User:JohnOwens

JohnOwens

Name	J. Randall Owens
Gender	Male
Birth date	December 31, 1969
Current location	Milwaukee, WI, USA
Hobbies, favourites, and beliefs
Aliases	Randy, KarMann, DeadMeat
Contact info
Website	GhiaPet
Blog	Yes
Email	freit003.309@lgflmail.net
Userboxes
Round holes I almost fit This user is a Citizen of the Galaxy‡ and nothing else matters. This user is from Earth. This user is a citizen of the United States of America. 3 This user has set foot in 3 countries of the world. This user lives in the U.S. State of Wisconsin. Language en This user is a native speaker of English. de-3 Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse. ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest. ipa-1 ə This user has a basic understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. blz-2 This user is an intermediate speaker of blazon. ... This user would like to know all existing languages. they he or she This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. man- kind Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is politically correct. to / too / two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees. their / there / they're This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! your/ you’re This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help. Subj This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it. . The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. A, B, and A and B This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing. its/it’s It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. ’s Thi'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. "…" This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. _ This_user_dislikes_seeing underscores_in_Wikilinks. ANAL 5 This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar. Mix This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. Computer This user contributes using Linux. This user contributes with Fedora. BSD This user contributes using FreeBSD. This user has a dual boot configuration. This user contributes with KDE. This user hacks happily with Emacs. Perl-3 This user is an advanced Perl programmer. C-1 This user is a beginning C programmer. mysql-2 This user is an intermediate MySQL programmer. HTML-3 This user is an advanced HTML user. xhtml-3 This user is an advanced XHTML user. css-2 This user is an intermediate Cascading Style Sheets user. js-1 This user is a beginning JavaScript programmer. xml-1 This user is a beginning XML coder. OSrc This user contributes to Open Source projects. This user contributes using a PC. This user uses an AMD processor IP This person's IP is 127.0.0.1 IP This user's IP is ::1. This user contributes using Free Software. This user contributes using The GIMP. This user contributes using Inkscape. This user enjoys using Celestia to look at the virtual skies. This user BOINCs. This user couldn't live without the keyboard shortcut Alt Tab. Communicating This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference. 7,000+ This user has made over 7,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) Web This user has a website. Wiki This user has a wiki. @ This user can be reached by email. @ This user can be reached by email at jowens.wiki@ghiapet.homeip.net OWN This user uses an email account with his/her own domain name. This user uses Pidgin to chat on networks such as Jabber and IRC. * This user can be found on most, if not all, IM networks! Y! This user's Yahoo! Messenger screename is KarMannJRO. This user's AOL Instant Messenger screenname is KarMannJO. AIM-Able This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever. B This user keeps a weblog at Blogger. This user uses WordPress. This user prefers Mozilla Firefox. This user thinks an explorer can't be better than a fox! This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. Ad This user uses Adblock (Plus) (with Filterset.G) on Mozilla Firefox to eliminate ads.   This user uses Mozilla Thunderbird. BB This user contributes using a broadband connection. This user uses RoadRunner High Speed Internet Interests This user loves knowledge. SI This user prefers the metric system of measurement. ?met? This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans have such a hard time with them. This user has a keen interest in physics. This user is interested in astronomy. This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy. This user is interested in Space Sciences. This user doesn't care whether Pluto is a planet or not – but IAU's 2006 redefinition of planet was a linguistic/philosophical embarassment. This user is an advanced mathematician. This user knows by heart the first 15 digits in the decimal representation of pi. This user is a Bayesian. $\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}{x^k \over k!}$ This user loves problem solving. This user knows how to travel 1 mile due south, due east, then due north and end up where he started. [1] 6×9=42 This user jokes in base 13. This user is interested in linguistics. ela This user speaks Ecclesiastical Latin. This user is interested in ancient Rome. This user is interested in the Middle Ages. This user is interested in the Crusades. This user is interested in politics. This user accepts Evolution as a biological fact. This user is interested in aviation. /. This user has a Slashdot account. This user enjoys reading science fiction. This user is skeptical of the Zodiac. This user is a fan of Monty Python! Lynch This user is a fan of David Lynch's films. This user enjoys photography. This user loves calculators. This user plays games on a graphing calculator. This user is a fencer. This user is an archer vla-1 This user is a novice viola player. vln-1 This user is a novice violinist. Other CST This user's time zone is CST. This user does not observe Daylight Saving Time. This user dislikes the new DST time. New DST Time 00:00 This user uses 24-hour time. This user supports sustainable living. This user supports renewable energy. This user supports the use of nuclear energy. This user supports public transit. Personal This user is male. This user is straight but not narrow. This male user supports feminism. This user supports gender equality. HRC This user supports the Human Rights Campaign. Choice This user is pro-life and pro-abortion. X This user is a member of Generation X. This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone. This user is not a biological parent. This user is right-handed. IQ This user's Intelligence Quotient is ≥154. This user sleeps, but not for predictable amounts of time. This user is nearsighted. This user is a telecommunications engineer.   This user is interested in humanism. This user believes in materialism, the belief that everything that exists is made of matter. EAC This user is a member of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy. Booga booga! Until proven wrong, this user does not believe in the supernatural. This user realizes that the Earth isn't an oblate spheroid, but rather a close approximation of one. This user believes that the Universe began with a bang. news The only reality show this user watches is the news. This user thinks Keith Olbermann is superior to Bill Orly in every way possible. YA RLY According to the Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (-7.13) and Social Libertarian (-7.33) ? This user follows his/her own political ideals. This user believes in the separation of church and state. ' This user supports instant-runoff voting. This user does not trust electronic voting machines. C2H5OH-2 This user drinks occasionally. This user is a Goth. NG This user's alignment is Neutral Good: the "Benefactor." This user is of multiple ancestries. This user is of Welsh descent This user is of English ancestry. This user is of Norwegian ancestry. This user is of German ancestry. Food & Drink This user believes that caffeine is necessary in large doses daily. This user takes his/her coffee with 2 creams and 6 sugars. This user drinks nothing but Dr Pepper. H2O This user is H2O intolerant. Achoo! This user eats cheese. This user loves to eat pineapples. This user likes a 'proper' Pasty. This user has eaten MREs and lived to tell the tale. Userboxen -xen This user believes that userbox should always be pluralised userboxen, and thinks that this is one of the most important and exciting issues of our time. ubx-c This user thinks that userboxes have gotten out of control.

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John Owens

John Owens lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a sometimes-student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is (yet another) computer system and network administrator, with some knowledge of server administration and a good grasp of Perl. And he has been voted Number 1 on the "list of bigots to avoid" on User:Olga Bityerkokoff's page! He came in at number 32 on this month's Top 200 Countdown, and he'd like to extend his special gratitude to Michael, who made it all possible.

If you have a Un*x computer and check its native-format time, you've got a pretty good idea how old he is, in seconds.

Currently

As a recovering non-Wikipedoholic, I'm starting to edit again, but in moderation, so far. I recently got a digital camera, so I'm starting to accumulate some pictures for the Wikipediæ. See some of what I've got so far: /Pet Projects#New pictures from trip.

In things tangentially related to Wikipedia, I've started a project to create an electronic markup format for corrections to all those things that aren't Wiki. With my vast imagination, I've decided to call it the ProofReading Markup Language, or PRML for short. (SourceForge project site)

What he does

Weed whacker extraordinaire, great at spotting typos, too.

Oh yeah, and I know lots of stuff, too. ;)

And I refuse to ever take the Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test. There are some things both you and I are better off not knowing. See also: Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial.

Foreign languages and contributions

I'm now contributing to the German and Russian Wikipædiæ in my own small way, too. (And in case you can't tell by my abuse of 'æ's, I just wish there was a Latin Wikipædia for me to contribute to, too.)

I'll be demmed, there is a Latin Vicipædia!!! :) I always wondered if there was a language code for Latin; never could find one in a list. Now I'm going to have to find out if 'la' is really official, or just what they use because it makes sense.

Since then, I've discovered Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination and ISO 639. Yup, it's a real, genyooine, official code.

Web admin

I've started up a Wiki for the local astronomy group here in Milwaukee. You can see it at http://wiki.urbanstargazers.homelinux.org/; so far, I'm calling it the "Urban Stargazers' Compendium", but that could change. I've also got some other related sites using other software doodads which aren't wiki: WebCalendar (using WebCalendar), News (using Drupal), and Image Gallery (using Gallery).

Contributions

A few of my best, most pride-inspiring contributions:

• Aerial refueling
• Atlatl
• Aztalan State Park
  • Increase Allen Lapham
• Continental divide (OK, I'm setting the bar pretty low here, but somebody had to write it...)
• Hodag
• List of caves (The bar comes down another notch....)
• Various subpages of orders of magnitude
  • especially orders of magnitude (power)
• Wikipedia:Wikipediholics in denial

Mostly though, I'm more of an editor than a writer. And yeah, I know what all those authors say about editors....

Licensing

All contributions of my own work (i.e., excluding only a few photographs snarfed from web sites) excluding items in the User:JohnOwens "userspace" (or whatever the proper term might be) are available under any or all of the following licenses unless stated otherwise:

GNU Free Documentation License:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.

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Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License:

BSD License:

BSD License Copyright © John Owens All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Neither the name of John Owens nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY John Owens "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL John Owens BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Lesser General Public License:

This work is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA