User:Tomruen

Userboxes @This user can be reached by email. This user currently lives in the U.S. State of Minnesota. This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 2 months and 20 days. This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years. This user is a member of WikiProject Polyhedra. This user is a member of the Eclipse Wikiproject. This user is a member of WikiProject Astronomical objects.

Contact

Self

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.

My work here

I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004 (14 years ago now!). 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, and astronomy.

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.

Active work and subpages

Images

Home Space Uniform polyhedra (Thanks Rob!) Truncated icosidodecahedron Uniform tilings Hyperbolic tilings {∞,∞} (Thanks Anton !) t0,1,2,3{5,3,3}, Uniform polychora (Thanks Fritz!) Uniform honeycombs (Thanks Anton!) {5,3,4} Hyperbolic honeycombs (Thanks Jeff!) {34,2,1}, Semiregular E-polytopes Thanks Rocchini! t{3,5,3}, Hyperbolic honeycombs Thanks Roice! {6,3,3} Paracompact uniform honeycombs More thanks Rocchini! {3,3,7} Lorentzian honeycomb Thanks Roice! {7,3,3} Lorentzian honeycomb Thanks Roice! Past Future Leap years

• User:Tomruen/subpages

About me

• Born (1968-04-16) April 16, 1968, I live near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I like astronomy, science, math, 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 Delphi.
• I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, minor in Physics (astronomy), 1991, from the U of MN.
• https://twitter.com/Tom_Ruen

Pictures

Artistic comparison of Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, 2002 MS₄, 2007 OR₁₀, Quaoar, Salacia, Orcus, and Earth along with the Moon.

• 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, or simulated rotation April 2014
• Sunrise corona animation
• File:Asteroid_flyby_2015_TB145.gif 2015 TB145 Halloween flyby animation
• File:Saturn view from earth 2009.gif Saturn animation, 2009 ring crossing
• File:Saturn timelapse-29 years.gif Saturn animation for 29 years. (or as seen from Jupiter, 2000-2333, or from Pluto, 1890-2138
• File:Lunar_eclipse_chart_close-2010Dec21_animation.gif 2010 lunar eclipse animation, or April 2014 lunar eclipse

Links

• {{sfn|Smith|2005|p=25}} shortened footnote
• {{rp|pages}} reference page
• {{anchor|text}} .. linking between sections
• {{clear|left}} ... flow text past left images
• <source lang="pascal">
• Edit counter
• Texvc TEX formatting on wiki
• Unicodes 2000-2fff Inverted-Y: & #8516; = ⅄, hex 2144
• http://word2cleanhtml.com
• http://bmanolov.free.fr/html2wiki-tables.php HTML to Wiki Converter
• unicodes: Isomorphism ≅, approximate ≈, ↔
• Special:Newimages
• Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
• Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy
  • {{ deletebecause|Reason. }}
  • {{ deprecated|date= }}
• Wikipedia:Oversight - permanent deletion of revision history
• Macro codes:
  1. $1000 = US$29,416 in 1900
  2. {{Unreferenced}}
  3. {{cleanupdate| DATE }}
  4. {{db-author}} - delete article with wrong name
  5. {{db-f1}} - delete image with wrong name
• <:nowiki>
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia:Bot requests#Script generation of uniform polyhedra articles
• [2]
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics

Wiki news

• [3] Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future. In this presentation, he explains how Wikipedia's collaborative system works, and why it succeeds. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:47)
• Jimmy Wales’s benevolent Wikipedia wisdom By DAVID HOROVITZ 07/01/2011

France national football team In association football, the FIFA World Cup concludes with France (team pictured) defeating Croatia in the final. At least 154 people are killed and more than 220 others are injured in multiple bombings in Mastung and Bannu, Pakistan. Scientists announce the discovery of stone tools dating to 2.1 million years ago in Shangchen, China, the oldest evidence of hominins outside Africa. In Germany, the National Socialist Underground trial ends after more than five years with the sentencing of the main defendant, Beate Zschäpe, to life in prison. Twelve boys and a man trapped in Thailand's Tham Luang Nang Non cave are rescued. Recent deaths: Ray Emery Theo-Ben Gurirab Tin Ka Ping Lord Carrington

Picture of the day

Saint-Jacques Tower is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on Rue de Rivoli at Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, which was demolished in 1797 during the French Revolution. It is considered a national historic landmark.Photograph: Benh Lieu Song

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