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I work for a for-profit software shop, Kunz, Leigh & Associates.

I formerly worked for a non-profit, Grand Rapids Community Media Center. That's the parent organization of WYCE, GRTV, Wealthy Theatre, The Rapidian, an education department, and my former department, IT.

I am a formerly active contributor on Stack Overflow, but I feel the management of the site has mishandled several interactions with the community and has violated our trust to handle all that user-generated content, so I quit contributing.

I am a skeptic, an atheist (non-evangelical, nor a hardliner like Bill Maher), and a retired internet troll. I love to geocache, ride my bike on converted railroad trails, and spend a lot of time in the woods. I'm married, a left-libertarian, and generally do not participate in electoral politics. I hold a CPL permit.

I love everything about Michigan, from the craft beer to the parks to the music (no link, I think the current wiki page about Michigan music needs lots of work.)

I enjoy reading greatly. Some of my favorite authors are:

I also enjoy dystopian novels, but I've burned through the good ones, that I know of. If you have a suggestion from this genre, a comment on my talk page would be most welcome indeed.

I told you all of this mostly so you know where my biases lay. Talk to me if there's a problem -- I'll listen.

Contributions


Here's an arbitrary and non-exhaustive collection of these... things.

PHPThis user can code PHP.
This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
This user can program in JavaScript.
<html>This user can write HTML.
mysqlThis user writes programs that access MySQL.
SQLThis user uses SQL queries to locate their car keys.
W3CThis user believes in compliance with W3C standards.
evenThis editor is an eventualist.
incrThis editor is an incrementalist.
This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
prog-NThis user thinks in bytecode and dreams of electric sheep.
Quality, not quantity.This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.


Stuff

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Wikipedia bookmarks sort of thing

Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page See also Wikipedia:Cheatsheet Wikipedia:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages (Includes templates to identify those who do not sign their comments.) Uploading a screenshot Wikipedia:Disputed_statement Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute Template:Controversial Wikipedia:Deletion policy Wikipedia:Image use policy Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline Wikipedia:Profanity Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules Wikipedia:POLLS Wikipedia:RFC Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol

Note to self

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  • work on the Michigan music page.