User:Keenan Pepper

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Note: I encourage you to edit my user page if you think there's something else people should know about me, or simply to correct an error.

Keenan Pepper is a third year grad student in physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is from Tallahassee, Florida where he got his undergrad degree (physics and math) from Florida State University.

Keenan is starting to work on superconducting quantum computing research, specifically sources of 1/f noise in flux qubits. That seems like the most likely topic for his PhD thesis.

Keenan's one major hobby is playing Balinese gamelan music with Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Sometimes he gets a craving for kotekan which just can't be denied. Keenan also enjoys many other kinds of music, especially those that use tunings other than the Western standard of 12-tone equal temperament.

Keenan considers himself a staunch libertarian but thinks the Libertarian Party can be pretty silly sometimes.

Keenan uses and advocates free software, to a degree some might call extreme. He uses Ubuntu GNU/Linux and the only non-free software currently on his computer is the firmware for his wireless card and the Flash plugin, because they have no working, free alternatives yet.

To do

• Elastica curve (Elastica theory)
• Juden Raus!: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
• Clean up List of Greek words with English derivatives which is in terrible shape
• Worm problem
• Aulos
• Figure out what apophasis, paralipsis, and proslepsis really mean
• Joseph Yasser's Theory of Evolving Tonality
• L-glucose
• Carlos Garcia the musical leaf player
• Spelling (music)
• Photon sphere
• Blue note
• Diagrams for The Integral Trees
• The Planiverse
• Twistoflex
• Ain ez Zarqa
• Lake Assal
• Phlogiston, Calx, etc.
• Chott Djerid
• Haiqiong Deng, and redirect from Deng Haiqiong
• Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (maybe omnibus article with methylcellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, etc.?)
• Mono- and diglycerides
• Dihydroxyacetone
• List of discredited substances
• Puente del Inca
• Sodium tallowate and Sodium cocoate
• Help History of Earth become a featured article
• Photoactivated localization microscopy

Recognition

The Original Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For exceptional contributions to the Wikipedia Reference desk. Brian G. Crawford 06:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC) I second that. DirkvdM 07:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC) I second that too. Kushal Hada --who is kushal? 21:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Y soy la voz porque ayudo a otros usuarios. --Cosmic girl 22:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

More than one year after the fact, I want to thank you for two simple words of advice: "be bold"! Thanks! Prof.rick (talk) 14:34, 8 August 2008 (UTC)