User:Sean.hoyland

This is what articles shouldn't look like

This is better

...and rather than looking at this page you should probably be somewhere more interesting.

Unified login: Sean.hoyland is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. en This user is a native speaker of English. This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues. This user lives in Thailand. IC This user studied or studies at Imperial College London.

• Editing approach: Don't ignore some rules or not, it depends.
• Guiding principal: "People are getting less smart every day, everywhere. It's a real world movement" - New Pictorial Language Makes Marks - Good for Showing Stuff, Leaving out Big Words
• Useful graph: Typical relationship found between perceived and actual performance (Kruger & Dunning)
• Useful category: Category:Wikipedia backlog
• Advice: "Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Terms of use: All visitors to this page are welcome and may receive a small karmic gift for their contributions. Guidelines for how to vandalize this page can be found at Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism

Hello, my name is Sean which sounds like shaun. A Hargeisan man once told me that my name meant pubic hair. Although normally a reliable source I'm yet to confirm his assertion.

That's pretty much everything you need to know about me but despite that here's some random soundbites.

• I've lived, worked and travelled around in quite of lot of different places. This has inevitably made me extremely cynical which is a bonus.
• I first met my wife in Barcelona in an amazingly random way.
• I find almost anything funny. This isn't necessarily a good thing apparently.
• Many years ago I stepped backwards over the edge of a cliff in Corsica while mapping an ophiolite complex. I sustained almost no injuries but I still have a very small piece of the cliff in my hand. Moral = wear a hard hat.
• Due to peer group pressure from a bunch of crusty old communist, geriatric musicians and their fans I have given a rare and outstandingly bad live vocal performance of Jingle Bells in a park in Guangzhou....in the summer. Yes, the crowd loved it. Moral = go to China.
• Generally speaking I don't like cats on account of them being psychopathic predators who wreak havoc. Despite that, I adopted a local street cat. It vanished a couple of days after both the cat and I saw a 2 m python in the garden which we both lost track of. Yes, it is surprisingly easy to lose track of a large-ish snake so be warned. I assume the snake ate the cat. Such is life.
• I'm not a big fan of macaques.
• As I've got older I've realised that I actually know very little about anything and what I thought I knew often turns out to be wrong but I tend to not let that stand in my way of contributing to Wikipedia.