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Fun guy with an infected upper left molar.

Roller derby pushes my buttons, and I happen to know what they are!

I am a Boisean with eclectic interests, an Episcopalian, a civil servant, a long-time co-administrator of INFJ-L (the oldest and second-largest mailing list for that Myers-Briggs personality type on the Internet), and an early lifetime LibraryCrack, err, LibraryThing member (I recently culled my library to just over 1000 books –but the numbers are slowly rising again, of course). I'm also a stalwart fan of roller derby and have edited its article extensively; politically I've been a "super-volunteer" for the Obama campaign in Idaho. Just another geek!

Ontologically I'm also notable just for being here, inasmuch as I was a preemie with a gestation period of 6 months, two weeks and a birthweight of 2 lbs. 9 oz. (1162 grams) over half a century ago. Naturally, I support the March of Dimes.

More currently, due to a dust-up with my ISP, Cable One involving a peremptory DMCA takedown notice, their (admittedly) vague AUP, and the Tor anonymity network, I have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is quite in keeping with my being a card-carrying ACLU member. (Sometimes I run Tor Bridge Relay 24.116.150.114:9001 1001CBA6D3F2657E6E3C7FF837FE6B8792D59C3F, and sometimes I run Tor Relay AntiIslamofascism, etc. (I shoot the Glock 17 regularly, however.)) Neda shall not be forgotten.

The only magazine I subscribe to The New Republic, and I get most of my news on-line or from National Public Radio. As per Archilochus, I am far more fox than hedgehog.

While my sundry changes to Wikipedia are almost entirely stylistic, grammatical or just plain arcane, I do have a few initiated articles to my name: National Interagency Fire Center, Nichi nichi kore ko nichi, Comprehensive metabolic panel (eventually a DYK), and Agency for New Americans (a refugee agency in Boise with whom I have volunteered)

My day job claim to fame back in the day is that I was the catalog editor at Blue Dove Press in San Diego for a couple of years (“Saints and Sages of the East and West”), so I would very much concur with Borges that Paradise shall be a kind of library. I have other ideas about Heaven too, but that said I've done a fair amount of editing and ghostwriting in my time. (I have been told that I'm an “interesting mix of the sacred and profane,” but personally I consider “vulgar and arcane” more accurate.)

I am happily running Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" Linux on whatever it deems to be the latest stable kernel, and fancy that if I were a programmer I'd be programming in Perl —if only because it looks like a cartoon character swearing.

Cheers!

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