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- It is better to turn on a light than to curse the darkness, but they're not mutually exclusive, so, fie on thee, darkness.
- My favorite quote was uttered by Norm on the TV show Cheers: "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear."
- Callipygian is my favorite word (who thinks up these things?).
- Most beloved movie of all time? Casablanca, hands down.
With the coming of the Internet, many eyes turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org became the great embarkation point. But, not everybody could get to it with a high-speed connection, and so a tortuous, roundabout trail sprang up, by dial-up. Here, the fortunate ones through money, or influence, or luck, might break their addiction and scurry back to the Real World. But the others edit in Wikipedia... and edit... and edit... and edit.
- My lifelong ambition is to be accepted into Densa. No luck so far...
- I do not suffer from Witzelsucht, though it may appear at times that I do, for example here and here (the space elevator is sometimes nicknamed the "beanstalk").
- The person I admire the most is Raoul Wallenberg. His deeds speak for themselves.
- For Star Trek and specifically Worf fans: Today is a good day to edit.
- Philosophically, I'm a "minist" ("minimalist" has too many letters).
- If I had written some of Shakespeare's plays in seven words, they'd have read like this:
- False friend incites jealous husband to Moor-der.
- To D (Dithering Dane debates, defeats dead dad's deposers) or not to D (Dithering Danish prince avenges his father's murder), that is the question.
- Scottish thane falls victim to "witch"ful thinking.
- If I had written some of Shakespeare's plays in seven words, they'd have read like this:
- Oldest number one hit song: "In the Good Old Sumer Time"?
- I once played a Pokerstars one-table freeroll tournament with Chris Moneymaker. In addition to the prize money, there was a bounty for knocking Moneymaker out. When we got to heads up, I ad-libbed, "Mr. Chris-tian, I want your bounty", but I don't think he got it.
- Best spelling mistake I've run across in a while: "one dementional".
- What is the moral of the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? That you can have two-faced, fair-weather friends once they realize they need you? That Santa should be reported to the authorities for allowing a hostile work environment to fester? Ho, ho, huh?
- Common tropes that science fiction gets dead wrong:
- War between different species: They would have to be at almost exactly the same technological level for it to be anything other than a gross mismatch. Consider the vast difference between World War I and World War II weaponry, with only a couple of decades of "progress". How likely is that? Possibly one side could have an advantage in certain sciences that might compensate for backwardness in others, but that would be highly improbable.
- Aristocracy: Look around. See any monarchs of modern countries with real power? Nobody buys into the divine right of kings anymore. And yet even the Honor Harrington series is guilty of this. At least the Vorkosigan Saga has an excuse; Barrayar was cut off from modern civilization for centuries and regressed.
- Slavery: In the modern world, a useful slave is a dangerous slave. It's just too easy to commit sabotage nowadays, not at all like the cotton plantations of old. The only exception is sexual slavery, for obvious reasons. However, even that may be overtaken by sex robots.
- Dingy and/or cold-looking spaceships: Bad for morale, especially when you're on long missions. Compared to the cost of construction for your average starship, decorating it in a pleasing way would be negligible.
- People who should be posthumously given Darwin Awards:
- Thomas Biddle and Spencer Darwin Pettis, for participating in a pistol duel at a distance of five feet(!)
- Vampires must be blood type AB+ or a type unknown in humans.
- Tickles my funny bone: The village of Dull, Perth and Kinross is paired with the unincorporated community of Boring, Oregon.
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Contents
Films
My most edited article is Casablanca. I wasn't able to contribute as much material as I would have liked (1,000,000,000,000,000 other people got there first), but I have rewritten sizable portions of it to improve the style. Trivia: As of November 3, 2010, I have edited this article one more time (441) than the next three contributors combined.
I wrote the first plot summary for Lawrence of Arabia. I'm also rather pleased with the synopsis of I Know Where I'm Going!
Classics
Anthony Trollope
Chronicles of Barsetshire
Palliser novels
Science fiction
Fredric Brown
C.J. Cherryh
Union-Alliance universe
- Cyteen
- Downbelow Station
- Finity's End*
- Mazianni* - not a novel
- Merchanter's Luck*
- Regenesis
- Rimrunners*
- The Scapegoat* - replaced redirect page
The Morgaine Stories
- Gate of Ivrel* - converted redirect page into an article
- Well of Shiuan* - former redirect page
- Fires of Azeroth* - once a redirect page
Theodore Cogswell
Andre Norton
H. Beam Piper
Mack Reynolds
Jack Vance
Tschai, Planet of Adventure tetralogy
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Miscellaneous
- Farewell to the Master, the inspiration for the classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still
Fantasy
Gillian Bradshaw
Glen Cook
Television
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- WKRP in Cincinnati and List of WKRP in Cincinnati episodes* - various little contributions
Biographies
- Frederick Becton* (by request)
- Jacob Ben-Ami*
- Eddie Brandt*
- Ed Clark (photographer)*
- Charles T. Coiner*
- Mildred Cram*
- William H. Crook*
- Austin Dabney* (by request)
- Martin Dardis*
- Doug Davis (aviator)*
- Robert Edson Dornin* (by request)
- Elvin C. Drake*
- Sam Dreben
- Howard Finnell*
- Farnum Fish*
- James L. Fisk* (by request, as I recall)
- John D. Foley*
- Gander (dog)*
- Samuel Gist*
- George Givot
- Gabriel Grant*
- Samuel Grashio*
- Colin Falkland Gray*
- Fitz W. Guerin*
- Charles K. Hamilton*
- Dirk Hannema*
- Raymond Hesselyn*
- Richard Hollingshead*
- Bernhardt Holtermann*
- Helen Hunt (hair stylist)*
- Roger Imhof*
- Kenneth Jernstedt*
- Pete Jimenez* (by request)
- Isha Johansen*
- Fanny Kelly*
- Nelson King*
- Barry Landau*
- Viola Lawrence*
- T. S. Lippy*
- Robert Little (Flying Tiger)*
- Dale Maple*
- Oliver T. Marsh*
- Mitzi Mayfair*
- Alex McDonald (prospector)*
- William Madison McDonald*
- William Henry McGarvey*
- Mary C. McCall Jr.*
- Buck McNair*
- Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco*
- Richarda Morrow-Tait*
- C. C. Moseley*
- Boy Mould*
- Belinda Mulrooney*
- Eric P. Newman*
- Charlie O'Connell (roller derby)*
- Eddie Parker (pool player)*
- Arevik Petrosyan*
- Jeffry Picower*
- James Pond (Medal of Honor)
- Robert William Prescott*
- Edwin Ramsey* (per request)
- Frank Ross (producer)*
- David Rubitsky*
- Richard Sakakida*
- Mandy Sellars*
- Jack Shackelford*
- Walter L. Shaw*
- Joe Silver*
- James Smith (frontiersman)*
- Percival G. Spencer*
- Ulrich Steinhilper*
- John Tarleton (American settler)*
- James Tilton (surveyor)*
- Philip Tonge*
- Isabelle Urquhart* (by request)
- Dale Van Every*
- Swede Vejtasa*
- Nina Vyroubova*
- Charles Waldron*
- P. V. H. Weems*
- Ira Wolfert*
- Ida Wood*
- Yang Miaozhen*
Military topics
- Battle of Zacatecas*
- German submarine U-480*
- Honorary Marine*
- List of American Civil War legions*
- List of Flying Tigers pilots*
- List of prisoner-of-war escapes*
- United States Tank Corps*
Ships
- Ben Franklin (PX-15)*
- French ship Chameau*
- Golden State (clipper)*
- Hannah (1849 shipwreck)*
- William Brown (ship)*
- William F. Garms*
Miscellaneous
- Alcoholism in Russia
- Bank of Vancouver*
- Boots & Coots*
- Dallas Aces*
- Decommissioning of Russian nuclear-powered vessels*
- Dikko Affair*
- Higgins Family*
- Janet Smith case*
- Kapitan China*
- King George's Sound Company*
- The Last Encounter*, the final Horatio Hornblower story
- List of bets*
- List of celebrities with advanced degrees*
- List of denaturalized former citizens of the United States*
- List of film memorabilia*
- List of individual aircraft*
- List of official vehicles of the President of the United States*
- List of sports desegregation firsts*
- List of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft*
- List of undefeated boxing world champions*
- Lists of governors
- Morrison v. White*
- National Cartoon Museum*
- Olorgesailie*
- Panzergruppe Guderian (game)*, a wargame
- Perfect 10 (gymnastics)*
- Personal finances of professional American athletes*
- Sleeping position*
- Shoup Voting Machine Corporation*
- Stafford Hospital scandal*
- Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg*
Barnstars and DYKs
Paid editing
- Created List of accolades received by The Lives of Others
- Replaced unreliable sources in Atlantic.net
- Improved David Haberfeld for AfC (successful)
- Nominated an article for (deserved and successful) deletion
- Submitted a company article to AfC (rejected)
- Overhauled Fred Mouawad, particularly replacing unreliable sources; also restored images in Mouawad and Taskworld
- Two biographies accepted via AfC (Charles P. O'Brien and ?)
- Phebe Starr initially rejected by AfC, but later accepted after later accomplishments were noted by another editor
Helm
Are you also going to remove Helm Glacier, Helm Peak and Helm Point etc., then, or will the rules be applied selectively to fiction? (Even though it is quite a large article, that I did not write.) --IByte (talk) 12:22, 16 January 2019 (UTC)