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REDIRECT NOTICE

Between July 24, 2004 and January 9, 2005, I made edits w/o a username, and a few times since then, I may have inadvertently edited w/o logging in. Ooops! July 24 is when I got cable modem, finally, and a static IP. Prior thereto, I was on dialup, and despite my best efforts, have been unable to find a reliable list of my anon edits. Oh well.:-pTomer^TALK04:32, May 16, 2005 (UTC) Apparently I'm now editing from66.188.250.140(talk·contribs).

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About me

Userbox overload

This page was starting to suffer from userbox overload, so I got rid ofallof them and put themhereinstead. Enjoy.

Wikipedia

I first started messing around on wikipedia several years ago, at which time I was unaware that there was a login or contributors' list, or whatnot. Most of my dillydallying has been starting or contributing to articles about Jews and Judaism, as well as a few minor edits in other fields. I first signed up as a real "user" just a couple months ago, so now I've gotta be careful, since now ppl can see what I'm doing...;-) TShilo1201:17, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

OK, and so now, I spent a little time compiling alist of articles I started...have yet to compile a list of articles to which I've contributed extensively. For those wondering how many edits I've made on the English WP, clickhere. And here's acollection of garbage I've found on WP.

Autobiography

I was born at 8:38 PMAtlantic time,April 15,1972,inAguadilla,Puerto Rico.That's right,income taxday. Since puertorricans don't payU.S.Federal Income Tax,however, it's not such anevilday there.

I've lived in theTown of Washington,inEau Claire County, Wisconsin(just south ofEau Claire,Wisconsin) since I was 7 years old. I hatewinter,and blame it on the fact that I'm from Puerto Rico, eventhough my memories of PR are rather scanty, and none of them have anything to do with theclimatethere.

I went toCleghorn Elementary SchoolinCleghorn, Wisconsin,and then toSouth Junior High Schoolin Eau Claire, although from mid-Octoberuntil earlyJanuaryof fifth grade (grade 5 for theCanucksout there), I went toDownsville Elementary SchoolinDownsville, Wisconsin,and I went toPepin High SchoolinPepin, Wisconsinfor the firstsemesterof 9th grade. (Incidentally, when I was going to Pepin HS, I was living nearLund, Wisconsin,about 2 miles from the girlhood home ofLaura Ingalls Wilder.Every day on the way to school, I passed the park containing her real-life house described inLittle House in the Big Woods.[1]I graduatedJune 6,1990from Eau Claire'sMemorial High School.Unlike most people, apparently, I absolutely donotthink High School was the best time of my life. One cool thing about High School tho, was the fact that the principal's office left us alone for the most part when we took over thelobbyby the mainauditoriumevery morning before school (sometimes as many as 40 of us), playinghackey sack...usually withkoosh balls,in those days...

I went toUWECoff and on thereafter, finally getting aB.S.inPhysicsonMay 22,1998,after (sometimes serious) flirtations withSociology,GeologyandCultural geography: Linguistics.I didn't go to commencement, as I had to work that day, atShopKo's service desk, and didn't really regard my finally having graduated as much of an accomplishment (my GPA was only 2.44).

InJulyof1999,I became manager of theshoedepartment at ShopKo #24 in Eau Claire, which meant, at that time, that I became an employee ofJ. Baker, Inc.,a company that should rot inhellfor the way they screwed over their employees and the chains that contracted with them. Oh wait. That's right, they wentbankrupt.I guessannihilationis about the same thing as hell, except without thetorment.Oh well. As that stupidcountrysong says, "two outta three ain't bad"...

Payless Shoestook over JBI's ShopKo account in June of 2000, which meant I was either out of a job, (unless I was willing to accept the equivalent ofanalrapefrom Payless, a store from which I will never buy a pair of shoes or even a pair ofshoelacesas long as I live or) unless I went back to my service desk job at ShopKo. I was out of a job. Happily, I already had lined up a position atHoneywell,in the Advanced Circuits unit of their Electronic Materials division. Unfortunately, my brother, through whom I got the job, had made some enemies among thebigwigs,and so I was stuck in an unadvanceable position. When a layoff was offered inNovemberof2002,I took it happily. Greedily, you might say.

I returned to UWEC inJanuaryof2003and completed a seconddegree,this time inComputer Science.

While working on my CS degree, and then for a year afterwards, I worked as theregulatory coördinatorand biolab tech for a localveterinarypharmaceuticallaboratory.Since June of 2007, I've been working as a data tech forIDEXX Computer Systems,a division ofIDEXX Laboratories.

Other stuff about me

I have a mom and a dad.

I have 2 sisters and a brother, some cousins, nephews, grandparents, nieces, and various other relatives.

I'm a proudJew.

I'm single and love it, but would also love to not be.I'm just starting a relationship with a great girl who, if things work out alright, will be my wife come Sept. 2006. Well wishing is welcome, but gifts and financial contributions will be appreciated even more.

One of my fun little projects in high schools (besides inventing my own language), was to invent anew orthography for English.

For the dialectologists, the way I speak English, "Atlantis" sounds like/ɛʔ·'læⁿnis/,"Toronto" sounds like/tɹ̩·'ano/or/'tɹa·no/,and while "dentist" is usually /'dɛ·nɪst̚/, "dentists" is /'dɛ·nɪs:/ (not to be confused with "Dennis", which is /'dɛ·nɪs/).

What American accent do you have? Your Result:The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
North Central
The Midland
Boston
The West
"What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

My Interests

• Physics
• Astronomy
• Computers
• Logic
• Electronics
• Comparative religion
• Comparative linguistics
• Judaism
• History
• Politics

Music

Basically, I like anything except most of what comes out of theRapandCountryworld. I hate any and everything, however, bearing the labelJazz.

Movies

• Star Trek,the various series (although I'm less than enthusiastic aboutDeep Space 9), as well as the movies
• Stargate,includingStargate SG-1andStargate Atlantis
• Good Will Hunting,mostly because I so strongly identify withMatt Damonin that film
• Europa, Europa
• Dead Poets Society(a movie because of which I will forever hateRobin Williams)

Friends

My closest friendships in the world are with Jordan, Munch and a few other great guys, more recently, Coot, Shneb, Lester andMilas,none of whom have any particular overriding interest in Wikimania.

Actrons

• Mili Avital(the hottest actress ever)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger(and not only because I can spell his name w/o looking it up)
• Nicolas CageI hate. He's a crappy actor and should go work in a gas station. I take that back. He probably can't even pump gas properly.

Politics

I honestly believe that people who believe that "communismworks, it just hasn't been tried by the right people "are delusional.

My favorite vandal

• Illinoisan(talk·contribs·deleted contribs·nuke contribs·logs·filter log·block user·block log)

Contact me

Email me by clickinghere.

I have a number of instant messenger sns, but I'm not going to list them here. Email me and I'll email you how to IM me.

Weekly Torah Portion

Commentariesfrom Aleph Beta Academy

To do

My to do list Check outmusicthing. If you're looking for something to do, how about checking out some of these articles in need of attention:

• Wikipedia:Dead-end pages

This user observesShabbat.