most time on and contribute to more majorly tend to be in topics related to astronomy. For instance:

• Amateur Astronomy (heavily refactored and expanded)
• Carter Observatory (new)
• Charles Gifford (new)
• Eyepiece (new)
• Gifford Observatory (new)
• John Dobson (astronomer) (heavily refactored and expanded)
• Light pollution (heavily refactored and expanded)
• Night sky (new)
• Radio spectrum pollution (new - but so far it's just a stub)
• Star hopping (new)

Other articles I've had a significant influence on have been:

• Fidonet (contributed lots)
• Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot (lots of restructuring and refactoring)
• Cave Creek disaster (fixed a couple of minor errors and added detail)

Stuff I'd like to do

• Consolidate Telescope mount, Equatorial mount, Altazimuth mount and Dobsonian somehow. I'm not exactly sure how at this point, but it seems a bit messy given that they're all relatively short articles.
• Make a comparison article or template for different lighting types. (See /Lighting Type Comparison Experiment.)

Stuff I'd like to remember about for later

• The New Zealand Wiki Portal