User:Floquenbeam

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. -Max Ehrmann, Desiderata

Wikipedia is basically Webkinz World for grownups. -Mrs. Floquenbeam, while watching my daughter and I both "playing" at the same time

I haven't yet been screwed by sonneteers. So that's how I select my fav'rite peers. -User:Proofreader77, (unpublished work)

Strength is essential, but otherwise unimportant -Hardy Cross

The Center of the Universe (the Mountain, not the city). I live very, very far away from it now. :(

Hello, and welcome

• I respond to Floquenbeam, Floq, Flo, FB, any other nickname you can think of (as long as it's not rude), or even "hey you", as long as I know from context you're talking to me.
• I don't go around correcting people when they guess wrong (hardly their fault), but I'm a "he".
• I'm easy to get along with (at least in real life), so please give me any constructive criticism you want; I'm aware that I'm imperfect, and usually quite willing to admit it and apologize when I screw up.
• I try my best to turn the other cheek, but I'm evidently not so great getting unconstructive criticism, particularly when my good faith is questioned, or if I think I'm being patronized.
• I instinctively side with the underdog, so I tend to react poorly when I see other people (particularly newbies) bullied or patronized. I'm not convinced that's a defect, but I'm trying to make more of an effort in not going immediately into attack mode.
• I'm an admin here. If you think I suck and shouldn't be, go here: User:Floquenbeam/Recall.
• Sock declaration: User:Floquensock, User:Floquenstein's monster, and User:Floquenphone are me.
• FWIW, I used to have another account before Floquenbeam, but abandoned it; so I've been here longer than it looks.
• I was on the Arbitration Committee from 1 January 2014 until 29 July 2014, but couldn't hack it.

Userboxes

This user remembers (with nostalgia) having to use punch cards to run Fortran programs in college.

My first (and only!) self-created userbox, inspired by a conversation with an incredulous 25 year old coworker today

This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 10 months and 10 days.

My wiki birthday. I am somewhat older than this in real life.

I'm an awesome Wikipedian!

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day on 27 May 2010.

Happy me day!

This user is an administrator, but might like not to be one some day.

Shamelessly stolen from Pedro

According to The Political Compass this user is:
Economic Neutral (1.0) and
Social Libertarian (−5.0)

So no, I'm not working for Santorum's election campaign, in spite of occasional moronic claims to the contrary

This administrator is open to recall.

Finally got around to this: see User:Floquenbeam/Recall

Mr Moon ?/?/02 - 8/28/14

Good boy.

Useful links

Workbenches: DPWL • SE • NDT • Montessori • Sandbox • Emergency backup sandbox • My subpages

Interwiki: Meta: Watchlist • talk • Commons: Watchlist • talk • Simple: Watchlist • talk

Tools: SUL tool • Cross-namespace redirects • Editor interaction]

This is the year

2015: Seattle Mariners win it all. You heard it here first. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2014 (UTC) AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road Texas Rangers 88 74 0.543 — 43–38 45–36 Houston Astros 86 76 0.531 2 53–28 33–48 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 85 77 0.525 3 49–32 36–45 Seattle Mariners 76 86 0.469 12 36–45 40–41 Oakland Athletics 68 94 0.420 20 34–47 34–47

2015/16: Denver Broncos win it all. You heard it here first. --Floquenbeam (talk) 23:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC) AFC West W L T PCT DIV CONF PF PA STK (1) Denver Broncos 12 4 0 .750 4–2 8–4 355 296 W2 (5) Kansas City Chiefs 11 5 0 .688 5–1 10–2 405 287 W10 Oakland Raiders 7 9 0 .438 3–3 7–5 359 399 L1 San Diego Chargers 4 12 0 .250 0–6 3–9 320 398 L2

Please advise me what you are talking about; "posted to user page." I am dealing with an administrator who refuses to accept my version of the events that led to two totally different pictures being said to be of the same person. I am posting to the user page of the administrator as seems to be the way of Wikipedia Jagtig (talk) 23:39, 28 August 2015 (UTC)