User:Jpgordon

I in the American flag and the republic which means loyalty, one nation pledge under freedom and justice and divided impossible God because of everything.

::==( o ) is a ukulele. Geez.

This user is an Administrator and Checkuser on the English Wikipedia.

Checkuser is not magic wiki pixie dust.

Billions of voices, making all the wrong choices, then turning round and blaming me.

Do no harm. All the rest is wikilawyering.

Up with your damned nonsense will I put twice, or perhaps once, but sometimes always, by God, never.

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  First picture of our German Shepherd Dog puppy, Fritzi

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  Fritzi at one year, among the flowers of Sequoia National Forest

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  Playing the ukulele with my newgrass band at Rebecca Giddens' brewpub in Kernville, CA

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  A Common Poorwill sitting on my porch in Las Vegas

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  A Great Blue Heron in my back yard in Kernville, CA

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  Me on the range (specifically, me in Sandy Valley)

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  Our first public ballroom dance routine; this is a tango to the tune of Por Una Cabeza

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About me

Hi everyone! My name's Josh Gordon. I've got a ton of different interests and possibly interesting experiences that might or might not result in useful and informative additions to Wikipedia. For example, I've worked at IMSAI (my first job out of college), Autodesk (my longest job) and eBay (where I was Chief Engineer) as a programmer; I was lead trumpet for the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo for a couple of years in the '70s; I'm a jazz pianist and folk/blues guitarist; I've lived in New York City, Alexandria, VA, Munich, Germany, Eugene, Oregon, Tarzana, Berkeley, San Francisco, and Carmel-by-the-Sea. I moved to Las Vegas in early 2005; I split my time between Vegas and Kernville, California, my wife's hometown. I spent many years on The Well, for a long time as conference host of several of the most popular forums (Current Events and Politics, for example), and I'm an utter fanatic for encyclopedias and dictionaries of all sorts.

I've collected comic books most of my life, though not much in the last ten years -- my old friends kept getting killed off or replaced with children, so to hell with it. I do have a nice collection of original art by John Byrne, Neal Adams, Scott McCloud, and Chris Ware. I also collect photography, and have some lovely prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, Paul Caponigro, and Diane Arbus (the "Jewish Giant" was my cousin Eddie Carmel).

What we're up to

I have a serious fondness for hats, in particular Panama hats, but also fedoras in general, and cowboy hats.

I've played a lot of low-limit casino poker, and specialize in Omaha hold'em high-low. I like to joke that I'm a professional poker player, just a really lousy one.

We just joined the cult of Airstream.

I've decided it is my destiny to become a jazz ukulele player.

We've a 3-year-old German Shepherd Dog.

TV appearance

I appeared on Antiques Roadshow on the show premiering May 12, 2008. I'm showing some Woody Guthrie drawings my Dad was given when he interviewed Woody for a New York Times story in 1949 or so.

Here's the appearance. I had the info wrong when I did the show, unfortunately. But what the heck.

Birds

I'm now maintaining my bird list offsite. These are all birds I've sighted from my home on the Kern River in California. Number 50 is the Red-naped Sapsucker. Number 51 is the Eurasian Collared Dove.

Administrating

Mostly I'm doing janitorial work around here. It comes naturally to me; I was "code cop" at Autodesk and at eBay, so browsing other people's work is quick, easy, and pleasurable.

I became an administrator on Nov. 26, 2004. I have been named a "monster admin" by a fellow editor at WP:RfAr [3] -- I don't think it was meant as praise, though.

Arbitration Committee

I was named to the Arbitration Committee on December 25, 2006. I resigned a year early; three years is too long.

Therapy

I'm the inventor of the concept Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not therapy, though I don't think it should be part of WP:NOT.

Ironically

I'm currently on a crusade against "ironically". And now "interestingly" is also on my list -- I found one sentence starting, "Interestingly and ironically", which was just proof to me that my sword is insufficiently swift. But I'm letting "interestingly" stay in video game and other pop culture sorts of articles, because, really, who cares.

I don't like adverbs in general, it would appear. "Indeed" is now on my list too.

It should be noted

It should be noted that it is noteworthy that it should be mentioned that I also have a bug up my ass about "It should be noted" and other such wastes of bits.

Yet another lower colonic arthropod

Random lists of covers of standards. For example, there are hundreds of recordings by different artists of Over The Rainbow; that's the whole point of a standard -- it gets recorded a lot. So there's no need for Over the Rainbow to have a list of artists that have covered the song; it suffices to say the song has been widely covered, and pick out a few that are notable such as Bruddah Iz. And for gosh sake, lets not have a list including episodes of TV shows that have included the songs. Criminy.

And "then"

When writing about a past event, it suffices to say (for an article about 1932) "the 46 other states"; you don't have to say "the then-46 other states".

Is mentioned in

Popular culture sections are bad enough trivia collections as is, but I do draw the line at "The topic of this article is mentioned in Episode #23 of The Fanboy Webcomic". "Is mentioned in" is an immediate clue that the rest of the sentence is subtrivia.

International Travels

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	Idea and layout taken from User:Calton, who appropriated it from User:Salsb, who stole it from User:Guettarda who borrowed it from User:White Cat

I had the privilege and pleasure of making two Atlantic crossings, in the SS United States and the SS America.

US Travels

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	Idea and layout taken from User:Calton, who appropriated it from User:Salsb, who stole it from User:Guettarda who borrowed it from User:White Cat

Barnstars and things

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  From sock blocking, to arbitration, to ANI, to talk pages, to plain ol' editing, in every situation, irrespective of namespace, action, result or intent, every opportunity I have had to interact with or witness your actions, has resulted in a superb outcome. I very much appreciate all the work you do and have done on Wikipedia. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 15:09, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

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  The Zen Garden Award: I've been noticing your herculean efforts at Kwanzaa. I don't know how you can stand it, but you really deserve this. deeceevoice (talk) 23:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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  This Whack-a-Mole Stuffed Tiger Prize is hereby awarded to Jpgordon for skillfully reblocking returning sockpuppets at Carnival Wikipedia. Durova^Charge! 07:12, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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  The Barnstar of Diligence' Thanks for blocking that rude user who always vandalizes Wikipedia it was greatly appreciated! bobsmith319 22:08, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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  The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar I have seen some amazing anit-vandal work from you for a long time. You have blocked countless trolls of Wikipedia. Keep up the great work! I decided to put it on your talk page, and let you put it on your user page, just incase if you would mind.--Wikipedier (talk • contribs) 05:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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  The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For going above and beyond in removing flagrant sockpuppeteers from the wiki. Avi 06:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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  Awarded for the relentless work on closing open proxies. Keep it up and thanks for the hard work! ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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  Congratulations, you have been awarded the Spirals of Doom! OH YAY! 132.161.187.62 01:18, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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  Jpgordon, this barnstar is for you, for all your hard work, finding, and blocking those open proxies!! Keep up your good work, both as a Wikiadmin, ArbCom member, Checkuser and open-proxy blocker! sunstar net^talk 08:44, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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  For reverting vandalism on Jew [1] you get a bunch of grapes. Enjoy. :) Sam Vimes 22:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

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  To JPGordon I award the surreal barnstar for his addition of "special flavor" to the community and being of great help at all times, Drboisclair 02:42, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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  I award you this Barnstar, for your work as Sherrif against hatred on Wikipedia - especially as it pertains to Antisemites, and Holocaust deniars --Ludvikus 02:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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