User:Nickshanks
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Nicholas George Shanks was born on 1 May 1981 at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, to a Scottish father and Hungarian mother. He was raised in West Bridgford before moving at age 18 to Hatfield to attend the University of Hertfordshire where he read Astrophysics.
Now Managing Director of Cognition Games, Ltd., Nicholas writes software for the Apple Macintosh and wastes his spare time reading BBC News and learning languages (Gàidhlig, Latina, 日本語, Русский et aliis). Besides astrophysics, computing and linguistics, his interests include archaeology, paleontology, paleoanthropology, human and robotic spaceflight, terraforming, females, natural disasters and a plethora of other topics. His musical tastes include Bruce Springsteen, The Police, Die Prinzen, Chris Isaak, Jefferson Airplane, Peter Gabriel, The Steve Miller Band and U2 amongst many many others.
He is also known to contribute significantly to the Vicipædia Latina, and sometimes must fight for his country.
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For anyone who's interested, I have an RP‐like non‐rhotic East Midlands accent with linking and intrusive [ɹ], and almost exclusively use a short /æ/ in words like grass, path, laugh, dance; exceptions being aunt, can't, half and calf. I read wh as /w/ in almost all cases, except where distinctions are significant (which witch?), and exhibit partial and sometimes inconsistant Yod dropping for example in lute, suit but not new, dune or Zeus. The words chew and juice may be pronounced both with and without /j/ with no apparent (to me) reason why I would choose one over the other, and I more frequently coalesce the noun tune to /ʧuːn/ than not; the verb to tune is never coalesced. I have written an IPA transcription of myself reading the above passage and made an audio recording of myself reading the passage from the English Speech Accent Archive.
[edit] Major Contributions
[edit] Computing
- Apple Advanced Typography – wrote article
- Apple typography – added section on Apple Advanced Typography
- Comparison of web browsers – added two browsers
- Comparison of layout engines (CSS) – created article
[edit] Events
- Hatfield rail crash – created article
- List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom – created article
[edit] Locations
- Hatfield – greatly expanded, categorised
- Hatfield House – expanded content
- West Bridgford – re-wrote article, categorised
- Bayfordbury – created stub
- Old Market Square – re‐written and cleaned up
- Rongbuk Monastery — created stub
[edit] Space
- Hot Jupiter – re‐wrote article from scratch
- Extrasolar planet – corrected a lot of errors
- Planetary migration – created stub
- Rossiter-McLaughlin effect — created article
- HD 189733 — created article
- HARPS – created article
- NGC 2403 – created article
- Hodge 301 – created article
- 41450 Medkeff – created stub
- SN 1604 – added table
- SN 1987A – added table
- SN 2004dj – created article
- Geoffrey Marcy – created article
- R. Paul Butler – created stub
- Debra Fischer – created stub
- Didier Queloz – created stub
- Машиностроительный Завод им. Мясищева — created stub
- Category:Astronauts – organised by nationality
- Template:Minor planet – created template
- Template:Supernova – created template
- Template:Galaxy – created template
- Template:Star – created template
- Astronomical objects project member
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Baby boomer – re-wrote article as non-US-centric. moved existing contents to Post-WW2 baby boom and Year 2000 baby boom
- List of English words with diacritics — created stub
- Nik og Jay – created stub
- Kent's Cavern 4 — created article
- Iceberg B-15 — created article
- Lunar Government — created article
- List of fonts in Mac OS X — created article
- History of copper currency in Sweden — wrote entire article
- Category:British archaeology – reorganised sites into subcategory
[edit] Images
All images created by me are licensed through a Creative Commons Attribution license of one form or another, some require Share Alike, some just attribution. My photographs have the additional condition that I be notified by email explaining when and where they are to be used. I retain copyright on these works, unless otherwise noted.
See english gallery (content in English) and commons gallery (language neutral content).
[edit] Photographs
- Photograph of myself
- San Francisco City Hall
- Lombard Street, San Francisco
- Big Sur, California
- Pebble Beach, California
- Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach
- Hősök tere, Budapest
- Palace of Art, Budapest
[edit] Diagrams & Artwork
- Extrasolar planets
- Mesoplanets
- Large rocky planets
- Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
- Delta 4 rocket family
- Fonts supplied with Mac OS X
- Gold price, Troy Oz morning fix, 2001–2006
- Territories under control of Britain
- Territories under control of Britain (1897)
- Territories under control of Britain (1921)
- English‐speaking countries (2005)
- UK general election results (2005) — heavily modified but not originally authored by me.
- General election seats won in Northern Ireland, 1997-2005
- General election seats won in Northern Ireland, 1997-2005, including 2000 South Antrim by‐election
- BBC Computer Literacy Project owl logo
[edit] Articles of Interest
[edit] Wikipedia
- My User Boxes
- Notice Board
- Meet-ups
[edit] Space
- 2003 UB313 (Xena & Gabrielle)
- 2003 EL61 (Santa & Rudolph)
- 2004 XR190 (Buffy)
- 2005 FY9 (Easter bunny)
[edit] Friends
[edit] Software
- HexEdit
- ResKnife
- Alkor
[edit] External Links
This user has a page on Wikimedia Commons. |
- Aquarius Online Map Creation (uses GMT)
- Map generator
© Copyright 2004-2005 Nicholas Shanks.
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