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User page of Colin M.L. Burnett.
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[edit] Me
31 year old with a BS in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Iowa State University and currently in a biomedical engineering MS program at University of Iowa.
I'm generally interested in these topics:
- Statistics
- Electrical & computer engineering topics
- Commercial driver's license, class A
- Electrician
- Mechanical engineering
- Biology
My first edit was of Nevada, Iowa on 01:04, November 23, 2004 [1].
I was nominated for adminship (WP:RFA/Cburnett) on April 23, 2005 and promoted on May 1 by Cecropia.
My interests in topics on wikipedia is quite varied and I tend to migrate from one topic to another as time goes on.
[edit] Books
Books; my favorites:
- Science Fiction:
- The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Odyssey series (2001, 2010, 2061, & 3001) by Arthur C. Clarke
- Prey by Michael Crichton
- Ringworld by Larry Niven
- Fiction:
- Non-fiction:
- Creating Minds by Howard Gardner
- Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres
- The Civilized Engineer by Samuel Florman
- The Forgotten Revolution by Lucio Russo
- To Engineer Is Human by Henry Petroski
- Restoring the Lost Constitution by Randy Barnett
- Pure, White and Deadly by John Yudkin
[edit] Music
Music. I much prefer music of instrumental substance/focus than vocals.
- Acoustic Alchemy
- Anat Cohen
- Classical music
- Electronic music
- Helen Jane Long
- Lawson Rollins
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
[edit] Theater
- 42nd Street
- Ah, Wilderness!
- All My Sons
- A Chorus Line
- Cats (twice)
- The Color Purple (musical)
- Evita
- Guys on Ice
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Legally Blonde (musical)
- Les Misérables (musical) (favorite; thrice?)
- The Lion King (musical) (3/2006; 1/2010)
- Mamma Mia! (twice)
- Miss Saigon
- Oliver!
- The Phantom of the Opera (twice)
- Radio City Christmas Spectacular
- Rent (musical)
- Spamalot
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Wicked (musical)
[edit] Photography
Photography; quick equipment list:
- Canon EOS 40D (October 2007)
- Canon EOS 300D (May 2004)
- Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens (September 2008)
- Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens (May 2004)
- Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens (January 2007)
- Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 USM lens (July 2004)
- Canon Speedlite 550EX flash (July 2004)
- Alien Bees B800 (320 watt seconds) (March 2009)
- 1520 Pelican, orange (April 2009)
- Canon SD780IS (August 2009)
- Canon ELPH 100HS
Wanted:
- Canon EF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM lens — A nice macro
- Canon EOS 7D — or some HD video DSLR
- Canon TS-E24mm f/3.5L — tilt-shift
- Canon WFT-E3A — GPS tagging, saving to USB drives, and wireless transfer...
- Canon EF 500mm lens — Good long zoom
- Canon EF 600mm lens — Gooder longer zoomer
- Canon EF 1200mm lens — pfftttt, yeah right........
See User:Cburnett/GFDL images for a list of images I've contributed to wikipedia that I've taken.
[edit] Zoos
Been to:
- SeaWorld San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
- San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego, California
- Blank Park Zoo, Des Moines, Iowa (8x)
- Adopted a Magellanic Penguin
- Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, Nebraska (2x)
- Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (5x)
- Houston Zoo, Houston, Texas
- Rio Grande Zoo, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
- SeaWorld San Diego, San Diego, California (2x)
- Indianapolis Zoo, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, Minnesota
- Como Park, Zoo, and Conservatory, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa, Florida
- Florida Aquarium, Tampa, Florida
- Racine Zoo, Racine, Wisconsin
- Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
- Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield (Chicago), Illinois
- San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium, San Antonio, Texas
- Niabi Zoo, Coal Valley, Illinois
[edit] Museums
Museums and museum-like places I've been to:
- Chicago, Illinois area:
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, West Branch, Iowa
- Putnam Museum and IMAX Theater, Davenport, Iowa
- San Diego, California
- Washington, D.C. area:
[edit] Botanical Gardens
Been to:
- Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
- White River Gardens, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Des Moines Botanical Center, Des Moines, Iowa
- Como Park, Zoo, and Conservatory, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
[edit] US Parks, et. al.
- Everglades National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
- Zion National Park
- Cabrillo National Monument
- Colorado National Monument
- Devils Tower National Monument
- Petroglyph National Monument
- Walnut Canyon National Monument
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
- Korean War Veterans Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial
- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Washington Monument
- World War II Memorial
[edit] Iowa State Parks
- Ambrose A. Call State Park
- Backbone State Park
- Badger Creek Recreation Area
- Bellevue State Park
- Big Creek State Park
- Bob White State Park
- Brushy Creek State Park
- Echo Valley State Park
- Elk Rock State Park
- Fairport State Park
- Fort Atkinson State Park
- Fort Defiance State Park
- Geode State Park
- Green Valley State Park
- Gull Point State Park
- Honey Creek State Park
- Lacy-Keosauqua State Park
- Lake Ahquabi State Park
- Lake Anita State Park
- Lake Darling State Park
- Lake Icaria State Park
- Lake Keomah State Park
- Lake MacBride State Park
- Lake Manawa State Park
- Lake of Three Fires State Park
- Lake Wapello State Park
- Lewis and Clark State Park (Iowa)
- Ledges State Park
- Maquoketa Caves State Park
- Mines of Spain & E.B. Lyons State Park
- Nine Eagles State Park
- Pammel State Park
- Pikes Peak State Park
- Pine Lake State Park
- Prairie Rose State Park
- Preparation Canyon State Park
- Red Haw State Park
- Rock Creek State Park
- Sharon Bluffs State Park
- Shimek State Forest
- Springbrook State Park
- Stephens State Forest
- Templar State Park
- Union Grove State Park
- Viking Lake State Park
- Volga River State Park
- Wapsipinicon State Park
- Waubonsie State Park
- Wildcat Den State Park
- Wilson Island State Park
- Yellow River State Forest
[edit] Periodicals I read
[edit] Places to go
Basically a list of places to go to at some point in my life. By no means is this a complete list...it never will be. I mostly just add stuff when I come across it.
[edit] Deaths
These are the deaths of people who, while weren't necessarily my heroes or anything, had a disturbance in The Force that I felt.
- Arthur C. Clarke — March 19, 2008
- George Carlin — June 22, 2008
- Randy Pausch — July 25, 2008
- Michael Crichton — November 4, 2008
- Norman Borlaug — September 12, 2009
[edit] Images
For images I have uploaded that I didn't release into public domain (e.g., Template:PD-self), please attribute them:
- to "Colin M.L. Burnett" if used external to wikipedia (or sister projects)
- to "[[:en:User:Cburnett]]" if used internal to wikipedia (or sister projects).
Of course, if you want to use the exact image I (or any image for that matter) uploaded then just use it. The image page gives attribution to the creator.
If you desire to have the picture under another license, please feel free to email me (see "E-mail this user" under the toolbox menu) and ask. The images are also scaled-down from their originals. I'm likely to oblige...
Attribution signature I use on images: {{User:Cburnett/image sig}}
Be sure to read #Licensing.
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[edit] GFDL'ed images
As of June 18, 2007 I've contributed over 487 images to wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). As mentioned above, I've been on a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) kick lately with over 300 SVGs so far.
Some of my favorites:
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Light knight on light (Chess pieces)
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World's first, last, and only panoramic/stitched image of a Granola bar
[edit] Non-GFDL'ed images
The bulk of my non-GFDL images come in the form of screenshots of TV episodes and movies. I'm too lazy to count them.
Some of my favorites that I can visually display (non-fair use):
[edit] Current projects
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo
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[edit] Userboxes
I haven't been a huge fan of the user boxes for the simple reason that it's very akin to pigeon holing users. Anyway, here's a list of them at the bottom of my user page assuming that if you've scrolled this far down then you're not pigeon holing me. :) But even still, you get an explanation with each.
[edit] Projects
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[edit] Licensing
Unless explicitly and directly stated by me, anything licensed under the GPL is only licensed under version 2. This includes any future works and applies to all previous works. (The text of templates do not count as explicit or direct statements.) Because the wordage of templates can change and can be interpreted differently, all previously licensed works were never licensed under anything but version 2. I am making this interpretation explicit now.