User:Coneslayer

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This user proudly owns a MINI.

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PSU

This user is attending or graduated from Penn State University

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This user is or was a student at the California Institute of Technology

This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Astrophysics.

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This user is a frood who really knows where their towel is.

My name is Matthew Hunt. I work in the field of remote sensing. I am an alumnus of Penn State (B.S., Physics and Astronomy, 1998) and Caltech (Ph.D., Astrophysics, 2004). I am originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I now live in Lancaster, California. My username is a reference to autocross. My other hobbies include photography, birding, food, and wine, and I am a FreeBSD committer.

One of my Wikipedia edits has been mentioned in the media. On August 11, 2006, King Kaufman of Salon.com quoted this edit summary in his daily column:

Soon there was a notation in the item that I'd written a column on Aug. 10, 2006, bemoaning the fact that my item might be deleted. Whoa, feedback loop! That was removed in short order as a "navel-gazing reference to Wikipedia."

Yeah, I hate navel-gazing self-reference, don't you?

The title of the column was "Down with self-referential navel gazing! Or, Wikipedia and me, Part 2. And did I mention me?".