User:Robert K S

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[edit] Likely areas of contribution

I may be able to initiate or enhance articles in the following topics, having studied and collected materials in these areas:

  • The lives and music of The Beatles, and '50s and '60s rock and roll in general.
  • The life and films of George Lucas, especially the Star Wars movies, or at least the first three.
  • The history of early computing, particularly the ENIAC and the lives of those who were involved in its construction and the construction of other early computing machines.
  • The work of psychologist Paul Diel, who is little-known in the U.S.
  • The quiz show Jeopardy!—along with a bunch of other dedicated archivists, I founded and help run a web site that lists Jeopardy! clues and players—J! Archive.
  • Biomedical engineering and medical devices.

[edit] Travel

I enjoy travel and have been fortunate enough to recently visit the following places outside the United States:

I make my home in Cleveland, Ohio and try to spend as much time as I can in Los Angeles, California, where I went to college at the University of Southern California.

[edit] Little touches

I have met and/or sighted in person (as at a lecture, concert, art exhibition, rally, etc.) the following more or less illustrious individuals:

Bonnie Dunbar, Buzz Aldrin, John Glenn, Robert Crippen, Nichelle Nichols, George H. W. Bush, Drew Casper, Harlan Ellison, Tony Kushner, Nolan Bushnell, George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, Frank Darabont, Wolfgang Petersen, Leonard Nimoy, Colin Powell, Richard Dreyfuss, Spike Lee, Jason Alexander, Gary Oldman, Nelson Gidding, Larry David, David S. Goyer, Paul Debevec, Stephen Hawking, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Antonelli, Arthur and Alice Burks, Herman Goldstine, Jean Bartik, Paul McCartney, Kurt Vonnegut, Simon & Garfunkel, The Everly Brothers, John Kerry, John Edwards, Bruce Springsteen, Les Paul, Matisyahu, Ringo Starr, Jerome Vered, Jared Diamond, Han Myeong Sook, John G. Webster, Bob Harris, Ken Jennings, Richard Cordray, Ian Hunter

...and probably a few others I can't think of at the moment. (The above doesn't count "star sightings," though I'm pretty sure Michael Keaton once waved "hi" to me, and I literally rubbed elbows with Kevin Costner on the red carpet. And there was the time I chatted on the phone with Yoko Ono.)

[edit] Useful Wikipedia links

  • The Wikipedia Manual of Style, for when you want to know whether periods and commas go inside or outside of quotation marks (outside!), or how many spaces to leave between sentences (one or two, it doesn't matter!)
  • Wikipedia:Purge, for instructions on how to purge cached pages and images
  • Wannabe Kate tool, to check your number of edits

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