User:Candidhq

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1 Who am I?
2 Wikipedia areas I watch and edit
3 My employment (past and present)
4 The Slew of Way-Too-Many Userboxes

[edit] Who am I?

CandidHQ is my internet handle, because it is the name of the internet community that I run. I try to be a good boy on Wikipedia, and I'm all about working together and being civil. I do this for fun, so if it gets uncivil, it's no longer fun. It's how I relax. Weird, huh?

[edit] Wikipedia areas I watch and edit

Subjects related to the Wichita, Kansas area
Games that I enjoy
The one show I watch on tv
IBLP, my former employer.
Currently, I am trying to decide whether or not to get involved in the "spoken articles". I have experience and training in the area of naration, stage voice, and such. Additionally, I can work on the recordings myself using my own software. The question is finding the time...
I was involved for a few days in the translation effort at SPATRA, mostly in the Threshing-board article for some time. I try, but I'm not that hot at translation.

[edit] My employment (past and present)

I currently work in Instructional Technology at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.

In the past, I have been a Video Editor, Engineer, and Producer for the Institute in Basic Life Principles, Oak Brook, IL, http://www.iblp.org

I worked at one point for http://www.characterlink.net, where I performed background coding (Server scripts that served as pipelines between data sources and destinations). Most of the work I did was in Perl, and was never seen by the customer, although I did some ASP work (VBScript), too.

[edit] The Slew of Way-Too-Many Userboxes

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user is a native of Kansas.

@	This user can be reached by email at steve@candidhq.com.

This user's AOL Instant Messenger screenname is candidhq.

Web	This user has a website.

This user maintains a blog at We're Blogging This.

[edit] Computer Skills

G	This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

OWN

This user uses an email account with his/her own domain name.

This user's primary Instant Messaging software is Trillian.

This user contributes using
Internet Explorer.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows.

This user has a dual monitor configuration.

>56k

This user contributes using a broadband connection.

This user hacks happily with Emacs.

Perl

This user is a Perl hacker.

<html>

This user can write HTML.

mysql

This user writes programs that access MySQL.

re-2

This user is an intermediate regular expression programmer.

xml

This user can write XML.

Java

This user can program in Java.

[edit] Preferences

met?

This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the U.S., cannot relate to them.

US	This user uses American English.

~~they~~

This user considers singular they substandard English usage.

snuk

This user says snuck.

infinitive

This user has no opinion about split infinitives.

by	The passive voice may be used by this user.

~~... in.~~

This user thinks that a sentence ending with a preposition is just dumb-looking.

man-
kind

Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct".

to / too
/ two

Too many people have no idea how to use words they should have learned in grade two.

whom

This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

which & that

This user knows how to use which and that correctly.

their / there / they're

This user knows that there, their, and they're are not the same word.

your/ you’re

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, you’re in need of help.

Subj

This user likes that the Subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.

!?	This user is a punctuation stickler.

. T

This user puts two spaces after a full stop.

A, B and C

This user prefers not to use the serial comma.

its

This user understands the difference between its ("of it") and it's ("it is").

’s	Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. ^[sic]

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.