User:Tomruen

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	This user currently lives in the U.S. State of Minnesota.

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[edit] Contact

Hi, my name is Tom Ruen. If you'd like to contact me, try out the form at: Special:Emailuser/tomruen

I also edit from User:SockPuppetForTomruen, mostly for eclipses.

[edit] My work here

I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004. It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. I am a little skeptical over the idea of freedom to change anything, but overall I'm very impressed by the quality of articles and I have faith good work is being done and I can add to it.

There are many quality websites out there and it seems silly to duplicate too much. I like the idea of learning about something and testing my knowledge by trying to share it. For me that motivates much of my efforts here.

Primary topics I've worked on include geometry, astronomy, and election methods.

My specialty has primarily been image generation, perhaps because I've found so many articles where useful images were absent. I try to make quality images, but I will compromise perfection for meaningful improvement. I'm happy if anyone can replace my images with better ones.

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Home Space Uniform polyhedra (Thanks Rob!) Truncated icosidodecahedron Uniform tilings Hyperbolic tilings Uniform polychora (Thanks Fritz!) Uniform honeycombs (Thanks Anton!) Hyperbolic honeycombs (Thanks Jeff!) Semiregular E-polytopes Thanks Rocchini! Past Future Leap years

[edit] Active work and subpages

[edit] About me

I'm 43 years old and I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I like astronomy, science, math, walking, running, bicycling, reading, writing, photography, and gardening.
I do computer programming for a living, mostly in Java and C++. For my own fun projects I'll program in Borland Delphi.
I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, minor in Physics (astronomy), 1991, from the U of MN.

[edit] Pictures

Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 12, 2003
Wikipedia:Picture of the day/November 10, 2005
- User:Tomruen/2006featuredpicture #10 Copied from on Commons Picture of 2006 [1]
Mars animation 2003
Sunrise corona animation
File:Saturn view from earth 2009.gif Saturn animation, 2009 ring crossing
File:Saturn timelapse-29 years.gif Saturn animation for 29 years.
File:Lunar_eclipse_chart_close-2010Dec21_animation.gif 2010 lunar eclipse animation

[edit] Affiliations

Itasca Consulting Group Employer
Independence Party of Minnesota
FairVote of Minnesota - Advocating for Instant Runoff Voting and majority rule
Citizens League of Minnesota

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Picture of the day

Grapefruit is the citrus fruit of the grapefruit tree (Citrus × paradisi), an 18th-century hybrid first bred in Barbados. The fruit is yellow-orange skinned and largely an oblate spheroid; it grows to about 10–15 cm (4–6 in) in diameter. The flesh is segmented and acidic, varying in color depending on the cultivars, which include white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness (Ruby Red variety shown here).

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