User:Mckaysalisbury

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Hello Welcome to the McKay Salisbury page. I was sick of having a red underline for my name so I slapped this in.

Contents 1 What do I do with my life? 2 My Watchlist 3 Todo list 4 Cool Links

[edit] What do I do with my life?

I'm a computer scientist. Mainly that means I'm a programmer and software engineer. I currently work in databases. I work a lot with Dataphor and Relational Databases. I'm rather familiar with the theory, but most of the time I end up implementing database systems. I have a couple of contract positions, mostly involving math and physics programming. Also, I'm doing some real computer science research in my spare time, and I'm writing an indie video game, basically by myself.

I love playing video games. I don't spend as much time doing this as I like. I would like to work in video games in the future.

My hobbies include: Literature and movies, mainly Science Fiction. Postcyberpunk and Time Travel are probably my favorite sub genres. I enjoy reading about the latest discoveries in math (like Rational Trigonometry) and science. From a non-geek perspective, sure, I'm dating. I like social dance, and rock climbing & spelunking.

I'm somewhat active in Wikipedia.

[edit] My Watchlist

I now watch about a bajillion pages. Many of them have so infrequent changes, that I forget I have them in my watchlist. I have several topics that I try to keep the articles pure, mostly in the database industry:

• Codd's 12 rules
• D4 (programming language)
• D (data language specification)
  • Industrial D
  • Tutorial D
• Dataphor
• Edgar F. Codd
• Relational Database Management System
• Relational database
• Relational model

Some other computer science topics:

• AVL tree Kinda related to current research
• The Joel Test

I watch a few math related topics:

• Pi
• Fibonacci number Kinda related to curernt research

Some science topics:

• Definition of planet
• Lorentz factor
• Mars Desert Research Station
• Singularity
• Time Travel

Some Science-Fiction topics:

• Cardassian I had a question about spoonheads, and I'm awaiting a response. Maybe I'll eventually see the episode again
• Star Trek

And, finally, from nowhere, a couple of people topics:

• User:Mckaysalisbury duh, I wouldn't want someone changing me would I?
• James Earl Salisbury

Yeah, there are other pages in my watchlist, but these are the important ones.

[edit] Todo list

• Transparent aluminum HMNS Houston Museum District
• Fix and update Pilgrimage and RaD Man
• Finish my current research topic
  • Fix and update related wikipedia articles
• Finish Photogrammetry system
  • Fix and update related wikipedia articles
• Finish MDRS article
  • Add current research
  • Add lots of pictures
• Finish programming game
  • Fix and update related wikipedia articles

[edit] Cool Links

• Jiang Yanyong is my hero of the day. (8 Feb 2006) I found him while researching SARS for the article on my father James Earl Salisbury (another hero).

• User:Mckaysalisbury/templates