User:Smack

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I am currently 21 years old, and a student at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm in my last semester studying electrical engineering, with a side interest in mechanical engineering. I first edited an article in March of 2003, and started contributing on a regular basis in the wee days of May.

My nickname is a slang term, at least in Irvine, California, for a somewhat cocky smart person. I don't like it very much anymore, but I don't want to bother changing it. My email address is ivg in the immediate vicinity of berkeley very small spot edu email-address harvesting software must die. ('92604' is my ZIP code. When I got this email address, Yahoo suggested that I be either smack16 or smack17, so I decided to go with a number I could remember. You may also AIM at brainybuffoon, YIM me at smack92604, or ICQ me at 26220039. (I don't let people add me to their ICQ contact lists without authorization. If you request to add me, please mention Wikipedia.)

I've been too lazy to look at the the steady stream of obscure Wikipolicy that seems to be an inevitable byproduct of Wikiwork. If I break any rules, though, please do tell me.

Whenever I see an article, think that it needs a lot of work, and think that I'm capable of performing this work with at least an average level of competence, I put it on my To-do list.

I've written an essay. I've called it "A rewrite a day keeps the critics at bay".

WikiProjects for which I've signed up:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Knots (inactive recently, but I want to try to make some knot illustrations)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation

[edit] Some contributions of note

Here I list articles which I significantly helped to write (this usually means that I wrote a pageful or more, as seen at a decently high screen resolution). This list notably ignores cleanup work.

• Philmont Scout Ranch
• Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) (this one doesn't quite meet my length criteria, but I like it)
• List of BSA rank requirements (a rather shameful article)
• Tent
• Portable stove
• First Age, Fëanor and other Tolkien-related stuff which I've since forsworn
• Campfire (initially How to light a fire)
• Season
• Hiking
• Boy Scouts of America
• Jefferson Davis (refactored from a timeline)
• Colonial History of the United States
• Test (student assessment)
• Archaeology
• Peterhof
• Atomic orbital (begun at Electron orbital, then cut and pasted)
• Radioactive decay
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (mass of material rewritten and/or moved to Italian unification)
• Thermal oxidation
• Deal-Grove model
• Etching (microfabrication)
• Evaporation (deposition)
• Chemical vapor deposition

[edit] Images that I have authored and uploaded

All images, except for some technical diagrams containing text, are hosted on Wikimedia Commons. The diagrams were created using Micrografx Designer. Just ask me if you want a modified version of anything.

Technical diagrams image:Dome tent.png image:Dining fly (tent).png image:Seasons.png image:Seasons2.png image:Nucleic acid.png image:Evapo still.png image:Canoe.png image:Radian.png image:Capacitor.png image:Dielectric.png image:Electric load0.png image:Electric load1.png image:Etch anisotropy.png image:Etch selectivity.png image:Aniso wet etch.png image:DRIE Bosch process.png (modified from an image with text in German) image:Deal-Grove.png image:Evapo shadowing.png Knots image:Two half hitches 1.jpg image:Two half hitches 2.jpg image:Two half hitches 3.jpg Outdoor equipment image:Backpacker's tent 1.jpg image:Backpacker's tent 2.jpg image:Backpacker's tent 3.jpg image:Mummy bag.jpg

Photos of places I've been image:Sedona 2250px.jpg image:St Isaacs SPb.jpg image:Peterhof cascade 2048px.jpg image:Peterhof garden 614px.jpg image:Tuolumne Muir Gorge.jpg image:Arhangelsky sobor (Kreml).JPG image:Dormition (Kremlin).JPG image:Cerkov Rizpolozhenia (Kreml).JPG image:Berkeley trail.jpg Image:Glacier NP Mt Brown.jpg Image:Flathead Range.jpg Image:Glacier Avalanche Lake.jpg Image:Glacier Running Eagle Falls pan.jpg Image:Glacier Swiftcurrent Lake pan.JPG Image:Lassen Bumpass Mountain.jpg Image:Lassen Devastated Area.jpg Image:Lassen Manzanita Lake.jpg Image:Lassen meadow caldera.jpg Image:Lassen Peak in snow.jpg Image:Lassen Sulphur Works.jpg Image:Wupatki 1.jpg Image:Wupatki 2.jpg Image:Sunset Crater vegetation.jpg Image:Sunset Crater Volcano.jpg Image:Elephant seals 08-03.JPG Image:Point Reyes Sky Camp hillside.JPG Image:Point Reyes burned forest.jpg Image:Point Reyes Inverness Ridge.jpg Image:Point Reyes Divide Meadow.jpg Image:Grassy Lake JMW.jpg Image:Little lake JMW.jpg Image:Lake of the Lone Indian JMW.jpg Image:Goodale Pass JMW.jpg Image:Graveyard pond JMW.jpg Image:Little lake dark JMW.jpg

[edit] Relicensing nonsense

I was recently informed about a rather ironic situation. We all thought that our contributions to Wikipedia were freely released, but there's a rather hairy issue involving noncompatibility of the vaunted GFDL with other licenses used by other allegedly free information repositories. It's a bloody mess, so in an effort to resolve my small part of it once and for all, I'm attaching this little note to my user page.

Released into public domain I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under public domain terms, please check the multi-licensing guide.

List of subpages, lest I forget:

• /Essay
• /To-do
• /reply-here
• /double-redirect