User:Floquenbeam

KIND OF HERE

I'm not here consistently, and reserve the right to disappear for any length of time for any reason. You shouldn't count on me for anything remotely time-sensitive.

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. -Friedrich Schiller, The Maid of Orleans (although I came to it, of course, through Isaac Asimov)

Wikipedia is ... a place where anyone with a browser can go, pick a subject that interests them, and without even logging in, start an argument. -Lore Sjoberg, The Wikipedia FAQK

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 -User:Proofreader77, (unpublished work)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, Flow, 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.
• Sock declaration: User:Floquensock, User:Floquenstein's monster, and User:Floquenphone are me. As is future bureaucrat User:Aardvark Floquenbeam.
• 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 self-created userbox, inspired by a conversation with an incredulous 25 year old coworker today

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 10 months and 20 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.

This user has met two Wikipedians in real life

... And they were both completely normal human beings!

hope(?)−3 years and 8 months

... Aparece una mayor, con mucho más infierno en digestión

This user is clever and lazy on the Hammerstein-Equord Scale.

... although stupid and lazy is also a distinct possibility

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] • append this to get MW pages: &uselang=qqx

This is the year

2019: Seattle Mariners win it all. You heard it here first. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:30, 13 October 2018 (UTC) AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road Houston Astros 107 55 0.660 — 60–21 47–34 Oakland Athletics 97 65 0.599 10 52–29 45–36 Texas Rangers 78 84 0.481 29 45–36 33–48 Los Angeles Angels 72 90 0.444 35 38–43 34–47 Seattle Mariners 68 94 0.420 39 35–46 33–48

2015/16: Denver Broncos win it all. You heard it here first. --Floquenbeam (talk) 23:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC)  Done 2017/18, 2018/19: You know, it's taken many decades, and I've shamefully looked the other way most of those decades, but the last few months have made even a white, male, old dog like me maybe 20% woke. Fuck the NFL. CTE. Blackmailing cities for stadia. Crawling over one another to hire rapists. Blackballing Colin Kaepernick. Fuck every single person associated with the ownership of this league. I have no illusions that this matters to anyone, but I'm trying to improve my karma by boycotting the NFL this year. MLB may not be much better, but it's got to be incrementally better, right?. Wish I could turn to NCAA football instead, but ... Jesus, it's just horrible, horrible people every way you turn. --Floquenbeam (talk) 00:30, 10 August 2017 (UTC)